ZOMBIES Pt 10: Day Of The Dead (1985) & The Return Of The Living Dead (1985)
The Evolution of Horror
Mike Muncer
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2019
⏱️ 123 minutes
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Summary
This week Mike is joined by filmmakers Cat Davies and James Moran to discuss Romero’s divisive conclusion to his ‘Dead’ trilogy, Day Of The Dead (1985). He is then joined by filmmaker, journalist and podcaster Sam Ashurst to discuss punk masterpiece Return Of The Living Dead (1985).
Music by Jack Whitney.
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James Moran is a filmmaker and writer and can be found on TWITTER
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| 0:00.0 | The In 1985, two filmmakers with very different styles each made their own zombie movie. |
| 0:24.0 | One of the films made by George Romero was designed as a closing chapter to a trilogy |
| 0:30.0 | and was far more bleak, more nihilistic and more challenging than anything he had made before. The other film was what ended up being the first in a brand new zombie franchise |
| 0:49.6 | and it was almost the polar opposite to Romero zombie movie in tone and style. |
| 0:55.1 | This was a fun, high energy teen movie with a punk sensibility and plenty of knowing |
| 1:00.8 | playful nods to the sub-genre. |
| 1:03.4 | Did you see that movie, Night of the Living Dead? |
| 1:08.1 | But these two movies have perhaps more similarities than initially meets the eye, and while they received very different reactions from audiences at the time, |
| 1:16.4 | they both became arguably two of the most important and influential movies in the sub-gomber. |
| 1:22.8 | Join me as we continue exploring the evolution of the zombie movie |
| 1:31.6 | as we review Dan O'Bannon's Return of the Living Dead and George |
| 1:35.9 | Romero's Day of the Dead. Welcome back to the evolution of horror. My name is Mike and as ever I am your host. |
| 1:50.0 | If you're tuning in for the first time then then welcome. In this podcast, we explore and |
| 1:54.1 | dissect the evolution of the horror genre by looking at particular sub-jomres across several |
| 1:58.7 | weeks. We are currently in the middle of exploring the evolution of the zombie movie and this is part |
| 2:03.7 | 10 in which as the intro suggested we are going to be looking at these two movies |
| 2:08.3 | Return of the Living Dead and Day of the Dead both from from 1985 in spoiler-rific detail. |
| 2:14.6 | This is your spoiler warning. |
| 2:16.0 | If you haven't seen these two movies, |
| 2:17.5 | we will be discussing them in depth, |
| 2:19.6 | including their endings. |
| 2:21.0 | So please do, give yourself a treat treat go away and watch them first. |
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