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Title: it doesn't bite (so to speak)
Review: Day of the Dead didn't get much love when it first came out (I saw it in the theatre in 1985), but if you hadn't seen it in awhile, now's a good time to check out this DVD. After recently viewing it, I've gotta say...in hindsight, the problem with "Day" might've been that it was ahead of its time. Much of the movie's tension & underlying themes really hit closer to home in today's world than it did in '85. I dare to say it's aged more gracefully than Dawn of the Dead (I'm not saying "Day" is BETTER, 'cuz it isn't...but presently speaking, the "campiness factor" is still nowhere in the league of "Dawn"), and the gore effects still rival the big boys of today. Go ahead and check out Day of the Dead again...you might appreciate it more than you remembered...
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