I live in Scotland. So I'd get some bicycles and head up into the Highlands-plenty of wildlife to eat up there. Scotland has the highest population of red deer in Europe. Plus lots of cattle and sheep. Lots of farms and natural barriers to stop the hordes. Plus a lot of hunting rifles lying around. I think I could live up there for a long time, especially if I got a boat to one of the many islands. The biggest hurdle is I live in Glasgow, Scotland's largest and most population-dense city. So getting out of the city would be challenging, but if I managed to get north, I think I would be fine. For personal protection, I'd use a motorcycle suit and helmet. Lots of hard leather and plastic to protect from bites. For weapons, some sort of blunt melee weapon so it didn't get stuck in the zombies. Maybe a baseball bat. No spikes; that's just asking to get caught in a skull. And a small curved blade as a side arm. I wouldn't be able to carry these to the highlands on my bicycle, but I'm sure I could find them there. Lots of outdoor sports take place up there.
Could you guys link where you watched the original? I'd love to see that. Or at least, give a rough estimate when you posted it, please. Edit: Also, did you guys do the remake of Night of the Living Dead? If not, you should!
12:44 - The televangelist who repeats the iconic line from the original (“when there is no more room in Hell, the dead will walk the Earth”) is Ken Foree, who played the lead in the original Dawn of the Dead. I actually got to hang out with him for an evening about twenty years ago; he seemed like a pretty chill dude.
The guy on TV who says to go to the rescue station at Fort Pastor is Scott Reiniger who played Roger from the original film and if you look carefully at the names of the stores in the mall one of them is called Gaylen Ross and that's the name of the actress who played Francine in the original film.
The original Dawn of The Dead was an independent film bankrolled by one of Romero's Italian friends and shot in the mall that one of his friends managed. So when they ordered the gallons of make-up for all the zombie extras, they got the wrong colour. They wanted grey paint to make everyone look like corpses, but it took on a blue tint when worn by people with warm bodies (any living person.) And since they didn't have much money, they couldn't order another batch and had to make do with the blue zombies. So it wasn't a creative design or laziness. Just an honest mistake. That they were too low-budget to fix.
Yeah, to ascribe the look to lack of effort or "It was 1978" is a bit short-sighted on George's part. ALIEN was 1979, for example. STAR WARS was '77. EXORCIST '73. etc. The size of shooting schedule and budget count for a lot. Also, folks in the digital era have no sense of how shooting on celluloid at a low budget is like performing a live stunt on a moving train. Inevitably there are false assumptions about what choices were intentional or accidental.
My friends and I began howling when we saw this in the theater. Opening night, not a spare seat to be had. That guy smeared the blood and we couldn't stop laughing for a while........
The Sheriff on the news that said to shot them in the head is legendary makeup effects artist Tom Savini. He did the makeup and effects on the original “Dawn of the Dead” so you can thank him for the blue makeup. He also worked on Friday the 13th franchise, and other great 80s horror movies including Creepshow 1 and 2, Maniac, The Prowler and Monkeyshines. He’s a legend in the horror genre.
Other cameos from original movie: Ken Foree (TV preacher with the "No more room in hell" line), Scott reiniger (soldier with the beret on TV), Gaylen Ross (they used her name for one of the department stores). Even the WGON helicopter is used in the scene where the car crashes into the gas station and causes an explosion; a sort-of callback to original Night of the Living Dead).
Tom Savini was going to be the original makeup effects lead on the original NotLD, but he went to Vietnam as a photographer, which is how he got a lot of ideas for his makeup effects. He ended up doing the makeup effects for the original DotD, but he also remade Night of the Living Dead in 1990 with George Romero as producer. It's basically the movie Romero wanted to make if he had a budget, plus it was a way to get the rights back in his name. After getting the original back in his name some years later, he still allowed the public domain versions of NotLD to be used since it was so iconic.
Love how George caught "Here's Johnny!" reference. Zack Snyder mentioned that in the movie commentary so big props to George! This was a first date for me and my wife 19 years ago. We're still watching this classic on our anniversary.
One of the last memorable Sarah Polley films before she turned to directing. I like how this movie doesn’t make the choices you’d expect it to. Plus, that ending is killer with its bleakness.
@@Madbandit77 He’s really good with the character change. But ever since House of Cards I can’t see him as anything but Stamper. Lol Which, come to think of it, had very many moments of redemption throughout his arc.
@@meghanmonroe For sure. She always seemed like she wanted to be more than an actor from what I’ve read. Even on her time with Avonlea she seemed assured there was more to life for her than what she was doing currently. Good on her. Stories We Tell is still one of the most memorable documentaries I’ve seen.
The DVD extras, the "Breaking News" segments is eerie and entertaining, as well as "Andy's Vlog" side of the story. This movie made me very afriad of my stupid large window in my room, and made worse since my room is partially underground so it would be very easy to break and access.
One of the few reboots (in any genre) that did things right. Enough of the original to pay homage, but enough changes & updates to bring it into the modern age. Also, probably the best use of an existing song over the end credits in movie history (and yes, I'm aware of Iron Man).
Several of the original Dawn of the Dead actors make cameos. Priest, Sheriff on TV, miltary officer on TV and the Departmen Store is named after the female actor.
The down with the sickness song is by Richard Cheese (which may or may not be some innuendo). All of his stuff is covers of song but in Lounge form. Disturbed loved his rendition of their song.
This is actually one of the few zombie films that I think pulls off running zombies well. They're usually a concept that I think only really works well in things like video games. Also not every zombie portrayal has zombies die from headshot wounds. In Return of the Living Dead (great film btw) the zombies are quite literally unkillable. You basically have to starve them out to get an upper hand on them.
