4th of July 2025 Marathoning

Seeing the SWAT officers coming unglued in the Puerto Rican apartment complex really felt like Romero further emphasizes how when set free into a maddening escalation where the dead are still roaming among with the living, as families have a hard time dissociating themselves from the loved ones now only engineered by the 'whatsit' causing the plague of flesh-hungry walking corpse uprising, perhaps law enforcement could wind up not being as reliable as anticipated. When you see fucked up shit like a dead husband tear away neck flesh with clinched teeth from his wife as gurgling, spurting blood pools from the open wound and moving severed bodies and body parts in the apartment basement there's no wonder the situation produced a hot-headed racist all gun-happy or a green kid who is just too incapable of mentally contending with what is happening right before him. So you have guns going off, few cooler heads prevailing, one officer just too unstable where bullets fly that he's a liability than help, while another officer is so ill at ease he shoots himself. But two of the principle cast members (Ken Foree and Scott Reiniger) are from the SWAT so not all are entombed by the apartment complex and it's dead with the munchies. Romero would take it further with the military in the third Dead film, but the SWAT here certainly isn't altogether cast in a favorable light.