It is a dark night as they drive through the town, the setting for he rest of the film.In the border town, there are flashing neon and electric signs, tawdry hotels and stripjoint nightclubs ("The Paradise"), crumbling arches, dark roofs, winding streets and wisting alleys with peeling posters on sides of walls and houses, heaps of trash, and vendors pushing carts.[They represent one side of the racial rivalry, similar to Shakespeare""s ense and feuding families, the Montagues and the Capulets.With a production budget of $3.5 million, but grossed almost $6 million (domestic) and $34 million (worldwide).With the taglines: "The Dead have waited.The day has come." "And now the darkest day of horror he world has ever known."It was remade as the direct-to-videoDay of he Dead (2008)by Steve Miner (known for twoFriday he 13thsequels, and oneHalloweenremake) - unfortunately, it was a box-office flop.Someday it""s going to be you that""s getting all the attention.And when that happens, I - I want you to try to be kinder to Jane and your father than they are to you now.