The way they marketed this in the UK was unique because I haven't seen it done since. They showed the first 15 minutes of the movie on free TV and it came out in theatres the next day. I was watching this movie regardless as hot damn I love me some zombies but it definitely got me amped
They filmed this movie in and around my local shopping mall, Thornhill Square, in Thornhill, Ontario - the mall was scheduled to be partially demolished shortly after they filmed there to make way for retirement residences. The ER entrance was the entrance for the hockey rinks, the tunnel where they meet the rest of the survivors was just past a new condo development, and they were on the roof of the Metro grocery store. They redid the ENTIRE interior of the mall with completely different stores - took out ALL the stores that were there, and even added stores where others had gone bankrupt. The Sheriff who says "Just shoot them in the head" on the TV news report is make-up legend Tom Savini who also did make-up for the ORIGINAL "Dawn of the Dead (1978)"
The best part of the movie for me was seeing so many locations I know all too well. If only Thornhill Square was anything like the one they created for the movie...
George, for a zompocalypse, get a Ruger 10/22: the rifle is relatively light; the ammo is small and light; the recoil is next to non-existent; the report is not silent, but it isn't nearly as loud as other cartridges (less likely to draw zombies). Add a scope and you can whack Snyder zombies at 100 yards (with practice). Simone, steel toe boots, yes! Very practical! Also get cut-resistant sleeves. Most people raise their arms to protect themselves, the arms are obvious targets. The bites will be painful, but not lethal. Gloves wouldn't hurt either.
Also, 22lr would be easiest to improvise a suppressor for. You can literally carry 1000 rounds in a fanny pack. Back it up with a decent 9mm handgun( Glock because they are the most ubiquitous and simplest to work on IMO) for emergencies and non-zombie enemy's and you got the default agreed upon Romero zombie loadout as formed by consensus on every gun or movie related forum on the interesting circa 10 years ago at the height of the pop culture zombie craze. Does anybody else remember when that was the thing?
This is one of those cases where the remake was as good as the original. I recommend the original “Dawn of the Dead” along with original “Day of the Dead” from 1985. Hands down, THE BEST zombie movie is “Return of the living Dead” from 1985. It had the perfect blend of Horror, humor, 80s cheese, and gore. I highly recommend watching it. You’ll love it.
I remember watching this in theaters thinking it was such an awesome surprise that me as a big fan of the original DotD can be blown away by a remake from an (at the time) unknown director.
The grand daddy of the zombie genre, Night of the Living Dead, is in the public domain due to a mix-up with the filings. It holds up pretty well. Definitely worth a watch.
“Down with the sickness” is by far Richard Cheeses best cover 😂 I was a junior in high school when this movie came out and all my friends played this song constantly lol
Good reactions you two... Everyone should check out George Romero's original Dawn Of The Dead (1978) that this film is a remake/reboot of. (The US theatrical version is director's Romero own personal preferred cut of the movie & the one he is most proud of - because there is also an Dario Argento Italian cut & French/Cannes film festival cut: also called the producers cut - that are both very different than the US theatrical cut). You can find all versions and cuts of the original film on UA-cam. Fun Facts: Several members of the original cast David Emge, Ken Foree, Scott Reiniger, Gaylen Ross, Tom Savini, Taso N. Stavrakis and even the WGON TV helicopter all make cameos in this remake/reboot.
9:45 CJ is literally one of the smartest guys in zombiedom. The only time he's an idiot is when he agrees to take the trucks and leave the mall. The mall is full of supplies and easily defended, there was no reason for them to leave, and as we see it ends badly for them. If CJ had kept everyone out like he originally wanted his posse would have survived.
How long? a few months? there are no more supplies coming, there is no power so most things will rot, the mall would be breached eventually. His crew would have starved pretty damn quick.
@@Tremain Maybe even longer. There were multiple stores int hat Mall. Any canned goods would last a considerable amount of time. We know they had a hardware store, barricades were not out of the question.
Snyder's most fun film. Even with Army of the Dead, I still want him to get back to a smaller movie like this, at least by comparison to his later epic-sized films. And the way they turned CJ from an absolute A-hole to a favorite character was really awesome.
@@erikjohnson3859 you do know Snyder did rewrote Gunn script because Gunn tend to overuse his fart and sex jokes. Snyder actually not fan of those childish jokes
@@boboboy8189lmao y are u lying. in zsjl, joker asked batman if he wanted a reach around💀. in MoS he had dildo rockets on krypton and in rebel moon they go through a vagina portal. also he wasn’t the one with the uncredited rewrites, it was Michael Tolkin and Scott Frank
This movie was the perfect mix of Zack Snyder's brilliant visual direction and James Gunn's great screenplay. It's probably my favorite zombie movie of all time. People are weak, but not universally crappy. Zombies are a real threat. The baby zombie scene is still genuinely terrifying. I think it's one of those movies, like Alien, you don't show to a pregnant woman.
Speaking of fellow Canadian Sarah Polley, congratulations to her recent Oscar nomination for Women Talking for Best Adapted Screenplay. As well as for Best Picture!
LOL at George never working construction…”steel toe boots, why so you can clink around while walking?” 😂. They’re not tap dancing shoes! Lol. That was funny. Great reaction love watching you guys. Dawn of the Dead is one of my favorite movies, Zack Snyder is amazing. Glad you guys reacted to this one!
4:29 This is pretty much the main reason I always lock my car door if it hasn't automatically locked already, like when I put the vehicle in park. I try to be ready for the zpoc, but it's a good habit in general.
