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Summary: One helluva dead movie.
Review: Greatest zombie flick ever made.The music, acting and location are perfect.Buy it,watch it, love it.
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Summary: classic horror at its best
Review: I rented dawn of the dead a few months after seeing it on cinemax(don't ask). I found how much I really enjoyed it. the make up is abit off at times, but Savini's make up effects more than 'make up'(ha ha) for it
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Summary: Familiar fear-inspiring fantasy!
Review: Having shopped in the actual mall many times and having a friend who played one of the zombie extras obviously colors my opinion somewhat. However, Romero's commentary on consumerism, campy humor, and love of gore make this one of the best movies of the genre. The humor interspersed with the horror provides the same sort of comic relief that Shakespeare would introduce into his most dramatic offerings...DOTD, a classic!
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Summary: An all-time great movie finally looks like a great film.
Review: Yes, Dawn is finally in a condition that's worth watching for viewers unlike me who haven't grown up with the film all their lives. Unfortunately, this so-called director's cut dvd is hardly anything speacial. The movie is letterboxed. Big deal. As far as I'm concerned all dvd's should be letterboxed. What makes this dvd such a horrible find is the ridiculace speacial features the disc has. One trailer, a commercial for a shopping mall, and two lousy cut scenes. I own Zombi on videotape and I know that there are more than those two scenes featured on the dvd that are different. Zombi is actually quite a bit different from Dawn. It's a shame, it really is. Also, no director commentary. The Night of the Living Dead speacial edition has TWO commentary tracks. This has none. Also, this is suppossed to be the theatrical cut of Dawn, yet there are scenes that weren't in the theatrical cut. Scenes only found in Anchorbay's version of The director's cut.(the video tape by the way claims to be letterboxed but is not) This leads me to believe that Anchor Bay is pulling another fast one on us with this disc. Don't buy it. It's not worth it. When local video stores in your area begin stocking better selections of dvd's, rent it.
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Summary: Anniversary Edition - is it an improvement?
Review: Well done to Anchor Bay for this latest release that presents the Zombie Masters' classic on a single side of a DVD (though more would have been nice!!). The film has never looked or sounded better. A minor gripe - in the early SWOT team raid, skin colours did tend to merge with the green of the tear gas, making even the police occasionally look like zombies!Over hear in England, I was first introduced to this ground breaking horror movie as Zombies: Dawn of the Dead - and therefore saw the Dario Argento (slightly shorter) cut. Recently though, the wonderful BBC broadcast the 'US Cinema cut' - apparently unmolested. This edition of the DVD also purports to be the US Cinema cut but I did notice some differences - noteably, the clear-up scene in the basement of the 'projects' building and the biker attack on the mall. The BBC cut showed our hero popping bullets through the sheet covered heads of several bodies in the basement, then lots of sniper rifle close ups of heads going pop in the biker attack. These 'gory' extras seemed missing on the DVD. Does anybody know the score on these differences?? Another gripe is with the extras on this disk - it's good to see the Dario Argento 'talking' scenes, but what about the extra gore scenes they actually mention in the on screen text?? The slapstick gore is what makes this movie stand out and extras on this front are surely what the majority want to see? The mall advert is intesting for about as long as it's duration (a minute) and there's no supplemental behind the scenes footage. What about an interview with the filmaker? Or one with Argento on why the differences for Europe? And who hasn't wondered 'where are they now?' about their favourite cast member - ideal fodder for an anniversary extra!?! This is a must have DVD for any fan but it would've been nice if Anchor went to the depths that Criterion do for some of their releases.
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Summary: The Tennesse guy is right
Review: I think the zombies looked fake. But you can't blame them,the movie was made in 1979.
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Summary: Great movie
Review: I loved the movie. the effects were better than that of night of the living dead but that is also becasue this was made later in the century. I agree with the viwer from L.A.,California who said that you have different feelings about the zombies thu ou the film. the music was great. it was a really good selction to put with this movie. it had a good plot and was extremly funny in some parts, frightening in others, and very sobering in other parts. it was a great movie and i urge you to buy it.
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Summary: Best of the Best
Review: I have always been a fan of the horror genre of movies but the best of the best would have to be this movie-sequel to "Night of the Living Dead". Perhaps if its predecesor hadn't such low budget production values it might have surpassed this one, but "Dawn of the Dead" is by far the most terrifyingly amusing (how's that for an oxymoron) film ever made. The suspense is presented through frighteningly realistic news coverage which puts the viewer into the situation. Once the main characters are put into the shopping mall to fend for themselves, the suspense builds to dizzying heights. Thank goodness for moments of levity to relieve the more terrifying scenes. Tom Savini's gory effects are top notch for the day. This is not an Oscar calibre movie (except maybe for fx), but taken as pure horror, it is right up there with such luminaries as "The Exorcist" and the original "Halloween". You want to be scared? This is the movie that will do it! NOT for the faint of heart!!
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Summary: Entertaining but outdated
Review: George Romero's Dawn of the Dead is considered a classic in horror films and said to be one of the best right behind Halloween. I enjoyed the storyline, it was fun and original, but the film lacked suspense. Without giving anything away, Dawn of the Dead is about a world crumbling and zombies taking over the world. Amidst all the chaos, four people: two SWAT officers, a pilot, and a reporter steal a helicopter and fly around in search of haven. They eventually find a mall in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. At first, they say they'll only stay there for a couple of days but then start to grow to accustomed to it. There's a shootout at the end and it goes to great lengths to prove man's inhumanity to man. This is certainly not a bad movie. However, it's also not the classic everyone says it is. I know it was 1978, but Romero and Savini could really have tried to improve on the zombies. If not that then the horrible musical score. The music sounded like disco and that ruined any chance of a creepy and suspenseful atmosphere. Halloween came out the same year and its music was brilliant, still a remembered score. The running time of Dawn of the Dead for the director's cut version is 139 minutes, which is actually two minutes longer than what the box say and the film's credits are less than a minute, but believe it or not, the movie felt way too short. If there ever is a remake like Night of the Living Dead (I seriously doubt Romero will remake Dawn of the Dead) hopefully it will be as good as the original is reputed to be. Attention to parents if your kids want to watch this movie: This is one of the goriest horror films to ever be released and it would have received somewhere from an R to NC-17 rating these days. As for how good Dawn is compared with the rest of Romero's living dead series, it's not as good as Day of the Dead which I highly recommend. Day of the Dead is truly one of the best horror films I've ever seen.
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Summary: Good movie
Review: Dawn of the Dead was good, the music blended in but seemed intentionally funny, good comedic fun. Hopefully there's a Dawn of the Dead reunion in 4 years or so, along with a remake of the film.
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