Revealing mistake: In the very beginning when we are flying over the dead town in a helicopter, look closely at one of the very first shots of the "empty" city. On one of the left side streets you can see a car driving down the road. It's not a character mistake because she is looking hard out the window and should have spotted the moving car.
Day of the Dead (1985)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: George A. Romero
Starring: Jarlath Conroy, Joseph Pilato, Lori Cardille, Terry Alexander
At the end, the one-armed Miguel uses the lift and opens the gate restraining the zombies. Before he is ripped apart, he operates the lift and lets the zombies into the facility. Rickles head is ripped off, and Rhodes abandons Steele. Steele locks himself in a room but is quickly overtaken by zombies. He shoots himself in the mouth. Rhodes is ambushed while opening a door and is torn in half by zombies. Sarah, John, and William climb up a silo and reach the helicopter with the zombies close behind. As Sarah enters the helicopter, she is jumped by a zombie but she wakes up on an island with William and John there with her. She takes out a calendar and crosses out the date.
Neil
More mistakes in Day of the Dead
John: I got an alternative, yeah, yeah, I got an alternative. Let's get in that old whirly-bird, find us an island some place, get juiced up and spend what time we got left soakin' up some sunshine! How's that?
Sarah: You could do that, couldn't you? With all that's going on, you could just do that without a second thought?
John: Right, I could do that even if all this wasn't going on.
Trivia: Joe Pilato who plays Captain Rhodes in this film had a small role in the Director's Cut of its predecessor, Dawn of the Dead: he's the police captain at the dock scene.
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