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# DAY OF THE DEAD (1985) Breakdown | Film Analysis, Making Of, Ending Explained & Review

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## Summary

George A. Romero's 'Day of the Dead' (1985) is a misunderstood classic that, despite being considered the weakest of the original trilogy, offers dense social commentary and a bleak, hopeful message. This analysis breaks down the film's hidden details, behind-the-scenes drama, and its controversial, ambiguous ending that suggests humanity's fate is sealed but a new, undead world may have a second chance.

### Key Points

- **Forced Back to Zombies** [01:31] — Romero was forced to make a third zombie film due to a three-picture deal and financial pressures after his passion projects failed. The original 200-page script was cut to 88 pages, confining the action to a bunker.
- **A Smaller, More Intimate Apocalypse** [00:15] — The film moves beyond the zombie takeover, focusing on a small group of survivors in an underground bunker where humans are the real threat, not the undead.
- **Sarah: The Competent Protagonist** [04:47] — Sarah, a civilian, is the most competent and compassionate character, connecting with all factions. She represents hope and the possibility of unity.
- **Savini's Best Work** [09:14] — Tom Savini's practical effects are at their peak, using real pig guts, hand-puppet zombies, and creative gags like the 'Moose [__]' brain effect.
- **The Scientist vs. The Soldier** [15:40] — Dr. Logan (Frankenstein) believes zombies can be rehabilitated. His experiment, Bub, learns to read, shave, and use a gun, proving they retain memory and can be taught.
- **The Undead Uprising** [46:02] — The film’s climax is a brutal, practical-effects-filled zombie uprising. Bub kills Rhodes, and Sarah, John, and McDermott escape, though the ending is ambiguous.
- **The Ambiguous Ending** [61:05] — The film's ending is famously ambiguous. A jump scare at the helicopter cuts to Sarah waking on a paradise island, suggesting either a happy ending or a dying dream. Romero's later novel confirms they eventually die.
- **Personal Expression of Anger** [62:38] — The film functions as an allegory for Romero's own struggles. The scientists represent artists, and the soldiers represent the money men who demanded results, reflecting Romero's anger and depression.
- **Bub as Zombie Jesus** [66:28] — Bub is presented as a 'zombie Jesus' figure, a blank slate who can create a new, better world if he can avoid humanity's mistakes. He has been cleansed of the sins of consumerism and violence.

## Transcript

Welcome to the Heavy Spoilers Show. 
I'm your host, Paul. In this video,  
we're breaking down Day of the Dead. [music]
Released 7 years after Dawn, George A. 
Romero's Day of the Dead brings us back  
to the zombie apocalypse. Whereas the previous 
two movies focused on the zombies taking over,  
we're at the point now where they outnumber 
the humans. We don't really know what's left of  
humanity, but what remains scrambles to survive in 
an underground bunker. Now, while this is widely  
considered the worst of Romero's dead films, I 
actually still think h it's quite good. Just had  
a tall order following two of the greatest horror 
movies of all time. And though it was slammed at  
the time, I think people have grown to appreciate 
it. There's a lot to like here, and Day of the  
Dead brings the social commentary of the first two 
films full circle and leaves us with some really  
cool and thought-provoking ideas. Throughout this 
video, we're going to be breaking down all the  
hidden details and symbolism layered throughout 
the film and try and bring some justice to this  
misunderstood classic. If you enjoy it, please 
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so thank you if you picked one up. Now, before we  
get into the movie itself, we have to talk about 
some of the behind-the-scenes drama that led to  
the final version of the film. This played into 
the overall ending and pretty much affected the  
reaction to the film. So, pay attention. Get off 
your phone. What do you mean you're watching it  
on your phone? Either way, when George A. Romero 
sold Dawn of the United Film Distribution Company,  
he was unfortunately locked into a three-picture 
deal. Now, despite Dawn of the Dead's massive  
success, Romero was in no rush to make a sequel. 
Even against the pressure, but with both Night and  
Dawn being heavily layered with Romero's views on 
society during the time they were made, he liked  
the idea of revisiting the zombie genre every 
decade to reflect on how we all live in a society.  
Instead of doing another zombie film immediately, 
Romero then made Night Riders in 1981, and this  
was followed by Creep Show alongside Stephen King 
in 1982. Now, this was mainly because this is just  
what he wanted to do, despite everyone wanting a 
zombie movie. I actually think a lot of Romero's  
films didn't get the love they deserved until much 
later on. And while some of them are admittedly a  
miss, you've got to respect the dude's love for 
the game and willingness to take risks. However,  
yeah, Nightriders was a flop despite its high 
budget and Creep Show was owned by Warner  
Brothers. So, those guys took the majority of 
the profits. This left Romero and his company  
with virtually nothing. And the sad thing is 
they didn't even Warner Brother. But yeah,  
because of this, the studio were like, uh, no more 
passion projects. So, basically, he was forced to  
go back to the dead series and at first struggle 
to really get an idea of what day would be. Due to  
the rights, he also wasn't allowed to use any of 
the same characters from Dawn. So he couldn't just  
pick up where they left off with Bran and Peter 
flying away in the helicopter. However, this was  
the 80s, baby, meaning there was no shortage 
of political issues for Romero to pull from.  
The US was in the height of the Reagan era. The 
AIDS epidemic was sweeping the nation. The Cold  
War was getting red-hot and the war on drugs was 
devastating communities. Romero saw how society's  
ability to trust each other, specifically 
the government, had only gotten worse since  
tackling the theme in Dawn. And thus he focused 
on a small group of people conflicting with the  
government. The now playing podcast described it 
as gone with the wind with zombies with it being a  
gigantic tale that would cost $7 million. It was 
going to have thousands and thousands of extras  
take place across massive locations and yeah going 
to be the biggest zombie movie of all time. $7  
million as well. You know that that was completely 
unheard of for a horror film. Uh but the studio  
thus wanted to ensure that the movie would receive 
an R. However, Romero wanted it to be unrated.  
The podcast then kind of talked about the dilemma 
he was in and how he could either get more money  
to make their movie or less money and go and 
make his own, which ultimately he opted for,  
but this forced Romero to rewrite the script and 
eliminate most of the big action sequences and set  
locations, which is why most of the film is set in 
a cave. And yeah, I remember seeing the movie for  
the first time and thinking, uh, this is rather 
small. The original script, though, was reportedly  
around 200 pages long with a final version coming 
in at just 88. We'll talk more about how this  
ultimately screwed Romero in the end, but the 
director maintained that while he had to scrap  
a lot of the script, the revised version still 
captured the essence of what he was going for.  
And he did actually say that day is his favorite 
of the Dead series. Not sure I agree, George, but  
hey, let's give it another shot and break down the 
movie. Now, we open with a wide shot of a woman  
sitting with her head down in a bare white room. 
This is similar to the walls of an insane asylum,  
and it represents the fear and isolation that we 
see the survivors experience throughout the film.  
Romero also used a similar shot to open up Dawn 
with France sleeping in a newsroom with the carpet  
resembling blood. We get formally introduced in a 
moment, but this is our main character Sarah who's  
played by Linda Cardile. Linda is actually the 
daughter of Bill Cardile aka Chili Billy. And in  
case you don't remember, he was a news reporter 
and host of the Chiller Theater in Pittsburgh.  
And he also played a news reporter in Night of 
the Living Dead. So yeah, bit of nepotism there,  
but I know Linda's acting gets slammed quite a lot 
in the reviews. H. But I actually think Sarah's a  
great example of how far Romero's come in writing 
female characters, especially when you compare  
her to Barbara from Night. Sarah then looks a 
bit of calendar on the wall and it shows the  
date as October 31st. What a way to celebrate 
Halloween. Now, the air isn't specified, but  
the original script says day takes place 5 years 
after dawn, which was in 1978. We'll circle back  
to this date more in just a bit because it does 
become important later on. air but the movie was  
actually released on Tuesday October 1st and with 
most people probably watching it around Halloween  
I can imagine at the time they were doing the Leo 
pointing meme at the screen. November 1st is also  
celebrated as All Saints Day and November 2nd 
is considered All Souls Day. However, the period  
between the 31st and November 2nd is also known 
as the Day of the Dead. So the day of the dead is  
happening on the day of the dead. In real life, 
this is a celebration in which people honor the  
dead and welcome their return, which is basically 
what happens with the zombies. As Sarah walks  
towards the calendar, she then becomes fixated on 
the picture of people farming pumpkins above the  
dates. This is her most likely remembering what 
life was like before the zombies took over, and  
according to the law, she was actually a pumpkin 
farmer. She then touches the picture and were  
hit with a jump scare of zombie hands bursting 
out the wall. This symbolizes how that sort of  
life's no longer possible and that everyone will 
inevitably become part of the undead. It's a super  
cool effect as well that basically starts off the 
movie and it's it's since been mimicked in lots  
of different films. How shooting it was a complete 
disaster and all the zombie actors behind the fake  
wall broke right through and fell on top of Linda. 
