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Summary: The Only True Epic Horror Film
Review: George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead is a true horror epic classic if ever there was one. Horror genre fanatics and detrators know of the obvious artistic defects and omissions always inherantly found in 95 percent of all horror offerings. Yet, when George A Romero's Night of the Living Dead became an unimaginable horror movie milestone back in 1969. Heads began to roll both in awe and in complete disgust of this overwhelmingly bleak black and white cheaply made account of a zombie apocalypse taking place in rural Pennslyvania. The film's low budget in fact enhanced the film dreary surrealistic intensity which re-defined the horror genre the same way Hitchcock's Psycho had done nine years earlier. Dawn of the Dead was Romero's official sequal to that movie masterpiece, and he did have some very large expectations to live up to. Filmed in 1978, the film takes the anxieties and paranoia about human transgressions, materialism, self-preservation, and greed and builds upon these fine foundations. Then Romero craftily created an awe inspiring cinematic orgy of gore, gunfire, entrails, decapitations, body explosions galore, make-up special effects, human disenbowelment, and an un-godly display of stage blood to create the 70's ultimate movie gore fest, and now Romero was filming his canvas in color! Suprisingly beyond this seemingly intolerable barage of gore, Romero had create a tour de force presentation of how brutal huanity is willing to extend itself for self-preservation. The un-believable reality that Romero had fabricated such a remarkable amount of intelligent critical analysis upon the the American Commercial or Materialstic culture through the forum of a horror movie is the greatest shock of them all. If you can handle this unbelieveable gore attack upon your senses you will find an unapprecated horror film masterpiece that deserves to be cherished. Dawn's philosophical, religious, and moral implicatons are just as thrillingly enjoyable as all the film's other more obvious contents. Dawn of the Dead is the ultimate artistic intellectual horror film that mightbe more real than you can handle. P.S. Watch through thecredits.
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Summary: Well worth watching!
Review: Altough the movie starts out slow, and within the first 15 minutes you wonder if you are going to see any zombies, it is a great movie about the world being taken over by the living dead. After watchinf Romero's Night of the Living Dead I had to watch the sequels. Now that I have seen this movie I can't wait to see Day of the dead, the las t film in Romero's trilogy.
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Summary: Get them zombies!
Review: George A. Romero's first follow-up to his classic Night of the Living Dead is both suspenseful and funny, as we follow four heavily armed refugees who seek shelter above a shopping mall as hordes of zombies close in on them. Once they've found relative security on top of the mall, they decide there's no place better than where they're at, so they go shopping! What the hell, they need lighter fluid anyway, right? So they go charging through the mall, knocking off zombie after zombie in graphic fashion. Sooner or later, you know they will have to pay a price for this type of greed, but you never know when one of the humans is gonna get it, and it gets quite claustrophobic as you wait for the inevitable to occur. Watch the zombie body count rise in often new and creative ways; this movie always makes me laugh! Not for the squeamish, however.
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Summary: I Know What I Am Talking About!
Review: Now here is a movie that satiates that child like dream of being locked in a shopping mall with all of the stores, and their contents at your disposal! The only problem is, there are zombies taking over the world, and the mall! What a great movie!
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Summary: One of the Best
Review: I can honestly say that few horror films have left an impact on me like "Dawn of the Dead" has. The atmosphere in the movie is unbelievably bleak and lonely, and once the movie is over, the feeling lasts. A horror movie like this that goes beyond the graphic violence (don't get me wrong though, there is plenty) and actually gets the viewer in to the story is one in a million. You care for the characters, you want them to survive. You become attatched to this movie, which is why it's so great.That, and there's plenty of disembowling and dismemberment and decapitations and what-have-you, so if story isn't your thing, then just sit your empty little head down and watch the blood splatter.
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Summary: The one and ONLY zombie, the best!
Review: It has been in 1981 when this movie was played in the German movie theatres but I will never forget it. I still remember the whole film like I have seen it yesterday. There is no other horror movie which impressed me that much as George Romeros Dawn of the Dead has done to me. If you like splashing blood and exploding heads and brain spreadin all over, THIS is the movie you have to watch. The movie is perfect in all details. Music, special effects and the story are great. This really is my favorite classic horror movie. It kinda has a cult status already over here in Germany and I am glad to be able to watch it again now on DVD.
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Summary: Dawn of the Dead- Anniversary Ed./US Theatrical Cut DVD
Review: As many others have said before, this is definitely the quintessential zomblie flick. Romero captured the essence of horror and gore with this film. I was very impressed with the U.S. Theatrical Cut released on DVD. It was very similar to the original VHS version, save for the widescreen format. There were a few scene differences toward the begining of the film, but they were very minor. It does include the theatrical trailer, and two lame clips from the European version titled "Zombie". The sound could have been a bit more clear, however. There is a seconds DVD version of DOTD in circulation, called the "Directors Cut". I believe it is approximately ten minutes longer, but I don't know of any other specific differences. It does feature a different cover art. Which ever version you find, you'll be impressed.
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Summary: Romero's masterpiece. Zombie humor, with a dash of gore!
Review: This instant classic cult movie surpasses Night of the Living Dead by leaps and bounds. Drunken rednecks with shotguns, flesh starved zombies; with a cow's mentality at feeding time, chomping whomever they can get a hold of, and comedic zombie misfortunes. What more does one need? A very satisfying film for the horror/comedy fan.
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Summary: Greatest Zombie Movie Ever Made!!!
Review: This is my favorite zombie movie. It has a plot like that of Night of the Living Dead. So if you like Night of the Living Dead... The world is being overrun by zombies, so four people take refuge in a gigantic shopping mall. they have unlimited supplies and can holdout forever if they want. But somehow the zombies get inside and wreak havoc. Enjoy!!!
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Summary: The greatest!
Review: You will not be disappointed by this film! George A. Romero's "Dawn of the Dead" was released in 1979. Will please any gore hound and\or a plot seeker. I saw this film three years ago, and it's still my favorite! Nothing compares to Dawn!
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