The plan was to weaponize the toxin, and then hold the city at ransom - however, the real plan was to destroy Gotham and its decadence in order to ""save"" it.The film is enhanced by a travelogue-montage of tourist sights in the nation""s capital, and Dimitri Tiomkin""s medly of flag-waving Americana songs ("Yankee Doodle," "My Country ""Tis of Thee," "Red River Valley," and "When Johnny Comes Marching Home").At three-quarters of the way up, he pauses - a female relative from above comes down to him, cradles him, and tells the newly-orphaned boy of his father""s premature death:You must be brave now, little man.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.