Dawn of the Dead 1978'Dawn of the Dead' was a cult horror film and a groundbreaking independent horror film which may have past its predecessor 'Night of the Living Dead'. After 'Night', "Dawn" takes place in Pittsburgh and the city is out of control with zombies. Two swat team members, a helicoptor pilot, and a woman who work in a TV studio plan on running and escaping to somewhere. They end up shacking up in a mall but must get past hundreds of zombies downstairs and outside of the mall. This movie keeps you on the edge of your seats. Very gory, stomach intestines being pulled out is my favorite blood for any movie. This movie shows the true genius of George A. Romero's work with the way the terror is brought forward and how the characters are react to the situation surrounding them.
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Zombie Chaos!!!!!
The situation with the zombies is already almost out of control in the beginning. It opens up with Fran(Gaylon Ross) having a nightmare in a news studio and the chaotic environment everywhere. People from the projects were storing their family members zombies in their basement and feeding them dead peoples remains. After the credits the S.W.A.T team runs up in the projects busting. Peter(Ken Foree) shoots a S.W.A.T team member who has gone completely ape-shit. While Roger(Scott Reiniger) was trying to hold the crazy team member back. They see the zombies locked up in the basement and is an emotional part of the film. Pure Horror. Roger's friend is a helicopter that plans on 'running'. Roger decides to bring Peter along and it's all cool but tends to be a shaky relationship at first for Peter and 'Flyboy'. They end up finding a mall invested with hundreds of zombies. They decided that this mall is paradise and decide to take on the zombies and lock the doors and be secluded from the outside. They soon figure out that the zombies aren't there only problem. Maybe even a bigger problem is holding on to their sanity as the rest of the world dies as their secluded in this giant shopping mall. And to make matters worse maybe some people on bicycles come around to make their problems even more stressful. But they'll be ready for it. |
"When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the Earth" There's so many questions for the viewer! Which adds a whole new element to the movie. How did zombies come about? Biochemicals? A virus? No more room in hell? But the thing that Romero does in his trilogy is never reveal why this is happening. Which is marvelous because if that happened in real life we wouldn't know what was going on either. What would you do, in an abondened mall? Being secluded in the mall with the same people hearing the same voices will drive you crazy? A worse experience than jail becuase the world is coming to an end and there's nothing to their knowledge that we're doing to fight back. They know that mankind is losing it's greatest war of the ages. Personally, everytime I see this great movie it's not the zombies that get to me. It's the survivalist, pragmatic nature of antagonists that gets to everyone. This is more than a horror movie it is also a drama, action, an epic film all in one. It focusing on the characters is a great way to grab an audience because we care for their well-being which makes it suspenseful The setting, the threat, the people. Shit man, I love to see this movie when I'm high. It's not just another 'zombie' flick it's, in my opinion, the best horror film ever made. The Re-Make which i saw a couple of days ago was a great re-make but not up to par with the original even though it was great in it's own sense.
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