Dawn of the Dead

“When there’s no more room in HELL, the dead will walk the EARTH!”

7.5

1978

2h 7m

HorrorScience Fiction

Director: George A. Romero

Overview

During an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia SWAT team members, a traffic reporter, and his television-executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.

Trailer

Original Trailer Official

Cast

Stephen "Flyboy" Andrews

David Emge

Stephen "Flyboy" Andrews

Peter Washington

Ken Foree

Peter Washington

Roger "Trooper" DeMarco

Scott H. Reiniger

Roger "Trooper" DeMarco

Francine "Fran" Parker

Gaylen Ross

Francine "Fran" Parker

Dr. James Foster

David Crawford

Dr. James Foster

Sidney Berman

David Early

Sidney Berman

Dr. Milliard Rausch

Richard France

Dr. Milliard Rausch

TV Commentator

Howard Smith

TV Commentator

Dan Givens

Daniel Dietrich

Dan Givens

Police Commander

Fred Baker

Police Commander

Wooley

James A. Baffico

Wooley

Roy Tucker

Rod Stouffer

Roy Tucker

Reviews

talisencrw

This is one of the finest sequels ever, in that it's both of comparable quality with the original, yet is fundamentally different from it at the same time. Marvelous stuff, with aspects copied thousands of times over the past two generations, with no end in sight. This and 'Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom', from about the same time frame, would make one of the best double-bills ever on the evils of consumerism gone rampant...

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Wuchak

Romero’s imaginative and thrilling zombie sequel A decade after the excellent “Night of the Living Dead” (1968), writer/director George Romero offers up this exceptional sequel. The plague of reanimated corpses with a hunger for warm flesh is now global and society is increasingly breaking down. A television exec (Gaylen Ross), her helicopter-reporter beau (David Emge) and two SWAT officers (Ken Foree and Scott Reiniger) take refuge in a suburban mall. Unfortunately for them, a veritable army of biker-raiders wants the mall for their own. One of the main reasons this film is so iconic is because Romero seriously considered what it would be like after a ‘zombie apocalypse’ and came up with an inspired story. While the bleakness of the situation is addressed there’s also a sense of adventurous freedom; for instance, the protagonists having an entire mall to themselves. The movie’s disturbing, ghastly and gory, but also action-packed and sometimes humorous. The zombies make for good bullet fodder while, at the same time, satirizing consumer society. The creative score is varied and I’m sure it was cutting edge at the time, but it’s very dated today, although you’ll probably find yourself acclimating to it. The no-name cast is convincing with the towering Foree standing out while Emge comes across as a poor man’s Donald Sutherland. The movie runs 2 hours, 7 minutes with the longer version running 2 hours, 19 minutes (the one I watched). It was shot in Monroeville, Pennsylvania, and nearby Pittsburgh. GRADE: A-

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JPV852

Been a while since I last watched this one, but with the new 4K UHD out, decided to give it another watch going with the Extended Cut. Still very well made with some great zombie effects and really liked the characters, Peter (Ken Foree), especially. I'm not a big fan of the zombie horror genre but this is one of the exceptions. **4.0/5**

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