Amazing cast, great action and setting, good story and an absolutely epic opening sequence. Also good soundtrack.
I LOVE THIS MOVIE...TOP TO BOTTOM...IT DEFINITELY FALLS IN MY TOP TEN ALL TIME ZOMBIE FLICKS...NUMBER ONE HAS TO BE THE 78 ORIGINAL THOUGH.🙂
shareThe original Night of the Living Dead.
Though they are shows (not movies), there's also Walking Dead, Z Nation, & Black Summer. If you're into non-English speaking films, there's Train to Buscan. The Resident Evil films are passable.
Does “I Am Legend” qualify as a zombie movie?
But Dawn of the Living Dead is one of the top zombie flicks. There haven't been too many good zombie films, so competition is scarce.
I am legend is vampire
shareI'm in agreement. This is a rare film that can be called a breathless thrill ride from beginning to end. Even amidst the rollercoaster pace, we get great characters and dialogue (Ana, Michael, Kenneth, and C.J. are some of my favorite horror protagonists ever) and so many memorable setpieces and visuals. This film has a white-knuckle intensity that no other zombie film has been able to match.
shareYou people have zero taste. This is the Michael Bay of zombie flicks. Try the original Dawn for substance and some even like Day1986 better
Those tops them all
I agree.. whilst entertaining, the original far surpasses this. The zombie baby scene should have been left out. Absolutely the worst part of the film.
shareDumbest thing ever seen on film. So much wrong with the movie. The stupid girl putting herself in peril over a dog and then the rest of the idiots going after her to save her. So laughable
And the editing was very choppy. Characters in this movie were dumb and so poorly written
I'm a fan of the original and I love Day of the Dead as well. They're also among my favorite zombie films. But in the end, I still do prefer Snyder's remake for a few reasons. The original film had one lead character that I loved (Ken Foree's Peter) and three others that I didn't really care for, where as the remake gave me at least four great characters (Ana, Michael, Kenneth, and C.J.). I really think the characterizations in the remake were extremely underrated. The fact that Snyder got me to care and sympathize for Andy, a character who we don't hear a single line of dialogue from until over 80 minutes into the film, is a fairly amazing accomplishment.
The zombies in the remake were just far more intimidating and frightening. It's not just the speed, but a combination of their relentlessness and the terrific zombie make-up. One of the issues I had with the zombies in the the original Dawn of the Dead was that they were a bit too easy to wipe out, which kind of lessened the intensity of the film. I'm not asking for running zombies, either, as I thought the zombies in Day of the Dead were more frightening and intimidating as well.
I don't know... I like both for different reasons. I love Snyder's film for all the reasons you named. It's such a fantastically constructed film from top to bottom, even when some characters act stupid (it's stupid within a measure of reason).
However... there's a certain menace to the original Dawn of the Dead that makes it somewhat nihilistically dreadful. That level of dread wasn't quite as present in Snyder's remake (until the credit's sequences), but the unpredictable nature of the original is what makes it so tantalizing as a movie experience.
I can resolutely say that both Dawn of the Dead films are 100 times better than Army of the Dead.
I do believe that Dawn of the Dead (the original) does an excellent job of presenting the decay of society. This is well-captured in both the opening half-hour before they get to the mall and the passage of time while they're at the mall and the biker lootings at the end.
In regard to your comment about nihilistically dreadful, I can see that to an extent for Dawn (the original) but I actually felt that applied much more so for Day of the Dead. That was really one of the things that I liked best about Day, which I felt was the most thought-provoking of Romero's films. It truly felt like a hopeless zombie apocalypse from which there was virtually no escape or return to normalcy. The conversations in that film between John and Sarah were really some of my favorite moments, when they reflected on the long distant past and what hope they have for the future.
That last half-hour of Day cranks up a level of dread and intensity that has rarely been seen in any film, period! The nihilism in Day is so strong that I even felt somewhat sorry for the zombies in the bunker at the end since they're going to be stuck down there forever! (Unless Bub figures out there's a ladder way in the caves and learns how to climb a ladder and teaches the rest how to do so, but that's a stretch).
Great points. What I love about Romero’s work is that his films almost felt like a documentary where you actually felt like the world was over. News reports, scientists arguing etc.
shareOh boy, I try not to think about Day of the Dead for the very reasons you mentioned.
It, in some ways, felt needlessly nihilistic. But I suppose in some ways that was the point: what would the world be like if zombies had truly taken over and nothing was left at all?
It's certainly not one of my favorites, mainly because the action wasn't frequent enough and it seemed like there was really nothing left for the main characters to escape to. But again, that seemed to be the gist of it.
The final attack in the bunker was definitely well done and the slow-burn leading up to it was definitely well done. I suppose an added reason for me not liking the film too much is because I wasn't really attached to any of the characters and based on the opening sequence -- which basically gave you an idea of how desperate and hopeless the whole situation was -- it was hard to root for anyone to do anything or go anywhere.
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My favorite Zombie movie of all time is World War Z
But Dawn of The Dead is up there
Dawn of The Dead (remake) is pretty good but World War Z is very bad imo.
Some really good zombie films:
The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue (Let Sleeping Corpses Lie)
Romeros trilogy
Zombi 2
Return of the living dead
Braindead
I walked with a zombie
Shaun of the dead
10/10
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