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Plot Summary:
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A small group of scientists and soldiers take refuge in an underground missile silo where they struggle to control the flesh-eating dead that walks the Earth above. |
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Cast:
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Filming Locations: (Now With Clickable Links To Location On Google Maps)
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- Florida, USA
- Fort Myers, Florida, USA [Abandoned City Scene]
- Monroeville, Pennsylvania, USA [Elevator scenes]
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- Sanibel Island, Florida, USA [Abandoned City Scene]
- Wampum, Pennsylvania, USA [Wampum Mine, now Gateway Commerce Center]
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Tech Info:
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- Budget:
- $3,500,000
- Revenue:
- $34,000,000
- Color Info:
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Color
- Sound Mix:
- Mono
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- Aspect Ratio:
- 1.85 : 1
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Quotes:
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Sarah: Maybe if we tried working together we could ease some of the tensions. We're all pulling in different directions.
John: That's the trouble with the world, Sarah darlin'. People got different ideas concernin' what they want out of life.
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Sarah: You're incapable of exciting me Steel except as an anthropological curiosity.
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Rhodes: You want me to salute that pile of walking pus? Salute my ass!
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John: I'll set us down. But I'll keep my seat and I'll keep the engine running. Now the first sign of trouble, I'm going up. You ain't on board when that happens, you're liable to have a lousy afternoon.
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Dr. Logan: They are us.
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Trivia:
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- All the extras who portrayed zombies in the climax received for their services: a cap that said "I Played A Zombie In 'Day of the Dead'", a copy of the newspaper from the beginning of the film (the one that says THE DEAD WALK), and one dollar.
- Real pig intestines were used for the scene when Rhodes gets ripped apart in the hallway. Unfortunately, someone had left the guts out of the freezer over the weekend, and after the scene was shot the cast and crew ran away gagging.
- Director George A. Romero makes a cameo as a zombie pushing a cart in the foreground during the final zombie feast, seen from the waist down and identified by his trademark plaid scarf wrapped around his waist.
- George A. Romero had originally planned for all the zombies to perish in a massive explosion when they stumbled across explosive chemicals in the laboratory. Meanwhile, one of the crew members who had died during the attack was to have stayed dead and not come back as a zombie, thereby giving hope to the survivors.
- The book Dr. Logan gives to Bub is Stephen King's Salem's Lot
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