George Romero is the KING of 🧟♀️🧟♀️🧟♂️🧟♀️ZOMBIE🧟♂️🧟♀️🧟♂️🧟♂️🧟♀️ movies. From the Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, and Day of the Dead, he's been responsible for the absolute best ever in Zombie thrillers! He is a legend!
The very first time I saw night of the living dead when they were screaming brains haunted me until I was an adult. I still won't go near that movie. What got me really is when the guys out themselves in the crematory fire!
@@LannieLord Why exactly did it "suck"? It may not be my favorite, but it wasn't bad? It showed how certain people living through that insanity might react from it. Explain why it "sucked".
@@EdsterIII Day sucked because: 1) BUB. Although it MAY be "interesting" to train a zombie to be a slave / servant: IT'S NOT SCARY. And this AM a horror movie. 2) The "doctor" . A goofball character right off a Cap'n Crunch box. Geez. 3) The Military guys YELLING AND SCREAMING at everyone . Holy crap - that yelling and screaming goes a LONG way. My ears HURT. 4) The single relatable character : Lori Cardille . That's IT. Everyone else was just bland / or boring. 5) Not enough "vibe" that the zombies were "everywhere". It felt as if the Living Dead invaded a town in Florida and that was pretty much it.
Here is what I did like: 1) The escape to an island for the ending . 2) The underground complex was kinda cool- as were the colorful caves. 3) The gore effects were top notch . 4) The nightmare scene with the hands coming thru the cinder block wall ! In the theatre - everyone JUMPED!
George A. Romero. The innovative creator of the original "Dead" movie series and the modern zombie as we know it. Without Romero, the idea of a zombie apocalypse wouldn't even be a thing. That's crazy to think about.
Yep and the baddy guy combing tache,remade night of the living dead in the 90's, he was in dusk till dawn too, proper effects geezer he was, ashamed I cant remember his name 😢
@@lavoz88yea I always wonder this when people make such statements. It should be law to have to list the others when making such claims heheh. Aside from that, the people almost never reply when someone inquires
Yes before my best friend got taken away to the mental hospital ( he should not even be there 🙄 ) We used to watch zombie films all day every day on old vhs 📼 tapes . Zombie films. Gotta love them. 🥰
I always found the Goblin soundtrack excessive and I'm italizn. This ost is simpler and creates more of an old school horror vibe that's not stuck in the 70s, and feels more dramatic
Finally a good quality copy, most are VHS upscaled to 1080p, complete with tracking lines and grainy footage on anything bigger than a 20 inch screen.. Eg VHS quality but a pointless huge file size.. So great job on this one as it comes from a decent source
I saw this when it was NEW (!) . It was May or June of 1979. As I was watching it- I could not believe how awesome it was ! And then it got shown at MIDNIGHTS along with Rocky Horror , Pink Floyd The Wall, Song Remains the Same, etc. Here on the East Coast ; it was called "U.A. Theatres MIDNIGHT MADNESS". When VHS came out and everyone could RENT movies by 1985- The Midnight Shows all stopped BUT only Rocky Horror survived.
I watched the first 10 minutes of the extended cut and thought “this is so bad and terribly edited.” Then I watched this and immediately realized why they released this and not the extended cut. Really fun movie.
Something this film repeatedly shows (something I don’t think many other zombie pictures even dare touch on) is the idea that even though the zombies are instinct driven, like animals they can still have personalities to a degree. Some zombies try to get into the mall through the truck barricades while others try to walk through the windows. Some zombies mess with the objects inside the mall like the registers, phones, and mannequins, and one apparently refuses to let go of that m16 rifle. And some go for your arms and legs while others rip out your entrails!
I also feel like what makes these movies stand out from other zombie movies, is that the zombies are actually sort of smart? Like how in that one scene where the zombie uses that pipe to break the truck window, where in other zombie movies all the zombies are just brain dead monsters.
agree. Also they maintain some sense of memory, "they are here for the place", it was said. Fly boy remembered the secret room as place that he was drawn to even after transforming.
That opening damn, hearing that zombie gets me every time. Great movie, to bad the extended version you dont get certain songs and hear the zombie in the beginning
Just watched the movie. I love Peter as a character. He is really tough and composed but at the same time we can see the death of his friends take a toll on him.
Lucky you. For horror fans and people in general who appreciate good writing and film making there is nothing like your first time watching this movie. I still remember the first time I watched it in 1996. The characters and 1970’s atmosphere really do stick with you. Most horror movies have characters that I’m indifferent towards and don’t even care about. Roger is my favorite. He has an interesting character arc. Starts off as a reasonable and cautious person who gets desensitized in the bedlam, and as result becomes careless putting himself and his friends in danger. He redeems himself through making his final acts those of helping his friends to secure the mall even though he’s dying and could have just punched his own ticket. Even when he reanimates you can still see there’s a part of him in there who doesn’t want to get up and go after Peter.