The cover of "Down with the Sickness" is by Richard Cheese, I believe his Lounge Against the Machine album. Dick Cheese has made a great schtick of doing lounge covers of songs that rock hard. The mall from the film was just North of Toronto, the Thornhill Square Mall. On the other side is the community center which they made up to be the exterior of the hospital at the start of the film.
This was Zack Snyder's first film! After that he directed 300, WATCHMEN, Sucker Punch, Legend Of The Guardians, MAN OF STEEL, BATMAN VS SUPERMAN, Justice League (his version), Army Of The Dead, and the upcoming REBEL MOON.
300 is good as a stylized comic book adaptation, but I think it kind of trapped him as that is what everyone expected afterward as his style, even though it was really just taking frames of the original comic on film. Watchmen is great, ironically because Snyder either deliberately or unintentionally ignored the actual theme of the comic to present Rorschach as the hero and Ozymamdias as the villain, when the opposite is heavily implied in the actual book. Sucker Punch is great, I like the framing device as an excuse to just go nuts with the scenarios, the soundtrack is killer, and the visuals are awesome. Never saw LotG. Man of Steel has lots of problems character and plot wise, but Cavill as Superman is perfect, and the combat and depiction of Kryptonian powers and them fighting is the best ever done. The Batman parts of BvS are great, everything else is meh. Justice Leage was bad no matter which version, AotD was cool concept, bad execution.
This is James Gunn at his finest. Hack Snyder has never written anything worthwhile and ALL of his movies are directly ripped off from other people's ideas.
One of the best zombie movies out there. This is still focused on the horror aspect of zombies. In the new media zombies are like wild animals there is much less scary moments with them. About the virus, my first thought was that the dad transformed very quickly because he died from the blood loss and the virus could instantly take control.
That cover is Richard Cheese & Lounge Against the Machine. Yes, George, you do need that cover and pretty much their whole discography on your playlist. Trust me.
5:40 I did, just finished work and was just watching Dextors Laboratory and the news took over, one building on fire, lots of scared people and then another. RIP to all and my heart goes out to everyone affected by 9/11. I remember even here in the UK, the tears from everyone glued to the TV. Such an awful day in history for the world.
The problem with an island sanctuary is that island communities tend to need a lot of their supplies shipped in (Hawaii and even Norway have very high food costs because they need to do this). If the land/person ratio is correct, you could farm enough food for the community. The biggest issue that most people have when they think of "prepping" for this scenario is that scavenging around or even having a couple years of supplies on hand isn't a viable long term survival strategy unless it's specifically meant to hold your community over until you become a self sufficient community (farming, tailoring, metalworking, etc.). If you don't have a community, you have no long term plan, you're just surviving a little bit longer than the person who locks themselves in their house without the food supply. In a scenario like this (world wide zombie apocalypse), there's only going to be so much you can scavenge before things go bad (perishable foods) or run out (either from competition or enough time on your own). But there are no new supplies coming. That world in which the shelves get restocked or the power grid gets fixed is over. With every bit of infrastructure that fails, that's one step closer to living in the 1800's. The only way to get even have a chance at maintaining a modern lifestyle is if you have the necessary manuals and/or people with the expertise to maintain or rebuild the infrastructure (plumbers, electricians, etc.) all in the same community. Project Zomboid is a good example of just being a solo scavenger (unless they implemented a single-player party system I didn't hear about, I haven't played it in a long time).
@@idiotpuffles I did know of the multiplayer, but I generally prefer to go at my own pace, since my work schedule also makes it hard to actually play with friends.
The beginning through the opening credits could be used in film school as a an example of exposition and building tension, and this movie is by far the best thing Zac Snyder ever did.
@@JoeFF85That's such bullshit and you know it. Snyder criticizes humanity's anxieties, hypocrisies and stupidity because we don't live up to our high standards and expect superheroes to do the job. He's practical when it comes to people AND superheroes.
If zombies run, everyone dies. There is no actual reason people would assume zombies. Like in the hospital if a patient gets violent they usually don't shoot the patient in the head and say, hey what if it was a zombie? So the shear impossibility of the event itself makes odd things happen.
I already have a "silent" weapon as I do field archery. But that also means I know how difficult it is to hit stationary targets, let alone ones running at you trying to eat you! It certainly ain't like the girl from the archery team in All Of Us Are Dead where every arrow is a perfect head shot!
Ha ha, it's funny how the only people who understand how bad archery would be in a zombie scenario are people who have actually done it. I did archery all through high school and it is hilarious how all my buddies think they'd be Legolas picking up a bow at the sporting goods store. Give me a freaking pistol and an axe any day (and I've only fired a pistol a few times at a shooting range).
@@AuspexAO Yep, same here. The movies makes archery look so simple, but I help out on a lot of beginner courses, and it's always fun seeing people who have never picked up a bow before try to use one. We stand them 10 metres away from the target to begin with and most of them are missing the target even from that range! After three and a half years of doing field archery, I am able to hit a stationary human sized target fairly accurately at around 35 metres, but if I was to try to get a shot through the *head* at that range, it would probably take me several attempts. And by the time I got one on target, I'd be zombie lunch! 😆
The zombies in the original movie were grey, they just came off looking weirdly blue because of lighting and post production processing that didn't go the way it was intended to
It understated how the early to mid 2000s brought the Zombie genre to the mainstream, in the movie front we had this remake but also the Resident evil movies, 28 days later, Shaun of the Dead and Papa Zombie himself coming back with Land of the Dead, the Walking Dead comic started also around this time and the books of The Zombie Survival Guide and WWZ also Came out.
