History Film / DayOfTheDead1985

* ForScience: Dr. Logan believes he can teach the zombies good manners - an obsession that comes to a head when the soldiers guarding the place finds out he's using the corpses of their fallen comrades as positive reinforcements.

* SoleSurvivingScientist: Dr. Logan is a prime example of the archetype (even though there are two other scientists, [[spoiler: and one of them him]]). His obsessive pursuit of understanding the undead was a harsh critique on the pursuit of scientific knowledge without practical application.

* MadScientist: Dr. Matthew Logan, nicknamed "Franchise/{{Frankenstein}}" by the soldiers, is the embodiment of this trope. He is so obsessed with his work he fails to consider how the soldiers will react to him cutting up their deceased comrades for his experiments.

* SoleSurvivingScientist: Dr. Logan is a prime example of the archetype (even though there is another scientist, [[spoiler: and she outlives him]]). His obsessive pursuit of understanding the undead was a harsh critique on the pursuit of scientific knowledge without practical application.

* ItCanThink: Rhodes is seriously freaked out when the MadScientist demonstrates that zombies can remember how to use objects from their previous lives as humans. Such as operating a [[ChekhovsGun Colt .45 pistol]].

* TheAlcoholic: McDermot, who just happens to be Irish..........
* AnAesop: Bad people get their comeuppance.

* AssholeVictim: Captain Rhodes, Steele and Rickles.

* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Pretty much the reason why Bub didn't harm Dr. Logan.

* BigBad: Captain Rhodes

* DarkerAndEdgier: The film is definitely darker compared to the first [[Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968 two]] [[Film/DawnOfTheDead1978 films]] with the gore, violence, drama, and profanity being [[UpToEleven completely amped up]].
** Not to mention, the zombies are also much more grotesque, with rotting and mutilated flesh.
* DaylightHorror: The word day is even in the title.

* FacingTheBulletsOneLiner. One of the finest. "Choke on 'em!"
* FamousLastWords: See FacingTheBulletsOneLiner.

* FreezeFrameBonus: [[spoiler: If one looks closely as Rhodes is torn in half, they'll see that a large section of his innards is a blood-covered rubber chicken.]]
* {{Gorn}}: Possibly the goriest in the whole series.
* AHouseDivided: Scientists vs. soldiers.

* IronicEcho: Bub's salute after [[spoiler:he shoots Rhodes.]]
* ItHasBeenAnHonor: Of the deeply ironic sort, with Bud's salute.
* {{Jerkass}}: All of the soldiers, but Rhodes takes the cake, making him one of the biggest assholes in cinema.

* JustBeforeTheEnd: It's either this or AfterTheEnd, depending on circumstances.
* LargeHam: Captain Rhodes and Doctor Logan both fit this.
* MadeOfPlasticine: Captain Rhodes.

* MadScientistLaboratory

* TheNeidermeyer: Rhodes. Holy shit, Rhodes.
* NightmareSequence: The opening scene [[spoiler: and possibly the entire movie, for that matter.]]
* {{Oireland}}: McDermot.

* RegretEatingMe: See FamousLastWords.

* ZombieApocalypse

* Oireland: McDermot.

->''"We don't have enough ammunition to 'shoot them all in the head'. The time to have done that would have been at the beginning. No, we let them overrun us. They ''have'' overrun us, you know. We're in the minority now. Something like 400,000 to 1 by my calculations."''
-->-- '''Doctor Logan'''

'''''Day of the Dead''''' is a 1985 horror film by director George A. Romero, the third of his ''Film/LivingDeadSeries'' movies. It is preceded by ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968'' and ''Film/DawnOfTheDead1978''. Romero has described the film as a "tragedy about how a lack of human communication causes chaos and collapse even in this small little pie slice of society". Steve Miner directed [[Film/DayOfTheDead2008 a remake]] which was released on February 15, 2008, and there is an official sequel called ''Day of the Dead 2: Contagium'' which nobody from the original movie had any involvement with.

* DarkerAndEdgier: The film is definitely darker compared to the first [[Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968 two]] [[Film/DawnOfTheDead1978 films]] with the gore, violence, and drama being [[UpToEleven completely amped up]].
** Not to mention, the zombies are also more grotesque, with rotting and mutilated flesh.

* MildlyMilitary: Okay, so the ZombieApocalypse happened a few months ago. How is it that the privates are all surly fatasses in their 30s and 40s? Even in the slashed-budget days of the Carter administration when retention was a major problem, a guy who never made corporal in six years was out, and there was still a physical fitness standard. One wonders where the hell they found these losers.

* DarkerAndEdgier: The film is definitely darker compared to the first [[Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968 two]] [[Film/DawnOfTheDead1978 films]] with the gore and violence being [[UpToEleven completely amped up]].
** Not to mention, the zombies are also more grotesque with rotting and mutilated flesh.

** [[spoiler: Shown in the image above, the most iconic scene is when Rhodes has his lower part of his body pulled apart by a crowd of zombies and his last words to them were [[FacingTheBulletsOneLiner "Choke on 'em!"]]]].

