Dawn of the Dead (2005)

[Grandma Death]

DOTD remake is one of the FEW remakes actually as good as the original. Im a huge romero fan...and the original is a great stand alone but the remake is an amazing remake which drags the old version kicking and screaming into the new millenium.

 

[akirajoel]

Remake has a few smart touches - nice little homages to other horror films (The Shining, Psycho) and some real nice scenes and shots... The first 15minutes are outstanding. And the last 5 minutes over the credits are fucking amazing and one of the best endings for a film i've seen for a long while...

And can i also take the chance to say - The orginial is cool but is no way near as smart as people seem to think it is (look - zombies in a Mall - and they're just like us!)

And - slow zombies everytime.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

And the last 5 minutes over the credits are fucking amazing and one of the best endings for a film i've seen for a long while....

Seconded.

 

[Red Faction]

i quite like the sense of sheer terror you get when a rabid zombie you get is tearing towards you

the slow moving ones = just despair
different emotions caused by different effects
but you didnt give a poll option for 'i like them both'

 

[nightowl]

i take it there's no way they would have gotten out of that. 99 per cent of me said they're fucked, but there's always that doubt

 

[Poi E]

I thoroughly enjoyed the remake, which was more of an action film than horror. I'm a big fan of Romero's work and don't see the remake compromising it or even competing on the same ground. The idea for running zombies first appeared in Demons/Demons 2 from the mid-1980s as best I know, and was resurrected (ha ha) for 28 Days Later (ok, the un-undead)

Slow, fast, if the flesh feasting fuckers are coming to eat me then it's the same thing. I shoot dem in da head

 

[EatMoreChips]

Not seen the new Dawn of the Dead yet (must try and get through netflix queue faster) but it can't be worse than Day of the Dead... that was well ropey. As for the extended version of Night Of The Living Dead, what was the point in that?

Romero is highly fallible for a godlike being.

 

[Poi E]

As for the extended version of Night Of The Living Dead, what was the point in that?

Romero is highly fallible for a godlike being.

That was terrible, editing in the new footage. Fortunately you can just forward over that nonsense to the proper start of the film. I wonder how much say Romero had in that particular DVD release.

I think that Romero's status arises not from his technical abilities as a film maker but from the way his Night/Dawn managed to bring ultra-violent splatter films into the mainstream, and even gain some acceptability amongst serious critics. I don't think any other splatter films have done that.

 

[Explorer]

Anyone seen Romero's Land Of The Day?

I saw Land of the Dead at the magazine screening, 3 weeks ago

 

[Spandex]

And the last 5 minutes over the credits are fucking amazing and one of the best endings for a film i've seen for a long while...

agreed

And - slow zombies everytime.

agreed

I thought the whole ending of the remake was better than the original. I have a real problem with all those films from the 70s and 80s that think in the future bands of evil bikers will roam the ruins of society terrorising the decent folk. I know hells angels were a big moral panic in the US in the 60s, but they just don't work for me as movie bad guys.

 

[Doomsy]

28 Days later wasn't a zombie movie - the 'infected' didn't die, and were therefore just ill. Quite an interesting film though, it was different to see a 'zombie' movie without guns. Also, the survivors were *much* scarier than the monsters (the army guys, not the main peoples).

DOTD 2004 was amazing, clearly the best zombie movie ever. It ruined Shawn of the Dead for me though, I'd seen it a week earlier so everything Shawn took the piss out of was effectivly obsolete...

 

[andy2002]

I enjoyed the Romero original more but still loved the DOTD remake. As someone else said on here, the first ten minutes are just fucking jaw-dropping. I don't care whether zombies walk, run or bounce around on pogo sticks as long as they're scary!!