Oh man, I can't tell you how my family and I used to take a visit to the tropical islands in Wisconsin. For those who are not familiar, Wisconsin is not a tropical climate and it gets quite cold there in the winter.
There’s a great 90s movie with Sarah Polley titled GO. It’s all about a girl who tried to deal some pills that she found (If I remember correctly) for money and of course it all goes wrong. It’s really fun. It really is one of the many hidden gems that people have mostly forgotten but it deserves a place in cult cinema IMO.
Great movie!!! I used to work at a mall ('99-03) for my first job outta high school :) This was must see! 🤣😂🤣 The guy singing the lounge version of "Down With Sickness" has a couple of albums of similar covers! 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣 His name is Richard Cheese!
Steel toed boots. Soccer shin guards for shins. Doubled up soccer shin guards for forearms covering both sides. Shoulder pads vary depending. Bulletproof vest for chest.
If you guys love this cover of Down With the Sickness, it's Richard Cheese & Lounge Against the Machine, and you should really check out their whole catalogue. They do lounge covers of all kinds of different popular songs, and they're all *fantastic* 🤣
The pastor was Ken Foree, and the cop talking about the army base on the news was Scott Reiniger, both leads from the original film, Tom Savini was the "shoot them in the head " cop, he did the original practical effects and played the biker Blade
I would likely turn a nearby school into a fortress. The first floor windows are all fairly high off the ground as it is, but they could be barricaded. If theres a pool, drain it and refill with fresh water, that can be used for fresh water storage, or maybe even creating a fish pond for long term food. Black out the windows on all floors, stick to interior areas of the building to insulate noise and light getting out to alert zombies. Rooftop garden and rainwater collection. Quarantine zones for incoming and outgoing people. strict inventory management and rationing until the fortress becomes sustainable. Solar panels and windmills on the roof for power generation.
I'm not much for remakes but this I actually enjoyed when I saw it. If I remember correctly in the DVD extras there's a video diary of Andy the gun store owner. It shows his perspective in short clips from being trapped there, surviving, getting bit, and his "death".
"how lucky are we that we know about zombies, so if this ever happens we will know" *waves vaguely around at everything that's been happening the last few years*
One of the few remakes that pays homage and improves its source material. Fun facts - legendary make-up artist Tom Savini (who worked on the Romero originals) and Ken Foree (who was in the original DAWN) have cameos as the peace officer being interviewed on camera ('shoot them in the head!') and the onscreen doomsday prophet.
24:13 Isn't KFC packaging bilingually labelled throughout Canada? I know I've seen PFK (for "Poulet Frit du Kentucky") in Alberta, and francophones are like hen's teeth there...
** Note: There are some dvd extra shorts made for this movie. - A 20 minute long news coverage. - Found footage from Andy. (Which also means some survived the apocalypse afterall.)
There's a good zombie movie that came out a few years ago called Exit Humanity. It's a self contained zombie world movie set a few years after the Civil War. I think it was filmed in Canada too. It's got beautiful cinematography.
It's technically not being bitten that turns you in to a zombie, like with vampires or werewolves. Being bitten kills you, and there are zombies because the dead are coming back to life, so you come back as a zombie after the bite kills you. Anyone that's dead, including recently buried in graveyards, can come back to life whether they've been bitten or no
On the OG Romero films yes, in this one they pretty much go with you have to be bitten, killed any other way and you don't reanimate. For how tropey and goofy they are, the 'Living Dead' spinoffs/unofficial sequels are some of the bleakest in concept, were there is no way to actually kill the zombies, they are smart and can talk, and are in constant agony that is only relieved by eating living people, and you can't stop the spread because it's an airborne chemical that gets everywhere.
@@MandoWookie that concept has never made much sense to me. If you can only become a zombie by being bitten by one, then most victims will then be eaten by the zombie after being bitten, meaning it wouldn't spread particularly well
@@chrisnorman1902 unless you get bit once and just give up, until it has spread enough to have hoards it would spread as people got bit, got away, turned, bite someone else or three. And it takes a long time to eat someone. Assuming the zombies lose interest once someone turns, and the fact they are undead, you would have what is presented. A lot of heavily damaged corpses running around.
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The "Down With The Sickness" lounge cover song was by 'Richard Cheese'. They also had quite a few lounge covers of songs from the early 2000s. Hilarious stuff.
If you love that version of the "Down with the Sickness" song it is from Richard Cheese. He takes regular rock/pop songs and loungifies them. Most of them are just part of the song, but they are so much fun to listen to.
This movie still has the best zombie movie opening I've ever seen. Most people I've talked to seem to agree regardless of how people feel about the rest of it.
Don’t know if any one has said this before, but fun fact in the original Night of the living Dead Ben describes to Barbara how he saw an ambulance swerve and crash into a gas station causing it to explode. Which you can see in the beginning sequence of this film When Ana is driving away. 4:18 Also the Cop who who says shoot them in the head 9:54, is Tom Savini who did the special effects for the original Dawn of the Dead (as well as Friday the 13 and a lot more) and played a biker in Dawn to I think. And the pastor at 12:31 is Tony Todd the Mortician in Final destination. And he played Ben in the 90’s remake of Night of the living dead.
I love the actress who plays Ana (Sarah Polley), she is always great in everything I have seen her in. She was also in one of my favorite 90s movies called "Go", which if you have not seen you really really should.
Richard cheese's version of down with The sickness was so needed in this movie. Just more proof that Zack Snyder knows good storytelling and filmmaking.
He's not creative... this screenplay was by James Gunn. All of Snyder's best films weren't his own originals. Visually, he's a good director... but he needs to stay in his lane, frankly.
