Day of the Dead

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Daughters of the Dust

Film.com's FREE movie of the week is "Daughters of the Dust." A film that portrays the unique culture of the Gullah people by focusing on the extended Peazant family as its members struggle with the decision to leave their island and move north. On the eve of their departure, memories of their Gullah history and its African roots come rising to the surface. Winner of Cinematography at the 1991 Sundance Film Festival.

Running Time: 102 mins.

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Lori Cardille, Terence Alexander, Joseph Pilato, Jarlath Conroy, Anthony DiLeo, Jr, Richard Liberty, Howard Sherman, Gary Howard Klar, Ralph Marrero, John Amplas

director: George Romero

Day of the Dead (1985)

August 27, 2003

In this final installment of George A. Romero's zombie trilogy (after Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead), mad scientists and troops not even Fox News could support hole up in an underground lab while the flesh-eaters close in. Day was to have been Romero's most ambitious zombie epic, but budget constraints, as described in a second-disc making-of featurette, cramped his vision. Still, Day featured an ass-kicking heroine a full year before Aliens, and some of the gore is made from…