Dawn of the dead is a quality film set in Monroeville Mall Pittsburgh. It was filmed in 1978 and directed by George A. Romero. There are now numerous different cuts which contain extra minutes of footage than the original version. This page aims to outline all the aspects of the different cuts of Dawn of the dead.

Hailed as one of the best horror films ever made Dawn of the dead has gained a cult following all around the world. Romero's films created a new genre within horror, this genre quickly became known as Zombie. After the success of Romero's first film, Night of the living dead and then Dawn of the dead hundreds of copies were spawned. However none of these cheap immitations ever came close to the perfection that is Dawn of the dead. Films such as the Living dead series and the Evil dead series tried to add an element of comedy into the Zombie genre but in my opinion sadly failed.

Other leading Zombie Film directors who claim to be as good as Romero are sadly inferior. Examples of such failed Zombie film directors are J.R Bookwater who produced the ridiculously poor The Dead next door. After Romero's successful Dawn of the dead he decided to make the sequel , Day of the dead. Day of the dead was probably more violent and action packed than Dawn but somehow lacked the qualities which made Dawn so likeable. There is now speculation about a fourth Zombie film to be added to Romero's trilogy, 'Zombie 2000' is rumoured to be in the pipelines.

Dawn of the dead is George A. Romero's nightmare vision of a world populated by flesh-eating zombies and four individuals struggling for survival. The movies four protagonists segregate themselves in a huge shopping mall miles from civilisation, which is unfortunately crawling with Zombies. The four manage to live in a small storage room which is only seperated from the zombie filled mall by a few winding corridors and some stairs. The store room contains enough food to sustain them for months, but soon they begin to get curious, curious of what things lie below them in the huge out of town mall which is the setting for this epic adventure.

However something goes wrong....whilst blocking the doors to the mall, Roger, one of the four hero's is bitten by a zombie and gradually is transformed into a living dead creature. Still mourning his death the three sad souls hear on the C.B a group of Hells Angels planning an attack on the mall. What follows, in an extraordinary battle sequence is the fight to protect the mall from a professional army, who have been living on the road all though this crisis.

During this struggle for power another of the four hero's is devoured by the zombies as the Hells angels are leaving in defeat. However now the mall is filled with zombies and they are lead up to the once secret apartment of the humans by Stephen, who is now a zombie but was one of the original four who can still remember that he lived there. One of the two remaining survivers decides that life isnt worth living in a world inhabited by zombies, he sends the final surviver into a helicoptor on the roof and orders her to take off. As the zombies close in he decides to kill himself and then suddenly at the last minute he changes his mind. In an epic escape sequence he escapes the clutches of the zombies and manages to grab onto the helicoptor as it takes off into the night sky. With very little fuel they leave the top of the mall which is crawling with zombies and venture on into the unknown looking for another safe haven...

Dawn is my favorite film of all time, click here to see my list of all time faves!