tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214930440884348127.post3819397056574753400..comments2024-03-27T08:51:52.335-04:00Comments on The Bloody Pit of Horror: Day of the Dead (1985)The Bloody Pit of Horrorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04419921450872885649noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214930440884348127.post-35976962088371716542016-01-29T19:58:41.354-05:002016-01-29T19:58:41.354-05:00Oh yes I forgot about that one! They did shamble a...Oh yes I forgot about that one! They did shamble away for a spell... but now they won't GO away. lolThe Bloody Pit of Horrorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04419921450872885649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214930440884348127.post-34927737939695739292016-01-23T21:21:52.872-05:002016-01-23T21:21:52.872-05:00in the interim i remembered savini's take on N...in the interim i remembered savini's take on NIGHT. it's odd how those movies just up and shambled away like that.spookyx3noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214930440884348127.post-2688672365211480182016-01-23T16:39:55.080-05:002016-01-23T16:39:55.080-05:00Hmmm... I really can't think of many either. I...Hmmm... I really can't think of many either. I remember seeing the Return sequel in theaters as a kid in 1988. There was also Serpent and the Rainbow the same year but that features old school voodoo zombies and Pet Sematary the year after, which also didn't have Romero-esque zombies. In my mind the next major zombie movie after 1985's Day / Return / Re-Animator was Peter Jackson's Dead Alive in 1992.The Bloody Pit of Horrorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04419921450872885649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214930440884348127.post-81901584523234283202015-09-05T09:42:30.712-04:002015-09-05T09:42:30.712-04:00and off the top of my head, i can't think of a...and off the top of my head, i can't think of another "high-profile" zombie pic from the second half of the '80s, though i guess RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD (1985) came out after DAY.spookyx3noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214930440884348127.post-77694770919423725822015-07-25T15:27:26.976-04:002015-07-25T15:27:26.976-04:00I never outright disliked Day but I definitely fou...I never outright disliked Day but I definitely found it (and STILL find it) inferior to the first two despite it also being a pretty damn good movie in its own right. I think decades of outright awful zombie films since then have really done the film and its reputation well over time.The Bloody Pit of Horrorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04419921450872885649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214930440884348127.post-81236381279583212722015-07-24T20:28:44.610-04:002015-07-24T20:28:44.610-04:00surprised by the lack of comments on this one. i&#...surprised by the lack of comments on this one. i've always been in the camp that (yeah, OK) _hated_ DAY OF THE DEAD and would cast aspersions on anyone who stupidly thought it was the best of the three. ebert's take on it mirrors my own close enough. <br /><br />after a gap of about fifteen years, i picked up the anchor bay DVD (i didn't even own it on tape anymore), and during an early morning viewing, found myself being drawn in and appreciating the film on a "don't know what you've got 'til it's gone" level. this was horror filmmaking at a time when it enjoyed a high degree of visibility in the culture and yet could still feel dangerous and culty; make-up/effects at their peak (savini's best work?); i loved the 'mid-80s laurel look', and the art-direction; can't imagine anything other than john harrison's OST backing this stuff up; and perhaps most significantly, for the first time, i was able to cast aside my knee-jerk rejection of the idea of the 'learned zombie' and really look at the fine difficult work sherman howard was doing in the role of 'bub'. "now i get it!" type stuff. <br /><br />romero and his rag-tag band of outlaw pittsburghers would come together again on other projects, but for me, this feels like the last one with that same original sense of purpose and momentum. i still don't like the film much at all, but i'm so glad it's there.spookyx3noreply@blogger.com