Sarah Polley

Ving Rhames

Jake Weber

Mekhi Phifer

Ty Burrell

Michael Kelly

Kevin Zegers

Michael Barry

Lindy Booth

Jayne Eastwood

Boyd Banks

Inna Korobkina

R.D. Reid

Kim Poirier

Matt Frewer

Louis Ferreira

Hannah Lochner

Bruce Bohne

Ermes Blarasin

Sanjay Talwar

Kim Roberts

Tim Post

Matt Sadowski-Austin

Philip DeWilde

Colm Magner

Luigia Zucaro

David Campbel

Phillip MacKenzie

Geoff Williams

Mike Realba

David Campbell

Laura de Carteret

Georgia Craig

Tino Monte

Chris Gillett

Derek Keurvorst

Dan Duran

Neville Edwards

Sandy Jobin-Bevans

Natalie Brown

Liz West

Scott H. Reiniger

Tom Savini

Ken Foree

Darren Marsman

Zack Snyder

Eric Newman

Joseph Middleton

Andrew Neskoromny

Scott A. Hecker

Niven Howie

Matthew F. Leonetti

Steve Shewchuk

John Stoneham Jr.

Richard P. Rubinstein

Tyler Bates

Nick Alachiotis

Arvinder Greywal

Darrell Hall

James Gunn

Marc Abraham

Denise Cronenberg

Taso N. Stavrakis

Lauro David Chartrand-DelValle

Dennis E. Jones

Armyan Bernstein

Thomas A. Bliss

Michael D. Messina

Dana Howes

Carmen Flores De Tanis

Shawney Cohen

Terrence B. Zinn

Mark Chong

Michael Galbraith

Jay Wilkinson

John 'Frenchie' Berger

Jeffrey Cassidy

Gary A. Hecker

Brent Robinson

Brittney Banks

Terry Edinger

J.P. O'Donnell

Jeff Schweikart

James Halpenny

Laird McMurray

Chris Jenkins

Barney Burman

Christopher Raucamp

Tom Starnes

Stephanie Keating

Kim Karon

Jasmina Vasileva

Alan Zielonko

Chuck Courrieu

Jordana Lieberman

Melissa Remenarich

Philip Esteves

Lauren Grey

Nicole Michaud

Marty Dejczak

Arthur Langevin

Jennifer Mccormack

Steve Holt

Sharon Smith Holley

Tom Calderaro

Suzanne Hodson

Vladimir Popovic

Richard Kroll

Aaron Weintraub

Michael Carella

G. Marq Roswell

Dug Rotstein

Russ Goozee

Janine Anderton

Mario Cacioppo

Gilles Corbeil

Frederick Howard

Frank Alexander

Natalie Bronfman

Jason Leib

John J. Thomson

Diana Ladyshewsky

Rob Ballantyne

Eric J. Robertson

Damon Caro

Carol Hartwick

Dennis Berardi

RaMona Fleetwood

Michael MacDonald

J. Tracy Budd

Michael Huschka

Wynona Price

Hoa Tran

Kyle Cooper

Caitlin McKenna

Jo-Ann MacNeil

Sara Kay

Sandra Lynne Hyhkö

Joel Hay

Gary Burritt

Dave Tommasini

Brian Anderson

Patrick Coffey

Ron Renzetti

Pete Anthony

Horror

Action

Dawn of the Dead

New Amsterdam Entertainment

Strike Entertainment

United States of America

Come on, man. You must've heard the priest say something about life and death.

George Romero fans feared the worst, another one of his sacred original zombie trilogy films was being remade, this even though the remake of Night of the Living Dead didn't disgrace itself. As it happened, the fears were unfounded, for Zack Snyder and his team crafted one of the best horror remakes going.

The premise follows Romero's wonderful version, a mysterious epidemic is causing the populace to turn into undead zombies, the bite of which transfers the illness to another. A small group of survivors make it to the Crossroads Mall and hole up there whilst trying to keep at bay the zombie hordes, but inner fighting threatens the group whilst they know they can't stay there for ever.

