That's what makes the zombies such a lame threat in the later movies. You'd easily trick them and kite them wherever you want them to go. Make them all walk off a cliff, or into a giant containment pen you set up, or a wood chipper, or a furnace of some sort, get creative. They're really only scary and a threat in the beginning.
Call me crazy but i've always found slow zombies the most interesting.
They win through sheer attrition, and exploiting your overconfidence and surrounding you. Anyone can self-insert into a slow zombie apocalypse and consider who they would respond, because going outside isn't guaranted death. This movie actually ends up being the perfect example of that, the humans tear themselves apart and the zombies just clean up house.
Most other variants like Fast/Rabid/Crossed zombies are just way too dangerous and it's way harder to write interesting narratives around them.
I like slow zombies too but during the initial outbreak when no one knows what they are, what's happening, or what to do. That's why I like Night and Dawn the most. Hard to believe it'd keep progressing to some global apocalypse though once people got a handle on it. Romero's needed it to be supernatural and just immediately occur worldwide to accomplish that.
How long would that last before people got it under control though? It's not like there's a ton of fresh people out with the zombies just waiting to turn. They'd all be huddled together after a while, and since they know what happens when you die, anyone who is close to dying would be contained/controlled. The survivors would figure out how best to take out hordes and prevent new zombies within months max. I mean come on, the zombies are mindless and just head towards loud noises.
6 months ago
Anonymous
I don't know, people aren't that rational, though.
6 months ago
Anonymous
> since they know what happens when you die, anyone who is close to dying would be contained/controlled
If humans were perfectly rational, yeah. Most people aren't going to part from their loved ones for the greater good like that, and imagine the military trying to yank a child away from its mother to quarantine.
Plus the fact that no matter how serious a threat is to humanity, people generally don't take it seriously until it's virtually too late. People don't bother themselves with prevention
6 months ago
Anonymous
>People don't bother themselves with prevention
Don't underestimate the high number that couldn't go through with taking care of their recently deceased loved ones. Let alone taking care of any zombies. And these freshly reanimated are about as strong as they were alive. Most ppl are not trained in any martial arts.
6 months ago
Anonymous
Well envision no more food, no supplies, being transported to the stores. How many will die due to just that? And in the interim you'd pretty quickly see gangs who begin killing anyone to steal and hoard resources. Even if they're not slain, they likely starve. Don't matter if you're all huddled together all safe and snug if you don't have food. No food everyone in the group dies. People too weak to do much of anything as food dwindles. Zombie population is raised easily in certain conditions. All things considered, global war would initiate quickly too, doing its part in causing shortages as well. How does a nation fight war at home and several other locations at once. Stretched too thin. Like butter over too much somethin or other
6 months ago
Anonymous
The thing is, zombie narratives are more symbolic so obvious shit isn't done all the time. Most societies would eventually force people to wear helmets or mouth-guards so even if they do turn, they won't bite anyone.
It's why it's annoying there isn't some kind of fake documentary World War Z TV series.
The reality is in a slow zombie apocalypse, people would wear protective gear, run around on bicycles and kill zombies with polearm-type weapons. They wouldn't be wasting time with vehicles and guns that require precious dwindling resources.
6 months ago
Anonymous
Shaun of the Dead would have been a much better movie if Shaun shot his mother in the head the second he knew she was bitten. Instead we had to deal with this interpersonal drama stuff! What's that about?
6 months ago
Anonymous
You're confused.
It isn't the zombie attacks directly that destroy civilization it's the societal breakdown from losing random people in all professions.
A month of food deliveries being halted by 50% will tear apart any nation.
pretty sure by 2-3 it was more so the 24/7 strain of every dead person posing an outbreak risk that had brought the world to its knees. sure you can fight them back, sure you can set procedures to keep them from showing up inside your safe zones, but sooner or later someone is gonna make a dumb mistake and forget to lock something or a guy 16 hours into overwatch because all his coveragegot eaten is gonna nod off, or some old person is simply gonna die, an accident on a ladder, slip in the shower, argument turned physical turned fatal, etc. best bet in a fast zombie apocalypse is a boat, best bet in a slow zonbie apocalypse is somewhere remote, difficult to reach on foot, and with as few people as possible
>of what use are rank and file soldiers when the government has collapsed?
