“Watch your tongue if you like this job!” It’s hard to imagine if you weren’t there, but there was a time in the early ’80s when zombie movies were few and far between. Sure, Romero’s Dawn of the Dead awoke some quality shambling putrefaction from the Italian horror auteurs, but suburban video store shelves were … Read more
This is what happens when the system breaks down and leaves the worst people in charge. George Romero’s third Dead film didn’t have the cautionary energy of Dawn, and didn’t just retread its anti-consumerism metaphors. This was something angrier, meaner, claustrophobic – and the Cold War’s shadow hung heavily over every scene. The gore wasn’t … Read more
Miguel as portrayed by Anthony Dileo in 1985’s Day of the Dead. My favorite George Romero heel. He might have once been a swell guy, and certainly Sarah thought so for a while, but by the time we’re aquatinted with the private, he’s been beaten into this loathsome, abusive and pathetic character. A shattered, self-loathing … Read more