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Summary: the dead trilogy
Review: Okay Where can i begin ..oh i know the NIGHT OF LIVING DEAD .. I can honestly say that after watching the 1968 version and the 1990 version,that i prefer the latter due to its black humour and strong female lead.The cast do a great job,and the re-telling does the classic 68 version justice...poor Ben ! Okay can anyone tell me they never cringed when Barbara's brother hit that head stone .....?To my all time fav horror movie ..DAWN ..hmmm i own all 3 versons (126 mins us version/euro verson -(argentos vers),and the dir cut ..138 mins ...ive seen all 3 hundreds of times but the 138 min version is most exellent version ..i urge all fans to seek out this great zombie flick ..its slick ..and the film ahead never lets you go.(im still wondering about this so-called alternate ending ..where peter kills himself with his gun and frans head gets removed by the heli-blades..)i can never ever get bored of watching the dir cut and just may give it a whirl again tonight...cause "when theres no more room in hell,the dead will walk the earth.." Now Day of The Dead is a great gore filled explosive ending that shocks all..its a very closed in movie with enother strong female lead ...dont be fooled this movie is a real punch in the gut ...! very very gory...cool ! ive heard many ppl say that Dawn is a slow starter ,i can see there point (slightly) but as the first 20 mins skip to the first zombie bite...and that famous basement scene..its begins to run faster and you get a real picture of all the cast as they come together for a couple of months of living hell..the shopping mall was a great place to begin and end this movie ..the cast begin to wonder if there is any point in escaping because basically "where the hell to?" Never forget this movie was made in 78 and still can deleliver a huge impact on new viewers ,see it now see it soon ... come on George give us a 4th one ..please ? After all i can maybe offer a title for it ..how about "DAWN OF THE DEAD 2-HUMANS ON THE RUN
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Summary: Terrifying and Scary - - But a lot of fun!
Review: "Dawn of the Dead" is the only movie that I have seen in recent years which genuinely frightened me. My brother and I rented it on a Friday and started it late at night. We decided to watch the rest of it the next day. But, I won't forget watching the first part: the fear that thousands of zombies are going to rush out of somewhere and outnumber the heroes. Or that a ton of zombies will leap out from around a corner. The story concerns two SWAT cops, a TV news producer, and her boyfriend -- the TV station's news helicopter pilot -- getting out of Philadelphia when dead bodies turn into zombies and start killing the living. This film is atmospheric and claustrophobic. And Romero's idea of using a shopping mall as the setting of the core of the story was a true stroke of genius -- where better to confront the human condition of materialism, selfishness, and a whole ton of nasty zombies? The film was made in the late 1970's for a slim $1.5 million. But, it was put to good use -- showing that Romero knew how to stretch a dollar, making it go a long way. My only complaint about the movie is the gore, which is actually what the film is most famous for. These scenes come at the beginning and end of the film. (The end is where the zombies feasting on live humans kicks into SERIOUS overload) These scenes show too much and go on far too long, but I guess Romero wanted to show just how threatening the zombies could really be. Too bad he's not doing that "Resident Evil" movie. But, that's okay. Stick with this film. It's the real thing (no pun intended).
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Summary: The film is a classic, but this isn't the edition to get.
Review: Elite's reissue of Dawn of the Dead on VHS a couple of years ago is, to me, the definitive version of this movie -- tight, horrific, and organic, with a macabre rhythm all its own. On this DVD edition, the film lost nearly 10 minutes, resulting in a more jarring sense of editing and overall a less effective cut than the 138-minute one.This is one DVD that could have used more bonus material, for example from the George A. Romero documentary, behind-the-scenes footage (if such footage exists), outtakes, and so on. Comments have already been made about the Monroeville Mall commercial and they are more or less correct -- amusing, but too short. The "alternate scenes from Zombi" are even worse -- there are only two scenes, and that's pretty scant. Firstly they aren't as indicative of Dario Argento's hand in Zombi as they should be: Argento reputedly used more of the Goblin score, and neither of these scenes is heavily scored; Argento veers towards imagery, but these scenes are dramatic, shot in loose basic coverage; Argento crafted the Zombi cut for European audiences, and neither of the extra scenes shows any difference in the European sensibility. The biggest gripe is that they simply didn't include enough of the different scenes. There are no cast bios, no articles, no interviews, and there's only one theatrical trailer which, though well done, pales in comparison to the endlessly fascinating European trailers (some German, some English) included in the earlier VHS reissue from Elite. I'm disappointed in the release and hope to see a more complete one of the complete 138-minute cut in the future on DVD.
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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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