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Day of the Dead (1985)
Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1985
Running Times: 96 mins (Canada)
102 mins (USA)
Format: colour
Ratio: 1.85:1
Sound: mono
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Company: Laurel Communications
Executive Producer: Salah
M. Hassanein
Producer: Richard
P. Rubinstein
Co-Producer: David
Ball
Associate Producer: Ed
Lammi
Production Manager: Zilla
Clinton
Production Coordinator: Leslie Chapman
Florida Unit Production Coordinator: Melanie Muroff
Production Controller: Tina Carbonell
SCRIPT
Script: George A. Romero
DIRECTION
Director: George A. Romero
1st Assistant Director: John Harrison
2nd Assistant Directors: Katarina Wittich, Annie Loeffler
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Michael
Gornick
2nd Unit Camera Operator: Ernest R. Dickerson
Assistant Camera: Frank Perl, Simon Manses
2nd Unit Assistant Camera: Frank Prinzi
Gaffer: G Frederic Roth
Best Boy: Kurt Rimmel
Electricians: Peter Bennett Beal, John Janusek
Florida Unit Generator Operator: John Syder
Key Grip: Nick Mastandrea
Dolly Grip: Richard M. Sieg
Grips: Barry Kessler, Nick Tallo
Stills: Susan Golomb, Richard Golomb
Cameras: JDC America Inc
Lighting and Grip Equipment: Performance Lighting
Dailies: Technicolor Inc, Joseph Violante
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Pasquale Buba
Assistant Editor: Kristine Bulakowski
Editing Assistants: Steven Farkas, John Bick, Dan Korintus
Negative Matching: Tom San Martin, Arnie Shuster, Bob Wolfrum
MUSIC
Music / Performed By: John Harrison
Music Producer: John Sutton
SOUND
Sound Supervisor: Rolf Pardula
Boom: Stuart Detsch
Re-Recording: Todd-AO, Chris Jenkins, Gary D. Alexander, Larry Stensvold
Supervising Sound Editors: David Pettijohn, David Cohn
Sound Editors: Jim Beshears, Howard Neiman, Trevor Jolly
Assistant Sound Editor: Patrick O'Sullivan
ADR Editor: Lauren Palmer
Foley Studio: Rubber Dubbers Inc
Daily Sound Transfers: Laurel Communications Inc, Tony Buba
COSTUMES AND MAKE-UP
Make Up: Bonnie Priore, Jeannee Josefszyk, Natalka Voslakov
Hair: Terry Basilone
Costume Designer: Barbara Anderson
Assistant Costume Designers: Howard Kaplan, Eileen Sieff
Wardrobe: Karin Wagner
Wardrobe Assistants: Kathy Borland, Denise Smith, Tony French, Susan
Kistler, Cathy Anderson, Pikke Allen, Natalie Wilvers, Martha Bromelmeier,
Margaret McCubbin, Candy Callery, Dawna Gregory
SPECIAL MAKE UP EFFECTS
Special Make Up Effects: Tom
Savini
Special Make Up Effects Crew: David Kindlon, John Vulich, Howard
Berger, Everett Burrell, Mike Trcic
Assistant to Savini: Gregory Nicotero
Florida Unit Make Up Effects Assistants: Dean Gates, Barry Anderson,
Mary LaForge, Linda Arrigoni, Barry Burghstaller
Zombie Make Up Masks: THS Inc, David Smith, Terry Prince
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Steven Kirshoff, Mark Mann
Scenic Special Effects: Howard Jones
VISUAL EFFECTS
Matte Photography: Garber / Green
Opticals: Computer Opticals, Harvey Plastrik
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Cletus Anderson
Art Directors: Bruce Miller
Set Decorator: Jan Pascale
Set Dresser: Martin Garrigan
Prop Master: Kevin Ritter
Properties Assistants: Ellen Hopkins, Eliza Townsend, Penny Mateer,
Nora Cline
Florida Unit Production Assistants: Bob Scott, Frederick Peters, Dianna
Slowey, Robert Cagney, Mark Arlington, David Mott, Laura Wortzel, Richard
Fick, Sonia Lopes, Craig Myers
Construction Coordinator: Bruce Miller
Head Carpenter: Norman Beck
Set Carpenter / Draftsman: Gary Kosko
Carpenters: Dan Gaitens, Michael Reid
Head Scenic Artist: Eileen Garrigan
Assistant Scenic Artist: Randy Montgomery
Painter: Celeste Kaplan
MISCELLANEOUS
Script Supervisor: Joanne Small
Auditor: Charles S. Carroll
Assistant Auditor: Jessica Abrams
Production Assistants: Jeffrey Barker, Deborah Carter, Thom S. Downing,
Barbara Frazzini, Dan Korintus, William Laxson, Nancy Suzich, John Williams,
Michael Johnson, Jim Bozsan, Mike Butera
Production Secretaries: Barbara Homziuk, Teresa Bozsan