Right from the off the film grabs you around the throat, it's a blistering and terrifying opening which brings heartbreak and terror in equal measure. It also announces to us that these zombies are different to Romero's, these suckers can run, and run fast. After some chaos and blood, the introductions to our survivors is set up and the pic settles into a superb group dynamic situation, where machismo and brains meet dumb and dumber, all while little devilish moments trickle away in the background.

It's the focus on the survivors that really lifts it to greater heights, how they variously react to their plight, there's good thought gone into the screenplay (James Gunn). The natural progression of this type of film calls for horror moments, and Snyder deftly slots them in when the pic needs them, which again brings about scenes of terror and genuine heartbreaking moments. Some neat cameos will be cheered by fans of Romero's work, while the cast are superb here, with Sarah Polley the standout fulfilling the believable promise of the character as written.

A remake that is its own beast yet still pays homage to what inspired it, and good at both! Now that's a rare thing in horror! 8/10

Kamurai

Great watch, will watch again, and can definitely recommend.

Granted, if you're not a zombie fan, you're probably not even considering this one.  Then you have the great argument about infection vectors (this is pretty classic, bite infection transfer), and slow vs fast (this movie is fast) zombies.  I'm basically just pointing out why we can't have nice things, people argue about it.

This has a great cast: Ving Rhames, Sarah Polley and Jake Weber in particular.  The production value was definitely present, and not just in renting a mall to trash, or even just the zombie practical effects.

The large scale scenes look amazing, and the details on the various infections are fascinating to watch.  And sure, there is lots of quality gunfire (foley is good) and shooting zombies for people you are just in it for the action.  While it's actually got some good (if dark at times) humor to it, it's not "Warm Bodies".

Of course the presence of zombies / apocalyptic situation / lack of central authority gives us great philosophical opportunity to discuss what life means and see how people behave, but this leans more towards survival strategy aspects.

If anything, I think that is where the "flaw" is in this movie: (most of) the characters are relatively competent so it detours some from typical movie formula relying on the characters to make mistakes to progress the story, but more of there is just a hopeless unending storm of bad things happening to them, it's honestly a little refreshing.

This is probably one of my favorite zombie movies, and I don't even like running zombies.

Andre Gonzales

Awesome awesome movie. Loved this movie since the first time I ever seen it. Lots of zombies, and a lot of killing. One of the best zombies movies ever made in my opinion.

Filipe Manuel Neto

**A low-budget film, but where everyone tries to do the best they can.**

Generally, I don't like films with the living dead, although I've seen several in recent times. This was one of them. Out of nowhere, the characters are thrown into a total apocalypse where people become zombies that they don't know how to kill. The protagonist is a young nurse, who immediately loses her entire family in the first moment. That makes us instantly like her. From then on, we hope that she will save herself and find other survivors to form an alliance with, which inevitably happens when she finds a shopping mall.

Zack Snyder directs this film and delivers a very competent and well-made story, which manages to captivate the audience with a convincing and structured story. The film is, moreover, a remake of an original by George A. Romero, but it is really worth seeing this film for what it is, without comparisons. Technically, the film was well edited and has good sets, costumes and makeup, and a pleasantly stable pace that doesn't leave us thinking about things too much. Of course, there are obvious clichés and logical flaws in all of this, such as the fact that some things never stop working (running water, electricity, etc.), but I forgave these problems.

The cast doesn't have any particularly big names, perhaps it was a conscious and deliberate decision to make this film with lesser-known actors, with whom everyone could identify more easily. Sarah Polley is the protagonist and does a very decent job, as do Ving Rhames and Michael Kelly. It is noted, however, that the entire film was made with very low budgets and that there is some amateurism and improvisation in the work of the cast and technical team. Still, weighing things up, it's not a bad film and everyone did the best they could do.

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