In this scene Special Forces are moving into Puerto Rican people’s houses and killing zombies. The team member called ‘Wooley’ goes out of control, and starts shooting everybody. This is because he is racist, and does not care what happens to these people.
We can see one of the civilians head exploding from Wooley’s shotgun blast. This reflects Romero’s auteur style, because he is part-Cuban and does not like racism. Back when the film was released this would have shocked a lot of people, because up until then there had not been much body horror in films. When we watch this part of the film again in current times, modern audiences are not particularly shocked because we have become desensitised and have seen lots more gore effects. This scene also reflects the auteur style of Tom Savini because he uses very gory effects, that look very realistic. The effects are influenced by Tom’s experience in the Vietnam war, and he wanted to get across how horrible violence and death is.
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