Class Trailer Review - Day of the Dead

Name of Film: Day of the Dead

Released: 1985

Genre: Gory Horror

In the trailer ... it begins by introducing it as a Romero film which is a sequel to Dawn of the Dead and Night of the Living Dead. The trailer then goes on to show an audience in a cinema supposedly watching the film and ends with a zombie in the cinema doing the same.

There are not many positive aspects of this trailer but I liked the originality of having a zombie in the audience and showing an audience in general. I also liked how it draws from the success of its predecessors from the beginning.

However, disappointing aspects greatly outnumber the positive. These negatives include:

- There is a cheesy voiceover which makes the film look cheap

- The trailer shows no gore despite being one of the goriest zombie horror films that George Romero made

- The pace of the trailer is too slow; when the popcorn falls it seems to focus on the action for too long

- It focuses too much on the audience instead of showing parts of the actual film. The audience looks bored which makes the film look unsuccessful in general.

- The zombie in the audience has a rushed look which suggests they didn’t put much effort  in the zombies appearance. The zombie also looks more comical than scary which ruins any effect the trailer could of had due to originality.

My Mark: 2/10

The Trailers Average Score in Class: 2/10, overall this was the least liked of all the trailer we reviewed.