Dawn of the Dead (Widescreen Unrated Director's Cut)

Theatrical Release

March 19, 2004

DVD Release

March 19, 2004

Studio

Universal Studios

Rated

Unrated

Directors

Actors

Boyd Banks, Michael Barry (VII), Ermes Blarasin, Bruce Bohne, Lindy Booth, Ty Burrell, Jayne Eastwood, Matt Frewer, Michael Kelly, Inna Korobkina, Hannah Lochner, Justin Louis, Mekhi Phifer, Kim Poirier, Sarah Polley, R.D. Reid, Ving Rhames, Jake Weber, Kevin Zegers

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Formats

• AC-3
• Anamorphic
• Color
• Director's Cut
• Dolby
• Dubbed
• Subtitled
• Widescreen
• NTSC

Additional Information

Are you ready to get down with the sickness? Movie logic dictates that you shouldn't remake a classic, but Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead defies that logic and comes up a winner. You could argue that George A. Romero's 1978 original was sacred ground for horror buffs, but it was a low-budget classic, and Snyder's action-packed upgrade benefits from the same manic pacing that energized Romero's continuing zombie saga. Romero's indictment of mega-mall commercialism is lost (it's arguably outmoded anyway), so Snyder and screenwriter James Gunn compensate with the same setting--in this case, a Milwaukee shopping mall under siege by cannibalistic zombies in the wake of a devastating viral outbreak--a well-chosen cast (led by Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Jake Weber, and Mekhi Phifer), some outrageously morbid humor, and a no-frills plot that keeps tension high and blood splattering by the bucketful. Horror buffs will catch plenty of tributes to Romero's film (including cameos by three of its cast members, including gore-makeup wizard Tom Savini), and shocking images are abundant enough to qualify this Dawn as an excellent zombie-flick double-feature with 28 Days Later, its de facto British counterpart. --Jeff Shannon - Amazon.com