Something has brought the dead back to life with a hunger for the
flesh of the living. A motley group of survivors hole up in a shopping
mall and try to decide what to do as hundreds of zombies mass
outside...|
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Zack Snyder, USA, 2004, 100 minutes
Something has brought the dead back to life with a hunger for the
flesh of the living. A motley group of survivors hole up in a shopping
mall and try to decide what to do as hundreds of zombies mass
outside...
Like last year’s version of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Dawn of the Dead 2004 offers a 'reinterpretation’ of the original. The dead are scarier thanks to better make up, the performances are generally superior to those in the original, the direction is different, but appropriate. Romero’s film was a genuine original whereas this is but another piece of postmodern recombination. At least, however, the film-makers have the honesty to admit its derivative nature, with elements of Larry Cohen’s It’s Alive and - ironically - Lucio Fulci’s Zombie creeping into the mix.
Review by Miichel Gentil
Written for EUFS Programme Autumn 2004