Welcome everyone to the first editon of Reaver's night at the movies. Now I have been trying to figure out what movie should I talk about for my first edition. And that presented a bigger problem then I anticipated. So I decided to dip back into the past and review a classic movie. Now Im well aware that some of you younger viewers might not know the movie im talking about but I will educate you. Im a huge fan of horror movie's and no movie gets my blood stirring and my hear pounding like a good old Night of the Living Dead movie. Now I imagine all of you have seen this movie in one of its forms either the original George Romero black and white or the 90's version that had Patrica Tallman in it better known for her role as Lita on Babylon 5. Night was the begining of the zombie movie genra. Two offical sequels were made from Night and they were Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead.
Now alot of you are probally thinking hey I thought Return of the Living Dead part 2 was the sequal. Ehhhh wrong. Those movies the two Returns of the Living dead and Return of the Living Dead part 3 are not actual sequals to the Night of the Living dead. So enough of a history lesson. The movie were going to discuss is Dawn of the Dead one of my all time favorites.
Imagine this its the end of the world as you know it. Hell is overcrowded and has no more room so the recent dead are coming back to life. No longer human but now flesh eating zombies. The world is in chaos in the town of Philidelpha. The local law enforcment teamed with the National Guard are trying to evacuate the city and deal with the Zombie threat. Dawn takes place just weeks after night. The movie opens by showing the confusion and chaos sweeping the world by what is going on thorugh a local Philidelpha T.V station. The station is on 24-7 telling the world what is going on that the recent dead are coming back to life and attacking the living. The news host Sidney is in the middle of interviewing Dr.Foster who has been letting the public know what is going on. Many people dont believe what is going on as it sounded to absurb. The station is a wreck as employees abandone there positions to try to seek some refuge from the consuming nightmare.
Now we meet two of the main charcters Fran and her boyfriend Stephen (the t.v's traffic reporter). The two of them planned on stealing the stations chopper and fleeing the city with one of there friends Roger a S.W.A.T cop.
Roger, in the meantime, is raiding a local tenement where the residents have been storing the recently dead in the basement of the building. For some reason, tennament dwellers have been keeping the recently dead in the basement of Apartment Complex 107. It started off innocenlty enough, but the as law enforement agents heard of what was going on, it was decided by city officials that SWAT memember were to raid the complex and kill any and all living dead located within the building.
Martinez, a local Puetro Rican tennant, has organized a few of his buddies with some handguns and rifles in an attempt to keep the law enforcement officials out. The raid begins with a slight skirmish, with both sides exchanging gunfire. The fight is quickly over, with Philadelphia SWAT taking command of the building within a few short minutes. However, a renegade SWAT member, Wooley, looses his cool and starts blasting Puerto Ricans and African-Americans at his leisure. Roger tries in vain to stop Wooley, but he is only taken down by another SWAT member's gun. The crowd is stunned and hushed. Roger noticed the tall man who shot Wooley.
Once Wooley was dispatched with, the law enforcement officials can get back to what they were order to do -- take out zombies. The first apartment in the complex reveals several zombies, mangled and disfigures from some strange death. Some of the SWAT members are shocked at what they see. The zombies, sensing warm flesh, immediately attack Roger and several other SWAT members. Two of the zombies are killed, but one manages to walk right by the cops and out the apartment door. One SWAT member, who was almost eaten, wasn't able to take the pressure, sticks a gun to his own head, and takes his own life.
Roger is disturbed by the scene and runs into the basement in order to gain some composure. He is not alone down there. In the basement, Roger meets the man who shot his commanding officer. At first he is afraid that the tall officer might shoot him, too, because he witnessed what happened to Wooley. Playing it cool, Roger tells the man that he didn't see how Wooley died. Convinced of Roger's sincerity, the tall man takes off his gas mask and shows himself. They talk for a moment about how everybody is running; running away and thinking if they run far enough they might get away from what is going on. Roger is running, too. He tells the tall SWAT officer, who's name is Peter, that he and his friends are going to steal the WGON traffic helicopter. "Man, there are a lot of people out," says Roger as he shares a cigarette with Peter. "I could run. I could run right tonight. Do you think it's right to run?"
Before Peter can answer, a door burst open and an old priest with one leg steps forth from the door. The priest tells the two men that this is the basement where all the recently dead people are being kept. Peter and Roger let the old priest leave, but not before he dispenses and ominous warning. "When the dead walk, Seniores, we must stop the killing or lose the war." The assault on the complex begins again, this time with Peter and Roger systematically executing each zombie in the basement. More and more zombies are found throughout the building. A door is broken down and dozens of dead are unleashed into the building. SWAT member and national guardsmen continue to run through Apartment Complex 107 trying to kill as many zombies as they can.
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