Her husband was apparently there as well to make  
sure that nobody ced a feel. And uh yeah, when 
you've got arms grabbing through walls, you cheeky  
bastards in Hollywood, I know what you're like. 
you. All these are getting cancelled. Now, we then  
cut to Sarah in a helicopter and see it was all a 
dream. In the helicopter, we see Sarah is joined  
by a fellow soldier, Miguel, who's clearly already 
losing it. He's tightly gripping a religious  
necklace around his neck, which is the first time 
we really see some of the religious undertones  
that are scattered throughout the film. Joining 
them are also John and McDermott. And I'll say it  
now, best characters in the movie. Them sitting 
around drinking and chilling is exactly what I'd  
be doing. In the intro, they basically say they're 
just there to do their jobs as pilots and we'll  
leave both of them behind without a second thought 
if there's any sign of trouble. They even argue  
that touching down isn't in their contract. But 
yeah, you kind of wonder what contracts are even  
worth in this world. Also really like how Romero 
introduces us to our main group of survivors in  
a helicopter, which calls back to how Dawn ended 
with Bran and Peter flying away in one. And while  
we don't see um where either of those characters 
ended up, it does feel like a nice way to pick  
up on where we left off and show how things have 
progressed from dawn in today. Also, I love the  
score here and I think it's some of the best music 
in all the films. I actually sampled this on the  
Gorilla's first album and I know that because 
that was the first CD I ever bought. It really  
adds to the atmosphere though and I love as they 
hit the streets and we hear that. Hello. [music]
just echoes through the empty sidewalks and 
skyscrapers. And you might notice the locations  
notably different to Pittsburgh. That's what we've 
come to associate with Romero's zombie films,  
but this was actually shot in Florida, which 
is where everyone goes to retire to, which  
is pretty much how they end the movie. That also 
explains why there's alligators. And beyond that,  
we have skeletons rotting in the street and 
a newspaper that reads, "The dead walk while  
money lines the stairs to the bank." This is such 
a subtle way to show that society has collapsed  
and that money and everything we once thought had 
value now mean absolutely nothing. It's a parallel  
to how money and consumerism meant everything to 
the survivors in Dawn. And this is what ultimately  
led to the zombies reclaiming them all. Now, if 
you zoom in on the newspaper as well, you can also  
see various headlines alluding to this complete 
collapse. There's one that reads, "Whereabouts of  
President Unknown, food supply dwindles, and man 
bites man." We are then introduced to our first  
zombie, the incredibly handsome Dr. the tongue. 
He's one of the coolest zombies in the entire  
film and just the perfect first one to show us 
how far the effects have come. These aren't just  
people wandering around covered in blue paint. 
They're now grotesque and hideous. Now, Dr.  
Tongue is actually a head mold of effects artist 
Tom Ceini, which he accidentally ripped the jaw  
off of when trying to drill a hole into the face. 
This resulted in them going with the tongue gag  
and then mechanizing the eyes to move around and 
blink. Dr. Tongue was also a hand puppet, which  
I don't know why, but that makes it even more 
unsettling. Now, let's also take a moment to talk  
about horror master Tom Cevini as he really pulled 
out all the stops here. After Dawn of the Dead,  
Cevi really blew up and he honed his expertise 
doing Friday the 13 part one and 1984's the  
final chapter. Looking to top his previous work 
and really shock people, Cevini and his crew of  
fellow artists and friends took up a shop in his 
garage and just started pumping out prosthetics,  
head molds, and zombie appliances for months 
on end. Many consider this as Savini's best  
work to this day as well. And yeah, when 
we get to the more brutal scenes later on,  
he does some incredible work. We then see the 
other zombies coming out of the woodwork, and this  
includes two dudes who sort of push the alligator 
down the stairs. Now, this was, of course, a real  
life alligator, and the two zombies following it 
were animal wranglers who brought it to the set.  
As the zombies make their way to the sound, we 
can see just how many of them there are. Miguel,  
in comparison, is just one guy, and it cements 
how much they outnumber the living. Now,  
while this wasn't shot in Pittsburgh, Romero still 
used the same casting agency he used for Dawn of  
the Dead and specifically requested that all the 
extras be called. There were also just a shitload  
of people who happily showed up to be a zombie in 
the new Romero film, and they had no shortage of  
volunteers. Like Dawn, they all did it for the 
love of the game. As they were all paid with a  
hat that said, "I played a zombie in Day of the 
Dead, a copy of the newspaper signed by Romero,  
and a crisp $1 bill." The dead silence of the 
radio is then drowned out by the cries of the  
undead, and thus they realize there's no one left 
to rescue. The group then go back to their base,  
which we learn is an underground bunker operated 
by the military. Sarah then warns them that if  
they refuel a chopper, it'll make a hell of a 
lot of noise, and this will attract more zombies,  
which foreshadows some stuff for the ending. We 
then see that everyone is just sort of lounging  
around with one dude keeping morale high by 
tending to his weed farm. When all else is gone,  
420 survives. blaze that as they say if my mom's 
watching now. No one really knows what to do. And  
though they found a way to stay alive alongside 
the zombies, there's no real plan of where to go  
from here. We'll see how this inevitably leads to 
them turning on each other throughout the film.  
And with zombies becoming more human, you do get 
the feeling that the humans are going extinct,  
kind of like the Neanderthal. That means you're 
a caveman, [ __ ] You're a [ __ ] throwback. As  
Sarah tries to get Miguel out of the chopper, we 
can see he's still having some kind of existential  
crisis and he snaps at Sarah for trying to help 
him. Now, Miguel is a very interesting character  
because while he's shown as completely off his 
rocker from the jump, he's actually kind of  
the most sane person in there. In this scene, he 
says it's insane that everyone's acting normal  
and that it's kind of crazy how calm everyone 
is. And yeah, I mean, he's totally right. What  
they are doing is insane and will ultimately be 
pointless. But everyone else still scrambles to  
maintain some sort of resemblance to what life was 
like before and the hopes they can have it again.  
Even the fact as well that Sarah is dreaming about 
calendars with farmers on, it just shows she hopes  
that things can get back to normal. Miguel is the 
only one who seems to fully grasp the situation,  
accepting that the world will no longer exist and 
that there's no way back, which is terrifying.  
We'll see how this theme applies to each 
character throughout the film. But one last detail  
here is that Miguel is played by Tim Deleo. He 
was actually Romero's best friend in Pittsburgh.  
And yeah, being friends with George Romero must 
have been very [ __ ] sweet back in the day cuz  
you were guaranteed a gig. I will be in the next 
zombie movie. Before going down in the bunker,  
Sarah then notices a fresh pile of graves on the 
base. And we learn from one of the soldiers that  
the leader of the operation died while they were 
at that was Major Cooper. And now the change of  
power is basically what causes further division. 
Major Cooper, he died this morning. [music]  
And then there were 12. I did wonder as well if 
this was playing in the religious themes with it  
being tied to the 12 disciples. You also see 
all the zombies surrounding the base outside  
a chainlink fence playing in the symbolism of 
how this is not a safe haven but instead just a  
prison. We also get some foreshadowing for their 
fate and how they decide to just go and find an  
island. Let's get in a whirly bird there. Find us 
an island someplace. Get juiced up and spend what  
time we got left soaking up some sunshine. The 
group then heads into the bunker and we get our  
first look at where they've been spending the 
apocalypse. This was shot in the Wampen mine,  
Pennsylvania, which Romero just sort of knew 
about and decided to use when he had to confine  
his script at the bunker. Previously, it had 
been used as a bomb shelter, an underground  
storage facility where they held old Hollywood 
negatives, um, boats from the harsh winter,  
and government supplies. The other scenes of the 
hallways, cafeteria, and lab were all part of the  
management facility within the mine, and the crew 
basically utilized the entire thing. The mine was  
so big, it even had a mileong lake underground 
where the crew would [ __ ] around and go swimming  
with headlamps in. They also never found the end 
of the mine despite numerous little excursions  
while filming. Romero even joked that the Morlocks 
could live in the deeper parts of the cave, and  
a bunch of people got pretty sick from basically 
being trapped there for 3 months. And yeah, when  
they have all the crap down there in the air, 
and even the bats, uh, you can understand how  
you'd get sick. Like, at one point, we even see 
a bat scaring John. And I did wonder if that was  
a real one, cuz there's a couple of bits where 
they're just flying around in the background.  
The conditions were so rough, though, that 
they actually had a guy called Dr. Feelgood,  
who would come in and shoot them up with B12. This 
was cuz they basically didn't see sunlight the  
entire time they were shooting, as they'd start 
at 6:00 a.m. and then work until the night. Yeah,  
pretty rough stuff. But let's get back to how 
these people are holding up in this neverending  
hell hole. As the group return to the safety of 
the bunker, we're introduced to Seals and Rickles,  
who I used to call BBop and Rock Steady. They take 
Sarah and Miguel to go and wrangle up some of the  
zombies wandering the cave. And as they make their 
way to the zombie pen, we can also see a bunch of  
cars and boats that were stored in the mine that 
we mentioned before. And I like to think some guy  
in Pittsburgh watched this movie and saw how his 
boat was getting smashed up and thought, "What the  
fuck?" This shows the 15th as the last time you 
took any out. That can't be right. Oh yeah, we  
forget to write them up sometimes. You know, this 
also highlights that the standards are getting  
sloppier and that the soldiers are losing their 
order due to the pointlessness of what they're  
doing, which will eventually cause their downfall. 
It's essential. Then go to a makeshift pen, which  
they use to capture the zombies and then deliver 
them to Dr. Logan, aka Frankenstein. Ricklesa  
makes an off-hand comment about how they're scared 
of what Dr. Frankenstein will do to them. Scared.  
You know what'll happen when Frankenstein 
gets him? Sarah says this indicates that  
they're actually learning, foreshadowing Dr. 
Frankenstein's greatest creation, who we'll  
meet later on. And he's the best character in 
the movie as well. I know I've said that before,  
but I really mean it this time. But this is a 
major theme of the movie. However, I want to point  
out how Romero portrays the zombies here compared 
to the humans. Romero presents the zombies here  
as sad and helpless, which juxtaposes the living 
who are shown as violent, unprepared, and just  
overall pieces of [ __ ] Come on, you piss braves. 