Generally I'm a ZS fan, but he can be very hit & miss. Take Army of the Dead for example. The opening montage is brilliant. So brilliant that its considerably better than the entirety of the rest of the film.
I actually like how the best "love story" element of the movie (Ana and Michael) is never really expressed. They clearly care about each other, but they don't really show it until.the very end.
What's your zombie survival strategy?
Mine would be heading to the nearest Walmart and stat put Everything under one roof and a lot less entryways than a mall.
I live in Scotland. So I'd get some bicycles and head up into the Highlands-plenty of wildlife to eat up there. Scotland has the highest population of red deer in Europe. Plus lots of cattle and sheep. Lots of farms and natural barriers to stop the hordes. Plus a lot of hunting rifles lying around. I think I could live up there for a long time, especially if I got a boat to one of the many islands. The biggest hurdle is I live in Glasgow, Scotland's largest and most population-dense city. So getting out of the city would be challenging, but if I managed to get north, I think I would be fine. For personal protection, I'd use a motorcycle suit and helmet. Lots of hard leather and plastic to protect from bites. For weapons, some sort of blunt melee weapon so it didn't get stuck in the zombies. Maybe a baseball bat. No spikes; that's just asking to get caught in a skull. And a small curved blade as a side arm. I wouldn't be able to carry these to the highlands on my bicycle, but I'm sure I could find them there. Lots of outdoor sports take place up there.
Could you guys link where you watched the original? I'd love to see that. Or at least, give a rough estimate when you posted it, please.
Edit: Also, did you guys do the remake of Night of the Living Dead? If not, you should!
The #1 key is to only find yourself in a scenario involving slow zombies. Fast zombies & you're pretty much screwed.
None. You can’t survive a zombie apocalypse, you only delay
12:44 - The televangelist who repeats the iconic line from the original (“when there is no more room in Hell, the dead will walk the Earth”) is Ken Foree, who played the lead in the original Dawn of the Dead. I actually got to hang out with him for an evening about twenty years ago; he seemed like a pretty chill dude.
And the sheriff on the news who said "shoot them in the head" is tom savini... Which is the head zombie and FX guy in the original film...
@@GarmrsBarking Oh, that’s right! How could I miss that? He was in the motorcycle gang in the original, too.
The guy on TV who says to go to the rescue station at Fort Pastor is Scott Reiniger who played Roger from the original film and if you look carefully at the names of the stores in the mall one of them is called Gaylen Ross and that's the name of the actress who played Francine in the original film.
Met Ken Foree last year at a con, can confirm chill dude.
not too chill i hope.
The original Dawn of The Dead was an independent film bankrolled by one of Romero's Italian friends and shot in the mall that one of his friends managed. So when they ordered the gallons of make-up for all the zombie extras, they got the wrong colour. They wanted grey paint to make everyone look like corpses, but it took on a blue tint when worn by people with warm bodies (any living person.) And since they didn't have much money, they couldn't order another batch and had to make do with the blue zombies. So it wasn't a creative design or laziness. Just an honest mistake. That they were too low-budget to fix.
One of Romero's Italian friends, who is also a renowned filmmaker in horror/giallo, Dario Argento**
Yeah, to ascribe the look to lack of effort or "It was 1978" is a bit short-sighted on George's part. ALIEN was 1979, for example. STAR WARS was '77. EXORCIST '73. etc. The size of shooting schedule and budget count for a lot. Also, folks in the digital era have no sense of how shooting on celluloid at a low budget is like performing a live stunt on a moving train. Inevitably there are false assumptions about what choices were intentional or accidental.
I actually love that. Aw shit our zombies turned blue 😂😂
The soundtrack on the original was a work of genius.
Such a perfect film.
That moment with the whiteboard smeared with blood out of the guy's pure habitual muscle memory is one of my favourite moments in any horror movie.
My friends and I began howling when we saw this in the theater. Opening night, not a spare seat to be had. That guy smeared the blood and we couldn't stop laughing for a while........
Andy's last instinct was to basically warn them. Shame, he was really cool.
The Sheriff on the news that said to shot them in the head is legendary makeup effects artist Tom Savini. He did the makeup and effects on the original “Dawn of the Dead” so you can thank him for the blue makeup. He also worked on Friday the 13th franchise, and other great 80s horror movies including Creepshow 1 and 2, Maniac, The Prowler and Monkeyshines. He’s a legend in the horror genre.
Also played sex machine in dusk to dawn
He is also the head biker zombie in the movie....
Other cameos from original movie: Ken Foree (TV preacher with the "No more room in hell" line), Scott reiniger (soldier with the beret on TV), Gaylen Ross (they used her name for one of the department stores). Even the WGON helicopter is used in the scene where the car crashes into the gas station and causes an explosion; a sort-of callback to original Night of the Living Dead).
He also had a cameo in Land of the Dead.
Tom Savini was going to be the original makeup effects lead on the original NotLD, but he went to Vietnam as a photographer, which is how he got a lot of ideas for his makeup effects. He ended up doing the makeup effects for the original DotD, but he also remade Night of the Living Dead in 1990 with George Romero as producer. It's basically the movie Romero wanted to make if he had a budget, plus it was a way to get the rights back in his name. After getting the original back in his name some years later, he still allowed the public domain versions of NotLD to be used since it was so iconic.
Zombie Andy holding up that smeared sign is one of the most brilliantly disturbing cinematic moments ever (and of course the whole zombie baby thing)!
Check out an Ausie(?) film "Dead Alive"
@@O_Towne_Bear Heard of it. Wasn't that early Peter Jackson?
