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Dawn of the Dead -- U.S. Theatrical CutRating:
Release Date: 27 April, 1999 Retail Price: $24.98 Sorry, this product is not currently available. Cast: Complete Cast (8 total) |
Dawn of the Dead -- U.S. Theatrical Cut Reviews
THE BEST ZOMBIE MOVIE EVER!!
I first saw this when I was 19, and it was only a couple of years old, and I was catatonic all night! I'm 45 now, and STILL at least once or twice a year, have Zombie nightmares; usually I'm climbing a tree, or a roof, or even flying, and the zombies are reaching up and grabbing at me, and sometimes actually touch me! I wake up gasping! This movie is THAT scary! I'm a Christian, so I know that it couldn't really ever happen, but it's still fun to play "What If?" ! I hated the zombies in 2004's remake, I mean, get real, zombies can't run!! They're DEAD! The zombies in this movie are just what they should be-slow, stupid, mean & HUNGRY!! And TERRIFYING!!! Steven, toward the end, made the BEST zombie I've ever seen!!! The way he dragged his foot, and the way he instinctively remembered where the upstairs room was, and the way he gnawed at the wall, was both hilarious AND terrifying!! The elevator zombie trying to crawl in, the Hari-krishna zombie, all of them, I give them all 1000-thumbs up! Even the Smurfette-looking zombie!! LOVE IT-LOVE IT-LOVE IT!!!!!!
Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna .........
I was raised on this movie, much to my mothers chagrin. Every single weekend I had to rent it. I loved Night of the Living dead so much, that when saw this one at my local video store I went nuts. George Romero is a genius; even my 9 year old mind could see that. The whole plotline where the dead suddenly rise and want to eat the living and a group of survivor's hole up in a mall couldn't have made me happier, a whole entire mall as your house? what? YES! The makeup and special effects were sub par, blue tint and Hare Krishna's, but I still wouldn't have wanted them near me. I understand now as an adult the social commentary Romero was making, but beyond all of that his movies are just plain fun. No one has ever been able to touch his writing ability, his characters, his locations, and his zombies. No One. I even picked up the soundtrack featuring The Goblins, I still hum the music when I go to the mall. My favorite Zombie in this movie has to be the Nurse, she actually was spoken to by Romero for being "too over the top" with her flailing and facial expressions, just watching her Zomb-out cracks me up. My favorite character is "Fly Boy" the pilot, in his suave jacket, slick hair. Throughout the movie he is just a wimp, he cannot shoot, he isnt reliable to his pregnant girlfriend, he does the wrong thing at every turn BUT when he finally is eaten in the elevator he turns into the biggest badest nastiest zombie who has retained important knowledge and who is given the best makeup treatment to boost the importance of his change. Fly-zombie twitches, and bends his neck, and lurches around gathering the other clueless corpses upward and onwards to the secret hiding place of his hopeful buffet, the ending is classic romero and everyone who loves him will know what i mean. I only watch this maybe once a month now, I will pop it in when I am cleaning , or when I am home sick and need comforting. I realize that my warped mind has now equalized zombies to chicken soup but I give no apologies for it. SO buy this movie, relish it, eat it up, forgive it for being outdated a bit and cheesy at times, see it for what it is, THE single greatest zombie movie of all time.
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