[screaming] What the hell's the matter with you?  
This reminds me a lot of how Romero similarly 
introduces zombies during the tenement scene in  
Dawn of the Dead. Here we have a similar situation 
where the zombies pose no immediate threat,  
but it's the human stupidity and inability to work 
together that puts them in danger. This cemens how  
we are the real threat to our own survival. 
As Steel and Rickles continue being idiots,  
they capture one of the zombies, but we can 
clearly see Miguel is definitely not in the right  
state of mind to be doing this. Guy's just being 
exhausted and forced to do this mission when,  
you know, someone smart would have been like, 
"H, maybe don't take him on the job. He's just  
going to [ __ ] it up." And [ __ ] it up he does. 
Miguel lets go of the noose that's holding the  
zombie and it almost gets rickles. Fortunately or 
unfortunately, depending on how you look at it,  
Sarah's able to grab the pole before it gets to 
him and she gets the situation under control.  
Steel is furious though and he holds Miguel over 
the pen, but Sarah brings down the temperature.  
It again shows that she's the only one in control 
and easily the most competent in the bunker.  
Knowing she'll probably do it, Steel then lets him 
down and they take their rage out on the zombies  
by torturing them. And honestly, they look more 
terrified than anyone. This is showcased with the  
reaction of the woman zombie as she doesn't 
sound scared, but instead is just desperate.
You can even see her look at her fellow zombie 
almost as if she needs comfort. It's a really  
cool and subtle way Romero starts to make us 
sympathize with the zombies and it emphasizes  
how they work together while we stay divided. We 
then meet back up with Sarah and Miguel where she  
tries to convince him to take a sedative so he 
can chill the [ __ ] out. How about Miguel is  
pissed that she made him look like a fool in the 
zombie pen and then slaps the [ __ ] out of her  
not once but twice. [ __ ] piece of [ __ ] 
Now, he's clearly an absolute mess. And he  
then breaks down in her arms, which allows 
her to stab him in the back. [snorts]
And god damn, Sarah can just not catch a break 
here. I think it shows how caring that Sarah is  
though, as even after being abused, she still 
wants to help him. As we later learn, the pair  
are boyfriend and girlfriend. But you kind of get 
the feeling that they've kind of lost the love.  
And if you thought the slap seemed a bit harsh, 
well, that's because Lori told the actor to  
actually slap her so it looked authentic. Now, we 
then meet the rest of the military chuckleheads  
along with the scientist Fisher. He's played 
by John Amplers, who also starred in Romero's  
1977 film Martin. The pair had a long professional 
relationship and he cameoed in most of his films.  
This is also where we meet Captain Rhodess, 
who's taken over command of this clown show.  
This gives us another fun detail in Romero 
Zombie verse, as Roads is played by Joseph  
Pedo. If you cast your mind, you cast your mind 
way back back into time back to Dawn of the Dead.  
H also played a police officer there. Thus, many 
believe that Plato is playing the same character  
and that Road survived and made it out to this 
position. However, this theory is unfortunately  
a bust as the credits of Dawn of the Dead, Plato's 
character being Randy Kovitz. But yeah, I'll let  
people have their fun with theories. I [ __ ] 
love it. But the real reason that was recast for  
day was that Romero used the same talent agency 
as Dawn and George thought he was just a really  
good actor. pretty cut and dry, but I still like 
to pretend it's the same character. One thing I  
will point out as well that kind of supports 
the theory is that we can see Roads wears the  
same type of ring that Roger wore in Dawn of the 
Dead. According to IMBB trivia, this was Roger's  
Police Academy ring, and this would fit with 
Roads being the same character from Dawn since  
they both were members of the Philadelphia Police 
Department. However, it's most likely that they  
just used the same prop for Roads, uh, because 
they had it at hand at the time. But I will never  
forget those theory times I had over the years. 
Major Cooper, promise. Major Cooper is dead.  
I'm in command now. Fisher then tries to advocate 
for more sanitary equipment for him and Dr.  
Frankenstein's equipment, but Roads doesn't give a 
[ __ ] about any of that nerd stuff. He's not even  
sure if they need any of the civilians in general 
and demands that they get results. I'm not so sure  
we need you at all. [ __ ] a. I'm not even sure 
just what the hell it is you're doing in there.  
Sarah then tries to tell him about how Miguel's 
completely lost it, but Roads again doesn't seem  
to give a [ __ ] and just says they should lock 
him up. Roads then says he might just cut their  
little love affair short so that the rest of 
the guys can have their way with her. This is  
explored more in stuff like 28 Days Later and you 
do kind of wonder how a lone woman would fare in  
these situations. It shows how the military 
are the real threat though, not the zombies.  
Not only is road super creepy, but we see he's 
also fully willing to put his and other lives  
at risk by not taking Miguel off active duty, 
despite just saying that he's sick of losing men  
due to the scientist's little project. Like, the 
dude's so focused on being an [ __ ] that he can't  
recognize Miguel's incompetence puts them all at 
risk. One thing I also want to point out is notice  
how Roads is the only one who's clean shaven. He 
still dresses in full uniform just like me and  
is trying to hold on to some semblance of order 
because that's what keeps him in power. He even  
barks orders at the others and doesn't like any 
sign of disrespect. Yes, sir. [ __ ] you, sir.  
This is such a great line as well, and you can 
see how it sits with roads. You better watch  
yourself. I mean, physically watch yourself. All 
the guys know Sarah is in danger, though. But she  
remains hopeful that they can knock some sense 
into the others. This shows she's the only one  
willing to play ball and find some common ground. 
Everyone seems to just keep to their clicks,  
but she's the only one who interacts with all the 
factions. This is why she'll be one of the only  
characters to make it out of here alive. As though 
the pilots don't really give a crap about any of  
this [ __ ] She's able to connect with them and 
thus they start to trust her. This parallels how  
the disintegration of trust in society has turned 
people against each other and this prevents them  
from working towards their common interest. Here, 
Romero shows how this fundamental lack of trust  
in society extends to even those in charge who 
are meant to lead and protect us, but are unable  
to see the bigger picture and work together. 
We're then introduced to Dr. Frankenstein,  
who's working away in his lab and reviewing 
his data. As Sarah walks into the room,  
we can see him surrounded by his experiments. It's 
a gory scene with him covered in blood and bodies  
dissected on tables. A zombie even has most of 
its head cut off with just the brain remaining,  
which we can't show because of YouTube. But it's 
very very horrible. I think the way as well that  
we're introduced to the character, it kind of 
shows that Frankenstein's the real monster.  
And that's a bit of Frankenstein subtext for 
you there, mate. Upon coming in, Sarah is almost  
grabbed by Bob and we learn a lot more about 
him later on. How about notice how he doesn't  
try to go for seconds after initially scaring her. 
Instead, he just kind of stares curiously at her  
and almost kind of looks like he's sorry for what 
he's done. The now playing podcast also brought  
up how he might even be sending up the Eddie's 
fascination with characters like Gizmo and ET.  
They kind of um got dropped amongst humans and 
did very cute things like playing on music,  
hitting the thumbs up and ultimately were just 
cute, goofy, and fun. Bob is kind of played up  
in the same sort of way in a horror sense. Um 
with him kind of being a grotesque version of that  
Frankenstein then goes into a bunch of sciency 
mumbo jumbo about how the zombies function.  
I'll spare you uh the fancy scientific explanation 
of how the brain works, but he basically says that  
the zombies decay attacks the parts of the brain 
that give us cognitive function. This leaves  
only the primal instinct located deep in the 
core of our brains. He then kind of talks about  
um that being the central prehistoric jelly that 
we inherited from reptiles. And while that still  
doesn't really answer what caused this decay 
to happen, I think Romero's explanation here  
um of the virus in general is actually quite 
fascinating to me. Romero's implying that the  
violence and brutality that humans are driven 
by is a result of humanity's primal instinct  
to hurt each other. As Dr. Frankenstein puts 
it, that is inherently within us all and has  
led to our demise. It calls back to that infamous 
line in Dawn, "When there's no more room in hell,  
the dead will walk the earth." That was to show 
how we've been so bad and sinful to one another  
that hell was now filled to the brim. If we 
keep being evil, then hell shall be filled,  
and it makes the zombie apocalypse inevitable. 
Yay. Frankenstein then continues to explain how  
the zombies don't need blood or internal organs 
in order to maintain motor functions. Their desire  
for human flesh is purely instinctual. This is 
when he reveals the brain guy. And little fun fact  
here, uh, Cevini and the crew call this guy Moose 
[ __ ] No, I am not joking. The effect is not only  
one of my favorites, though, but Ceini also pulled 
it off by using a real actor whose head went  
through a hole in the table, and they then glued 
the moose [ __ ] to his neck. He's not credited,  
but the actor's name was Barry Grass, who I 
couldn't really find much information on. But  
shout out to that dude cuz you can see in some of 
the behind the scenes footage that he was gasping  
for air, trapped under moose [ __ ] and unable to 
move for nearly an entire day. And I've given you  
a big applause for the dedication to the craft. 
Back to Dr. Frankenstein. And he then shows that  
despite the zombie no longer having its primal 
instinct at the core of its brain, the body's  
still able to move. This proves that the zombies 
can still function without the primal instinct to  
kill and possibly be taught reason. However, 
Sarah isn't really impressed, and she starts  
pointing out how a 15-hour complicated surgery 
that only a few people in the world can do isn't  
a practical solution to bringing back humanity. 