@@Zebred2001 Believe so (Wait, I'll Google it: Yes)
That's a bit more praise than it deserves. A fairly forgettable scene IMHO.
Don't dead, open inside? Odd sign considering how we're programmed to read by now.
Love how George caught "Here's Johnny!" reference. Zack Snyder mentioned that in the movie commentary so big props to George!
This was a first date for me and my wife 19 years ago. We're still watching this classic on our anniversary.
One of the last memorable Sarah Polley films before she turned to directing. I like how this movie doesn’t make the choices you’d expect it to. Plus, that ending is killer with its bleakness.
I also liked Michael Kelly as CJ. He starts out as a prick mall security guard, but ends up a hero.
@@Madbandit77 He’s really good with the character change. But ever since House of Cards I can’t see him as anything but Stamper. Lol Which, come to think of it, had very many moments of redemption throughout his arc.
I wouldn't be surprised if she turned to directing because she literally ruined her back after that bathtub stunt 😂😭
@@meghanmonroe For sure. She always seemed like she wanted to be more than an actor from what I’ve read. Even on her time with Avonlea she seemed assured there was more to life for her than what she was doing currently. Good on her. Stories We Tell is still one of the most memorable documentaries I’ve seen.
She had a good run in the '90s (The Sweet Hereafter, Go, Last Night, Guinevere, eXistenZ). I enjoyed watching her movies.
The DVD extras, the "Breaking News" segments is eerie and entertaining, as well as "Andy's Vlog" side of the story.
This movie made me very afriad of my stupid large window in my room, and made worse since my room is partially underground so it would be very easy to break and access.
Yep... I came here to say this... Definitely a most watch....
If memory serves correctly, the breaking News extra was the last performance of the late Richard Biggs (Babylon 5). RIP
@@jimamos7984You're right. He passed away the same year the film came out.
"Andy's Vlog" was a great addition. I probably rewatched that extra more often than the movie itself.
This was filmed in Toronto. Some of the zombies with missing limbs were actual amputees.
I remember going to that mall around 1980, and it was pretty deserted back then.
One of the few reboots (in any genre) that did things right. Enough of the original to pay homage, but enough changes & updates to bring it into the modern age.
Also, probably the best use of an existing song over the end credits in movie history (and yes, I'm aware of Iron Man).
Several of the original Dawn of the Dead actors make cameos. Priest, Sheriff on TV, miltary officer on TV and the Departmen Store is named after the female actor.
The down with the sickness song is by Richard Cheese (which may or may not be some innuendo). All of his stuff is covers of song but in Lounge form. Disturbed loved his rendition of their song.
Cheese also did "Viva Las Vegas" on "Army Of The Dead".
I loved his Star Wars Cantina to the tune of Copa Cobana and his cover of Welcome to the Jungle by GNR
His cover of Sir Mix-a-Lot's "Baby Got Back" is hilarious!!
I love his version of Slipknot's People = Sh!t.
His cover of "The Killers" and System of a Downs "Chop Suey" are my personal favorites.
The dad who was bitten was played by Matt Frewer. The guy's an incredible actor. He's played Sherlock Holmes and was Max Headroom.
he was also the next door neighbor to rick moranis in honey, i shrunk the kids
@@ThreadBomb the Max Headroom TV seriies was great. A shame it barely lasted two seaons.
To be fair on Romero's 1978 DotD, they had a budget of about $600,000 and over 200 zombie extras to make up. They did pretty well imho!
If I remember right, the mall even opened its doors so they could film
Lol they prolly think Romero was from Mexico.
This is actually one of the few zombie films that I think pulls off running zombies well. They're usually a concept that I think only really works well in things like video games. Also not every zombie portrayal has zombies die from headshot wounds. In Return of the Living Dead (great film btw) the zombies are quite literally unkillable. You basically have to starve them out to get an upper hand on them.
I saw one film that was vampires and zombies. And human zombies died normally, but vampire-zombies were almost impossible to put down.
Return of The Living Dead is terrible.
@@Sibbot This has got to be bait
@@Sibbot you have horrible taste and you should delete your comment
Best opening scene ever!! Polley did her own stunts. Crazy scene period..
The way they marketed this in the UK was unique because I haven't seen it done since. They showed the first 15 minutes of the movie on free TV and it came out in theatres the next day. I was watching this movie regardless as hot damn I love me some zombies but it definitely got me amped
There was also a website with a couple of fun games.
They filmed this movie in and around my local shopping mall, Thornhill Square, in Thornhill, Ontario - the mall was scheduled to be partially demolished shortly after they filmed there to make way for retirement residences. The ER entrance was the entrance for the hockey rinks, the tunnel where they meet the rest of the survivors was just past a new condo development, and they were on the roof of the Metro grocery store. They redid the ENTIRE interior of the mall with completely different stores - took out ALL the stores that were there, and even added stores where others had gone bankrupt.
The Sheriff who says "Just shoot them in the head" on the TV news report is make-up legend Tom Savini who also did make-up for the ORIGINAL "Dawn of the Dead (1978)"
The best part of the movie for me was seeing so many locations I know all too well. If only Thornhill Square was anything like the one they created for the movie...
George, for a zompocalypse, get a Ruger 10/22: the rifle is relatively light; the ammo is small and light; the recoil is next to non-existent; the report is not silent, but it isn't nearly as loud as other cartridges (less likely to draw zombies). Add a scope and you can whack Snyder zombies at 100 yards (with practice).
