Dawn of the Dead - Will's Review

Many people will tell you that this is the best of Romero's original dead trilogy... For my money it's a distant 3rd.

Dawn of the Dead (1978) - Lisa's Review

This is a movie I have watched a few times.  It does remain one of the better 'of the dead' movies.  Hey, the remake wasn't even that bad.  In all honesty I've never been a big fan of zombie movies, but I happen to be married to someone obsessed by them, so I've had to watch my fair share of them.

When I recommend this movie, it isn't a recommended for a general movie fan, but rather one for a fan of older horrors or more notably fans of zombie horror.

Our story follows 2 SWAT teams (yes, 2!) and a couple who work for a television company and their fight against the ever-growing epidemic of the rise of the undead.  The main location for the movie is a shopping mall which has escaped most of the zombies.  Our four leading characters are TV Exec Francine (Gaylen Ross), her boyfriend - traffic reporter Stephen (David Emge), SWAT member Roger (Scott H Reiniger) and his friend Peter (Ken Foree).  The four manage to rid the mall of the existing zombies, build a false wall which constructs a corridor that conceals the entrance they had been using and they took out trucks to block all the other entrances.  While showboating on one of the truck rides, Roger ends up getting bitten, but the remaining three try to care for him at first.  For a while they live it up, availing of everything you can do inside an empty mall.  This freedom leads to feeling not so free after all when they realise they are trapped inside due to the zombies outside.  They begin to think about taking their chances on the outside, but since there wasn't a complete consensus within the group they stayed, at least until Roger eventually snuffs it and starts to reanimate.  Peter does the needful and pulls the trigger.

Week 208 - Dawn of the Dead (1978)

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Position on Timeout List: 10

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