But the mad doctor knows that he is getting close  
and will potentially create a solution. Sarah 
then kind of sides with the army though and  
sees him as trying to define the problem rather 
than cure it. Here we can also see how the theme  
of not letting go applies to Frankenstein as 
he's unwilling to accept that humanity's gone  
and will stop at nothing to bring it back. Even if 
it's basically an impossible task at this point,  
you cannot train every zombie to be Bob. He's 
blinded to the reality though that humanity  
is the reason they're in this situation which his 
own science pretty much proves. This calls back to  
the question that Romero proposed to us in Dawn 
with logic versus humanity. Do we do the logical  
thing and kill the zombies without emotion or 
do we maintain our humanity and figure out a way  
to handle the zombies without more violence? We 
saw in Dawn of the Dead how losing our humanity  
inevitably leads to more death. And here we see 
Dr. Frankenstein has fully turned away from his  
humanity in favor of logic to bring society back. 
This creates a paradox in which him losing his  
humanity is what prevents him from solving 
the real problem and saving the human race.  
We can see this represented as Sarah says he's 
just going nuts slicing up zombies and notices  
one of his experiments just sprawled out on the 
floor, which he just brushes off as a failure that  
needed to be destroyed. We then see the full 
extent of how far Frankenstein's willing to  
go as Major Koopa's jackets lying on the floor as 
well. And oh my god, Moose [ __ ] is Major Cooper.  
Sarah's of course terrified though because if the 
grunts find out, they're going to probably kill  
them. We then get another one of the doctor's 
[ __ ] up projects which tries to get up off  
the operating table. He then just spills his guts 
all over the floor and then the doctor just drills  
into his head. And yeah, it's just a horror show 
uh where he's not really making any progress. But  
you're just proving theories that were advanced 
months ago. Now, for the shot of the zombie's guts  
spilling onto the floor, Sini, of course, used 
real pig guts because, as he says, nothing is  
as good or splatters like the real thing. The pig 
intestines were then shoved into a fake torso and  
wrapped together with a fake rubber intestine so 
that when the actor turned, the real guts would  
then slide down the rubber one and splatter out 
onto the ground. If you think that's bad, just  
wait until you see how bad it gets when they try 
the same effect with roads later. Bob then recalls  
in terror seeing the driller as well and it shows 
that the creatures feel fear. We then cut back to  
the cafeteria where everyone is once again sitting 
around arguing. Also love how you can see Terry  
Alexander almost crack up laughing as McDermott 
tells Steel to [ __ ] off about his drinking. Pay  
close attention and you'll notice he puts his hand 
over his mouth not to break character, but I seen  
it. I'll have to lay off the [ __ ] booze, Steel, 
cuz there won't [ __ ] be any of it [ __ ] left.  
McDermott then comes to the chilling realization 
that they are probably the only ones left.  
In what's also a little nod to Dawn, he also 
says and all the shopping malls are closed.  
You also get a quick cameo from Greg Nicotero. In 
case you don't know, he's a special effects artist  
who was the protege of Ceini and went on to become 
a horror legend in his own right. Nicotero is the  
mastermind behind the effects for The Evil Dead 2 
from Dusk till Dawn and also The Walking Dead. The  
effects there are, of course, a massive evolution 
of this, and we also see him pop up later as a  
head in Dr. Frankenstein's lap. Sick of all the 
men's bickering, Sarah then gets up to leave,  
but Roads threatens to have her shot. Sarah 
then calls his bluff, but Roads doesn't back  
down and orders Steele to shoot her. Shoot 
that woman. Bang, you're dead. [laughter]  
I absolutely love this interaction. As you can 
see, Steel thinks it's all a joke and plays  
along while cackling with Rickles. However, he 
quickly realizes it isn't. And yeah, it's such  
a tense moment. Realizing this is no longer just a 
regular day at the office and that roads will 100%  
kill her, Jon then goes to step in front of Sarah 
to protect her. However, she instead decides to  
take his advice and sits back down. Really quickly 
as well, I just want to point out how not only do  
we see Jon is willing to step up to protect Sarah, 
but you can also see McDermott go for his gun when  
Roads pulls out his. This shows that he's also 
willing to involve himself in this little shootout  
to protect her. I love this little character touch 
as well. And despite what they said earlier about  
not giving a [ __ ] about anybody else, both Jon 
and McDermad are still willing to put themselves  
at risk for someone else. Roads then makes it very 
clear that there will be no more [ __ ] about on  
his watch and that they need to start remembering 
they're at war. Fisher then tries to stand up to  
Roads, but he riles up his troops by reminding 
them of the men they have lost and that they  
should be killing the zombies on site, not keeping 
them as pets. Now, I think one of my big problems  
with the script is the fact that we don't really 
get much about Koopa or even how the character  
died. I think you'd add so much of the movie if 
we saw the rule under Koopa, how bad that was,  
and also had like Roads waiting in the wings and 
just acting like a [ __ ] the whole time. Think if  
then you had Cooper die and Roads taking over, 
you'd have a sense of how bad things are going  
to be now he's in charge. Out of the frying pan 
into the fire. I thought Cooper was an [ __ ] but  
he was a sweetheart next to Roads. Hell, you could 
even have him be the reason for Cooper's death and  
show that he's willing to kill even his higherups 
just to get a hold of power. Roads' power trip is  
then interrupted by Dr. Frankenstein, who comes in 
saying that they wouldn't be able to kill all the  
zombies even if they tried. They now outnumber the 
humans 400,000 to one, which holy [ __ ] they are  
[ __ ] Frankenstein then just ignores Roads nearly 
popping a blood vessel in his forehead and sits  
down asking if there's any food which is really 
[ __ ] up as well as he's still covered in blood  
and we just saw him playing around with brains and 
guts and that clearly did not affect his appetite.  
This is a direct contrast to Sarah who nearly 
vomited just seeing his experiments. Further shows  
his loss of humanity and yeah the guy has almost 
a ghoulish look to him himself. Roads then starts  
going, but Frankenstein's still unfased, and he 
says the situation's hopeless unless they can  
control the zombies. Frankenstein tells Roads that 
he believes he can control them, but Sarah tries  
to calm down Roads's expectations. If Roads dares 
to look at his research, then there is a chance  
he'll see he stole Cooper's body. And based on 
the speech Roads just gave to the group, he would  
definitely kill them all, which we see later is 
exactly what he tries to do. So, yeah, good call  
Sarah. Frankenstein then basically lays it out 
that they don't have the equipment to reverse the  
virus and instead just need to teach them how to 
do tricks and [ __ ] Do a flip, hit the thumbs up,  
that sort of thing. Even the way he entered kind 
of shut down the idea that they have the resources  
to kill them all. Where does it say we should do 
any one thing but shoot the mothers in the head.  
We [ __ ] We don't have enough ammunition, 
Captain, to shoot them all in the head.  
Time to have done that would have been at the 
beginning. Now, before we move on, I want to take  
this moment to talk about Roads and Joseph Pledo's 
performance in general. This scene in particular  
is one that many point to as being super cheesy 
and the actor just going way over the top. Cisco  
and Eird even use this scene specifically in their 
scathing review of the film as an example of how  
[ __ ] Day of the Dead was. And from the actor's 
point of view, I would think the actors would be  
smarter than this. And that is if you start 
screaming in the first scene of the movie,  
you have no place to But obviously, you know, 
this is a subjective thing. Um, and maybe it  
works for you, maybe it doesn't, but it was how 
Romero intended to portray Roads. He said he  
wanted him to be fanatic and that he wasn't really 
sure how far to go with it and seeing how great  
was when he would just completely flip his [ __ ] 
Plato even told Romero that he felt it was a bit  
too much and did not let him go so over the top, 
but Romero just said that he loved it. Plato  
also had his own words for the harsh critics of 
the film as well and even stuck up for Romero.  
They were saying I was over the top. I I say no. 
I said this is the point of view. It was like this  
is [ __ ] [music] stupid. Kill him. When you're 
dealing with living dead people, uh [laughter]  
you got to get a little intense. which is 
actually a really good point. Like imagine, right,  
the world is complete [ __ ] and everything and 
everyone is most likely gone. You're humanity's  
last line of defense, stuck in a bunker with a 
bunch of scientists that you don't even understand  
what they're doing. And then they come to you 
with some [ __ ] about keeping the zombies as pets  
and making them do tricks. Like, dude, what the 
[ __ ] Does sound [ __ ] stupid. And you combine  
that with a guy who's been taught the only way to 
keep order is through violence. It's not too hard  
to imagine that this is how they would react. 
Roads was right. I say roads is also incapable  
of accepting their situation and believes that it 
can be solved by violence and brute force because  
that's how the military's always done it. He sees 
them as being at war and thinks that the only way  
to win is by crushing the other side. He views 
everything with a military mind state. We can even  
see this in just the way he talks as he doesn't 
say he's going to kill everyone, but instead will  
court marshall them. They get court marshaled. The 
government is gone, my dude. Who's going to court  
marshall them? They literally just talked how 
society's basically gone, but Roads still falls  
back on his military orders and doesn't recognize 
how silly he sounds. Last thing as well before  
moving on, Sarah also mentions here how there 
could be survivors in Washington because they have  
more sophisticated shelters. This foreshadows the 
protected city states we see in 2005's Land of the  
Dead. Um, which is basically just picking up the 
idea of the original dropped ones for day, even  
though it came out like 20 years later. And to 
me, this has always just been a trilogy. I don't  
know. I don't know if the other stuff counts. If 
it does to you, let me know below. But to me, it's  
all it's always been a trilogy and always will. If 
only we could do that with Indiana Jones as well.  
After their intense meeting, Sarah and the others 
then talk about how she almost got popped. And  
Jon tells her and Fisher that they need to start 
keeping their heads down. However, Sarah still  
believes that they should all be working together. 
