Dawn of the Dead (78)
Director - George A. Romero
Starring - David Emge, Ken Foree, Scott Reiniger, Gaylen Ross
Year - 1978
This is the big one, the one all zombies fans talk about, the movie every post apocalyptic zombie movie draws from. George A. Romero's zombie masterpiece and some say his best, Dawn of the Dead.
For those that haven't seen it, its the follows up to Night of the Living Dead obviously with a new cast of characters as the zombie apocalypse is in full swing and the cities are being over run with the living dead. Four friends, Fran who works for a tv station, Stephen a chopper pilot and Peter and Roger both police SWAT officers flee the city and take refuge in a shopping mall.
As with all George Romero's zombie films the zombies arent the real menace, its the humans and what they do to each other when the chips are down. With DotD Romero decides to satirise the growing consumerism trend that is taking over America and its no coincidence that the film is set in one of if the the first shopping mall built in America.
The film also features a sound track recorded by Goblin, an Italian progressive rock band from the 70's that was composed with Dario Argento who consulted onthe script with Romero as well as helped get finance. As part of his agreement he got the the right cut his on version for the European release of the film which was re-titled Zombi.
