Dawn of the Dead
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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.
What critics thought
Romero's mall-set follow-up to Night of the Living Dead was sharply divisive on release: admirers found the satirical attack on consumer culture and Tom Savini's practical gore effects to be legitimate, even transgressive, art, while detractors dismissed it as numbing splatter that overwhelmed character and story. Time has tilted the verdict firmly toward the former camp, and it now ranks among the most celebrated horror films ever made.
“Dawn pummels the viewer with a series of ever-more-grisly events — shootings, knifings, flesh tearings — that make Romero's special effects man, Tom Savini, the real "star" of the film—the actors are as woodenly uninteresting as the characters they play.”
Variety
“the acting performances are uniformly strong; and the script develops its themes more explicitly, with obvious satirical jabs at modern consumer society, as epitomized by the indoor shopping mall where a small band of human survivors take shelter from the zombie plague sweeping the country.”
Steve Biodrowski·Cinefantastique
Genres
Horror, Thriller
Cast & Crew
DirectorGeorge A. Romero
StarringDavid Emge, Ken Foree, Scott H. Reiniger, Gaylen Ross, David Crawford
ComposerFabio Pignatelli, Massimo Morante, Claudio Simonetti, Agostino Marangolo
Dawn of the Dead
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.
What critics thought
Romero's mall-set follow-up to Night of the Living Dead was sharply divisive on release: admirers found the satirical attack on consumer culture and Tom Savini's practical gore effects to be legitimate, even transgressive, art, while detractors dismissed it as numbing splatter that overwhelmed character and story. Time has tilted the verdict firmly toward the former camp, and it now ranks among the most celebrated horror films ever made.
“Dawn pummels the viewer with a series of ever-more-grisly events — shootings, knifings, flesh tearings — that make Romero's special effects man, Tom Savini, the real "star" of the film—the actors are as woodenly uninteresting as the characters they play.”
Variety
“the acting performances are uniformly strong; and the script develops its themes more explicitly, with obvious satirical jabs at modern consumer society, as epitomized by the indoor shopping mall where a small band of human survivors take shelter from the zombie plague sweeping the country.”
Steve Biodrowski·Cinefantastique
Genres
Horror, Thriller
Cast & Crew
DirectorGeorge A. Romero
StarringDavid Emge, Ken Foree, Scott H. Reiniger, Gaylen Ross, David Crawford
ComposerFabio Pignatelli, Massimo Morante, Claudio Simonetti, Agostino Marangolo
Rent/Purchase