Day of the Dead

The bleakest and most claustrophobic of Romero's original trilogy. A handful of soldiers and scientists bunker underground as the dead rule the surface, and the real horror is the humans tearing each other apart in the dark. Bub, a partly-domesticated zombie learning to remember, is the only sympathetic character in it.

It was too grim and gory for audiences in 1985 and has been reappraised since as maybe Romero's angriest film. Tom Savini's effects are his career best. The claustrophobia is the point.

Nihilistic, talky and upsetting. The trilogy's dark heart.