@@ProfessionalClownWrangler FANS have issues with Roger's death happening a little TOO SOON. I kinda understand that BUT , it makes it more realistic by his personality to "fly off the handle" in the situation. I saw this movie when it was NEW in the Spring of 1979. I cannot tell you the IMAPCT it had. It made all other horror movies look old fashioned and stiff . I will NEVER forget in the scene in the housing project building- when the black zombie bit a chunk of the ladies ARM off ! My then girlfriend turns to me and goes 'It looks like he's eating a big piece of marshmallow" 10:41 . LOL . We came back a week later to see it again.
The first 20 minutes still scares me. 😢 Imagine something terrifying is going on, you're clueless. You turn on the news and they're going crazy, screaming at each other. You look outside and your neighbors are eating each other on the front lawn. The phones don't work. You wish you had fueled up after getting out of work. You assume there is no 911 since the phones are dead. What you have in your house..... is what you have. How long before electricity and running water go out? You see a lot of smoke in the distance and a lot of loud "BOOMS"..... You have a wife and 3 very young children. 😒 Are you ready???
I think dawn of the dead is probably one of the best zombie apocalypse movies from that time out there and its the original movie from the late 1970s which 26 years later was remastered with more backstory and explanation as to why the outbreak happened and how it started and it gives that " calm before the storm" perspective of things, like nobody knows its coming before things actually gets worse and shit hits the fan.
It's a follow up to the 1968 movie night of the living dead, which itself was excellent and a big budget would have killed it, with faces and names instead of actors
@@adrinathegreat3095Not exactly. Return of the Living Dead is the Follow Up. This is a Follow Up only in that it was the next Zombie Movie. This was the start of Romero's Zombie Universe. Night of the Living Dead was it's own thing.
@@justinlast2lastharder749 Where are you getting your information? Night was the first, this was the sequel. Return of the Living Dead isn't a sequel or followup to anything.
None of the newer Zombie flicks can come close to the horror of the older George. A. Romero films. I can't quite put my finger on what it is that makes them so terrifying but I think it really comes down to how "raw" everything looks. The cinematography really portrays a sense of isolation, dread and hopelessness. The washed out colour palette and dated visuals and set design really add to the sense of a world that really wasn't ready for such an apocalypse to befall it. The Zombies are much slower but the terror from knowing that a single bite will turn you and the fear of knowing that a group of them could easily tear you apart alive means that a sense of foreboding and unnatural cruelty is always present. The newer Zombie films rely far too much on technology and "hipness" with the violence being more stylised that I think they really lose the themes and true message that the original Zombie films try and present. That message being essentially that we're in a world that still can't work together effectively, a world where racism and hatred is still tearing us apart and consumerism is taking over our lives and that if such a situation ever did occur in the real world it wouldn't look much different from how it was portrayed in a 1978 horror film.
@@damien1781 He wrote it but didn’t direct it. Don’t get me wrong, I still liked the remake but my point was more that you just can’t emulate the same horror feel of the older films because the times have changed.
@@mattyvsmithyJames Gunn wrote the 2004 script. Romero is only credited as a writer for the remake because he wrote the original source material. He had absolutely no involvement with the Zack Snyder remake though. Romero brings this up in a directors commentary on the Dawn Dead Ultimate Edition collectors set that also released around the same time the 2004 Snyder remake came out. I think it’s the commentary on the Extended cut DVD where he addresses this. That collectors set is worth having just for the various commentary tracks alone. Lots of information and interesting anecdotes about things that happened in the process of making this film.
Romero was a artist with his original trilogy of dead films Me and one of my friends from Jr College thought he was one of the best horror directors of our parents generation
This movie has inspired countless remakes, homages, and spin-offs, and it’s still a go-to film for horror fans around the world. Whether it’s your first time watching or your 50th, Dawn of the Dead offers an experience like no other.
I saw this movie when it was new in the Spring of 1979. I cannot tell you how it changed the way I look at and feel about movies. A friend of mine who lived in NYC said a lady in the theatre ran out to the lobby and VOMITED from the gore scenes in the first 15 minutes. LOL
“Dawn of the Dead” takes place three weeks after “Night of the Living Dead”. Three weeks after “Night of the Living Dead,” all hell breaks loose, literally.
No it doesn't. It's an entirely different universe. Night of the Living Dead was a One Off that led Romero to making more Zombie Movies. Return of the Living Dead is the Sequel and an entirely different director.
