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Day of the Dead
MEANRANK
69/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2435
- IMDb #1991
- Rotten Tomatoes #2599
- Metacritic #2274
- Letterboxd #1199
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3280
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2125
- Metacritic Critics #2498
- Metacritic Audience #1983
- Criticker #1146
- Douban #1604
- Kinopoisk #3132
- AlloCiné #2366
- Trakt #2445
Every rating
A small group of scientists and military personnel are trapped in an underground bunker during a worldwide zombie apocalypse. Tensions run high between the pragmatic scientists, who are studying the zombies, and the paranoid soldiers, who just want to destroy them, as the undead hordes gather outside their failing defenses.
Details
- Director
- George A. Romero
- Writer
- George A. Romero
- Released
- 3 July 1985
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 101 min
- Rated
- NR
- Budget
- $3.8M
- Box office
- $34.0M
- Awards
- 1 win, 0 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 1 →1 win from 1 nomination across 1 ceremony
| Sitges Film Festival Best Actress award 1985 | Sitges Film Festival Best Actress award | Winner |
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