Ladies and gentlemen very rarely do I get to review a horror film that i've never seen before let alone review a classic horror film that many have said is the best zombie film of all time and well for this review and so I thought that i'd take a look at a film that i've honestly never even seen before. Which for me at least is a very rare thing indeed and so join me as I review the classic 1978 George A. Romero zombie film classic with the film itself being called simply "Dawn Of The Dead" and so enjoy this / the review everyone dead and undead alike.
The plot of this film is a group of people try to survive the zombie apocalypse in a shopping mall all the while trying to maintain some resemblance of their own humanity as the world around them crumbles and is possibly overrun by zombies. In terms of what I thought about the plot of this film in all honesty the plot of this film is so much better then what my summery of this films plot made it out to be since the main focus of this film isn't the plot at all since the main focus of this film are the human characters and seeing them struggle just to live day to day or even hour to hour and the plot of this film is honestly really freaking good since an honestly refreshing story that is in all honesty really well told but that's just in my very humble and as well as in my very honest opinion anyways.
Starring in this film is David Emge as Stephen "Flyboy" Andrews , Ken Foree as Peter Washington , Scott Reiniger as Roger "Trooper" DeMarco and Gaylen Ross as Francine "Fran" ("Flygirl") Parker. Yeah there's only four actors in this entire film but that's not including any of the characters that have either small roles or cameo appearences tho but I do think that it's interesting that there's only four main actors in this film since it would have been super easy to populate the mall setting with a ton of characters but no they makers of this film chose just to have four characters which oddly makes the film feel alot more personal in my humble and very honest opinion anyways.
In terms of what I thought about the acting that's presented to us in this film in all honesty the acting in this film is so freaking good and I say that the acting that's presented to us in this in film is so freaking good is so freaking good simply because I honestly believe it to be true. Simply because every actor in this film is clearly giving it their best and what helps the acting in my opinion is the fact that the script for this film is so freaking good with all of the characters being really / very well written and as such all the actors would have to do is just say the lines as they are written and boom a good performance would come out naturally but that's just what I think anyways and that's just in my very humble and as well as in my honest opinion anyways.
This film does alot of things that 1968's "Night Of The Living Dead" simply couldn't do like for example this film shows us alot more zombies which in my opinion makes the zombie threat alot freaking bigger. Simply because instead of just having a handful of zombies show up we now having anywhere between twenty to fifty zombies all show up which means that are four four lead characters are in much more of a bigger threat but that's just in my opinion anyways.
Another thing that this film does that 1968's "Night Of The Living Dead" didn't do is the fact that this film is in color. Which honestly really does work for the film since this film is stunning to look at but at the same time it also makes the zombies look pretty silly since you can tell that the zombies are painted blue for some reason which doesn't work well at all if anything making the zombies either green or peach would have worked better since it would have made the zombie look more scary which should always be the end goal when your making a zombie movie but that's just in my very humble and as well as in my very honest opinion anyways.
Now then boys and girls to me this film is less of a zombie and is more a drama since there is a huge portion of the film features no zombies or zombie action whatsoever. Which I have to say that I kind of liked that approach to the film purely because it gives us the viewers / audiences who's watching this film a chance to connect with the characters and it allows a sense of dread to build up which just wouldn't be the case if there was zombie action in this film every five minuets or so but that's just what I think anyways and that's just in my very humble and as well is in my very , very honest opinion anyways.
Now after doing some very quick research on this films Wikipedia I found out that this film is the fourth film that the great make up effects artist Tom Savini ever worked and my god do the special make up effects look so good. Every single make up effect in this film just looks so freaking cool and i'm not going to lie some of the make up effects in this actually had me a little bit scared simply because that's how good they looked but that's just in my very humble and as well as in my very honest opinion anyways / indeed.
One of the negative things that I have to say about this film is it's running time because this film is two hours and nineteen minuets and twenty six seconds long and it really didn't need to be that long at all in my humble and very honest opinion. Heck you could have cut alot of the middle portion of this film out to bring this film down to say one hour and forty five minuets and you would have lost nothing if importance but that's just what I think anyways and that's just in my very humble and as well as in my very honest opinion anyways.
Now then boys and girls this is a zombie movie after all and so that means that I have to talk about the kills that are presented to us in this / the actual film itself and if i'm being honest the kills in this film are simply stunning to look and i say that the kills that are presented to us in this film are simply stunning to look at because that's where we get to see some of the great makeup effects work from Tom Savini. It also helps that this film makes you care for the characters and to you really do feel something that when die / start to die but that's just in my humble and very honest opinion anyways.
Overall this is a really good film and not just a great zombie film or a great horror film but a great film in general. Yes there are some bad things in this film but for me in this case the good things that are in this film far outweigh the bad things that are in this film and since i've talked about both of the good and the both of the bad things that are featured / presented to us in this film this film gets an 8.5 out of 10 from me , as for where I got the images that I used in this film well I got all of the images that I used in this film from either the official Night Of The Living Dead fandom wiki page or Google Images with Google Images being my preferred website to use to get images from this film from simply because google Images has a wide variety of images from this film which simply wasn't the case with the official Night Of The Living Dead fandom wiki page and so we end this horror themed / horror movie review as we always do with our one true goddess Elvira wishing us all some very , very unpleasant dreams indeed.
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