8) Day Of The Dead
Though largely lacking the Hitchcockian tension of Night of the Living Dead and the cutting social satire of Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead – the third in George A Romero’s Trilogy of the Dead – also lacks the restrictive low budget of the former and the cartoonish quality of the latter.
Day is Romero’s zombie trilogy all grown up: where Night and Dawn were gory entertainment first and foremost, Day of the Dead comes complete with an appealing sense of despair.
It’s the least of the trio, but Day of the Dead is still an effective, often grim horror that takes a harshly cynical view of human beings in times of crisis. There’s a grit here that’s absent from Romero’s previous undead classics; there are no comic book zombies, just some of the most convincingly rotten effects to be found in any movie about the walking dead.