** Not to mention, the zombies are more grotesque with rotting and mutilating skin.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Compared to the first two films, it is.

* DevouredByTheHorde: [[DrivenToSuicide Feeling suicidal]], Miguel lures a large crowd of zombies to the underground base through the elevator and he bites on his dog tags as the zombies start devouring him as the elevator descends to the base. When the zombies have overrun the base, Torrez is torn apart while a zombie sticks two of its fingers in his eye socket and pulls his head off as his screaming dies away and Rickles is shown [[DieLaughing laughing]] as the zombies tears him apart which later turns into screaming. Shown in the image above, the most iconic scene is when Rhodes has his lower part of his body pulled apart by a crowd of zombies and his last words to them were [[FacingTheBulletsOneLiner "Choke on 'em!"]].

* DevouredByTheHorde: [[DrivenToSuicide feeling suicidal]], Miguel lures a large crowd of zombies to the underground base through the elevator and he bites on his dog tags as the zombies start devouring him as the elevator descends to the base. When the zombies have overrun the base, Torrez is torn apart while a zombie sticks two of its fingers in his eye socket and pulls his head off as his screaming dies away and Rickles is shown [[DieLaughing laughing]] as the zombies tears him apart which later turns into screaming. Shown in the image above, the most iconic scene is when Rhodes has his lower part of his body pulled apart by a crowd of zombies and his last words to them were [[FacingTheBulletsOneLiner "Choke on 'em!"]].

'''''Day of the Dead''''' is a 1985 horror film by director George A. Romero, the third of his ''Film/LivingDeadSeries'' movies. It is preceded by ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968'' and ''Film/DawnOfTheDead1978''. Romero describes the film as a "tragedy about how a lack of human communication causes chaos and collapse even in this small little pie slice of society". Steve Miner directed [[Film/DayOfTheDead2008 a remake]] which was released on February 15, 2008, and there is an official sequel called ''Day of the Dead 2: Contagium'' which nobody from the original movie had any involvement with.

'''''Day of the Dead''''' is a 1985 horror film by director George A. Romero, the third of his ''Film/LivingDeadSeries'' movies. It is preceded by ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968'' and ''Film/DawnOfTheDead1978''. George Romero describes the film as a "tragedy about how a lack of human communication causes chaos and collapse even in this small little pie slice of society". Steve Miner directed [[Film/DayOfTheDead2008 a remake]] which was released on February 15, 2008, and there is an official sequel called ''Day of the Dead 2: Contagium'' which nobody from the original movie had any involvement with.

'''''Day of the Dead''''' (also known as ''George A. Romero's Day of the Dead'') is a 1985 horror film by director George A. Romero, the third of Romero's ''Film/LivingDeadSeries'' movies. It is preceded by ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968'' and ''Film/DawnOfTheDead1978''. George Romero describes the film as a "tragedy about how a lack of human communication causes chaos and collapse even in this small little pie slice of society". Steve Miner directed [[Film/DayOfTheDead2008 a remake]] which was released on February 15, 2008, and there is an official sequel called ''Day of the Dead 2: Contagium'' which nobody from the original movie had any involvement with.

''Day of the Dead'' (also known as ''George A. Romero's Day of the Dead'') is a 1985 horror film by director George A. Romero, the third of Romero's ''Film/LivingDeadSeries'' movies. It is preceded by ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968'' and ''Film/DawnOfTheDead1978''. George Romero describes the film as a "tragedy about how a lack of human communication causes chaos and collapse even in this small little pie slice of society". Steve Miner directed [[Film/DayOfTheDead2008 a remake]] which was released on February 15, 2008, and there is an official sequel called ''Day of the Dead 2: Contagium'' which nobody from the original movie had any involvement with.

-->'''Bill''': The power's off on the mainland now, in case you haven't heard. And all the [[Film/DawnOfTheDead shopping malls]] are closed.

''Day of the Dead'' (also known as ''George A. Romero's Day of the Dead'') is a 1985 horror film by director George A. Romero, the third of Romero's Living Dead movies. It is preceded by ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968'' and ''Film/DawnOfTheDead1978''. George Romero describes the film as a "tragedy about how a lack of human communication causes chaos and collapse even in this small little pie slice of society". Steve Miner directed [[Film/DayOfTheDead2008 a remake]] which was released on February 15, 2008, and there is an official sequel called ''Day of the Dead 2: Contagium'' which nobody from the original movie had any involvement with.

''Day of the Dead'' (also known as ''George A. Romero's Day of the Dead'') is a 1985 horror film by director George A. Romero, the third of Romero's Living Dead movies. It is preceded by ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead'' and ''Film/DawnOfTheDead''. George Romero describes the film as a "tragedy about how a lack of human communication causes chaos and collapse even in this small little pie slice of society". Steve Miner directed [[Film/DayOfTheDead2008 a remake]] which was released on February 15, 2008, and there is an official sequel called ''Day of the Dead 2: Contagium'' which nobody from the original movie had any involvement with.