Dawn of the Dead
In 2004, a remake was released for one of the most highly regarded zombie movies of all time, Dawn of the Dead. Instead of simply remaking the movie, it ended up re-envisioning the zombiverse that George A. Romero had crafted almost 3 decades earlier. Following is the movie and the rest of the review.
Dawn of the Dead
Year: 2004
Type of Zombie: Fast
Phase of Infection: Initial Outbreak
Primary Location: Shopping Mall
Zombie Characteristics:
- Able to run
- Transmittable infection
- Basic motor functions
- Must destroy the brain
Memorable Quote: "What's the news?" "Bad."
Zack Snyder takes on George A. Romero's classic Dawn of the Dead. Held up by many zombie aficionados as the penultimate zombie flick, Snyder used his opportunity to redefine the genre that Romero created. Whereas Romero create a zombie myth around the ideas the zombies are reanimated corpses and should move as such in addition to everyone who dies will rise from the dead, Snyder treated his zombies with a bit more energy and pizazz. Taking a page from 28 Days Later and its non-Zombies filled with "rage", Snyder showed his zombies able to run, snarl, and included the updated idea that only those bitten or otherwise exposed to zombie juice would become a zombie themselves.
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Night of the Living Dead
How can any zombie-related website get away without ever mentioning the quintessential genre-generating Night of the Living Dead? We'll go one better and do a movie review and include the actual movie!
Night of the Living Dead
Year: 1968
Type of Zombie: Slow
Phase of Infection: Initial Outbreak
Primary Location: Isolated House
Zombie Characteristics:
- Slow moving
- All dead become zombies
- Basic motor functions
- Must destroy the brain
Memorable Quote: "They're coming to get you, Barbra!"
In 1968 a small band of filmmakers ventured off and created movie history. Chided by the press for being gruesome and overly gory, Night of the Living Dead redefined a sub-genre of horror films and in the process ignited a legion of zombie fans. Where zombies were previously depicted as living victims of a brainwashing curse by a voodoo priestess, NotLD used undead ghouls as the primary vehicle for the film and ultimately completely shifted what the world thought of when they heard the word "zombie".
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