That's something they think about in the movie. Their orders are to aid the scientists in scavenging materials for their research and to keep them safe from zombies. They start realizing that it's not worth their trouble now that there's no contact with any high command, that they aren't even being paid to do the job, and they're treated like expendable slaves to prop up the scientists' vanity projects
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fuuuuck I forgot how good this movie was. This was always my favorite next to Night of the Living Dead
All the scenes with Rhodes are great >Sarah: Are you out of your mind? >Rhodes: No, ma'am. Are you? I just told you I was willing to kill you if you didn't get back in your chair.... and you didn't get back in your chair.
Day of the Dead is so hardcore that Youtube has to carry the broadcast edit. hardly matters, you can find the whole version otherwise. It's worth it to read the original script, the original draft, it was bigger in scope more akin to Land of the Dead. Been a while I think much of it went into Land of the Dead. though I remember the original draft being as serious and somber in tone like the movie
>making him abandon his men.
Same I hated that, the entire movie he was going on about his men, only to just leave them like that? It's not even like it's his character, because at no point do they ever hint that he's like that, they make it seem like he's genuine about his men
>Movie shows a zombie is strong enough to yank a dudes head off >Somehow a large group of them can't get through a chain link fence surrounding the facility.
It doesn't "yank" his head off. You can see the zombies (for some reason) all focusing on tearing his neck off. As a recall, too, there's a bunch of bone crunching sounds before this to imply they've separated his head from the spine. How he continues to scream after that doesn't make sense, but it's a cool effect anyway.
Option A: Quickly duck sideways, dodge the zombies, and then take them out with a spinning back kick
Option B: Take their claws in the face, then lay on the table and die
Always found it interesting that a lot of the special effects like this head were made when they were still planning on making the movie to the original script, and when that fell through, they found other things to do with it.
This head was originally to be one of the decapped heads that reanimates.
>dawn of the dead: survivors escape the mall in a helicopter >day of the dead: survivors escape the silo in a helicopter and end up on an island
Romero is a HACK
>was living near Fort Myers when I found out this was filmed there
Then I realized how stupid Romero must think we all are for entertaining the fact that there could be huge caves that weren't totally flooded 6 feet above sea level
these guys never tried hard enough to find anyone
They went 100 miles! That's plenty!
They had a zombicon at that location every year until 2015 some 20 yr old punk pulled out a gun and shot 6 people.
It was obviously self defence
That was cool because I worked nights and going to work at 2 AM there would still be hordes of drunk zombies walking around in full make-up.
Yeah, it's an easy mistake to make, imagine cosplaying as a zombie in fricking america of all places kek it's a shooting waiting to happen
It was about 25000 people would show up and they allowed prop guns at the event.
>heh grabs your boob
>aggro every zombie for miles
>leave
That's what makes the zombies such a lame threat in the later movies. You'd easily trick them and kite them wherever you want them to go. Make them all walk off a cliff, or into a giant containment pen you set up, or a wood chipper, or a furnace of some sort, get creative. They're really only scary and a threat in the beginning.
Call me crazy but i've always found slow zombies the most interesting.
They win through sheer attrition, and exploiting your overconfidence and surrounding you. Anyone can self-insert into a slow zombie apocalypse and consider who they would respond, because going outside isn't guaranted death. This movie actually ends up being the perfect example of that, the humans tear themselves apart and the zombies just clean up house.
Most other variants like Fast/Rabid/Crossed zombies are just way too dangerous and it's way harder to write interesting narratives around them.
