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NEW ON DVD - "DAWN OF THE DEAD - DIRECTORS' CUT"
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genre ..... zombie horror, remake of Romero's "DAY OF THE DEAD" from 1979
publisher . Universal Pictures/Strike
features .. 2,35:1 anamorph widescreen, 5.1 audio, german/english, subtitles
specials .. directors cut version, "andys last days" the lost tape, special
news report, undead scenes, summoning the dead, attack of the
living dead, intro of zack snyder (director), and loads more!
release ... 2oo4
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Hello again, to another wave of blood and flesh... You surely remember my movie
review in the last Alive/UCM, of the marvellous motion picture DAWN OF THE DEAD,
that was surely one of the most bloodie horror movies that came into the german
cinemas since long times.
It didn't take that long untill the movie vanished from the cinemas again as its
rating to be shown only for people that are 18 years or older, didn't made it
easy to fill up the cinemas for longer times. But thanx God the release on DVD
didn't took too long times and furthermore the DVD version got very polished!
And this was the reason for me to buy the DVD at last, esp. since it featured a
directors cut, or with the words of the director Zack Snyder, an "unrated"
version and so this version comes along about 11 minutes longer than the cinema
version. In fact I don't know right where all those special scenes are, as it
was quite some time ago that we watched the movie in the cinema. Surely some
scenes are now quite longer and more developing, for example the scenes with the
fat old zombie woman, that got killed by Ana with a metal staff smashed through
their head that I really don't remember in all this crazyness. In fact mostly
you see the difference only if you watched the cut and uncut versions short
after another and, better, the uncut version at first...
Ok, I think I don't have to loose that much words about the movie itself again,
just for some flashback: the nurse Ana went back home from work and at the next
day the world is drowning in chaos and anarchy, her boyfriend turns into a
zombie after he was bite by a little girl from the neighborhood. Ana escapes in
the last second and meets some other survivors and they find a save place in a
mal while thousands of zombies waiting outside for some fresh blood and flesh,
while the survivors die one after another because of human failures... and dumb
ones as in every horror movie ;)
Ana (Sarah Polley) surely is the most cute zombie fighter seen so far...
Anyway, let's take a closer look onto the flashy specials... here you get the
full load, a bunch of deleted scenes that are in parts very crude, such as a
zombie without legs that hangles on a water pipeline and falls from above onto
one security man to bite him... very crude idea...
At next we have the "last days of andy", a video tape that was "found" later on
and shows how Andy, the man from the gun shop, survived the last days untill he
got bite by a zombie, turning into one by himself.
If you ever thought zombies are slow brainless freax, you are sooo wrong...
We also get a full blown news roundup from Channel 3, the tv channel from the
movie... and we go on with some behind the scenes informations, just about the
anatomy of exploding heads and such stuff where the tricks for those splatter
effects were shown up for the interested ones... Cruel ideas!
Last but not least we get a trailer for the zombie-fake-movie "Shaun of the
Dead", a real funny movie we saw in the cinemas early this year. Maybe I write a
small review about it later on, too...
So what at all? This DVD belongs into your collection if you liked the movie in
the cinema and if you like stylish zombie massacres with gorgeous effects as
well... It is worth any Cent if you ask me! Go out and get it!
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