Romero didn’t really try to inspire fear of liminal spaces in this or any of his films though, even though a lot of his films feature liminal spaces and can create that sort of fear on their own. His filming and editing style were really fast paced and full of cuts. The way Romero filmed and edited doesn’t lend itself to creating a fear of vast emptiness compared to a director like Stanley Kubrick or John Carpenter. There’s no dolly shots, or really any moving shots in this movie. Even the big wide shots that convey any sort of vastness are edited down to just a few seconds. The mall setting was chosen because of the social commentary Romero wanted to make about rampant consumerism, and also out of convenience. He met the owners of Monroeville Mall not long after it opened in 1969 through a mutual friend. They gave him a tour and he realized people could probably hold up there and survive in a disaster. He was offered free use of it when he went to make Dawn of The Dead. Richard Rubenstein worked out a lot of the liability and insurance issues of using the mall. I think he even set aside a good chunk of his own money to cover any damages that happened….which several did.
@@mrd.s.m4138 LOL Oh my god. Name one modern zombie movie that's better. And I'm genuinely curious WHY you would say so. The remake of this was total shit. Shaun of the Dead is great, but completely different; hard to compare. What other one is there? 28 Days is shit. (Fast zombies are shit.) I know I'm being strident, but I am seriously curious what you like more about more recent ones.
The best of the dead films and every bit as good as the book. if you watch all the films in the dead arc ( not to be confused with the living dead) you will see how the zombies do get smarter as the franchise progresses.
I found the novelization of Dawn of The Dead to be dull and insufferable. It spends a lot of time harping on about a lot of new agey nonsense of the 70’s that I’ve grown sick and tired of in 2024. The film is direct and to the point. The characters are likeable.
The fact that Dario Argento was a part of this is WILD, FASCINATING AND CHEF'S KISS! Loved how the military guy "Rhodes" from "Day..." was featured in the beginning (cut out in this version tho). FANTASTIC MOVIE!!!
I wish I could have watched this in the movie theatre. Sounds like a great movie to watch that helped start the zombie genre. Thank you George A. Romero for this awesome movie.
The Best Zombie Movie ever made & i remember first seeing seeing it back in 1989 late one Sunday night on BBC2 as part of their regular Movie Drome season. Many years after i met this Absolute Horror legend himself Ken Foree in 2012 at one of the NEC's Memorabilia events. As he was signing some posters & Dvds for me,a young Student looking type of Guy & his mate came over to Kens table & said to him ''which version to you think is the best then,the 1978 original or the 2004 remake?'' Ken looked at him,then smiled at him while motioning his left hand towards me & said '' well why dont you ask the Fans then?'' The young Guy looked totally surprised at his reply & for good measure i made it known to him that i was a Huge Fan of the 1978 George Romero Original. 😆👍
2 years ago, Halloween, they remastered this 1978 version to 3D! It was PHENOMENAL! They never released it again. I wonder why they would spend millions on redoing the original in 3D, only to show it in select theaters, select cities for a limited time, only for 1 or 2 months. What a shame. Glad I got to view it! The 3D was 2nd to none! BTW, GAR was in on the project b4 he passed 😢. RIP, Mr. Romero! You are truly missed! 🙏
The lack of self awareness in the movie shocks me ahha still really good this is my first time watching this movie I have watched every other zombie movie known to man but this one haha
@@LannieLord Indeed it was! Never seen anything like it! And I thought the very first Night Of the Dead from 1968 was frightening! This one was a lot more graphic and gruesome!
What I like at 19:07 is the sense of hope that the living actually stand a chance against the undead, but 24-48hrs from then would all be different as there wouldn’t be a lot of living left. George always sets the tone within the first few minutes, that’s why I love this movie & Day too. Zack Snyders remake of Dawn is a decent movie also.
@1:37:00 when the mall announcer lady comes on any person from Sahth Western PA will recognize the unmistakable Pittsburghese....Yes, this was filmed in Monroeville. gotta love it when she says half hour.....its gold
Zombies or no zombies, this was healthy and normal behavior/logic for a cocaine fueled biker gang of that era. I’m surprised they weren’t trying to struggle snuggle the zombies or take them as concubines.
Crumbs! I went with pals to see this in 1979 at our local Theatre: Cinema Night! It stuck with me across the decades all these decades later! Thanks for giving us the opportunity to revisit it 😂
This was always my favorite movie. ❤❤❤ I was happy to watch it yet again, and it still had me on the edge of my seat. Had to laugh at "Spam has a key". 😂 Awesome flick!!!! 🎉
Thank you for making this accessible it’s not on any major streaming services
The truth. Netflix and Amazon pay stacks for literal shit and movies like this are inaccessable.
This is on Prime.
