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there is some overacting but I excuse it for the most part since nearly every character is on the verge of losing or have lost their nerves and are wallowing in trauma.
Rhodes kinda earns this suffering though Espically as when everything goes to hell He basically leaves his men to die He acts big and tough, with fair reasons to be mad at the scientists when it's discovered what one of them was doing But he is really just a Coward who can't handle the zombies as well as anyone else
@@JohnSmith-tt3go And then there are the bodies in the river at the end of Train to Busan and the church scene of 28 Days Later. I can't tell if I should appreciate the DEADication he and his team do or feel bad for the number of bodies they have to count
Day of the dead and dawn of the dead a and a few other zombie films opened up a whole generation of zombie films the effects are quiet something considering the budget they had to play with torrezz got killed stoned lol rest in peace to some of the cast that have not long past away, I didn't know steel past away in real life I think he was 71 but I don't know wot caused his death he looked quiet healthy, godbless you,
James : "Of course we as people get hungry too and since we can't just eat whatever human flesh is around it helps to have services like HelloFresh" HelloFresh : "Um, James could you ease up on the human flesh bits, we don't sell those ... "
When I first saw this, way back in 1985 at the theater, my friends and I cheered when it happened. I thought it was so different than other decaps. We also loved the effects, as we were HS drama students.
legit gutted I can't watch this because of the age restriction even though I turn 30 in a few months. Get why he had to put it on the vid though, just hoping YT will at some point stop this bs
This guy does not count just the kills, but also tells us about the history, geography of the whole movie, and that's why I love him so much. Respect man.🙏🙏
I've always loved that James praises everyone that worked on the film he's covering, and the little BTS details he'll add to the video when it's necessary. Can't forget the respect he gives to the FX artists, producers, actors or directors that died several months or years after the film was made. Just shows James is a respectable human being.
@@boomstickcritique902 No, not 'common info.' He clearly researches and gives us lots of info about the special effects, cast, crew, director and so on. There's not another horror reviewer that does this good a job.
Fun fact: The video game "No More Room in Hell" (a game I highly recommend; on source engine and it's free) has an official map that uses the setting of this movie.
Bub still holds a spot in my mind as most memorable Zombie for him being the most human-behave-zombie. Sorry R from Warm Bodies and his revived-zombie friends but Bub was the first to show human behavior before you.
What about in, “I am Legend?” I know they’re vampires. But I really enjoyed how the infected were like animalistic humans. It’s like what would happen if old caveman humans started appearing and hunting us.
i bet bub lived happily ever after, making friends with living people while walking among the zombies and, if they ever did get the zombies under control, i bet they'd let bub live no matter what
I think the key is what you said.... Romero probably didn't want to make the same zombie movies over and over again. So he made all 3 very different. I respect that... I think their all equally as good in their own ways. The head sliced in half and flicked away was bad ass!! That's Savini having fun with his talents!
This is actually really cool. So many unique ideas in this film. How have I never heard of it? Amputation for a zombie bite? Never happens in movies. Discussions and arguments in a zombie film that actually have a purpose and aren't just filler? A zombie that is to some extent rehumanized? Training zombies? This movie's actually extremely impressive and was way ahead of its time.
I love how over the three films you can see the zombies decompose, meaning that the problem will most likely solve itself when their brains have rotted too much.
The problem is too many people have died or zombified at that point for humanity to rebuild. Plus there's still a lot of zombies that are an immediate threat you have to kill. Not to mention dwindling resources.
I love the tone of the movie. It makes sense because these people haven’t just been trying to survive, they are trying to find a cure since the beginning. They don’t have time for the jokes of Dawn of the Dead.
And while everyone has their Points It's clear the people who went the most extreme IE Frankenstein and Rhodes Are the villains of the movie, more so then the zombies
Excited to hear Train to Busan is getting a Kill Count. Easily the most emotional zombie movie I've ever seen in full (although I'll admit my pool is rather small).
I've never been so excited about a Kill Count announcement. That scene where they fight their way through the train car is one of my favorite scenes ever. Top notch stuff
I can’t quite recall where I saw it - might have been the World War Z novel or Zombie Survival Guide - where they mention that meat just sits in the zombie stomach and eventually if they overeat their guts explode and fall out. Nice.
Private torrez has the most horrible death in all of horror movie history. I first saw this movie at 13 or 14 and i will never forget the gruesome and gory nature of his death. Bravo mr. Savini!!
@@cristobalalvarez1427 I'm not entirely sure that it can...though I suppose if the cords stretch without snapping, there would be a...noticable difference in the sound.
