Grappling With Day Of the Dead

For many years, Day Of the Dead was the under-appreciated, unloved entry in George Romero 's epic "Dead Trilogy." It was the dumb, trashy 80s film that followed two horror masterpieces that each had dramatically revolutionized the genre. And okay, Day didn't have the formative impact its predecessors had; but over the decades, its reputation has grown and solidified as, if nothing else, one of the…