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Summary: ROMERO'S BEST
Review: This is undoubtedly Romero at his best.
Taking the same premise from his 1968 classic, Night of the Living Dead, Romero takes it a step further. Zombies are returning to life.
Four people who include two Philadelphia SWAT team members and a couple from a tv station hijack a helicopter to escape the martial law implemented to stop the zombies. They shack-up in a shopping mall and clear out the living dead for themselves.
The unknown actors give far better performances than the predecessors in Night of the Living Dead, and they have a better script.
Materialism dullens their sense of survival. Conscience erodes as they snipe zombies. The living dead wander aimlessly in the mall, looking for lost meaning in forgotten memories of consumerism. Can we stop them? At the rate we kill?
This is truly the thinking-man's horror film.
Watch for cameos by special-affects make-up artist, Tom Savini!
Excellent. I look forward to Romero's next endeavor.
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Summary: Worst movie I have ever seen!!
Review: How can any sane human being who's not a child or a complete moron give praise to this movie and keep a straight face??
This is not only an extremely bad horror flick, it's just an incredibly, excrutiatingly horrible movie! I'm not sure how this can even be classified as a horror when it doesn't even come close to raising a single hair on my head. The directing was ludicrous and the acting was just gawd awful (even for a horror flick)! Acting and directing that poorly should really be a crime. And as for the script...hmm... I don't think they wrote one but rather just improvised because it has to take some sorta effort and thinking to write up a script doesn't it?? About the movie: Four of the stupidest characters are having the time of their lives in a shopping mall full of zombies. Sounds scary? Not at all. These characters end up going on a shopping spree and when they are surrounded by a dozen or so zombies, they simply push the zombies aside.!*&%?? If they get too annoyed by the zombies then they would just punch the lights out of the zombies and continue on. This is pretty much the entire movie. And as ineffective as these zombies seem to be at killing, 2 main characters were actually dumb enough to allow themselves to get bitten by the zombies. And there's one ridiculous part where a biker gang enters the mall and starts a shoot-out with the main characters. ABSOLUTELY P-R-E-P-O-S-T-E-R-O-U-S! Hilight of the film? :
Yes there were alot of gore, but if being grossed out is all you're looking forward to, then maybe there's a slim chance you might actually enjoy this movie. However, the gory parts appeared very fake and unrealistic. The zombies LITERALLY looked just like normal human beings except for the paleness. I don't see how a person who's been painted lightly blue can look scary. lol This film bears no logic or intellgence. It was so bad that I wouldn't even consider it to be a movie. It's simply a complete INSULT and DISGRACE to the film industry and to sanitary human beings.
I would prefer not to give this movie a star but that was the minimum rating I could give it. In fact even 0 stars would be a huge compliment to this movie and an over-rating. This movie (or so called movie) really deserves -4 stars......... actually, I give it -5 stars for being so damn long! btw: If you're a horror-comedy fan, I highly recommend Evil Dead 2. Steer clear of this garbage and don't let it waste 2+ hours of your life.
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Summary: The Best Documentary Ever Committed To Film!!!
Review: Being in the right place at the right time with a camera is much better than having a script and actors. When I first scanned the documentary section of the video store in 1983, I came across this gem. I knew zombies were real from reading about them in books when I was 12, but I never knew there was proof of them captured on video. I was disturbed by their violent nature and their hunger for human flesh, but that's life when you're a zombie. Mr. Romero (better known as the Joker in the Batman TV series) took his crew out for a shopping spree when the violence broke out. Truth is much stranger than fiction, and this documentary proves it. After watching this film, I have sworn off eating human flesh ever again.
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Summary: Day of the Dead is SO Much Better!
Review: I am sick and tired of people talking about how !3#$%* great this movie is. It's good, I'll give it that, but it's certainly not the groundbreaking horror masterpiece that all Romero's fans call it. In fact, some areas are very slow. However, some places in the film are very exciting. The scenes in which the men drive through the mall in a car shooting zombies as they go is very cool. It's good, but it's not the horror masterpiece that Romero fans would like us to think it is.
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Summary: Too long!
Review: The beginning and the end of "Dawn of the Dead" is some of the nastiest and goriest scenes of carnage ever commeited to film. But it's the middle hour and a half or so that is dull to no end. It's a couple of years after "Night of the Living Dead", the zombie epidimic is beginning to get out of control, and civilization is starting to brake down. A couple of people commendear a helocopter and land in a mall. There they live for months and actually begin to ignore and forget about the zombies on the lower levels as they feast in comfert safe from the dangers of the lower level. Then they are forced to fight a biker gang, and then a zombie who figures out how to get to the upper levels of the mall. I know this is suppose to be a satire on society, about the rich 1 percent ruling over the poor 99 percent; but it was just dull, as nothing happens for so long in the middle. I really wished they could have edited a lot out of the middle, because the start and finish is so powerful. I know this one is a favorite of most "Dead" fans, but it just didn't do much for me.
