Today, Anna will be heading home after a long day at the hospital where she can cuddle up to her husband and forget about work. Tomorrow, she’ll be running for her life as she finds herself being chased by bloodthirsty, ravenous zombies who can move as fast and fierce as animals. Banding together with a group of survivors, they’ll defend themselves in the most unlikely of places: a mega shopping mall. But as the zombies increase in numbers before the mall, the group will have to find a way out before the undead find their way in.

Dawn of the Dead (2004)
  • Rating: (102,256 votes)
  • Taglines:When the undead rise, civilization will fall. » When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth. »
  • Runtime:101 minutes
  • Director: Zack Snyder
  • Countries:USA, Canada, Japan, France
  • Actors:
    Ana
    Sarah Polley
    Kenneth
    Ving Rhames
    Michael
    Jake Weber
    Andre
    Mekhi Phifer
    Steve
    Ty Burrell
    CJ
    Michael Kelly
    Terry
    Kevin Zegers
    Bart
    Michael Barry
    Nicole
    Lindy Booth
    Norma
    Jayne Eastwood
  • Genres:Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
  • Producers:
    Marc Abraham
    producer  
    Armyan Bernstein
    executive producer  
    Thomas A. Bliss
    executive producer  
    Dennis E. Jones
    executive producer  
    Michael D. Messina
    co-producer  
    Eric Newman
    producer  
    Richard P. Rubinstein
    producer  
  • Plots: Ana, a young beautiful nurse finishes her day-shift at the hospital to return home to her beloved husband, they make love and sleep together. The next day, after her husband is killed by her neighbor next door, he suddenly comes back to life. She discovers the chaos happening in her neighborhood and escapes from her home. Soon after coming to her senses in the woods, she encounters a cop and other survivors, they decide to find safety in a mall. Soon more survivors come, and they learn that if they want to stay alive, they should stick together as the world is overrun by an army of undead. Can they survive the horror in this horrific global chaos? When there is no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth Written by Emphinix
Dawn of the Dead
  • User's comment:Action rather than horror, but worthy remake by B. Caesar Cubillos (CubeJack@aol.com)

    As a HUGE fan of the original Dawn of the Dead I was very skeptical of this remake. I wasn't expecting an Academy Award winning blockbuster or anything, but I did want to see the remake do the original justice. I was impressed with the filming more than anything. This is an action movie rather than horror. The outdoor scenes are filmed with a grainy, hand-held camera which gave the audience the feeling of being disoriented much the same way the characters would have felt. The movie was not made in the MTV-generation style that the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake was. Dawn of the Dead stuck to the same mythology of the first without giving it a complete reimagining. I could imagine the two movies co-existing, but in different parts of the world.

    One of the key differences that I did like was the idea of the zombies running. This made them come across as more menacing rather than being the slow clunkers that are seen in the original trilogy. The idea of being able to walk right past them was abandoned. I also feel that the movie did a good job of showing how quickly people would turn on one another and watch out for themselves only.

    One of my favorite "realisms" of the movie is how the characters are too attached to their loved ones to shot them when they become zombies. I'm certain that many of us would react in the same manner if something like this were to actually happen (yes, I know it's impossible). Also, it was interesting to have so many people make it to the mall instead of only four as in the original. Of course some of these characters fit the generic stereotype of a movie such as this, but I'm not surprised considering modern audiences would need such characters to maintain their interest. This was a movie made for film viewers, not film makers. We have the strong and silent male hero, the quick-thinking blond heroine, the official dumb jerk, the official slut, the young and naive girl who loses everything and needs the group's protection, the angry challenger for group leadership who has a change of heart and becomes heroic, the young trainee who disagrees with the angry challenger yet follows due to a sense of duty, and the stupid follower who gets his comeuppence.

    One aspect that was missing from this remake was the original movie's social commentary on the commercialism of people. Ken Foree's character of Peter mentioned this in the original whereas Ving Rhames' Kenneth was more of a silent action hero never having much to say. This was another reason that I saw this as a simple action movie -- though I will say that Rhames has more acting ability than Governor Schwarzenegger, Sly, Seagal and Van Damme combined. Rhames also LOOKS like an action hero rather than today's prettyboy "action heroes" such as Tom Cruise, Ben Affleck, Nicolas Cage and Keanu Reeves -- who all look like they couldn't fight their way out of a cooking class for senior citizens.

    All in all this movie was not better than the original and won't be nominated for any Academy Awards, but if you're looking for entertainment and can stomach the blood it's worth checking out. I can't wait to buy it on DVD someday.


  • Quotes: Michael: Truck's not gonna make it to Fort Pastor. Steve: No, forget the truck. That place is fucked, man. Bloodbath city. Kenneth: How do you know?
  • Also known as: El amanecer de los muertos (Argentina), El amanecer de los muertos (Mexico - imdb display title), El amanecer de los muertos (Uruguay), Zora zivih mrtvaca (Bosnia and Herzegovina - Croatian title), Zora zivih mrtvaca (Croatia), Zora zivih mrtvaca (Serbia), Ölülerin safagi (Turkey - Turkish title), Úsvit mrtvých (Czech Republic - imdb display title), òÁÓÓ×ÅÔ ÍÅÒÔ×ÅÃÏ× (Russia - imdb display title), Amanecer de los muertos (Spain), Die Nacht der Zombies (Austria), Dimineata mortii (Romania - imdb display title), Holtak hajnala (Hungary - imdb display title), Kuolleiden aamunkoitto (Finland), L'alba dei morti viventi (Italy), L'armée des morts (France), L'aube des morts (Canada - French title), Madrugada dos Mortos (Brazil), O Renascer dos Mortos (Portugal - imdb display title), Swit zywych trupów (Poland - imdb display title), To xypnima ton nekron (Greece - transliterated ISO-LATIN-1 title), Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead (USA - long title), Zora zivih mrtvecev (Slovenia),

  1. Halo Boy Toy Says:
    February 23rd, 2011 at 12:51 am

    I had an idea for killing zombies without valuable ammo, just get some weight plates or dumbbells and tie them to long ropes. Stand on the edge and drop them to bash heads. The zombies are all pressed against the building, should be easy enough to smash skulls all day!

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