Florida Unit Production Secretary: Melanie Muroff
Assistant to the Producer: Miranda Beeson
Assistant to the Art Director: Jay Hart
Transportation Coordinator: P.D. Levy
Weapons: John Wolcutt
Unit Publicist: Bruce Bahrenburg
Public Relations: England & Company
Florida Unit Production Services: Unique Producers Service Inc
Insurance: Rogal Company Inc, Albert G. Ruben
LOCATIONS
Locations: Fort Myers, Florida, USA; Monroeville, Pennsylvania, USA;
Sanibel Island, Florida, USA; Wampum, Pennsylvania, USA
Location Managers: Jim Bruwelheide, Bill Dickhaut
Location Scout: Bill Dickhaut
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Special Thanks: Ginger McGuire; Barbara Ann Koehler; Alvin Rogal; Lester
Rosenkrantz; Frank Rubinstein; Irvin Shapiro; Norman Stein; Vince Survinski;
Mary Ann Volvonas; KMG Main Hurdman; Gelberg & Abrams; Pollock,
Bloom & Dekom; Page Avjet Corporation - Wampum Industrial Facility;
Pennsylvania Film Bureau & R.C. Staab; Florida Motion Picture &
Television Bureau; Page America Inc
STUNTS
Stunt Co-Ordinator: Taso N. Stavrakis
CASTING
Casting: Christine Forrest Romero
Additional Casting: Felice Lammi, Holly Wagner
NY Casting Associates: Gaylen Ross, Mill McNulty
Florida Unit Extras Casting: Gary Brotz
CAST
Lori Cardille (Sarah)
Terry Alexander (John)
Joseph Pilato (Rhodes)
Jarlath Conroy (McDermott)
Antone DiLeo (Miguel)
Richard Liberty (Logan)
Howard Sherman (Bub)
G. Howard Klar (Steel)
Ralph Marrero (Rickles)
John Amplas (Fisher)
Phillip G. Kellams (Miller)
Taso N. Stavrakis (Torrez)
Gregory Nicotero (Johnson)
Don Brockett, William Andrew Laczko, William Cameron, Susan Martinelli,
Deborah Carter, Kim Maxwell, Winnie Flynn, Barbara Russell, Debra Gordon,
Gene A. Saraceni, Jeff Hogan, John Schwartz, Barbara Holmes, Mark Tierno,
David Kindlon, Michael Trcic, Bruce Kirkpatrick, John Vulich, Daniel
Krell (uncredited), Robert Martin (uncredited); J.R. Bookwalter
(uncredited) (featured zombies)
Peter Iasillo Jr (elevator zombie (uncredited))
George A. Romero
(zombie wearing scarf (uncredited))
Stand-Ins: James Wtzel, Theresa Bedekovich
Florida Unit Stand-Ins: Bruce Bellows, Ellen Moon
PLOT SUMMARY
The last surviving humans in Florida are holed up in a missile silo
where tensions run high between the military and a scientific community
dedicated to finding the truth behind the zombie plague. As relationships
deteriorate, the hundreds of zombies massing outside threaten to wipe
away even this pathetic stronghold of humanity.
CAPSULE REVIEW
The third of Romero's
Dead sequence is easily the best, a powerful and emotive piece that
rates as probably the finest of the director's works. Packed full of
clever ideas and boasting some of the best acting in any Romero film,
it's head and shoulders over the flabby and sluggish Dawn
of the Dead (1978). It's a shame that Romero never
did anything quite this confrontational again.
AVAILABILITY
Australia
Video Distributor: Roadshow Home Video
Canada
Video Distributor: Media Home Entertainment
Germany
Video Distributor: Astro Video
UK
Video Distributor: Entertainment in Video; Arrow
USA
Video Distributor: Media Home Entertainment; Video Treasures
Laserdisc Distributor: Image Entertainment Inc
DVD Distributor: Anchor Bay (DV10602)
Worldwide
Theatrical Distributor: United Film Distributors
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Australia
Rating: R
Canada
The 1986 video release on Media Home Entertainment has most of the gore
removed.
Denmark
Rating: 16
Finland
Rating: K-18
France
Rating: -12
Germany
Rating: 18
The earlier video version is cut, missing all of the gore is missing.
The later Astro Video version is uncut.
Ireland
Rating: 18
Japan
The sequence where Sarah has to hack off Miguel's arm was trimmed for
the laserdisc issue. The brief shot of the machete entering the arm
has been removed and the accompanying sound effect moved back to the
following close up of Sarah's shocked face. The female vocalist heard
during the end credits is notable by her absence in the laserdisc version.
