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Dawn of the Dead

  • 7.8 /10

  • 2162

  • 92%

Plot

During an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia SWAT team members, a traffic reporter, and his television-executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.

Cast

David Emge as Stephen "Flyboy" Andrews
David Emge

as Stephen "Flyboy" Andrews

Ken Foree as Peter Washington
Ken Foree

as Peter Washington

Scott H. Reiniger as Roger "Trooper" DeMarco
Scott H. Reiniger

as Roger "Trooper" DeMarco

Gaylen Ross as Francine "Fran" Parker
Gaylen Ross

as Francine "Fran" Parker

David Crawford as Dr. James Foster
David Crawford

as Dr. James Foster

David Early as Sidney Berman
David Early

as Sidney Berman

Richard France as Dr. Milliard Rausch
Richard France

as Dr. Milliard Rausch

Howard Smith as TV Commentator
Howard Smith

as TV Commentator

Daniel Dietrich as Dan Givens
Daniel Dietrich

as Dan Givens

Fred Baker as Police Commander
Fred Baker

as Police Commander

Movie Facts

Rated

  • Unrated

Status

  • Released

Release Date

  • September 2, 1978

Production Companies

  • Dawn Associates

  • Laurel Entertainment

Production Countries

  • Italy

  • United States of America

Spoken Language

  • English

Budget

  • $650,000.00

Revenue

  • $55,000,000.00

Runtime

  • 2.12 hrs

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Reviews

This is one of the finest sequels ever, in that it's both of comparable quality with the original, yet is fundamentally different from it at the same time. Marvelous stuff, with aspects copied thousands of times over the past two generations, with no end in sight. This and 'Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom', from about the same time frame, would make one of the best double-bills ever on the evil…

Romero’s imaginative and thrilling zombie sequel A decade after the excellent “Night of the Living Dead” (1968), writer/director George Romero offers up this exceptional sequel. The plague of reanimated corpses with a hunger for warm flesh is now global and society is increasingly breaking down. A television exec (Gaylen Ross), her helicopter-reporter beau (David Emge) and two SWAT officers (…

Been a while since I last watched this one, but with the new 4K UHD out, decided to give it another watch going with the Extended Cut. Still very well made with some great zombie effects and really liked the characters, Peter (Ken Foree), especially. I'm not a big fan of the zombie horror genre but this is one of the exceptions. **4.0/5**

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