"A really scary film with a superb make-up and special effects!"
--- WEBMASTER
Plot:
Dawn of the Dead, the follow up to the cult favorite Night of the Living Dead (1968)
has the bodies of the recently dead awakening and returning to life by some mysterious
and unknown force.
A local news reporter, Fran (Gaylen Ross) has decided to escape Philadephia in a
helicopter with her boyfriend, Stephen (David Emge), a professional pilot. Two other
policemen, Roger and Peter (Scott H.Reiniger, Ken Foree, respectively) have decided to
join in on the party and fun. However, the policemen had problems of their own. In the
beginning of the film, the police had besieged a building full of minority citizens,
attempting to hunt down psychotic criminals. Instead, the SWAT team police had ended up
murdering several bystanders (one unlucky victim gets his head blown off, shown in graphic
detail frame by frame), and taken many others into custody. The police eventually are
confronted with the dead people who return to life as zombies, with several casualties
ensuing. Most of the cops are killed, but a few of them were lucky to escape. Among the
two survivors were Peter and Roger, mentioned earlier. With Fran and Stephen, the foursome
managed to escape the city via helicopter before the truly bad stuff happens...NOT!!!
The four people needed to find fuel. As they ride inside the helicopter, they watched
below then the "Rednecks," as Stephen aptly called them hunting down the zombies one at
a time. Still, this didn't decrease the growing zombie population. When the gas started to
run low, the people had to land on top of an elaborate mall and shopping center.The problem
was that they found themselves overwhelmed by the flesh eating cannibals. The four survivors
battle the zombies using the weapons they have...but an even deadlier pestilence awaits
these people...
Zombies take over the world. A small group of people (including a couple of SWAT team
officers) escape the carnage of the deteriorating cities in a helicopter. Eventually they
find their way to a huge sprawling shopping mall in rural Pittsburg (which has been
completely overrun by zombies.) The Group tangles with the zombies several times and
eventually secures the mall. You might think without anymore violence or action that the
movie would jsut get boring there right? WRONG! After taking the mall, the group makes
it into their own little paradise. They have everything they want inside, they loot the
gun stores, rob the bank, target practice with dummies, go shopping. Of course on the outside
of their little microcosm of perpetual bliss lies a world in chaos, humanity gradually loses
the battle against the zombie menace and society cruimbles.
Cast and Crew:
Directed by:
George A. Romero
Ken Foree
Scott H. Reiniger
David Emge
Gaylen Ross
Tom Savini
Richard France
Taso N. Stavrakis
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