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Summary: BLOOD THIRSTY
Review: This is the mondo melting madstoner loner SHAFt the future, arcade shooter THINKING PERSON EXECUTIONAIR. HELLS ANGEL .NITEMARE like deLErios tremorsSHOP AT ALL COST SPAWNBACTERIA BAD mad merry prankstersBLEAK last STAND exploded TWIN TOWER SPEAKERS[BLOWOUT FIRESALE];.. biker brainFRIENDLY ACID FRIED numbness... a LAME game, show reality richocheting [INVERSETHE SEVENTIES] BRAIN,.. its like a busy dissy, FUTURE.
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Summary: Re: Dawn Of The Dead
Review: Hands down, the best zombie movie EVER! If you don't already own it, your collection is not complete...
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Summary: DON'T LISTEN TO THESE REVIEWERS - OVERRATED!
Review: ... The main reason anyone would want to watch this is to see some great makeup and sadly, this is the worst zombie makeup I ever saw .... The gore is the fakest of all the Romero movies - the flesh looks like rubber when it tears because that is what it is. The blood squirts out orange or pink (the blood formula used didnt take to the film stock well). What are zombies bleeding for anyway? Anyhoo, the dead are already walking around and when they're shown for the first time, it is absolutely a letdown (unlike their creepy and overwhelming entrance in DAY). Here it's inside an apartment building. But only after six minutes of talk. That's right, you don't get to the mall for at least 30-40 mins(everyone knows by now that is the setting, right?). There is no tension to the zombie attacks by hour 2. They're not scary to look at, and they're not hostile enough. In Day of the Dead, they are though. This brings me to breaking the third myth (this is an "ultimate horror film"). It's barely horror. Romero's own personal view as he has said on more than one occasion, is that Dawn is schlock, camp and outright silly. The bookends of the trilogy are where you should keep to - Night, to see how it began and Day, to see what a mature zombie movie looks like. With these, you skip the pie fights, the slapstick, the clown music, and the Noxzema faced actors in bell bottoms with not even a sign of rot. In Day there's about ten minutes of talk to sit through straight - and it's very unsettling conversation. Add up all the sporadic talk here (mostly bull about cigarettes, abortions, guns, trucks) and you will likely get a good 35 mins. So between that and zombies that are laughable, ... There are no chills here. There are no thrills that are not better done in other zombie movies. The deaths of the people in this movie are not that awful at all to witness. Only one good guy's death is semi-awful (if not predictable). The deaths in Day of the Dead are more spectacular (definitely unpredictable and nastier). The habitat of the mall in this is simply too bright and upbeat to create any sense of gloom and that seemed to be the idea Romero had - juxtaposing the so-called undead in such a paradise. In Day of the Dead the characters areholed up in an underground bunker which is far more appropriate for a horror film. Two hours with four people who have nothing to do but steal supplies from a mall is not as riveting as the Dawn Fan Club suggests. The ending is also one of the most anticlimactic in any movie.... I have no problem buying that the dead are alive, but there are so many mistakes and logic problems, you may just fast fwd to the end and look at this as a comedy. It can't be considered a true horror film. Again, for that, check out the bookends of the trilogy. ... Recommendations: Return of the Living Dead (traditional graveyard zombies), ReAnimator (morgue zombies), Night of the Living Dead 1968 Millenium version (house surrounding zombies), One Dark Night (Mausoleum zombies). BEWARE of Shock Waves ... Burial Ground (papier mache zombies), Night of the Living Dead 1990 (just slow and uneventful), any Fulci movies.
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Summary: Classic horror at it's best with a little dash of humor!
Review: I love this movie by George A. Romero. Since his first 'Living Dead' film back in 68', the series continued nine years later with the classic, "Dawn Of The Dead". (which is obviously the sequel to the first)This is indeed much more gorier than the first and the humor is also a bit higher with the slapstick personalities with the zombies. When I first saw this film, I wasn't disapointed! The plot is very interesting: Four individuals are on the run from the flesh eating dead and take refuge in an isolated shopping mall. However, the dead find them there and thus a battle for survival begins! A bike gang find them all there later on in the film where everything REALLY gets gruesome but I won't give anything away. OVERALL: The BEST zombie movie ever made since the original "Night Of The Living Dead" & a very fun one too! Get this if you like TRUE horror! :)
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Summary: A Yawn for the Dawn of the dead
Review: I rented the director's cut VHS because I heard they are coming out with a remake in 2004. I never saw the Dawn of the Dead until a few days ago, so I felt I had to see the original before I saw the remake. Many fans of this movie were complaining because they don't want to see a remake, but I say bring it on because you can't go anywhere but UP with a remake for this movie. The dialog was as awful as the characters. The movie started off slow, bad make-up job on the zombies, typical falling on the ground and making bad decisions that make you want to groan and shake your head. I realize this is an old movie and that is why I said bring on the remake and put some of these Creative minds, great make-up artists and technology (special effects) to work. I looove horror movies and this movie wasn't scary AT ALL. Highly laughable, very slow, but not scary. For anyone who hasn't already seen this movie wait for the remake because you aren't missing much.
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