George Romero is the KING of 🧟♀️🧟♀️🧟♂️🧟♀️ZOMBIE🧟♂️🧟♀️🧟♂️🧟♂️🧟♀️ movies. From the Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, and Day of the Dead, he's been responsible for the absolute best ever in Zombie thrillers! He is a legend!
my fave movie
To rent or buy. It’s not part of the free Prime
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This movie scared the crap out of me as a child in the 80's.
Same
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I was 72 years old in the 80’s
The very first time I saw night of the living dead when they were screaming brains haunted me until I was an adult. I still won't go near that movie. What got me really is when the guys out themselves in the crematory fire!
@@TheUnholyPosole❌❌❌EXTREMELY LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER ❌❌❌
None of Romero's films get tired. They are truly timeless. Night, Dawn and Day. With Land getting an honorable mention.
Day sucked.
@@LannieLordwhoa there lannieedgelord
@@LannieLord Why exactly did it "suck"? It may not be my favorite, but it wasn't bad? It showed how certain people living through that insanity might react from it. Explain why it "sucked".
@@EdsterIII Day sucked because: 1) BUB. Although it MAY be "interesting" to train a zombie to be a slave / servant: IT'S NOT SCARY. And this AM a horror movie. 2) The "doctor" . A goofball character right off a Cap'n Crunch box. Geez. 3) The Military guys YELLING AND SCREAMING at everyone . Holy crap - that yelling and screaming goes a LONG way. My ears HURT. 4) The single relatable character : Lori Cardille . That's IT. Everyone else was just bland / or boring. 5) Not enough "vibe" that the zombies were "everywhere". It felt as if the Living Dead invaded a town in Florida and that was pretty much it.
Here is what I did like: 1) The escape to an island for the ending . 2) The underground complex was kinda cool- as were the colorful caves. 3) The gore effects were top notch . 4) The nightmare scene with the hands coming thru the cinder block wall ! In the theatre - everyone JUMPED!
Good late night film.
Awesome super mall from the 70's. It looks like it had everything.
It's still there in Philadelphia
it was filmed in the Monroeville Mall near Pittsburgh PA
My brother was in it
@@tiediegymnasts920no Monroeville Mall near Pittsburgh
@@tiediegymnasts920 Yeah, Monroeville mall in Pittsburgh. I live very close to it. Still open
@@flylippfantom8425I think it was Century III mall in Pittsburgh, not Monroeville
Thank you for posting this. Dinner and a movie. What a masterpiece
George A. Romero. The innovative creator of the original "Dead" movie series and the modern zombie as we know it. Without Romero, the idea of a zombie apocalypse wouldn't even be a thing. That's crazy to think about.
Yep and the baddy guy combing tache,remade night of the living dead in the 90's, he was in dusk till dawn too, proper effects geezer he was, ashamed I cant remember his name 😢
@nosly1973 the great Tom Savini. He also worked on the original "Night." Another underappreciated legend!
Richard Matheson gets a lot of credit for inspiring Romero with his novel “I Am Legend”.
Amazing!! Thanks to Romero!!
let's not forget ROTFL for making zombies eat bRAiNSS
"Dawn of the Dead"(1978) is an excellent Zombie horror movie!This is one of the 10 best movies of all time for this Kind!
what would the other 9 be?
@@lavoz88yea I always wonder this when people make such statements. It should be law to have to list the others when making such claims heheh. Aside from that, the people almost never reply when someone inquires
Yes before my best friend got taken away to the mental hospital ( he should not even be there 🙄 )
We used to watch zombie films all day every day on old vhs 📼 tapes .
Zombie films. Gotta love them. 🥰
@@lavoz88, the remake. Day of the dead, night of the living dead (1990) , zombieland, land of the dead, return of the living dead 1 and 2,
half of these actors were probably paid a bag of weed at the end of filming
Romero will always be the best zombie filmmaker of all time!
Yup true.
He continued on making movies after he died?
Everyone else is just copying him.
I watched this on VHS in 1982, and you know what : it was the definitive and unimpovable zombie movie. George A Romero 1940-2017
They had VHS back then?
@@petersmithyy4556 Yep. Beta too.
i like the modern remake a little better
I am 44 years old now. And this is my favorite 2.07. minute version the music. This is the version I grew up watching.
I always found the Goblin soundtrack excessive and I'm italizn. This ost is simpler and creates more of an old school horror vibe that's not stuck in the 70s, and feels more dramatic
What's with the comedic soundtrack like everything is going to brady bunch ok👺👺👺👺
@@nodr.a4583it's called juxtaposition. Romero was very good at getting deeper meaning to his mindless horror.
@@LarryHazard spot on, the Goblin stuff was cheesey af
@@travishodge9769 it doesn't work here
Finally a good quality copy, most are VHS upscaled to 1080p, complete with tracking lines and grainy footage on anything bigger than a 20 inch screen..
