Goofs for
Day of the Dead (1985) More at IMDbPro »

• Revealing mistakes: When Sarah, John and McDermott gun down the zombies in the corral the last one reveals the cable to detonate the explosive squibs running up his trouser leg as he falls.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: At the beginning of the film, when the alligator crawls out of the bank, the band tying its snout shut can be seen.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When the zombies are funneling into the bunker, the soldier zombie quickly adjusts his helmet as he enters the doorway.
  
  

• Continuity: When Sarah sits in front of the helicopter a lot of seagulls can be seen and their shadows pass over her. When camera closes in, the gulls are gone.
  
  
• Continuity: At the beginning of the movie, when Sarah had a nightmare, the October calendar as the day matching with the year 1985. But at the end of the movie, her November calendar no longer matches with that year.
  
  
• Factual errors: Captains Rhodes, wears the U.S. Army Reserve 99th Regional Readiness Command patch and the U.S. Army uniform tape. Making him and all his men U.S. Army soldiers. Throughout the film you see them all wearing the "Bakers Cap" of the U.S. Marine Corps. They would all have had the Army baseball cap.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: An obvious stunt-double for Anthony "Miguel" Dileo for the scene where he's thrown off of the platform by "Steele". (The stuntman appears to be Taso Stavrakis, who also plays the character of "Torrez" in the film.)
  
  

• Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: During Rickles' death scene, despite having just fired it at an approaching zombie, there is clearly no magazine in his pistol.
  
  

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