But Jon tells her that's exactly what caused the  
world to go to [ __ ] Maybe if we tried working 
together, we could ease some of the tensions.  
We're all pulling in different directions. Well, 
that's the trouble with the world, Sarah, darling.  
People got different ideas concerning what they 
want out of life. Yes. Thank you. Thank you, John.  
He's finally spelling out what we've been talking 
about throughout this entire trilogy about how  
no one being able to work together is the reason 
they'll never be able to defeat the zombies. Jon  
gets it. However, him recognizing this is also 
what prevents him from wanting to work with the  
others, and it only adds to their problem. We then 
cut to Sarah walking away from another nightmare,  
and she looks over to see Miguel waking up as 
well. How about when he turns over, we see his  
torsos being held together with surgical tools, 
and his guts then just spill out on the floor.  
Sarah's experience that day is now giving her 
nightmares and she's starting to lose her grip.  
Sini actually pulled the same trick here with 
using the real pig guts in a hollowedout chest,  
but it was extra gross for the actor who played 
Miguel as he was in fact vegetarian. Think Sarah  
also realized as well that whether they die by 
zombie or bullet from roads, they're going to  
end up on Frankenstein's table which is [ __ ] 
terrifying as well. Not only do you get eaten by  
a zombie, but then you have to be operated on by a 
mad scientist. And who knows, maybe when you turn,  
there is still a bit of you that remains in 
there and experiences this all without any  
anesthetic. We then get a little breakup scene 
between them where she kicks him out and hey,  
good on you. Wanting to clear her head, she then 
goes for a walk and sees the army guys clearly  
drunk and fighting. Again, it's just a subtle way 
of showing how they're the real danger to her and  
the others and them fighting amongst themselves 
is what's going to bring them down. But luckily,  
McDermott happens to be walking by and he shuffles 
Sarah away. He even gives her a bit of his booze.  
Good man. We then get to see John and McDermott's 
sweet digs as he takes her out of the trailer away  
from the [ __ ] There it is. There it is. We see 
that they've made a nice little cozy place for  
themselves, complete with a God bless our home 
sign. There's also an image of a beach showing  
where Jon wants to retire to. He says that it's a 
little more dangerous living this far out, but it  
keeps him away from the troubles. Ultimately, 
this is the fate they'll choose in the end,  
and they journey to a dangerous paradise to stay 
away from the overreach of the government that  
exists in locations like this. Jon also urges her 
to speak her mind. It's literally the first time  
any of the men here have asked her anything about 
what she thinks. However, she kind of starts to  
cook Jon and McDermott. You have the protection 
of this facility. You eat our food. You drink  
our water. And you don't lift a finger to help 
neither one of you. John just laughs it off though  
and explains that they don't really believe in 
what the military and scientists are trying to  
do and that it's just all a waste of time. He then 
goes over the government records, movie negatives,  
and various other things that used to be stored in 
the cave to show how none of this matters anymore  
in a world run by zombies. No one gives a [ __ ] 
anymore. He calls the bunker a 14-mi tombstone  
where their research and attempts to bring 
society back will all just be forgotten along  
with all the other relics of the world buried in 
the cave. This is a great big 14mile tombstone.
Also, love how we have the response from the 
zombie there, which is almost kind of backing  
up the point that he's making. You ain't never 
going to figure it out. He says, "We've been  
punished by the creator who put a curse on us 
to show what hell was like and for destroying  
what we created in trying to figure it out. We've 
been punished by the creator." Now, to me, this  
feels like an an excellent parallel to Peter's 
line into one of the dead about there being no  
room left in hell. This is our punishment and if 
we rebuild, we have to make sure we don't repeat  
history. While this seems like Jon and McDermott 
have accepted their zombie overlords, we can see  
they are also in denial. Despite Jon's big [ __ ] 
the world speech, they still play house in their  
little trailer. Even him saying they could restart 
humanity highlights he hasn't lost hope and that  
the world may be able to return. We then find 
Sarah back in the lab where Fish is trying and  
failing to feed a zombie some beef. Sarah realizes 
this is stupid, but Dr. Frankenstein then comes in  
and explains that they're attempting to satisfy 
their urge to consume flesh. He then calls back  
to Peter's line in Dawn of the Dead, saying the 
zombies are us and they can be tricked by being  
good little boys and girls. He says, "This is the 
same way we were tricked with a promise of some  
reward to come, which is why we do pretty much 
everything. Frankenstein has some serious issues  
that we'll see more glimpses of in just a bit, but 
we can see how he treats the zombies as children.  
He talks to them like how you would a small child 
and even shuts the lights off and leaves them in  
the room. The zombie even looks around scared and 
it highlights it's regaining its humanity. Now  
we can also hear the gunk theme from Dawn of the 
Dead playing during the scene transition. [music]
This sounds familiar. It's because it's the 
theme playing in the credits of Dawn. [music]
Frankenstein then takes Sarah to prove his 
theory and we officially meet Bob. We learn  
that Frankenstein named B after his father with 
whom he clearly had issues. Stad told him he'd  
never be rich and that he was wasting his time 
with science. Later on, they find a tape in which  
Frankenstein talks to himself as his mother, 
where he's punishing a zombie for not doing  
what it's told while telling his mother that he 
only needs five more minutes. This reveals that  
Frankenstein's a fullon psycho, which yeah, 
we pretty much already knew, but h godamn.  
Based off what Frankenstein says here as well, 
we can see that his quest to save humanity stems  
from some serious family issues. Frankenstein 
is clearly traumatized by a sort of love or  
acceptance that he looked for in his parents as he 
was conditioned to behave on the promise of being  
rich, a reward if you will. This goes back to his 
emphasis on civility needing to be rewarded. They  
can be tricked into being good little girls and 
boys same way we were tricked into it on promise  
of some reward to come. Now that the world has 
gone to [ __ ] though, in his mind, Frankenstein  
is trying to prove to his parents and himself that 
his research has value to him. If he can reverse  
the zombie outbreak, he will finally be rewarded 
with recognition for his achievements. This is why  
Frankenstein treats Bub and the other zombies like 
children, as he believes he can beat them into  
submission like he was. He's not realizing though 
that he's creating the same cycle of trauma that  
he received from his father. He's even becoming 
a surgeon just like his father originally wanted  
as his research has become more about dissection 
than actually studying uh the creatures. Can you  
imagine a surgeon called Bub? This further shows 
though that while Frankenstein is right about  
being able to teach the zombies, his inability to 
let go of his trauma will only contribute to them  
learning more about cruelty and violence. This 
also prevents him from being able to recognize  
the true results of his own research as he only 
focuses on how to reverse it instead of the cause.  
Just as Sarah mentioned earlier, Frankenstein's 
research proves what Romero has been trying to say  
throughout the entire Dead trilogy in that this is 
all a result of the terrible things we do to each  
other and that violence is an inherent part of 
human nature. Romero is basically saying that  
restoring the world how it was will only lead to 
the same result. He then shows Bub how to do some  
tricks and also says, "Well, let's say that I let 
him continue to exist." Now, him saying, "I'll let  
him continue to exist," shows how the mad doctor 
has developed a bit of a god complex. God punished  
us for getting too big for our own britches, and 
he brought hell to earth to destroy our hubris.  
Ultimately, this place is destroyed as well, 
and in trying to play God, it all comes crashing  
down. Sarah and Fisher then start cracking up 
laughing, thinking Frankenstein's funny lobster,  
as he presents Bob with a toothbrushing razor. 
However, they are soon made fools of when Bob  
grabs the razor and starts rubbing it against 
his cheek as if he was shaving. What? [screaming]  
We also get a little notice Stephen King with 
one of the items Dr. Frankenstein gives Bob  
being a copy of Salem's lot. Again, the pair did 
creep show together and we're just super tight.  
We can see that Bob is also a fan of King as well 
as he starts to flip through the book to Sarah's  
amazement. This proves that he remembers things 
from his life and can be taught to control his  
urge for human flesh. Now, while seeing a, you 
know, a zombie reading uh could be quite silly,  
I think it actually makes the whole thing even 
more terrifying because it basically proves that  
the person is still trapped inside the mind and 
forced to be piloted by this decay. Something they  
discuss quite a lot in the Bone Temple, and 
Bob definitely lays the groundwork for that.  
How about the little science party then crashed by 
Roads and Steel, who come in to find Bob reading  
Salem's lot, a zombie reading heresy. But Bob 
doesn't even look at the newcomers, and he's just  
fully engrossed in the book. This shows that not 
only is Salem's lot a great book, but that Bub's  
ability to control himself extends past the people 
he's built a rapport with. Bub mimics saying hello  
onto Alicia on the phone and even gives a salute 
to Roads. Roads refuses to do it back though, so  
Frankenstein salutes him instead and then decides 
to give the zombie a gun because why not? What  
could possibly go wrong? Bob then inspects the 
gun for a moment before cocking back the chamber,  
pointing at Roads, and then pulling the trigger. 
And yet I am with roads. Kill it. Kill it right  
[ __ ] now. This does foreshadow their showdown 
later on. H but it also highlights that Bob is  
able to judge. We then get a tense standoff and 
cut at the cafeteria where roads goes absolutely  
off it. But as Frankenstein explains them showing 
civilized behavior must be rewarded. We can also  
see that Frankenstein starting to crack a bit 
when he says civility must be rewarded. and  
if it isn't rewarded,
there's no use for it. It's almost like he's 
trying to convince himself just as much as he's  
trying to convince Roads. I do wonder if he's 
kind of remembering what his parents said and  
clearly cracking a bit. It also shows how his 
inability to let go of how things used to be  
is driving him even more insane than he probably 
already was. With everyone in a stalemate, things  
go back to business as usual. They round up more 
of the undead, but Miguel once again [ __ ] up.  
