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CINEMA - "DAWN OF THE DEAD"
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remake of George Romero's zombie classic from 1979
As I have read the short description of that movie in my TV journal I just
decided, "I have to see it!". Even though it didn't gave away that much it
seemed to be one of the best horror/splatter movies that came into the cinemas
since many years and you know what?
I almost had missed it in the end as it was taken out of the playlists in the
most cinemas after 3 or 4 weeks and so it was only shown in two cinemas in a
surrounding of over 1oo km in the second week of May...
Anyway, we droved there and had to see that it lays on the few visitors, just 12
people were sitting in the hall that evening in the end, but who really cares?
A problem could be the fact that only 18 years old people are allowed to watch
the movie over here in Germany.
I don't right remember if I have seen snippets of the original movie as this
is "just" a remake of a classic zombie slasher from 1979 by George Romero but
was set on the index in Germany and was even for adult people only given away in
censored way, but somehow I think that I can remember some moments and
situations in that movie that might come from this first original movie.
Ok, so what's this one about? The main actor is Sarah Polley, a cute young woman
who plays a nurse called Ana somewhere in a city the United States. As the
movie starts right from the beginning very filled with action, blood and gore
nobody really cares about a story here, hehe... brainless, no?
Anyway, Ana goes home from work after a stressy day, she works at a hospital
where some people with a very strange disease were brought in at that day, and
at the next day the chaos took over the role. Her husband woke up and their
little daughter, already turned into a zombie, jumps onto him, biting him into
the throat, blood overall, woah! She tries to rescue him but the blood sprinkles
over her and the whole room and finally he dies as she can't stop the rain of
blood, suddenly he turns into a zombie, trying to bite her, she tries to escape
through the bathroom and while her ex-husband-zombie smashes through the door
with the head she can escape through the window, finding herself in a world that
is overroled by total chaos and anarchy... and this was just the intro of the
movie as now the title sequence starts...
And in this breathtaking speed the movie goes on, she tries to escape out of the
city with her car, the world around was sinking into a battlefield, she crashes
her car and was found by a police officer and she followed him, collecting a few
more survivors and finally entering a big supermarket as last stronghold as the
zombies aren't able to come through the unbreakable glass doors.
At this supermarket the "story" takes a little pause in development but seeing
thousands of zombies around the building while food and ammunition turning down
to zero as well as water and power supply are breaking down brings the people
in there to the plan to escape somehow from there but somehow this plan to
escape and trying to realise it already brings a lot of victims to the survivors
as every bite by a zombie turns the suffering one into a zombie too and in the
end only the half of the imprisoned people match it with two busses to escape
from there... for just a moment...
In fact you don't have much time as watcher to follow the story or to make your
own thoughts about it, the speed how it develops and changes is that fast even
if a few happenings are foreseeable but in the end the movie stays very
thrilling untill the very end as you always hope some of them might escape the
zombies in the end but if you try to realise their chances after the movie you
should know that there was no real chance to be rescued for them right on from
the moment as they entered the supermarket.
But watching the movie leaves you no moment to think about the future of the
heroes, as the movie isn't only damn thrilling but also offers a load of cruel
effects and ideas you really must wonder about. Exploding heads and smashed
bones are the most soft of them, very horrible are the ideas to use a chainsaw
to get rid of the zombies that tried to capture the busses and the things that
can happen if you don't work carefully with such a machine... strong stomach
recommended here...
So what? "Dawn Of The Dead" is one of the best horror movies that came into the
cinemas over the last years, it features not only a very cute main
actress, no, it is technically state of the art and leaves you no time
to take breath as well as the movie even matches to impress with damn
cruel and funny moments as well. I know, some hardcore fans already
have stated out that this one doesn't reaches the original movie from
1979 but for all that don't know the original and just want to spend
some good hours without much thinking in the cinema should go there, or
as it surely wont be shown anymore as this UCM will be released, just
get the DVD (if possible uncutted!).
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