J Besser I saw this movie when it first came out. I saw it at the Community Theater in Queens Village N.Y. I was scared out of my mind. My friend puked at our seats. Not because of the movie ( I don't think), but because all of the booze his 15 year old body consumed. Now I watch the movie and there are no really scares. But somehow grabs hold of you and don't even really notice. By the end you're all in. Fun stuff.

qmtv Cheap, Amateur Acting, Story and Makeup, Joke Zombies. Night was Great, Day was Good, Dawn is Sad. I first saw Dawn at a midnight showing at a local theater in the 80s, and was knocked out by the guts and shock.I've seen it a few times after, last viewing in 2016. I've seen the remake a couple of times and it's better. Nothing beats the first, Night of the Living Dead, low budget but tons of atmosphere and fright.The best part of Dawn is the beginning, with the TV station and the SWAT team raid. TV station, confusion, SWAT team best part is when the zombie husband bites the non zombie wife. There was also some guts at the end with the motorcycle gang. There was a few other moments here and there, but that's it.Here's the problem: The acting is garbage, these people cannot act, and had no business in front of the camera. The zombie effects, which were blue/gray paint here and there, full on garbage. The script, started out great with the TV station and the SWAT team raid, then we get a tour of zombie comedy with the rednecks killing zombies in the field, and the mall. The MALL. Pie in the zombie face. This was not good.Is this a comedy or a horror? Make up your mind. Night was a horror, we got it. Day was horror, and some comedy which hurt it immensely. Dawn was a comedy horror, which sucked.Here's the worst part of the movie: When the black guy decides he does not want to escape with the white chick (makes no sense), he proceeds to barricade himself in a room and wait for the zombies to break in so he can commit suicide, then at the last minute he changes his mind (I guess I'll go with the white chick) and escapes from the zombies and makes it to the helicopter to escape with the chick. Now this is full on garbage. I don't care what came before. The intro, Night. I don't care if this guy George Romero solved world peace. Judge this by the movie he's made. If you want atmosphere and gore, here's a hint, Fulci! Messiah of Evil, White Zombie. This is a student production with a budget. My rating is a C, for a B movie, 3 or 4 stars. Given it now has 8 rating, I must compensate with a 1. Better luck next time.

Realrockerhalloween Dawn of the dead is a phenomenal film that follows the continuing events of the zombie apocalypse starting out in a news station as echoes are reported off the streets and a mad rush is ongoing to give those watching tips to stay safe.A group of survivors make a break by helicopter to find an isolated zone to wait out the devastating plague.George Romero always took his stories as a social commentary on the events around him with racial injustice, social upheaval and a felling economy as society collapses from under us. Here the economy has crashed, police have saved minority neighborhoods last knocking down doors and brother has turned against brother.They settle upon a mall where the dead have returned out of a distant memory visiting the establishment and quickly set up shop. Showing that humans will revert back to their natural instincts to survive by huddling together in big herds, working and taking care of the downtrodden.It really takes a crises to bring out the best in yourself and taking risks you never dared.As it progresses it loses a little of the steam it had during the first half, becoming montages, until the neighbors next door catch wind wanting to take goods for themselves. In the world of the dead you think money is worthless?While it ends on a ambiguously depressing note I have to say this was a classic needing to be preserved for all time.

SlyGuy21 Oh yeah, I went there. This movie shares so many similarities with "Fifty Shades of Grey", don't believe me, allow me to educate you. Both films have no character development, both films have no plot, both films have no conflict, both films are 40 minutes longer than they need to be, and both movies are boring as hell. I would rather get eaten alive by the undead than watch this again. It's shocking how terrible this movie is. Let me give you some examples.So you'd think zombies would be the biggest threat in a zombie movie right? Not here. In fact, the zombies in this are about as terrifying as a bowl of oatmeal. They're a joke, they're not a threat, they are the most unintimidating zombies in movie history. The cardboard cutouts trying to be characters overpower an entire horde of zombies by just using their fists. Once they get to the mall, the plot comes to a dead stop, I hope you like cardboard cutouts that have no chemistry with each other running around a mall for 100 minutes, cuz that's what the rest of this trash is.Oh wait, there is character development, an hour into the movie, but it's easy to miss, because it adds nothing. White cop cardboard cutout gets bitten, he's dead, end of story. So of course we have the cliché of the others trying to save him and he eventually turns into a zombie. The problem, is that I don't freaking care!! He had no character, he had no personality, he had zero chemistry with the other characters. It's sad how I cared more about the kid in "Night of the Living Dead" (a character who had 2 lines of dialogue) than this guy.The zombie effects are terrible. The practical effects are OK, nothing special, but the zombie face paint is laughably lazy. I'm not saying the effects in the first movie were perfect, but a movie made a decade before this, had better zombie effects, there's no excuse for that. The bikers also serve no purpose, other than to slow the movie down more. The scene of them stealing things and treating the zombies like jokes drags on for what feels like an eternity. It served no purpose, at all, and they get eaten anyway, so what was the point? So the zombies could overrun the mall again?!? You could've just had the doors break!! It would've save 10 minutes of my life! The fact that there's a version of this that's almost 3 hours, scares the hell out of me. This is worse than "28 Weeks Later", this is the worst zombie film I've ever seen!