The zombie rips out the throat of one of the guys 
and he then fires, hitting another. Gee, who could  
have seen that coming? Sarah then takes control 
of the situation once more and shoots the zombie  
in the head. But Miguel fully loses it. He gets 
bitten on the arm when trying to take his rage out  
another zombie and runs off being chased by Sarah. 
Steel actually handles the situation calmly though  
and kills his pal who begs for a bullet over 
becoming a creature. The side of the character  
that you don't see that much in the movie and it 
shows how his bravado all just a bit of an act.  
We then get an awesome moment where Sarah hacks 
Miguel's arm off with Jon's machete. This would  
also inspire some stuff in The Walking Dead, and 
it adds the idea that you can catch it before it  
spreads. We can't really show it cuz it's YouTube, 
but they have Miguel's hand moving about as Sarah  
sinks in the blade. This is a clever editing 
trick by Ceini where they used a fake arm for  
the shot of Sarah initially hitting it with the 
blade and then used Deleo's real arm with a fake  
cutout machete as she's slicing it down. They then 
replaced it with a fake one when she slices it  
completely off. It's all cut together. It looks 
really good. Um, and yeah, just the the little  
detail of the hand moving makes it just sells it. 
Just that little bit of detail just sells it a bit  
more. Don't know why I went Irish there. Jon Mcder 
then follow her lead and help make a torch to burn  
Miguel's arm stump and seal the wound while Steel 
Roads and Rickles show up for revenge. Obviously  
now they have a reason to kill him as well as he's 
potentially got the disease. What we get though is  
a classic Mexican standoff, but Roads ultimately 
lets him keep a girl to prevent a full-on  
shootout. He also calls Jon Fly Boy with his 
also being Steven's nickname in Dawn. And yeah,  
I know it's just a nickname for a pilot, but it 
just helps to reinforce those roles. This moment  
also allows Jon and McDermott to finally choose 
a side. They also look after Miguel, and Jon  
willingly stays back with someone he thinks might 
become a zombie, but they're no longer resigned to  
their apathy. And ultimately, this is what will 
save them from becoming zombies themselves. Back  
in Frankenstein's lab, we then pan across more 
of his brutal experiments as McDermott realizes  
the true horror of what's been going on behind the 
scenes. Also, notice the X-ray scan of a skull at  
position like it's looking directly at Sarah. It's 
not even a scan of the brain. It's just of the  
skull. Um, which foreshadows one of Frankenstein's 
most disturbing projects. It's here that they then  
find the recording, which gives us some insight 
into Frankenstein's history. Also, I feel like  
the scene may have been on by the recordings that 
you find around zombie games, um, like Resident  
Evil and The Last of Us. Romero did write a 
script for a Resident Evil film in 1998 that  
was ultimately rejected, but that's a story for 
another breakdown. As the tape plays, McDermott  
then discovers the severed head of the soldier 
who was just shot in the zombie pen. It literally  
happened like moments ago, and Frankie has already 
wired him up. He begged not to be turned into a  
creature, but you could definitely argue this 
is a much worse fight. Again, this is also the  
mechanical head of Greg Nicotero, and it's what 
landed him the role in front of the camera. Before  
the film's budget was reduced to nothing, Nicotero 
and Cevi created the head to be used in the  
original version of the film before the scene was 
cut. So, they cast Nicotero in the film as one of  
the soldiers and wrote the scene so the robot head 
didn't go to waste, which I'm glad they did as  
well because it's a really good effect. Realizing 
how insane this all is, McDermott then says they  
just need to take the chopper and get the [ __ ] 
out. However, they run into Frankenstein in the  
hallway, who's on his way to give Bub his reward. 
Also, notice how Frankenstein greets Bob, saying  
his name with a southern accent. Hello, Bob. 
This is just like how he introduced his father,  
and it shows how he's projecting his [ __ ] up 
family issues onto Bob. He also tells Bob that  
quote unquote mother is very proud of him, which 
I'm not sure if he's referring to himself here,  
as he sees himself as Bub's mother, or it might be 
like the mental projection he has of his mother,  
which is very Norman Bates. mother is very proud 
of you. Very, very proud indeed. In Psycho, Norman  
Bates, of course, keeps his mother alive and well, 
he keeps her corpse around, but it just nicely  
plays in the idea of zombies. Bob's also locked 
into the tunes and you can see considers biting  
the dock when he tries to take them off, but he 
decides against it and thus Frankenstein shows him  
how to play the recorder. I love Bub's reaction to 
Beethovven's ninth symphony as well, and it just  
blows whatever is left of Bub's mind, like giving 
an iPhone to a a 16th century Renaissance child.  
Frankenstein then gives Bubs his reward, and we 
can see him no longer interested in Beethoven as  
he starts to chow out on some flesh. Hm, I wonder 
where Frankenstein got that from. Meanwhile,  
Sarah and McDermott are watching this all 
go down from the next room, and the parties  
then crashed by Roads in his likies. Also, I 
love McDermott's face during this whole thing,  
as this is the first time seeing all this 
weird [ __ ] that Frankenstein's been up to.  
Roads then grabs Frankenstein and demands to 
know what he's giving Bob. They discover he's  
been keeping the bodies of the dead soldiers 
and feeding them to the zombies. This gives  
Roads the excuse he's been waiting for, and he 
immediately empties his clip into the doctor. Now,  
if you thought Roads was crazy before, and this 
pretty much sends him over the deep end. He shoots  
Fisher in the head without hesitation. And you 
could say Fisher is now sleeping with the Fishers.
Know what the [ __ ] that was. John then arrives 
to stand his crown and it says he'll not fly them  
out if Roads doesn't let Sarah McDermott go. Roads 
just tosses them to the zombies while Steel beats  
the [ __ ] out of Jon. Kind of a piss po rescue 
there, John. We then see the zombies making their  
way to the dinner bell. Sarah and Mcderma then 
decide to take their chance and head for a silo  
deeper in the cave. We then see Miguel leaving 
the bunker and this moment of freedoms Mid and  
Bob who frees himself from his chains. Now Miguel 
is who brings down the zombies, but I personally  
think that you should have given that role to 
Bob. Hell, when watching this for the video, I I  
didn't even start to think like um that you 
don't even really need Miguel at all. He offers  
no support to Sarah and the gang and spends half 
of the movie lying on his back. I personally think  
Romero should have had Bub escaping, coming 
across the Dead Dock, and then have it so he  
was the one who brought in the zombies. Hell, 
I don't even know why Miguel's so broken in  
general. He's like the only guy in here getting a 
shag. But yeah, back in the cave, all hell breaks  
loose with McDermott cutting his zombies head in 
half with a shovel. Also love how you can see the  
top half roll away and its eyes moving back and 
forth as Sarah and McDermott run past it. This  
was actually building off another brutal kill 
from Dawn where Sveni's character Blade killed  
a zombie with a machete but he felt it would be 
cooler with a shovel. Jon also manages to get the  
better of roads but decides to spare him to go and 
find Sarah McDermott. Going by the rules of these  
movies as well. This more or less guarantees his 
survival as he refuses to continue the killing and  
instead chooses to help the others. On the flip 
side of this, we see the opposite side of the coin  
with Steels and Rickles who find that Miguel's 
bust up the controls for the lift. Unlike Jon and  
the others who chose to work together, Rickles 
and Steel instead immediately start attacking  
each other when they realize neither can fix the 
elevator. In the pair refusing to work together,  
they ultimately seal their fate and are consumed 
because of this. We then quickly cut to Jon making  
his way through the cave to find Sarah McDermott. 
This gives us my favorite scene of McDermott  
basically just going crazy with a shovel and 
barking at one of the zombies. [groaning]
died. It's just so random, but it makes 
me laugh every single time. Meanwhile,  
Jung continues taking the zombies out left, 
right, and center, armed to the teeth, a lot  
like Peter was in Dawn. We then find ourselves 
above ground where Miguel opens the gates to the  
zombies. As the undead begin to flood into the 
compound, Miguel rushes back to the elevator to  
grab the controls and he just lies down to accept 
his fate. We also see him sign a cross over his  
chest and put his saint pendant in his mouth 
as the zombies start to go to town. However,  
notice how he doesn't put his dog tags with the 
sane pendant and it's left on the ground. This  
symbolizes how in Miguel's final moments, he's 
finally accepted the new world and it's a new  
zombie overlords. Now, I did even wonder if this 
played into the Jesus allegory and how Christians  
consume the quote unquote body of Christ in 
communion. But all he can do is hope to find  
some salvation and give the others a chance to be 
better while getting his revenge on those he feels  
have wronged him. It's a pretty brutal way to do 
it. Uh, but fair play to Miguel. Would have been  
nice for him to come to this moment of clarity a 
couple of hours earlier, but yeah, suppose he he  
came through in the end, I guess. Zombies then 
start tearing Miguel apart with more flooding  
in as he screams in agony. How about Miguel holds 
on? He waits for more zombies to gather around for  
their free lunch. And this is so he can use them 
to swarm the compound. And the army guys don't  
react well to it. Also, I love how the zombie 
trips when getting off the elevator. And yeah,  
I imagine there was a lot of uh pushing 
each other on this and people kind of  
a bit scared as they were going down. Health and 
safety nightmare violation. Roads then immediately  
hauls us out of there and he hops into a golf 
cart and basically leaves steels and rickles in  
the dust along with this guy. He's just uh kind of 
been around in the background, but this is another  
Romero regular. That is Tesos Stavarakis, who was 
Tom Zeini's assistant on Dawn of the Dead. Now,  
you might remember him as the guy who got his 
guts ripped out at the end, uh, which was great  
times. And they basically do an evolved version 
of that kill, um, with the character getting  
killed in pretty much the same way. Starraus 
basically became a stunt man on Dawn because  
they couldn't afford any professionals and needed 
someone to brutalize for some of the more violent  
kills in the movie. Rickles gets a similar fate, 
too, and almost kind of cackles as he screams in  
agony. The absolute worst part of this as 
well is how you can hear his scream become  
super high-pitched as his vocal cords are being 
stretched until his head pops off. [screaming]
Cini actually didn't realize this small 
detail himself until years later when someone  
pointed it out to him. So, shout out to the sound 
guy who mixed this. Sini also was never really  
with how this effect turned out as the fake body 
he made was meant to stretch and tear as an homage  
to the thing. But the zombie hands cover the body 
too much and thus the final shot didn't achieve  
the same effect, which I can see what he means. 
