I was going to watch my DivX Velcro Edition of this on dvd, but I just didn't feel like going down in the basement, so I watched it on Netflix instead. Same movie just in 1080p. Doesn't matter. In some ways, I actually like Day of the Dead better than it's earlier counter part- the plot, the characters, the tension and inner turmoil between them... it's just very well put together and the idea of the zombies actually learning and having emotion is a very interesting idea as well. This may be the only zombie flick that I've ever seen this idea introduced.
After Night of the Living Dead and the seminal zombie classick Dawn of the Dead, the third entry in George Romero's Zombie franchise is Day of the Dead. The classic science vs. violent eradication is present in this film as a group of scientists want to study the zombies and try to see if they can learn to be "normal" as it were while the military sect just wants to destroy them. They are all hunkered in a underground military base and have a distinctive wall built for attacks and to capture a couple of them at a time for research. Plenty of zombie gore, people getting torn in half and a zombie that actually has some emotion in a scene after the scientist that was teaching it to "be civilized" gets killed. My personal favorite in the Dead franchise.
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