Trivia

Lori Cardille, who plays Sarah, is the daughter of Bill "Chilly Willy" Cardille, who played the newscaster that talks to the sheriff in the original Night of the Living Dead. See more...

Mistake pictures

Movie Mistakes blog

Other great sites

Day of the Dead (1985) - 10 mistakes

Add actor/director information

Genres: Horror, Sci-fi, Thriller

Mistakes

Trivia

Corrections

Submit

⇑

⇓

Revealing: 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.

Edit

Correction Edit text Change type Duplicate Add time Add picture X

⇑

⇓

Revealing: When Rhodes is pointing his gun at Steele, telling him to shoot Sarah, there's no bullet in the chamber of his gun.

Edit

Correction Edit text Change type Duplicate Add time Add picture X

⇑

⇓

Continuity: At the climax of the film when the military guy shoots himself through the mouth to avoid being eaten alive, the closeup shot of him killing himself leaves a huge spatter against the wall he is in front of. In the next shot where he is falling to the ground, the fresh blood splatter is gone (or, at least, very less apparent).

Edit Time

Correction Edit text Change type Duplicate Add time Add picture X

⇑

⇓

Revealing: In the scene just after Miguel is bit and Sarah is amputating his arm, when it cuts to a relatively close shot of her working the machete, you can see the fake blood spurting out from underneath her right hand.

Edit Submitted by Clerk13

Correction Edit text Change type Duplicate Add time Add picture X

⇑

⇓

Revealing: When Rickles is about to be killed, he fires one last shot through the head of a female zombie, but you can also see that there is no magazine in the pistol.

Edit Submitted by Jack Vaughan

Correction Edit text Change type Duplicate Add time Add picture X

⇑

⇓

Visible crew/equipment: Very close to the beginning of the film, when they first land the helicopter in the abandoned city, there is an alligator on the steps of a bank. A few seconds later when a zombie comes out of the bank and the alligator runs down the steps, you can see a red band covering his mouth (that wasn't there before) to prevent him from biting the actor.

Edit Submitted by DirrtyGrrl Time

Correction Edit text Change type Duplicate Add picture X

⇑

⇓

Continuity: When Miguel opens the gate a herd of zombies come in. Later, when some zombies come from the bunker where they kept the specimens, several of the zombies are the same, and an obvious one is a kid in a football uniform. The zombies in the bunker had no way out, so how could the zombies be in two places at once?

Edit

Correction Edit text Change type Duplicate Add time Add picture X

⇑

⇓

Audio problem: When Miguel and Steele are collecting some more of the zombies, Steele says 'Nice hat, asshole,' and laughs. Watch carefully at the end bit: they dubbed a laugh into the movie, but it's painfully obvious that his mouth doesn't move as he does it.

Edit

Correction Edit text Duplicate Add time Add picture X

⇑

⇓

Revealing: Just after Rickles has his face torn off, you can see that there are no veins on the side of his eyeballs.

Edit

Correction Edit text Change type Duplicate Add time Add picture X

⇑

⇓

Revealing: In the very beginning of the movie, Laurie Cardille is sitting looking at a wall with nothing but a calender on it. She rises and walks up to the wall to get a closer look at the calender. Suddenly hands come out of the wall. If you look closely, you can see the round marks on the "cement" block wall where the hands will come out. Viewed best when freeze framed (which is permitted for a revealing shot such as this one), just before hands emerge.

Edit Submitted by Randy DeShong

Correction Edit text Change type Duplicate Add time Add picture X