I don't think this would happen in real life, but a very cool effect! In fact, I think if it did happen it would be the opposite, the voice would get deeper, ever blow into bottle necks to make music? Bigger holes make lower pitched sounds
This is my absolute favourite "Of The Dead" movies, I watched it on cable as a pre teen and was blown away by how different it was from the gore porn half comedies that most zombie media had become by the 2000s
I love the way George Romero has 3 different camps of the way people want to live out the rest of their days. The chopper pilots want to just go to an island and live in paradise, the scientists want to provers life forward, and the military just want to kill as many zombies as they can until they meet the end.
Bub was likely my favorite character seen in the movie, seeing he vaguely remembers reading, shaving, music and how to use a firearm. That scream from Torrez is also horrific as he was ripped apart too.
I doubt they'll read this but I wanted to say... this was my favorite KC series. I love zombie movies and these are the best. SO happy James did this. Long live Bub!
Day of the Dead no doubt shows some of the most horrific deaths at the hands of the undead. Unlike other zombie media which tends not to dwell on it too much, Day establishing the fact that zombies outnumber humans 400,000 to 1 really accentuates how precious human lives are in this movie. So there’s a deep sadness that comes with every time a human dies regardless of how evil they are. It also helps that George Romero really lingers on Tom Savini’s superb make-up work which also really sells the horrific nature of the kills.
i’m in my second year of college. i started watching this channel almost 6 years ago. That truly blows my mind away. Year after year, video after video James and the entire dead meat team have been a massive comfort. Thanks for all the great videos, and for getting me to watch a lot of new movies. I can’t lie, I don’t want them all before the kill counts come out, but it’s still a great experience all around.
This is actually the first Romero movie I ever saw, and at the ripe age of 10 as well! I remember being mesmerized seeing Torres' death and his jaw still twitching as his head was ripped off. That one stuck with me for a long time!
Haven’t watched it full yet, but please tell me he doesn’t show the nightmare sound that was produced from it. That’s what’s preventing me from watching it. EDIT: I have seen and heard it and it’s not as bad as I remember it. I was petrified when I first saw it. In fact, now I can’t stop watching it.
I first saw this movie when I was eight, but I only the last twenty minutes. The part where Miguel opened the steel loading gate with all the zombies on. I didn’t see the full movie until I was 16
This is my favorite in all of Romero's films, the music is probably the best OST in the history of Horror, its sense of melancholy is unmatched. The gore is, even in Savini's words, is masterful. Everything, really is just finger lickin' good.
Terry Alexander's commentary on human tendency to turn on each other rather than come together in community was never more apparent than in this pandemic.
It’s that song that made me actually interested in the dead series once I learned where it’s from and it’s part of the many reasons why I love this film
People will say Prowler is Savini's best work. His work in this film is just baffling. I watch this film and still wonder how they pulled some of them off. When you're older, that's the wonder that's still left in horror
Who says that? Savini himself says Day is his masterpiece. I would even put Maniac over Prowler as the movie people would consider his best. But The Prowler does have some great stuff.
@@nikolasniquete5587 Tom Savini has often said he considers it his best work. Literally the first thing on the Prowler IMDB trivia and he's said it multiple times
@@nikolasniquete5587 James even cites Savini as saying it in the Prowler kill count. Tom Savini has said in a ton of interviews that his work in Prowler is his best. The knife through the head bit is just insane
This out of all the original Dead Trilogy feels the most like an Italian zombie film. Has that grittiness to it I just adore. I've always loved Day of the Dead and I'm glad it's gotten attention over the years
Bro, James, if sponsorships are what it takes to keep these thigns coming as they are, then, man, apology unnecessary Not only do you brighten our days cataloging these kills from these fantastic horror movies, but you also educate us with some really really interesting behind-the-scenes knowledge from all of them. Your videos have been my go-to for entertainment since 2017 and I cant thank you enough for the lonely nights you've helped make less lonely. I'm just happy you still manage to make money off of these videos.
Why does he need sponsors to be able to show gore on his channel can some one explain this to me. I ask this because I have seen countless videos with footage from countless Horror movies that show all the Gore and have no sponsors what so ever. I mean the entire Day of the Dead movie is on youtube itself and has no age restrictions or anything lol.
@@boomstickcritique902 Because of the gore the videos get demonetized by youtube, so he gets sponsorships to be able to make a profit, since he has to pay his editors aside from this being his source of income if I'm not mistaken
@@dio420 Good answer I should have thought about that but yea that makes sense. Why does youtube not like gore though I wasnt aware it meant to be like childrens site or something.
