Dawn of the Dead (Widescreen Unrated Director's Cut) |  | Actors: Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Jake Weber, Mekhi Phifer, Lindy Booth
Studio: Universal Studios
Category: DVD
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Rating:  704 reviews
Sales Rank: 5437
Format: Digital Sound, Anamorphic, Color, Director's Cut, Dolby, NTSC
Languages: Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Running Time: 101 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 025192581922
ISBN: 1417018143
UPC: 025192581922
EAN: 9781417018147
ASIN: B0002ABURA
Theatrical Release Date: March 19, 2004
Release Date: October 26, 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | The Lost Tape - 15 minutes of terrifing footage | | • | Special Report - Zombie Invasion | | • | 12+ minutes of deleted scenes | | • | Commentary with director Zack Snyder and producer Eric Newman |
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Product Description
A mysterious virus turns people into flesh-eating zombies, leaving survivors to battle for their lives.
Amazon.com
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
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 Its okay, but was it neccesary? August 21, 2010
Nicanor Journey (Houston, Texas)
George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead is a classic horror movie that really didn't need to be retold...but that's exactly what director Zack Snyder has done so I guess I should review it after having seen it twice. I admit there have been far worse remakes, but I can't help but sense how unnecessary this was especially since these two films are worlds apart in many ways. They don't really remake Dawn of the Dead so much as they re-use some elements from the original script and slap the title "Dawn of the Dead" on it to get attention.
In the original film George A. Romero had used the setting of a mall to make satire of human nature. In the Snyder film everything has been refit for zombie action. George A. Romero used the stumbling zombies from his 'Night of the Living Dead'. Zach Snyder uses the Olympic Sprinter Zombies from '28 Days Later'. Romero knew how to spread his movie out with a casual pace. Snyder in the vain of all modern action movies uses quick cuts and generally seems to have everything moving as fast as it can giving no time for character development other that easily recognizable stereotypes.
I think its clear that I prefer the original...
But I don't think this is remake is bad. Its just another zombie movie is all. Nothing really special, nothing really bad about it. It doesn't stand up to films like those of George A. Romero or 28 Days Later, but it is better than things like Resident Evil.
So, this new Dawn of the Dead is quite a bit of gore-filled fun, but as a whole is flat and uninteresting compared to the 1978 original.
better than the rest!! August 12, 2010
hennessy2go
Good blu-ray version arrived in a fortnight!! Film is excellent!! I hope Zack snyder directs a Sequel!!
 Poor remake of a classic August 6, 2010
R. Sutton
This remake is poor, compared to the original 1978 classic. The zombies are fast, the gore is low. Just bad all the way around. If there's another remake, I hope someone gets it right.
 Great movie July 26, 2010
Joseph Gordon
I am not really what you would call a fan of horror movies, but I must say that I LOVED this movie. I was just surprisingly good. I sat down and watched it for the first time on one of the movie channels. I wasn't expecting much out of it. By the end of it, I was hitting the record on the DVR so the wife could see it cause I knew she would love it as well. It had great humor, nice characters and development, great ending...it was the total package movie. Like I said, I am really surprised how much I liked this movie.
Great zombie movie. June 17, 2010
Arnold Poindexter (Georgia, USA)
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I really like this movie, even more so than the original Romero flicks. When the survivors are holed up in the mall it evokes memories of role-playing with my friends as a teenager about what we would do if there were a major world-wide cataclysm. I really like the scene where Andy is shooting celebrity lookalike zombies with his rifle, hilarious!
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