Uh, but I do think it it it works okay. Anyway,  
with it now being every man for himself, we see 
hundreds of zombies infiltrating the bunker, not  
only from the elevator, but also from the zombie 
pen, which they forgot to close, you [ __ ] idiot.  
She said at the start it was important. With 
Bob, we then sees he finds Dr. Frankenstein  
and completely breaks down. Also, yeah, maybe 
I'm uh just a little [ __ ] but I think this is  
very sad. And uh this moment broke me. Bob's 
like, "I'm I'm here, Dad. Look what I did."  
Very stupid, but very emotional, too. He then 
notices Sarah's gun that Roads left in the lab.  
And this sets us up for Bob versus Roads. Now, 
another small detail to point out here is notice  
how Bob doesn't even try and eat the Doctor. 
This shows that Bob's love for Frankenstein  
has overcome his primitive drive to consume human 
flesh. And it proves Frankenstein's theory that  
zombies can be taught to control their instincts. 
How about we can also see how Frankenstein's  
greatest success is also his biggest failure. As 
he still taught Bub violence by projecting his  
own trauma onto him, which is why the first thing 
Bub does when realizing Dr. Frankenstein's dead  
is pick up a gun. He gave him a gun earlier and 
thus created the same violent cycle that caused  
the world to fall upon the first place. Last thing 
before moving on as well, and this might be a bit  
of bit of bit of a theory time. Uh, but it also 
seems to be implied here that whatever caused the  
dead to rise is now missing from the world. We 
don't see Frankenstein come back to life despite  
not being shot in the head. And the original 
script included Jon dying early on and having  
his body slowly decomposing rather than becoming 
a zombie. We never really learn what caused it in  
the first place, and its disappearance here is as 
mysterious as its arrival. steel cornered as well.  
And among the horde, we can see a ballerina who 
still has her foot pointed as if she's dancing.  
There's also this clown guy who kind of becomes 
a running gag for Romero and was included in both  
Land of the Dead and Diary of the Dead. Steel 
is then sworn but realizes he's screwed and  
thus decides to take himself out. Now, originally, 
Steel's death was pretty cut and dry. Um, but Gary  
Howard Claw, who played them, he he asked Romero 
if they could change it while they were shooting.  
He does a cross thing, does a crucifix, prays 
to God. And you may notice that the post that  
we used to chain above basically resemble a 
crucifix. This goes up behind him and further  
plays up the religious symbolism which I feel 
represents how despite Steel's pleas to God,  
he's already damned by taking his own life and 
refusing to become a zombie, Steel is essentially  
also trying to avoid God's punishment. Back in 
the cave, we then see Jon has finally caught up  
to Sarah McDermad. And the three of them open 
fire on the zombies with machine guns to clear  
a path. They then climb out the cave and make it 
to freedom, showing how if you work together, you  
can find a way out of this. Come along, Johnny. 
Counting on you to fly us to the promised land.  
You might also notice that Jon puts down his 
gun akin to Peter losing his rifle at the end of  
Dawn. In shedding this weapon, he's casting away 
violence and deciding to stop the killing to work  
on salvation. This is Meridan Roads as well, who 
we cut to arming up. Confronted by Bob, he's shot  
while he tries to flee and he ends up crawling 
away while Bob catches up to him. I love the  
symbolism here as well of how Roads is all bloody 
crawling and hunched over with a limp looking like  
a typical zombie. On the flip side of this, Bob is 
walking upright and using a gun just like a human.  
Once again, it plays in the idea that people 
have become so removed from our humanity that  
we are the monsters and the zombies are now more 
human than we are. Which is why those who are able  
to hold on to their humanity and work together 
are always the ones who make it out alive. Roads  
then opens the door to a horde of zombies, which 
is just like Sarah's nightmare in the opening.  
Bob then shoots him again in the gut, and you can 
see that he uses his other hand to steady the shot  
before he takes aim. Before he was just kind of 
firing from the hip with one hand, but this shows  
he's remembering things more and more. This also 
shows that he now doesn't need Frankenstein to  
teach him, and he's truly once more able to learn. 
As the zombies then start to swarm around roads,  
Bob gives him one final salute before walking 
away and letting the zombies tear Roads in half,  
literally. But any other zombie would join in on 
the meal, but Bob is now controlling his urges.  
Also, I love how how sassy Bob is as he does 
it. With Roads finally getting what he deserves,  
though, he gasps for breath as the zombies tear 
off his legs and he tells them to choke on them.  
Now, we could easily move on cuz the character is 
dead. Uh, but yeah, there's a lot of really gross  
stuff behind this um that is almost even worse 
than what we just saw. Like all the other gut  
gags in the film, Sabini used a real pig 
intestine strapped to Roads's chest that  
was supposed to spill out and be eaten by the 
zombie actors. Okay, great. We've done it 100  
times before. Should work. Classic zombie eating 
guts effect. However, when shooting the exterior  
scenes in Florida, um, someone forgot to plug in 
the fridge and these guts all rotted. This was  
throughout the whole production as well. Um, so 
I'm talking them rotting for weeks, not realizing  
this until the day of the shoot. They had no more 
time to run out and get more pig guts. So they  
just stuffed the rotting guts in Joseph Palato's 
fake stomach and then shot the scene. To this day,
I can still smell it. This took 4 hours to do 
and was so bad the crew and zombie actors had  
to stuff their noses with putty just to stay in 
the room. Except for Joseph Palato. You would of  
course have been able to have seen that. H So he 
just had to breathe in the rotted guts for hours,  
which you might think, "Wow, Paul, that's crazy. 
How could it get any worse?" Well, remember how I  
said Roads was gasping for air as he was getting 
ripped in half? Yeah, he was like literally  
gasping and breathing in all all those pig guts to 
his lungs. Road's line of telling the zombies to  
choke on them was also supposedly improvised and 
given what we know um might have been directed  
towards Tom Cevini and Romero. We then see the 
bunker is fully overrun with zombies feasting on  
the remains of everyone we just saw get killed. 
We also get a kind of cameo by George Romero as  
a zombie pushing a medical cord, but we only know 
this by seeing his signature scarf hanging from  
his waist. We never actually see Romero's face, 
which I don't know if they cut it or not. Um,  
but yeah, something you would only really 
catch if you're a major Romero fan. Will  
have a photographic memory and remembered that he 
wore this during his cameo on Dawn of the Dead.  
So that is the character confirmed dead. We 
then cut back to the surface where Sarah,  
John, and McDerma are making their great escape. 
We then see them hauling ass the helicopter to  
ride off into the sun. But when Sarah opens 
the door, bam, grabbed by a zombie. But wait,  
just as Sarah is about to get her face eaten 
off, we jump cut to her waking up from another  
nap. Rather than waking up in Hello, we see that 
she and the others have made it to their island  
paradise. Jon and Mcderma are fishing, feeding 
the birds, and just having a grand old time. Not  
a single zombie or mobile phone in sight. Sarah 
then takes out a calendar showing that it's now  
November 4th, 5 days after we start this insanity 
and we fade out to the credits. Wait, what? Now,  
before we get to explaining this ending, we have 
to take a quick moment to talk about the film's  
release because it was an absolute mess and a 
lot of people hated this movie. A major issue  
that hindered the film's success came from the 
confusion between Romero's Day of the Dead and  
Dan Oannon's Return of the Living Dead. This 
was released the same year and was written by  
John Russo, aka Romero's writing partner on Night. 
That is sort of an alternate sequel to Night. Uh,  
but it has nothing to do with Romero and isn't 
part of his zombie universe. But this confused a  
lot of people at the time and caused many to just 
not sure because they went to the wrong movie.  
It was also the serious tonal shift from Dawn of 
the Dead, which was more rooted in comedy. A lot  
of people came in expecting that same comic book 
feel, but when they were met with the more dark  
and serious tone of day, many felt disappointed. 
and that Romero had jumped the shock. Lori, who  
played Sarah, even recalled people booing at the 
New York premiere. That all really affected Romero  
and is pretty much why he didn't make another 
zombie film for 20 years. But this all comes  
back to Romero's initial decision to wait so long 
to make Day. This resulted in the script having  
to be cut and him having to compromise his vision. 
We can also see this reflected in the film itself,  
as one reviewer, Rob Gonzalez, made the parallel 
of how Day reflects Romero being forced to cut  
down his vision to appease the ones funding it. 
The scientist basically represents the artist  
and the soldiers are the money guys who breathe 
down their necks demanding results. This makes  
Day of the Dead almost a personal expression of 
Romero's anger and depression. He goes on to say,  
and I I find [music] this absolutely brilliant. I 
think part of the reason many Romero fans reacted  
against Day so strongly is that they showed the 
writing on the wall. Day of the Dead shows Romero  
at a low personal [music] eb, forced to cut down 
his vision to appease the guys with the money.  
