Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Directed by George A. Romero
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.
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It certainly belongs to the modern tradition exemplified by Jean-Luc Godard's "Weekend" and Bertrand Bliter's "Going Places."
If all things were equal, George A. Romero's Dead trilogy ( Night of the Living Dead , Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead ) would be considered an achievement equal to that of the first Star Wars trilogy and the Lord of the Rings films.
The title “Dawn of the Dead” while taking off from its predecessor “Night of the Living Dead”, is also symbolic of the dawn of the apocalypse.
Welcome to the bleak, "things fall apart" terrain familiar from Romero's previous film, Night of the Living Dead.
But this is hardly enough meaning to justify the picture's bloat; I don't know that there are many better films from the sixties than Romero's exceptional Night of the Living Dead (1968), just as Day of the Dead (1985) ranks high on the list of the incomparable fantasies of the eighties, yet I have always harboured doubts about the canonical value of Dawn of the Dead.
From George A. Romero , who wrote and directed "Dawn of the Dead" as a sequel to his " Night of the Living Dead ," which came out in 1968 and still plays the midnight circuit as a cult classic.
It certainly belongs to the modern tradition exemplified by Jean-Luc Godard's "Weekend" and Bertrand Bliter's "Going Places."
Dawn also benefits from the involvement of Dario Argento (ripe off the success of Suspiria) and Goblin, whose score is the most dated aspect of the film.