At The House Next Door: Day of the Dead (1985)

Proud to contribute to the Summer of '85 series at Slant Magazine's The House Next Door:

Day of the Dead, unleashed in July of 1985, was the third in George Romero's Dead trilogy (not to be confused with Sam Raimi's Evil Dead trilogy), which has created a foundation for a whole horror subgenre and its attendant culture of obsessives. It wasn't as blithely satirical as its predecessor, Dawn of the Dead, and it was far more technically sophisticated than either of its forerunners. Owing to these improvements, Day of the Dead is the most direct reference point for all subsequent “serious” treatments of the zombie archetype. Despite its landmark status, it’s accorded far less acclaim than Dawn of the Dead, which is often heralded as the pinnacle of the trilogy. This is unfair to Day of the Dead, which seems to have gotten lost in the shuffle, so much so that its iconic contribution to the genre has been overlooked.

Read the rest over at The House Next Door.