I like slow zombies too but during the initial outbreak when no one knows what they are, what's happening, or what to do. That's why I like Night and Dawn the most. Hard to believe it'd keep progressing to some global apocalypse though once people got a handle on it. Romero's needed it to be supernatural and just immediately occur worldwide to accomplish that.
keep the change ya filthy animal
btw his hair is quite kino. not a bad style to go with if you don't mind growing it out
Romero apocalypse works because new zombies are constantly made. Someone dies every second. And the majority of them turn into zombies.
How long would that last before people got it under control though? It's not like there's a ton of fresh people out with the zombies just waiting to turn. They'd all be huddled together after a while, and since they know what happens when you die, anyone who is close to dying would be contained/controlled. The survivors would figure out how best to take out hordes and prevent new zombies within months max. I mean come on, the zombies are mindless and just head towards loud noises.
I don't know, people aren't that rational, though.
> since they know what happens when you die, anyone who is close to dying would be contained/controlled
If humans were perfectly rational, yeah. Most people aren't going to part from their loved ones for the greater good like that, and imagine the military trying to yank a child away from its mother to quarantine.
Plus the fact that no matter how serious a threat is to humanity, people generally don't take it seriously until it's virtually too late. People don't bother themselves with prevention
>People don't bother themselves with prevention
Don't underestimate the high number that couldn't go through with taking care of their recently deceased loved ones. Let alone taking care of any zombies. And these freshly reanimated are about as strong as they were alive. Most ppl are not trained in any martial arts.
Well envision no more food, no supplies, being transported to the stores. How many will die due to just that? And in the interim you'd pretty quickly see gangs who begin killing anyone to steal and hoard resources. Even if they're not slain, they likely starve. Don't matter if you're all huddled together all safe and snug if you don't have food. No food everyone in the group dies. People too weak to do much of anything as food dwindles. Zombie population is raised easily in certain conditions. All things considered, global war would initiate quickly too, doing its part in causing shortages as well. How does a nation fight war at home and several other locations at once. Stretched too thin. Like butter over too much somethin or other
The thing is, zombie narratives are more symbolic so obvious shit isn't done all the time. Most societies would eventually force people to wear helmets or mouth-guards so even if they do turn, they won't bite anyone.
It's why it's annoying there isn't some kind of fake documentary World War Z TV series.
The reality is in a slow zombie apocalypse, people would wear protective gear, run around on bicycles and kill zombies with polearm-type weapons. They wouldn't be wasting time with vehicles and guns that require precious dwindling resources.
Shaun of the Dead would have been a much better movie if Shaun shot his mother in the head the second he knew she was bitten. Instead we had to deal with this interpersonal drama stuff! What's that about?
You're confused.
It isn't the zombie attacks directly that destroy civilization it's the societal breakdown from losing random people in all professions.
A month of food deliveries being halted by 50% will tear apart any nation.
pretty sure by 2-3 it was more so the 24/7 strain of every dead person posing an outbreak risk that had brought the world to its knees. sure you can fight them back, sure you can set procedures to keep them from showing up inside your safe zones, but sooner or later someone is gonna make a dumb mistake and forget to lock something or a guy 16 hours into overwatch because all his coveragegot eaten is gonna nod off, or some old person is simply gonna die, an accident on a ladder, slip in the shower, argument turned physical turned fatal, etc. best bet in a fast zombie apocalypse is a boat, best bet in a slow zonbie apocalypse is somewhere remote, difficult to reach on foot, and with as few people as possible
*shuffles*
My clan would clear these streets in an hour. By nightfall the whole city would be under our control.
*zombies form alliance with local wildlife*
Were the gators zombies too?
Yes, and so were the crabs
i hated every single character in this movie
especially the army guys. of what use are rank and file soldiers when the government has collapsed? all they do is yell. i hate yelling!
>of what use are rank and file soldiers when the government has collapsed?
That's something they think about in the movie. Their orders are to aid the scientists in scavenging materials for their research and to keep them safe from zombies. They start realizing that it's not worth their trouble now that there's no contact with any high command, that they aren't even being paid to do the job, and they're treated like expendable slaves to prop up the scientists' vanity projects
Apparently, they used Captain Rhodes men as food for the zombies
Bang! You're dead!