Simone, steel toe boots, yes! Very practical! Also get cut-resistant sleeves. Most people raise their arms to protect themselves, the arms are obvious targets. The bites will be painful, but not lethal. Gloves wouldn't hurt either.
Elbow length leather welding gloves.
Also, 22lr would be easiest to improvise a suppressor for.
You can literally carry 1000 rounds in a fanny pack.
Back it up with a decent 9mm handgun( Glock because they are the most ubiquitous and simplest to work on IMO) for emergencies and non-zombie enemy's and you got the default agreed upon Romero zombie loadout as formed by consensus on every gun or movie related forum on the interesting circa 10 years ago at the height of the pop culture zombie craze.
Does anybody else remember when that was the thing?
@@ganggreen9012 Ooh! Nice!
This is one of those cases where the remake was as good as the original. I recommend the original “Dawn of the Dead” along with original “Day of the Dead” from 1985. Hands down, THE BEST zombie movie is “Return of the living Dead” from 1985. It had the perfect blend of Horror, humor, 80s cheese, and gore. I highly recommend watching it. You’ll love it.
Day of the Dead has wonderful/terrible slow ramping of tension. The soldiers and how erratic they become...
I second The Return of the Living Dead. Best 80's zombie movie.
I remember watching this in theaters thinking it was such an awesome surprise that me as a big fan of the original DotD can be blown away by a remake from an (at the time) unknown director.
The grand daddy of the zombie genre, Night of the Living Dead, is in the public domain due to a mix-up with the filings. It holds up pretty well. Definitely worth a watch.
That's true. I think they could do a full length reaction for free
I actually like Tom savini's 90's remake better.
“Down with the sickness” is by far Richard Cheeses best cover 😂 I was a junior in high school when this movie came out and all my friends played this song constantly lol
Best cover is Baby Got Back.
@@justaguy6129 I'm partial to Hot For Teacher myself.
This and I really like the SOAD cover of chop suey.
I was kinda partial to their cover of 'People = Sh!t' and 'Gin And Juice'. 🤣
Good reactions you two...
Everyone should check out George Romero's original Dawn Of The Dead (1978) that this film is a remake/reboot of. (The US theatrical version is director's Romero own personal preferred cut of the movie & the one he is most proud of - because there is also an Dario Argento Italian cut & French/Cannes film festival cut: also called the producers cut - that are both very different than the US theatrical cut). You can find all versions and cuts of the original film on UA-cam.
Fun Facts: Several members of the original cast David Emge, Ken Foree, Scott Reiniger, Gaylen Ross, Tom Savini, Taso N. Stavrakis and even the WGON TV helicopter all make cameos in this remake/reboot.
The cop is Ving Rhames and the other black dude is Mekhi Pfeifer. Probably the 2 biggest names in the movie.
9:45 CJ is literally one of the smartest guys in zombiedom. The only time he's an idiot is when he agrees to take the trucks and leave the mall. The mall is full of supplies and easily defended, there was no reason for them to leave, and as we see it ends badly for them. If CJ had kept everyone out like he originally wanted his posse would have survived.
How long? a few months? there are no more supplies coming, there is no power so most things will rot, the mall would be breached eventually. His crew would have starved pretty damn quick.
my problem with zombie movie is always where the armies gone?
@@Tremain Maybe even longer. There were multiple stores int hat Mall. Any canned goods would last a considerable amount of time.
We know they had a hardware store, barricades were not out of the question.
@@ThreadBomb Not really. As we see, whether they rushed it or not they would have ended up on an island with zombies.
Yep. In the original, the mall breached and overrun. In this one, they just got bored. The only other motivation would've been to help Andy.
Snyder's most fun film. Even with Army of the Dead, I still want him to get back to a smaller movie like this, at least by comparison to his later epic-sized films.
And the way they turned CJ from an absolute A-hole to a favorite character was really awesome.
James Gunn*
@@erikjohnson3859 you do know Snyder did rewrote Gunn script because Gunn tend to overuse his fart and sex jokes. Snyder actually not fan of those childish jokes
@@erikjohnson3859 gunn the pedo
@@boboboy8189lmao y are u lying. in zsjl, joker asked batman if he wanted a reach around💀. in MoS he had dildo rockets on krypton and in rebel moon they go through a vagina portal. also he wasn’t the one with the uncredited rewrites, it was Michael Tolkin and Scott Frank
The song you are after is by Richard Cheese. He does amazing lounge covers.
When George said "I just had a gross image of the baby being a zombie...", I thought "Just wait!"
Definitely check out Richard Cheese songs George. He treads a mean tight rope of being comedic yet catchy
True story, first time I watched this film, I didn't watch the credits, so I just assumed it had a "happy" ending 🤪
The was, CJ, was right about not letting them in...
He eventually accepted his death and joined them.
I love this movie. Glad you reacted to this.
This movie was the perfect mix of Zack Snyder's brilliant visual direction and James Gunn's great screenplay. It's probably my favorite zombie movie of all time. People are weak, but not universally crappy. Zombies are a real threat. The baby zombie scene is still genuinely terrifying. I think it's one of those movies, like Alien, you don't show to a pregnant woman.
Speaking of fellow Canadian Sarah Polley, congratulations to her recent Oscar nomination for Women Talking for Best Adapted Screenplay. As well as for Best Picture!
LOL at George never working construction…”steel toe boots, why so you can clink around while walking?” 😂. They’re not tap dancing shoes! Lol. That was funny. Great reaction love watching you guys. Dawn of the Dead is one of my favorite movies, Zack Snyder is amazing. Glad you guys reacted to this one!
4:29 This is pretty much the main reason I always lock my car door if it hasn't automatically locked already, like when I put the vehicle in park. I try to be ready for the zpoc, but it's a good habit in general.
