Halloween Movie Month [Dawn of the Dead (1978)]

Ahhh finally the last zombie movie of the month. This is my personal favorite zombie film of all time to boot. George A. Romero is a zombie legend. Night of the Living Dead and this, Dawn of the Dead, are considered revolutionary in the horror genre and you can't deny the greatness of Romero and these films. This movie opens with mass hysteria at a television station after the zombie outbreak has started. We then cut to an apartment building overrun with zombies and the armed men sent to deal with it. At the apartment building two cops, a woman who worked at the station and her boyfriend, a helicopter pilot, band together to try and escape and survive. They stumble upon a mall and decide to live there and fortify it for survival. I love the acting in this, especially Ken Foree and David  Emge. The story, for it's time, it as inventive as you can get and it still holds up today. The kills are brutal in this. The tearing flesh, the squirting blood are abundant, and there's close up head and body shots galore. The music is scary when it needs to be, but the score also can be merry when happy they're running around in the mall. Romero made a movie that I absolutely adore. It's got the zombies and gore for sure. But it also has great acting, great music, and great great story. If the zombie apocalypse happens, I'm going to fortify a mall.

Halloween Movie Month! Movies #1/2: How To Be A Serial Killer and Red State

Halloween Movie Month! Movie #3: The Evil Dead
Halloween Movie Month! Movie #4: The Shining
Halloween Movie Month! {Bonus}: American Horror Story
Halloween Movie Month! Movies #5/6: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Psycho
Halloween Movie Month! Movie #7: Paranormal Activity
Halloween Movie Month! Movie #8: Scream
Halloween Movie Month! Movie #9: The Last House On The Left
Halloween Movie Month! Movie #10: Scream 4
Halloween Movie Month! Movie #11: The Blair Witch Project
Halloween Movie Month! Movie #12: Behind The Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
Halloween Movie Month! Movie #13: Final Destination
Halloween Movie Month! Movie #14: House of 1000 Corpses
Halloween Movie Month! Movie #15: Halloween
Halloween Movie Month! Movie #16: Friday the 13th
Halloween Movie Month! Movie #17: A Nightmare on Elm Street
Halloween Movie Month! Movie #18: Dawn of the Dead (2004)

Halloween Movie Month! Movie #19: Shaun of the Dead
Halloween Movie Month! Movie #20: Resident Evil
Halloween Movie Month! Movie #21: 28 Days Later

Halloween Movie Month [Dawn of the Dead (2004)]

Finally a zombie flick this month. But don't get too disappointed cause if you follow me on Twitter or have me on Facebook you know this is one of my five zombie films. Ironically these are all the zombie films I'm doing this month, and what better way to do them than all in a row. We're starting with probably my third favorite zombie film ever made, and one of my favorite horror films ever,  the remake of the 1974 classic Dawn of the Dead. I love Zack Synder. This, 300, Watchmen, and even as bad as Sucker Punch was, it looked amazing. Dawn of Dead, along with the original, follows the story of a group of people who survive a zombie outbreak and take refuge in a mall until help arrives. For once in a horror film I got invested in characters. At least in first survivors to get to the mall, and to an extent the second wave. The music in this is amazing, from Johnny Cash to Disturbed, a lounge version of "Down With The Sickness", even Bobby McFerrin is in here. Along with classic horror scores and sound, this is a pleasure to listen to. Synder is very in-your face and cinematic with his movies, and the kills/turns in this look fantastic. Head-shots are amazing, steaks going through heads, even just normal folks getting careened by cars. All this is filled with an abundance of bloody gore too boot. The humor injected into spots in this, especially when Ty Burrell's character gets there, is pretty good as well. I love humor placed in apocalyptic situations like this. All in all this is a great film, and it's a remake to boot. The story is there, the characters are acted out well, the music is awesome, the scares are there, and the kills are awesome. What more can you ask of a horror flick? "When there is no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth." 

Halloween Movie Month! Movies #1/2: How To Be A Serial Killer and Red State

Halloween Movie Month! Movie #3: The Evil Dead
Halloween Movie Month! Movie #4: The Shining
Halloween Movie Month! {Bonus}: American Horror Story
Halloween Movie Month! Movies #5/6: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Psycho
Halloween Movie Month! Movie #7: Paranormal Activity
Halloween Movie Month! Movie #8: Scream
Halloween Movie Month! Movie #9: The Last House On The Left
Halloween Movie Month! Movie #10: Scream 4
Halloween Movie Month! Movie #11: The Blair Witch Project
Halloween Movie Month! Movie #12: Behind The Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
Halloween Movie Month! Movie #13: Final Destination
Halloween Movie Month! Movie #14: House of 1000 Corpses
Halloween Movie Month! Movie #15: Halloween
Halloween Movie Month! Movie #16: Friday the 13th
Halloween Movie Month! Movie #17: A Nightmare on Elm Street