*ta-ta-ta BUMMMM*
You think I'm ffffrickin' around, Steel?
Now you got til the count of 5 and that's 2 ya wasted...
3....
4....
All the scenes with Rhodes are great
>Sarah: Are you out of your mind?
>Rhodes: No, ma'am. Are you? I just told you I was willing to kill you if you didn't get back in your chair.... and you didn't get back in your chair.
Day of the Dead is so hardcore that Youtube has to carry the broadcast edit. hardly matters, you can find the whole version otherwise. It's worth it to read the original script, the original draft, it was bigger in scope more akin to Land of the Dead. Been a while I think much of it went into Land of the Dead. though I remember the original draft being as serious and somber in tone like the movie
Land is criminally underrated
Original draft of Day was fricking moronic and thankfully the suits reigned Romero’s ass in and halved the budget.
fuuuuck I forgot how good this movie was. This was always my favorite next to Night of the Living Dead
He was right about everything up until the last scene where they ruined his character by making him abandon his men.
>making him abandon his men.
Same I hated that, the entire movie he was going on about his men, only to just leave them like that? It's not even like it's his character, because at no point do they ever hint that he's like that, they make it seem like he's genuine about his men
Kino soundtrack
It's one of my favorites too and so unique as a horror soundtrack
M1 A1
THOUSAND MILES AN HOUR
>Movie shows a zombie is strong enough to yank a dudes head off
>Somehow a large group of them can't get through a chain link fence surrounding the facility.
It doesn't "yank" his head off. You can see the zombies (for some reason) all focusing on tearing his neck off. As a recall, too, there's a bunch of bone crunching sounds before this to imply they've separated his head from the spine. How he continues to scream after that doesn't make sense, but it's a cool effect anyway.
Zombies seem to have superhuman strength in movies.
My favourite Romero Zombie flick.
what was his plan here
Option A: Quickly duck sideways, dodge the zombies, and then take them out with a spinning back kick
Option B: Take their claws in the face, then lay on the table and die
Not get his head ripped off, I suppose.
Always found it interesting that a lot of the special effects like this head were made when they were still planning on making the movie to the original script, and when that fell through, they found other things to do with it.
This head was originally to be one of the decapped heads that reanimates.
this zombie flick had many memorable moments and stuck out among the zombie movies to me
this guy deserved to become a B-Movie star. Had leading role quality
M1A1
THOUSAND MILES AN HOUR
>dawn of the dead: survivors escape the mall in a helicopter
>day of the dead: survivors escape the silo in a helicopter and end up on an island
Romero is a HACK
>was living near Fort Myers when I found out this was filmed there
Then I realized how stupid Romero must think we all are for entertaining the fact that there could be huge caves that weren't totally flooded 6 feet above sea level
Just watched this movie on tv for free
Tell me what I thought of it
sneed haha
Huh?
I don't get it?
I love how terrified Rhodes is when they finally get him, just how he screams right at the camera is awesome
You want me to salute that pile of walking puss? Salute my ass!
What a fricking dick, he thought he killed everybody including his own girlfriend? Wtf?
Yeah I'd do it to, if I'm gonna die I'm taking my b***h and all those bully soldiers with me
Based Patricia enjoyer
Cutie.
doo doo DOO DUH doo doo doo doo DOO DUH doo doo doo doo DOO DUH doo doo doo doo DOO DUH doo doo
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So awesome
OP! WOULD YOU PUT THAT DOWN!? DR. GRANT SAYS THAT'S A BAD IDEA!
Best part of the movie. The ending slaughter is kino too. Too bad it has all that boring shit in between
People who say Day are the best are just being contrarian homosexuals
Yup Day is not the best. It goes Return > Day > Dawn remake > Dawn > Night remake > Night
>Return
Not the same franchise?
Can't tell if your a troll or just moronic