#george-a-romero

#george-a-romero

I still can't watch Quint get eaten alive by the shark in "Jaws" (1975), but I will happily replay the climactic kill scene from "Day of the Dead" (1985), in which a highly hissable villain, Captain Rhodes, gets dismembered by a horde of the hungry undead. Is it the gristly, lip-smacking hilarity of the carnage-the taffy-like ease with which they pull Rhodes's flesh apart,

Romero envisioned a final battle in which the regime is overthrown in the most gruesome bloodbath imaginable, and with the zombie plague ending as well.