Eg VHS quality but a pointless huge file size..
So great job on this one as it comes from a decent source
This might very well be the cleanest, sharpest copy of the movie I've seen in my entire life. Thank you.
You mean you've actually sat through it twice! Were you forced to?
@ks-eq3yx Twice times many.
I saw this 15 times at the midnight movie in the 1980s. It was a prophetic in its description of consumerism in America.
I saw this when it was NEW (!) . It was May or June of 1979. As I was watching it- I could not believe how awesome it was ! And then it got shown at MIDNIGHTS along with Rocky Horror , Pink Floyd The Wall, Song Remains the Same, etc. Here on the East Coast ; it was called "U.A. Theatres MIDNIGHT MADNESS". When VHS came out and everyone could RENT movies by 1985- The Midnight Shows all stopped BUT only Rocky Horror survived.
i was 9 years old watching this at the drive in, afraid to walk to the food stand alone, thinking zombies are real
I watched the first 10 minutes of the extended cut and thought “this is so bad and terribly edited.” Then I watched this and immediately realized why they released this and not the extended cut. Really fun movie.
Watching an extended version of a movie as your first watch in my experience has always been bad. I’ve done it twice and never again lol.
Something this film repeatedly shows (something I don’t think many other zombie pictures even dare touch on) is the idea that even though the zombies are instinct driven, like animals they can still have personalities to a degree. Some zombies try to get into the mall through the truck barricades while others try to walk through the windows. Some zombies mess with the objects inside the mall like the registers, phones, and mannequins, and one apparently refuses to let go of that m16 rifle. And some go for your arms and legs while others rip out your entrails!
I also feel like what makes these movies stand out from other zombie movies, is that the zombies are actually sort of smart? Like how in that one scene where the zombie uses that pipe to break the truck window, where in other zombie movies all the zombies are just brain dead monsters.
agree. Also they maintain some sense of memory, "they are here for the place", it was said. Fly boy remembered the secret room as place that he was drawn to even after transforming.
55:25 explains the m.o. of these zombies
@@MisakaMisaka5
Good f-in movie 🧟♂️🧟♀️🍺🍻
These folks are great at just standing there and staring at the zombies while their death encroaches ever closer. It's quite impressive.
I agree. But that doesn’t say much
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they were all stoned during filming
circus music playing in the background
That opening damn, hearing that zombie gets me every time. Great movie, to bad the extended version you dont get certain songs and hear the zombie in the beginning
Where?
@bencekokas6179 when she's about to wake up in the beginning of the movie
Three weeks after “Night of the Living Dead,” all hell breaks loose, literally.
Just watched the movie. I love Peter as a character. He is really tough and composed but at the same time we can see the death of his friends take a toll on him.
Lucky you. For horror fans and people in general who appreciate good writing and film making there is nothing like your first time watching this movie. I still remember the first time I watched it in 1996. The characters and 1970’s atmosphere really do stick with you. Most horror movies have characters that I’m indifferent towards and don’t even care about. Roger is my favorite. He has an interesting character arc. Starts off as a reasonable and cautious person who gets desensitized in the bedlam, and as result becomes careless putting himself and his friends in danger. He redeems himself through making his final acts those of helping his friends to secure the mall even though he’s dying and could have just punched his own ticket. Even when he reanimates you can still see there’s a part of him in there who doesn’t want to get up and go after Peter.
@@ProfessionalClownWrangler FANS have issues with Roger's death happening a little TOO SOON. I kinda understand that BUT , it makes it more realistic by his personality to "fly off the handle" in the situation. I saw this movie when it was NEW in the Spring of 1979. I cannot tell you the IMAPCT it had. It made all other horror movies look old fashioned and stiff . I will NEVER forget in the scene in the housing project building- when the black zombie bit a chunk of the ladies ARM off ! My then girlfriend turns to me and goes 'It looks like he's eating a big piece of marshmallow" 10:41 . LOL . We came back a week later to see it again.
I saw this movie as a kid in the theater and it scared me for generations.
The first 20 minutes still scares me. 😢
Imagine something terrifying is going on, you're clueless. You turn on the news and they're going crazy, screaming at each other. You look outside and your neighbors are eating each other on the front lawn. The phones don't work.
You wish you had fueled up after getting out of work. You assume there is no 911 since the phones are dead. What you have in your house..... is what you have. How long before electricity and running water go out? You see a lot of smoke in the distance and a lot of loud "BOOMS"..... You have a wife and 3 very young children. 😒 Are you ready???