Norway
Rating: banned
UK
Rating: 18
For many years, the only version legally available in the UK was cut
by 6 minutes and 17 seconds. In 1998, 4-Front video released a completely
uncut version on video for the first time. The cuts consisted of (times
in brackets indicate the approximate point at which the film was cut
on a PAL video):
- A shot of a female zombie biting a soldier's neck - just a few frames
have been trimmed (56 minutes)
- A shot of Sarah cuttting through Miguel's arm was removed (57 minutes)
- A shot of a shovel being used to cut through a zombie's head was
removed completely (76 minutes)
- 6 shots of one of the soldiers, including a close-up of a zombie
biting off his fingers, were removed (84 minutes)
- The sequence showing the zombies eating Rhodes intestines lost 6
shots and 7th was trimmed (91 minutes)
USA
Rating: unrated
AWARDS
1985
Catalonian International Film Festival, Sitges, Spain
Caixa de Catalunya: Best Actress (Lori Cardille) - winner
TIMELINE
1985
July
3: USA - theatrical release
1986
July
9: UK - rated 18 by the BBFC (for theatrical release - with 34s cuts)
October
20: UK - rated 18 by the BBFC (for video release)
December
10: France - theatrical release
1997
January
30: UK - rated 18 by the BBFC (for video release)
1998
June
11: UK - rated 18 by the BBFC (for video release)
November
24: USA - DVD release (Anchor Bay (DV10602))
2001
December
23: UK - television broadcast (on Channel 4)
POSTER TAGS
First there was NIGHT of the LIVING DEAD then DAWN of
the DEAD and now the darkest day of horror the world has ever known.
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
El día de los muertos - Spanish title
Dzien umarlych - Polish title
Il giorno degli zombi -
Italian title
Le jour des morts-vivants - French title
Zombie 2 - German title
Zombie 2 - Das letzte Kapitel - German title
LINKS
SEQUEL TO
Night of the
Living Dead (1968)
Dawn of the Dead
(1978)
SEE ALSO
Children of the
Living Dead (2001)
The Crazies (1973)
The Dead Hate the Living (1999)
Document of the Dead (1989)
The Earth Dies Screaming (1964)
The Frozen Inferno (2000)
Invisible Invaders (1959)
Redneck Zombies (1987)
FOOTAGE INCLUDED IN
The Many Days of Day of the Dead (2003)
Scream Greats Vol. 1 Tom Savini Master of Horror Make-up (1986)
REFERENCES
MAGAZINES
Cineaction no.6 (August 1986) pp.45-49
(Canada)
illustrated article
Cinefantastique vol.15 no.3 (July 1985) pp.18, 61
(USA)
review
Cinefantastique vol.15 no.4 (October 1985) pp.48,
52; 49 (USA)
review; interview
City Limits no.258 (11 September 1986) p.23 (UK)
review
The Dark Side no.47 (July 1995) pp.23-25
(UK)
illustrated article (by Brad Stevens)
L'Ecran Fantastique no.56 (May 1985)
pp.20-25 (France)
article
L'Ecran Fantastique no.64 (January 1986) pp.62-65
(France)
article
L'Ecran Fantastique no.75 (December 1986) pp.46-51
(France)
article
Film and Philosophy vol.3 (1996) pp.138-144 (USA)
article
Film Comment vol.21 no.3 (May / June 1985) p.8 (USA)
production notes
Film Score Monthly vol.7 no.4 (May / June 2002) pp.32-33
(USA)
illustrated soundtrack review
Films and Filming no.385 (October 1986) pp.36-37 (UK)
review
Hollywood Reporter vol.284 no.26 (13 November 1984)
p.171 (USA)
credits
Hollywood Reporter vol.287 no.36 (3 July 1985) pp.3,
14 (USA)
review
Monthly Film Bulletin vol.53 no.632 (September 1986)
pp.266-267 (UK)
credits, synopsis, review
Music From the Movies no.34 (July / August 2002 p.53
(UK)
soundtrack review
Prevue no.59 (April / May 1985) pp.62-65 (USA)
production notes
Prevue no.60 (July / August 1985) pp.59-60 (USA)
review
Samhain 61 p.32 (UK)
review
Screen International no.471 (10 November
1984) p.17 (UK)
credits
Screen International no.491 (6 April 1985) p.172 (UK)
review
Sight and Sound vol.3 no.4 (April 1993) pp.30-31 (UK)
illustrated article (No particular place to go by Steve Beard)
Sight and Sound vol.7 no.2 (February 1997 p.64 (UK)
illustrated review
Starburst vol.9 no.2 (October 1986) pp.20-21 (UK)
review
Time Out no.838 (10 September 1986) pp.26-27 (UK)
review
Variety 3 July 1985 pp.16, 18 (USA)
credits, review
Variety Production Chart 24 October 1984 p.213 (USA)
note
Variety Production Chart 19 December 1984 (USA)
note
Video Watchdog 23 p.7 (USA)
note
Video Watchdog no.54 (1999) pp.22-34
(USA)
illustrated DVD / video review
NEWSPAPERS
Daily Mail 12 September 1986 p.30 (UK)
review
BOOKS
Hoffman's Guide to Science Fiction, Horror and
Fantasy Movies 1991-1992 p.91
credits, review
OTHER SOURCES
screen
credits
KEYWORDS
beaches, cannibalism, caves, decapitation, dismemberment, end of the
world, helicopters, human experiments, military, scientists, sequels,
sieges, suicide, zombies
Last Updated:
15 October, 2008
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