John Amples was my acting teacher in college and he was such a chill, relaxed guy who chain smoked like there was no tomorrow and it’s so cool to see the movies he was in get covered on the Kill Count. He was one of my favorite acting teachers in college for sure.
This was the first Romero film I ever saw, back when I was 8 or 9, I bought "Day of the Dead" and "Return of the Living Dead, previously viewed, without having seen them before. They are still two of my favorite horror films of all time. "Day of the Dead" is my favorite Romero film, because of the claustrophobia and, later on because of the social overtones. Especially, in a heighted Cold War setting. "Day of the Dead" is BY FAR, the scariest Romero film. Not because of the zombies, but the human behavior. It also has the most satisfying ending of the original "Dead" trilogy.
The weird thing is, 95% of the conflict in this film could've been avoided. If Captain Rhodes was just a touch more charismatic about his leadership rather than wielding an iron fist, it would've opened a lot more reasonable avenues to discuss what their plans might be for the future. If Captain Rhodes were a little more _approachable_ (which isn't necessarily his fault, given the circumstances - stress is a hell of a drug), then somebody could've asked in sincerity where they might want to go otherwise. It'd probably ease _so much_ of the tension, just to have that conversation over some food. Without radio contact to any other surviving installation, they kind of need to presume that they're the only relevant people left in the network if they want to survive. The absence of their prior obligations to people whom no longer exist means that they have no real reason or compulsion to stay at that base, except that it hasn't _yet_ been compromised by the dead, and that one plus clearly isn't good enough for these rattled people. They now have the opportunity to relocate somewhere else, and while nowhere will ever be truly safe, someplace out there must be safe enough that better living conditions would be worth the risk. Despite the scientists' transparency about their experiments, the research continually threatens the lives of everybody in the mines by sharing a living space with the undead, which probably isn't great for the already-awful air quality. Yes, the soldiers would've eventually discovered the mad doctor's treacherous actions at some point or another-- he doesn't seem particularly disturbed by their circumstances, nor does he seem keen to surrender the excuse to perform these gruesome dissections while hallucinating his mother. I don't think there would've been any saving him, as forgiveness would've only encouraged his madness until he became openly hostile. I can't recall if it was ever confirmed, but I do remember that the soldiers he had been feeding to Bub were _heavily implied_ to have been killed specifically for this reason. Can't really take that with you. I dunno. A lot of these guys are creeps, jackasses, and immature perverts, but they don't necessarily deserve to die for that. The racism is a bit much, but again- I probably wouldn't let someone be eaten alive just because they call me a slur. I might not like them anymore, but that kind of fate is reserved for so very few human beings who could deserve such torment and agony, even if only for scant moments. Not to mention, the waste of perfectly-good cannon fodder already (questionably) trained to use weapons that may keep you alive.
I love the goofy noise the "eager zombie" made when it tried walking out of the still moving platform. Makes me wonder if that trip was intentional or not. 🤣
I remember that me and my cousin rented this (on VHS from a Ma & Pa video rental store (that also had a adult section we tried peering into)) one night, and stayed up until damn near 4am watching it. We were in our teens at the time, but that night of playing ATV Offroad Fury and watching this movie is deadlocked into my memory bank. Edit: I also remember when Romero went to the college I was at, at the time, to shoot one of his movie shorts...although I never got the chance to meet him. (Seton Hill U, GBG PA)
It always always surprises and amazes me when a project like this is severely underbudgeted and underfunded to lengths where it almost makes it impossible for it to even be made yet it gets made and has like the most ridiculous crew on board or just starting like Tom Savini or Greg Nicotero just insane like it's always on movies like this that have this movie magic.
Amazing that the holy Dead trilogy spans 3 decades. You get the 60s, 70s, and 80s vibes and they are spaced out perfectly. They just rapid fire sequels these days.
My dad was an extra in the Knightriders jousting scene, which was filmed right in the area where he grew up and lived at the time. Also, both my parents used to work at an underground government storage facility that they say looks almost exactly like the one where DotD was filmed, and the 2 mines are not very far from each other.
Dead Meat is such a great RU-vid channel. I've not only enjoyed each and every video, but I've learned so much from watching too. The behind the scenes info James gives adds so much. Ever since the Friday the 13th Kill Count came out, I've been a fan. I wish RU-vid was more lenient, as it seems my favorite content creators are being censored to some degree.
I'm loving the Kill Counts so far, and I'm glad to hear you're covering Train to Busan. It's the first movie I've watched that wasn't in English. I gave it a shot before watching Parasite because the director of Parasite said, “Once you overcome the 1-inch-tall barrier of subtitles, you will be introduced to so many more amazing films.” And he was right. Train to Busan and Parasite were amazing.