I think dawn of the dead is probably one of the best zombie apocalypse movies from that time out there and its the original movie from the late 1970s which 26 years later was remastered with more backstory and explanation as to why the outbreak happened and how it started and it gives that " calm before the storm" perspective of things, like nobody knows its coming before things actually gets worse and shit hits the fan.
Yup true.
It's a follow up to the 1968 movie night of the living dead, which itself was excellent and a big budget would have killed it, with faces and names instead of actors
@@adrinathegreat3095Not exactly. Return of the Living Dead is the Follow Up. This is a Follow Up only in that it was the next Zombie Movie. This was the start of Romero's Zombie Universe. Night of the Living Dead was it's own thing.
that's why it's the dawn of the outbreak
@@justinlast2lastharder749 Where are you getting your information? Night was the first, this was the sequel. Return of the Living Dead isn't a sequel or followup to anything.
In 1978 this was the movie everyone couldn't stop talking about. MY my my we have come a long way in such a short time.
Attack the block is another classic .
In my opinion. 🥰
I have NEVER used a public blood pressure machine due to this movie!!! Fear of zombies getting me. 😂😂
None of the newer Zombie flicks can come close to the horror of the older George. A. Romero films. I can't quite put my finger on what it is that makes them so terrifying but I think it really comes down to how "raw" everything looks. The cinematography really portrays a sense of isolation, dread and hopelessness. The washed out colour palette and dated visuals and set design really add to the sense of a world that really wasn't ready for such an apocalypse to befall it. The Zombies are much slower but the terror from knowing that a single bite will turn you and the fear of knowing that a group of them could easily tear you apart alive means that a sense of foreboding and unnatural cruelty is always present. The newer Zombie films rely far too much on technology and "hipness" with the violence being more stylised that I think they really lose the themes and true message that the original Zombie films try and present. That message being essentially that we're in a world that still can't work together effectively, a world where racism and hatred is still tearing us apart and consumerism is taking over our lives and that if such a situation ever did occur in the real world it wouldn't look much different from how it was portrayed in a 1978 horror film.
Didn’t he remake dawn of the dead?
@@damien1781 He wrote it but didn’t direct it. Don’t get me wrong, I still liked the remake but my point was more that you just can’t emulate the same horror feel of the older films because the times have changed.
@@mattyvsmithy oh that’s right he wrote it and the Zac Snyder directed it I think …
@@mattyvsmithyJames Gunn wrote the 2004 script. Romero is only credited as a writer for the remake because he wrote the original source material. He had absolutely no involvement with the Zack Snyder remake though. Romero brings this up in a directors commentary on the Dawn Dead Ultimate Edition collectors set that also released around the same time the 2004 Snyder remake came out. I think it’s the commentary on the Extended cut DVD where he addresses this. That collectors set is worth having just for the various commentary tracks alone. Lots of information and interesting anecdotes about things that happened in the process of making this film.
@@ProfessionalClownWrangler Interesting! Thanks for clarifying that. Explains a lot regarding my original comment.
Getting primed for the start of Spooky Season, could do worse than revisiting this classic!
This is one of the BEST Zombie movies EVER made. Hands down!
And one of the best MOVIES ever made!
Hell yeah it is 😎🤘🏻
Romero was a artist with his original trilogy of dead films Me and one of my friends from Jr College thought he was one of the best horror directors of our parents generation
Yup true and he's also King of the Godfather Zombie Movies.
Great upload.
Not seen this movie in years. Beer, smokes.
Awesome. Cheers.
This movie has inspired countless remakes, homages, and spin-offs, and it’s still a go-to film for horror fans around the world. Whether it’s your first time watching or your 50th, Dawn of the Dead offers an experience like no other.
The godfather of zombie genre?!
I saw this movie when it was new in the Spring of 1979. I cannot tell you how it changed the way I look at and feel about movies. A friend of mine who lived in NYC said a lady in the theatre ran out to the lobby and VOMITED from the gore scenes in the first 15 minutes. LOL
An absolute masterpiece, even more relevant today than ever before ❤
The only zombies today are consumers and nationalists
This was the best zombie movie ever! Bikers and a black hero! 🤩 WOW! Thank you!
The one with jawana mann was good to i forgot the name the one with The army had to send a bomb at The end but yeah that one was great as well
@@philuntaysterlingsterling5046Return of the Living Dead.
This was my all time favorite movie as a kid it awesome to go back and watch it as an adult. Total nostalgia
A GREAT CLASSIC ONE OF MY FAVORITES☝️✌️
“Dawn of the Dead” takes place three weeks after “Night of the Living Dead”. Three weeks after “Night of the Living Dead,” all hell breaks loose, literally.
so... 21 Days Later
No it doesn't. It's an entirely different universe. Night of the Living Dead was a One Off that led Romero to making more Zombie Movies. Return of the Living Dead is the Sequel and an entirely different director.