With that in mind, you understand why the soldiers 
in the film are depicted as hostile thugs.  
If you read the scientists as film artists [music] 
and the soldiers as the money guys who breathe  
down your neck demanding results, the money 
[music] and the movie become a rather personal  
expression of Romero's anger and depression. While 
day has been able to gain a following years later  
as people start to get it, let's see if we can 
bring some justice to Romero. Now, in order to do  
that, we're going to have to talk about the ending 
and go into what the hell just happened. So,  
what what the hell did just happen? Well, I think 
when you jump cut your climax and reveal that the  
shock was a dream that people are going to have 
some questions. Personally, I just take it that  
they got to the helicopter and kind of wanted 
one last scare before giving us a happy ending.  
However, there have been some theories that this 
entire happy ending is infectious to dream. So,  
I do kind of want to explore that as I definitely 
think it's worth talking about. Firstly, we've  
seen Sarah waking up from horrific nightmares 
multiple times throughout the film. So, the idea  
this was all just another nightmare was already 
set up for us. We also get the call back to the  
calendar that we saw in the very first scene 
of the movie, which turned out to be a dream.  
This new calendar Sarah makes could be Romero's 
way of symbolizing that this is also a dream, and  
Sarah is envisioning them reaching their perfect 
safe haven. Now, beyond that, the biggest detail  
pointing to the island paradise not being real 
was given to us in the very beginning. When the  
group first touches down at the base, the first 
thing they do is debate refueling the helicopter,  
but they instead decide to wait. No, wait till 
it's dark. There too many of them out there.  
Fast forward to their great escape, and we get 
a call back to this line as Sean mentions that  
he hopes someone ended up doing it. Let's hope 
they filled up the gas team from the other night,  
which is actually the last line in the entire 
film. Now, you could say that one of the soldiers  
did it during the night, as Sarah recommended, 
but we never saw anyone leave the bunker after  
they first sealed themselves in. The elevator 
also sets off a loud alarm when it's in use.  
And you'd think that someone might have picked up 
on it. Jesus Christ, that's the elevator. To me,  
there's really no real reason to add in 
this random bit about them not fueling up  
the helicopter and for it to never be mentioned 
again until the exact moment they're about to  
escape other than to point us to this perfect 
island being [ __ ] Because of that, there is  
the read that Sarah and the others got eaten once 
they reached the helicopter and her waking up on  
the island is her mind tripping on whatever crazy 
chemicals get released in your brain when you're  
about to die, which I know is bleak. Uh, but I 
think it fits in with the theme of humanity being  
punished and the complete zombie takeover 
that Romero's been presenting us. However,  
in Romero's book, The Living Dead, he revealed 
that Sarah McDerm did make it to the island,  
but ultimately did not survive, and they 
eventually became zombies. Yay. So, there you go.  
Theory time debunked in real time. Now, maybe I'm 
an idiot. Or maybe Romero wanted to give us a more  
definitive answer after deciding to make four more 
films 20 years later instead of ending it off here  
like he originally planned. Who is to say? Whether 
it's a dream or not, though, I think it ultimately  
doesn't matter either way, as the end results 
the same, and it still emphasizes Romero's  
entire point of the Dead series. The world is 
damned. There is nowhere left that is safe.  
This is our punishment and no one can escape it. 
Now, this brings us back to Bob and the religious  
symbolism of the film. Bob is more or less playing 
the role of zombie Jesus and he'll usher in this  
new zombie world. As we saw with Bob, not only 
did the zombies retain some of their sense of  
living consciousness, but their minds have been 
brought down to their most primitive state,  
essentially making them a blank slate without the 
human social conditioning that we've developed in  
society. This calls back to how Frankenstein 
treated them like children. Because yeah,  
they basically are. They're enable to process 
things like caution or reasoning and simply driven  
by desires. However, Bub proves that like a child, 
the zombies can over time learn social behaviors.  
In Dawn, Romero showed us how capitalism is 
what caused people to lose their humanity,  
and this resulted in us turning on each other 
and being punished to hell on earth. Now though,  
Bob and the other zombies have been whipped of the 
influence of consumerism and capitalism. And thus,  
Romero implies that there is a chance the zombies 
could in fact make a better world if they can  
avoid making the same mistakes as us. This, in a 
way, parallels the Christian idea of someone being  
cleansed of their sins in order to be accepted 
into heaven. We [ __ ] it up. So, God restored the  
whole thing to basically give the world another 
chance. Bob being the first zombie to reign his  
humanity has essentially been resurrected and 
reborn as a new form of humanity that could lead  
the other zombies towards a better world. This 
is symbolized by the cross that Bob was chained  
to for most of the movie and where he began to 
regain his consciousness. According to the New  
Testament as well, Jesus was first born from the 
dead, ushering in the kingdom of God. He then went  
about forgiving sins, baptizing repenters, and 
ascended to heaven. In a twisted way, you could  
say that zombies are killing us. And by becoming 
part of the undead, we're baptized and forgiven  
of our sins. It's also traditionally believed in 
Christianity that the bodily resurrection with  
the restoration to life of a transformed body is 
powered by the spirit which is literally what we  
saw happen with Bob as he was transformed into a 
zombie body powered by his primal instincts but  
was resurrected by restoring his consciousness. 
Bob chooses to help the other zombies and teaches  
them compassion instead of violence. Humanity 
can eventually return and be forgiven for what we  
did to the world. However, Romero still leaves us 
with a sense of dread. As we saw, Bub has already  
learned cruelty and violence from Frankenstein. 
When figuring out that Bub was regaining  
consciousness, one of the first things he did 
was give him a gun and had him read Salem's slot.  
That is a book all about community mistrust and 
violence as everyone in the lot becomes vampires  
and begins killing their family and friends. So, 
there's an equal chance that Bub will just create  
the same cycle that led to the apocalypse in 
the first place. Yay. with Romero doubling  
down on the idea that the end is inevitable and 
humanity cannot be saved. I think that it fits in  
more with what he's been doing. This is why Romero 
ultimately leaves Bub's fate open-ended, though,  
because our time is up. However, I do feel like 
it's a bit more optimistic and leaves things in  
the air about whether violence is inherent to our 
nature or if we can learn to regain our humanity  
and trust each other once more. Now, I know this 
all sounds insane, but it perfectly concludes  
everything Romero has been setting up since 
he first introduced audiences to the ghouls.  
In Night The Living Dead, Romero brings in zombies 
as terrifying monsters that come to destroy the  
family unit, which is represented by our survivors 
trapped in the farmhouse. In Dawn, Romero then  
shows the destruction of community. He presents 
zombies as funny and pathetic and shows the human  
characters committing most of the violence. There 
he introduces the idea that we are in fact the  
monsters and have done this to ourselves. In day, 
Romero brings this all together by representing  
the zombies as victims and making us actually root 
against most of the human characters. We root for  
Bob when he's hunting down roads. And when the 
zombies start coming after the other soldiers,  
we cheer on because we know they deserve it. Now, 
apply this to like a billion people. Though we  
know there's a few good people left, which is why 
they survive, they're overwhelmingly outnumbered  
by the bad. Ben, the sole survivor of Night who 
tried to save everyone, was gunned down by the  
mob. And in Dawn, Peter and Fran are the only 
ones able to hold on to their humanity. In day,  
everyone in the bunker is already insane, which 
leaves only three out of the group and perhaps  
the world with some sense of their humanity left. 
This represents the underlying terror and social  
commentary that Romero was trying to convey 
in these films of humanity being doomed and  
that we in fact deserve it. Romero also saw the 
dead films as an allegory for humanity having  
failed and needing to make a new path. Day of the 
Dead just brings things full circle from that very  
first film and it shows the zombie uprising 
as being complete. And while Day of the Dead  
is widely considered the worst of Romero's Dead 
films, it actually has a lot of deeper layers  
I think most people miss that make it a perfect 
conclusion to this original Dead trilogy. I mean,  
we got zombies listening to Beethoven and shooting 
a gun. It's absolutely ridiculous. So, I don't  
blame anyone for um not liking the movie and maybe 
the symbolism going over their heads, but hey,  
if it didn't, I wouldn't have a job. Not everyone 
is a Romero expert knows his strong social views,  
but it was always the central theme of these 
movies and what he ultimately wanted to convey to  
audiences with his stories of ghouls and monsters. 
Now, I know this video has been a lot of tangents,  
but I think these things are important 
when discussing these movies, as it was  
always Romero's intention to use the zombies as a 
vehicle for social commentary. So, thank you for  
sticking around. And while this was always my 
least favorite, I have grown to appreciate it.  
Going through just given me a new found respect 
for it. And yeah, I can see why Romero had this as  
his favorite. And if you've been keeping up with 
our breakdowns of these films, h then hopefully  
you have too. and I've come out with a better 
understanding of what Romero wanted us to take  
away from this. Or you can still hate it. That's 
totally fair, too. But as always, I'd love to hear  
thoughts in the comments below. Do you think Day 
of the Dead's Romero's worst? Will you bow to our  
new zombie overlords? Let me know in the comments 
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is anyway you'll get access to at least four  
breakdowns a week a week before anyone else 
sorry not a week a month [ __ ] hell I'm not  
writing all this [ __ ] all the time but yeah 
huge thank you for joining us and I'll see you  
in the next one and I hope you've enjoyed us 
going through these three movies out the way  
though I've been your host Paul you've been the 
best and I'll see you next time take at peace.