In a grim future long after the early days of Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead, zombies have conquered the earth. A small group of scientists and military personnel have taken shelter in a bunker in Florida, where gruesome experiments are conducted on the undead in a desperate attempt to understand and stop the zombie epidemic. As the labs fill with zombie body parts, the fascistic military contingent grows increasingly frustrated with the scientists' failure to find a solution. As the two groups clash for control of the underground enclave, the zombies from above ground find a way into the bunker, and soon the dwindling survivors must try to outrun the grisly death that is shuffling after them. "As always in Romero's films, the minority characters — a woman, a black, an alcoholic intellectual — provide the only positive contrast to the American nightmare of power lust and compulsive consumption, yet this time the focus is less political than philosophical. Beginning from a position of absolute misanthropy, Romero asks what it means to be human, and the answers are funny, horrifying, and ultimately hopeful" (Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader).