Jake Weber, Kim Poirier, Mekhi Phifer
A re-envisioning of George Romero's apocalyptic horror classic, "Dawn of the Dead": An unexplained plague has decimated the world's population--and yet, the dead aren't dying. They've become zombies, ...( read more
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Flixster Reviews (20,917)
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September 7, 2009I was a little horrified when I heard they were remaking this film. firstly, what gives you the audacity and secondly, how can you improve on the best? The simple answer is you can't. That said, Snyder made it quite clear that this is a loving homage to the genres that is based o...( read more)
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August 25, 2009Returning from a busy day in the hospital, Ana spends time with her husband when a neighbours daughter comes into the house and attacks her husband. He dies before returning to life and attacking Ana. She runs and escapes in her car, driving through a neighbourhood rife with viol...( read more)
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October 28, 2008"When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth."
The feature-film debut of director Zack Snyder, Dawn of the Dead is a modern retelling of George Romero's 1978 horror classic, which was actually the second film in a trilogy that began with Night of the...( read more) -
August 23, 2008Super creepy! The scariest part was probably in the very beginning with the married couple and the little girl.
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July 20, 2008Snyder's Dawn of the Dead follows the fortunes of a nurse, Ana (Sarah Polley), and a policeman, Kenneth (Ving Rhames). They soon encounter another policeman, André (Mekhi Phifer), his pregnant wife Luda (Inna Korobkina) and a white-collar hero named Michael (Jake Weber). This ban...( read more)
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November 1, 2009Not bad for a zombie movie. Not bad at all. Best scene was the shooting from the roof scene. Jay Leno, Rossie O'donnell, Burt Reynolds! Funny.
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November 1, 2009I love zombie movies, because first of all I like to see them die and second of all they are so funny with their stupid zombie brain haha!
This one started straight away with the zombie madness instead of making a longer 'peaceful' intro and I actually liked that. The make up was...( read more) -
October 30, 2009Very good horror movie. For the most part it avoids falling into the typical horror movie traps i.e. filled with characters lacking any common sense or logic before they make decisions, again for the most part.
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October 29, 2009I have mixed feelings about the film, as a remake of the 1978 film it is something of a let-down; the political social commentary is largely absent, and the events leading up to their abandonment of the mall were not as good as the original. The fact that these zombies can a run...( read more)
Critic Reviews
May 3, 2005
Nick Schager, Lessons of Darkness
March 19, 2004
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
It's silly, witty and good-natured, not scary so much as icky, and not horrifying or horrible but consistently amusing. full review
March 19, 2004
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Dawn of the Dead works and it delivers just about what you expect when you buy your ticket. full review
March 18, 2004
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune
A shallow but potent gore-gasm that will make audiences scream, whoop, cringe, laugh and yell at the screen. full review
Comments
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May 4, 2009I find so difficul to find a good horror movie, and this turned out to be amazingly good ! They took the basics of the old dawn and they ended up doing one of the best remakes ever!
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July 2, 2008Well, I hate to say this, but this one really blows the original away! I mean 26 years really looks a whole lot of different. I almost felt asleep on the 1978 made film wishing I would have read a book instead. This one lives up what movie goers would expect from a horror film nowadays.
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June 5, 2007Lunatci: uh it has a sequel :) called land of the dead. Nowhere near as good :)
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May 5, 2007Even the critics that are hard to please thought the remake was good.The original at times gets boring but not a good job in the make-up dept much better job with the sequel Day of the dead in 1984 the gore effects were more realistic & better make-up effects with the zombies not saying Dawn of the dead is a bad film not better than the remake.
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May 5, 2007Back in the 70's maybe the original was the best zombie film that came out but looking at the movie now is not the same feeling for some.I thought it was ok but boring dialogue.This new Dawn is one of the best zombie flicks i seen it delivers.Awesome effects!It needs a sequel.
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May 2, 2007I get tired of people saying this is better than the original, due to the special effects and so on. True, it was good, especially in the era of the remake. But it lacked the messages that most people failed to catch in the original(i.e. consumerism, which was the purpose for the mall in the first place, etc.). Plus, the original had a killer music score, composed by the legendary Goblins. All in all though, this was a great movie!!!
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May 2, 2007This movie actually had me feeling what it would be to be stuck in an end of the world situation... I love this movie better than most horror because I forgot that it wasn't real... and I can watch it over and over...
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April 11, 2007I've Seen the Original Over and Over...and Over. Its Just such a great Movie.
And now i can watch the new one ...well not THAT many times but it gave me what i was lookin for, an "All-OUT Action Zombie Movie.
Most remakes Fail, this one didnt.
but one movie cannot Top the Other.
Whoever watches the new one 1st is gonna think the original is too tame.
and whoever saw the original 1st, will think the new one is not character or story driven.
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