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Film Description
George Romero's sequel to his low-budget horror classic 'Night of the Living Dead' sees the dead now roaming the entire American continent, feeding off the flesh of the living. TV reporter Francine, her boyfriend Stephen and two SWAT team cops seek refuge in a deserted shopping mall, but their temporary haven is put in jeopardy by a gang of marauding bikers, as well as the obligatory window-shopping zombies.
One of the key movies of the seventies in its examination of the breakdown of family and the social order, and also a quite spectacularly, even hilariously, gruesome satire on middle American consumerism. You are what you eat.
This horror classic is the second in the series of George Romero's zombie trilogy. It is set at the time when the outbreak of zombies first becomes apparent, with pani... more >
This horror classic is the second in the series of George Romero's zombie trilogy. It is set at the time when the outbreak of zombies first becomes apparent, with panic and confussion spreading amongst the population.
Amid this confussion 2 US Marines a Helicopter pilot and his wife manage to find sancturary in a large shopping mall where all their worldly consumer needs are taken care of.
Initially biding their time in the shopping complex the small group decide to remain there for as long as possible until they can make some kind of contact with the outside world once the crisis has blown over. The crisis does not blow over, indeed it worsens and once the shopping mall becomes somewhat over run with the unwelcome walking dead, the group make plans for their escape. Essentially a fast paced action movie with rotting co-stars, the film also operates on many other levels. Romero is making a serious comment on the futility of mass consumerism and capitalism typified by the imagery of braindead 'rotters' beating out a worthless existence in and amongst the endless rows of useless consumer goods (a normal day at the shops).
Although not as ground-breaking as Night of the Living Dead nor as sophisticated as the later film Day of the Dead, Dawn of the Dead is a lot of fun and a highly respected film in the Zombie horror genre.
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