@@justinlast2lastharder749 Umm....no....this is the same universe. Direct sequel to Night. Return is the one that's an entirely different universe.
You skipped Day of Dead, the final chapter
@@MC-ly4pm “Day of the Dead” takes place three months after “Dawn of the Dead” and a year after “Night of the Living Dead”.
This has such a beautiful aesthetic to it.
I like this and 2004 remake too so much.
Not bad at all, very exciting and blood packed! Loved this so much.😅😅
I believe this movie also has elements of early liminal spaces horror with it's empty mall setting.
A stretch perhaps, but stll very intriguing. Great thought!
Just like The Shinning
Romero didn’t really try to inspire fear of liminal spaces in this or any of his films though, even though a lot of his films feature liminal spaces and can create that sort of fear on their own. His filming and editing style were really fast paced and full of cuts. The way Romero filmed and edited doesn’t lend itself to creating a fear of vast emptiness compared to a director like Stanley Kubrick or John Carpenter. There’s no dolly shots, or really any moving shots in this movie. Even the big wide shots that convey any sort of vastness are edited down to just a few seconds.
The mall setting was chosen because of the social commentary Romero wanted to make about rampant consumerism, and also out of convenience. He met the owners of Monroeville Mall not long after it opened in 1969 through a mutual friend. They gave him a tour and he realized people could probably hold up there and survive in a disaster. He was offered free use of it when he went to make Dawn of The Dead. Richard Rubenstein worked out a lot of the liability and insurance issues of using the mall. I think he even set aside a good chunk of his own money to cover any damages that happened….which several did.
One of the best zombie movies ever made.
THE best. I don't think there's really any competition.
For it's time yes...but not anymore😂😂😂...compared to the newer ones..this is crap
@@mrd.s.m4138 LOL Oh my god. Name one modern zombie movie that's better. And I'm genuinely curious WHY you would say so. The remake of this was total shit. Shaun of the Dead is great, but completely different; hard to compare. What other one is there? 28 Days is shit. (Fast zombies are shit.) I know I'm being strident, but I am seriously curious what you like more about more recent ones.
@@greg55666 Exactly..
Italian american
Watching for the first time. Man, so good. Cool to see how this genre was really born.
Try to get your hands on the Argento cut....must see!
@@ep6232 I've heard the stories. I'm definitely looking for it!
Halloween 2024 🎃
Definitely a true classic 👌🏻
😲The Awesomeness that Is Continues! 👊😎✊
RIP George A Romero 😔🍁
First zombie film I ever saw and has yet to be bettered. 28 Days Later comes close.
Man I've probably watched this half a dozen times since it's been here! One of my favorites of all time! Ty!😊
Right! I come back to this quite often, and then I always watch the UA-cam videos about the locations at the mall it was shot in 😂 I’m a nerd
The best of the dead films and every bit as good as the book. if you watch all the films in the dead arc ( not to be confused with the living dead) you will see how the zombies do get smarter as the franchise progresses.
I found the novelization of Dawn of The Dead to be dull and insufferable. It spends a lot of time harping on about a lot of new agey nonsense of the 70’s that I’ve grown sick and tired of in 2024. The film is direct and to the point. The characters are likeable.
Thank you!!
The fact that Dario Argento was a part of this is WILD, FASCINATING AND CHEF'S KISS! Loved how the military guy "Rhodes" from "Day..." was featured in the beginning (cut out in this version tho). FANTASTIC MOVIE!!!
This is how you make a good zombie movie.
I wish I could have watched this in the movie theatre. Sounds like a great movie to watch that helped start the zombie genre. Thank you George A. Romero for this awesome movie.
This is my most favourite horror movie of all time love the other 2 classic romero zombie films too
You rule! Ty for the upload! 🧟♀️ 🧟♂️ 🧟♀️
One of the finest movies ever made.
Love this movie I watched it all the time sometimes everyday
Great movie. The cast was awesome.
The Best Zombie Movie ever made & i remember first seeing seeing it back in 1989 late one Sunday night on BBC2 as part of their regular Movie Drome season. Many years after i met this Absolute Horror legend himself Ken Foree in 2012 at one of the NEC's Memorabilia events. As he was signing some posters & Dvds for me,a young Student looking type of Guy & his mate came over to Kens table & said to him ''which version to you think is the best then,the 1978 original or the 2004 remake?'' Ken looked at him,then smiled at him while motioning his left hand towards me & said '' well why dont you ask the Fans then?'' The young Guy looked totally surprised at his reply & for good measure i made it known to him that i was a Huge Fan of the 1978 George Romero Original. 😆👍
"You not just playin with your life you playin with mine," perfect team motto😮😮😮
Thank you. I knew I was missing a zombie movie from my childhood just couldn't remember which one
2 years ago, Halloween, they remastered this 1978 version to 3D! It was PHENOMENAL! They never released it again. I wonder why they would spend millions on redoing the original in 3D, only to show it in select theaters, select cities for a limited time, only for 1 or 2 months. What a shame. Glad I got to view it! The 3D was 2nd to none! BTW, GAR was in on the project b4 he passed 😢. RIP, Mr. Romero! You are truly missed! 🙏
Thank you ❤
I freaking love this cut! That intro rocks!
We would stay in the theater and watch this over and over
I always liked this full length Italian cut the best.
Thank you it's one of my favourite zombie movie.
A mall to myself during a zomie apocalypse sounds like a blast
The best zombie saga
My all time favorite🤙
Absolutely classic film!!
Bought this dvd years ago. Friend never returned it
Same here I had the collectors and sold it a few years ago
23:24 the way he swung that hammer got me crying 😂😂
Love this movie! It made me a zombie fan for life
One Of My All Time Favorite Horror Movie's, Classic
70's was a crazy time 😅
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! been wanting to see this but cant find it on streaming services thank you thank you thank you😊😊😊😊😊❤
Chill out, Pat. If that’s even your real name!
@@PhukUA-cam-zs4xw can I not get excited over something? Jeeze who pissed in your corn flakes?
Classic Zombie flick , nice to see it again. Cheers
Hadn't seen this movie for over 30 years, it really aged well.
Best Movie Yet!
20:49 same sound at the beginning on Shaun of the dead 2004
Wow 1st time seeing this version
0:59 Fun to see Romero making a cameo like Hitchcock. Great film--TY!
That’s his then wife Christine Romero next to him. Romero is also @1:47:12 dressed as Santa Claus with his wife in tow.
The lack of self awareness in the movie shocks me ahha still really good this is my first time watching this movie I have watched every other zombie movie known to man but this one haha
Pandemonium! I love it! Thank you for the upload
I saw this in the theater when it came out. It sure was damn scary and still is!
Me too ! Saw it at a drive in theatre !!!! So friggin scary !
@@LannieLord Indeed it was! Never seen anything like it! And I thought the very first Night Of the Dead from 1968 was frightening! This one was a lot more graphic and gruesome!
Excellent movie!
This original cut is still the best.
Those were the days when a mall had everything and every store you could imagine.
Yeah thank Amazon for stealing the magic out of life
Malls have everything to this very day. What’s the difference?! Weird…
@@PhukUA-cam-zs4xwGun store? Im in the south and I haven’t seen a mall with a gun store lmfao
I’ve been looking for this movie for years haven’t seen it since the 90’s WOW
This is far better than the remake.
Indeed!
What I like at 19:07 is the sense of hope that the living actually stand a chance against the undead, but 24-48hrs from then would all be different as there wouldn’t be a lot of living left. George always sets the tone within the first few minutes, that’s why I love this movie & Day too. Zack Snyders remake of Dawn is a decent movie also.
I love the idea of helping yourself to priceless items and with no come back.
The Record player was a great swag …B&O biogram 6000 😅
Excellent movie for its time
I used to rent this movie every weekend
@1:37:00 when the mall announcer lady comes on any person from Sahth Western PA will recognize the unmistakable Pittsburghese....Yes, this was filmed in Monroeville. gotta love it when she says half hour.....its gold
RIP George A. Romeo 1940-2017
Wow. It is digitally restored.. nice
George Romero and Dario Argento. 'Nuff said
The guy really needed to check his blood pressure that bad?
Probably arrogantly thought that him and his gang were untouchable and that the whole thing was a big joke. Quickly got a reality check!
Zombies or no zombies, this was healthy and normal behavior/logic for a cocaine fueled biker gang of that era. I’m surprised they weren’t trying to struggle snuggle the zombies or take them as concubines.
That had the audience howling at the theatre..When the next shot it's just his arm left.....
Crumbs! I went with pals to see this in 1979 at our local Theatre: Cinema Night! It stuck with me across the decades all these decades later! Thanks for giving us the opportunity to revisit it 😂
I too saw this ; Spring 1979 ! I could not believe what was unfolding before my eyes!
Always wanted to know how a zombie apocalypse would look like back in the 70’s and 80’s
This was always my favorite movie. ❤❤❤ I was happy to watch it yet again, and it still had me on the edge of my seat. Had to laugh at "Spam has a key". 😂 Awesome flick!!!! 🎉
Spam...one of the things that never changed lol
Why isn’t this the long version?? There’s a half hour of the movie not being shown here
I still watched it and gave you a like. :)