The cover of "Down with the Sickness" is by Richard Cheese, I believe his Lounge Against the Machine album. Dick Cheese has made a great schtick of doing lounge covers of songs that rock hard.
The mall from the film was just North of Toronto, the Thornhill Square Mall. On the other side is the community center which they made up to be the exterior of the hospital at the start of the film.
This was Zack Snyder's first film!
After that he directed 300, WATCHMEN, Sucker Punch, Legend Of The Guardians, MAN OF STEEL, BATMAN VS SUPERMAN, Justice League (his version), Army Of The Dead, and the upcoming REBEL MOON.
300 is good as a stylized comic book adaptation, but I think it kind of trapped him as that is what everyone expected afterward as his style, even though it was really just taking frames of the original comic on film.
Watchmen is great, ironically because Snyder either deliberately or unintentionally ignored the actual theme of the comic to present Rorschach as the hero and Ozymamdias as the villain, when the opposite is heavily implied in the actual book.
Sucker Punch is great, I like the framing device as an excuse to just go nuts with the scenarios, the soundtrack is killer, and the visuals are awesome.
Never saw LotG.
Man of Steel has lots of problems character and plot wise, but Cavill as Superman is perfect, and the combat and depiction of Kryptonian powers and them fighting is the best ever done.
The Batman parts of BvS are great, everything else is meh.
Justice Leage was bad no matter which version, AotD was cool concept, bad execution.
This is James Gunn at his finest. Hack Snyder has never written anything worthwhile and ALL of his movies are directly ripped off from other people's ideas.
One of the best zombie movies out there. This is still focused on the horror aspect of zombies. In the new media zombies are like wild animals there is much less scary moments with them. About the virus, my first thought was that the dad transformed very quickly because he died from the blood loss and the virus could instantly take control.
I was gonna say "my favorite zombie movie ever" turns out this is the 2004 version lol
Nice! May be my favourite zombie flick, they filmed most of it (maybe all of it?) in southern Ontario, too.
That cover is Richard Cheese & Lounge Against the Machine. Yes, George, you do need that cover and pretty much their whole discography on your playlist. Trust me.
The award for the cutest giggling ever goes to: SIMONE.
Sarah Polley, the star of this movie, is an incredible director. You guys should check out one of her films on the channel some time.
5:40 I did, just finished work and was just watching Dextors Laboratory and the news took over, one building on fire, lots of scared people and then another. RIP to all and my heart goes out to everyone affected by 9/11. I remember even here in the UK, the tears from everyone glued to the TV. Such an awful day in history for the world.
The preacher doing the "no more room in hell" speech is the swat cop from the original George Romero Dawn of the Dead with the blue zombies
The problem with an island sanctuary is that island communities tend to need a lot of their supplies shipped in (Hawaii and even Norway have very high food costs because they need to do this). If the land/person ratio is correct, you could farm enough food for the community. The biggest issue that most people have when they think of "prepping" for this scenario is that scavenging around or even having a couple years of supplies on hand isn't a viable long term survival strategy unless it's specifically meant to hold your community over until you become a self sufficient community (farming, tailoring, metalworking, etc.). If you don't have a community, you have no long term plan, you're just surviving a little bit longer than the person who locks themselves in their house without the food supply. In a scenario like this (world wide zombie apocalypse), there's only going to be so much you can scavenge before things go bad (perishable foods) or run out (either from competition or enough time on your own). But there are no new supplies coming. That world in which the shelves get restocked or the power grid gets fixed is over. With every bit of infrastructure that fails, that's one step closer to living in the 1800's. The only way to get even have a chance at maintaining a modern lifestyle is if you have the necessary manuals and/or people with the expertise to maintain or rebuild the infrastructure (plumbers, electricians, etc.) all in the same community. Project Zomboid is a good example of just being a solo scavenger (unless they implemented a single-player party system I didn't hear about, I haven't played it in a long time).
There's actually multiplayer now, in case you didn't know.
@@idiotpuffles I did know of the multiplayer, but I generally prefer to go at my own pace, since my work schedule also makes it hard to actually play with friends.
The beginning through the opening credits could be used in film school as a an example of exposition and building tension, and this movie is by far the best thing Zac Snyder ever did.
His spite for humanity fits with an apocalypse better than something that should be aspirational, like a superhero story.
@@JoeFF85 I never thought about it in those terms, but you're 100% right.
@@JoeFF85That's such bullshit and you know it. Snyder criticizes humanity's anxieties, hypocrisies and stupidity because we don't live up to our high standards and expect superheroes to do the job. He's practical when it comes to people AND superheroes.
If zombies run, everyone dies. There is no actual reason people would assume zombies. Like in the hospital if a patient gets violent they usually don't shoot the patient in the head and say, hey what if it was a zombie? So the shear impossibility of the event itself makes odd things happen.
They don't?! Damn, no wonder they revoked my medical license.
Damn this takes me back to the first Dead Rising, perfectly nailed and scratched that zombie mall itch =)
I already have a "silent" weapon as I do field archery. But that also means I know how difficult it is to hit stationary targets, let alone ones running at you trying to eat you! It certainly ain't like the girl from the archery team in All Of Us Are Dead where every arrow is a perfect head shot!
Ha ha, it's funny how the only people who understand how bad archery would be in a zombie scenario are people who have actually done it. I did archery all through high school and it is hilarious how all my buddies think they'd be Legolas picking up a bow at the sporting goods store. Give me a freaking pistol and an axe any day (and I've only fired a pistol a few times at a shooting range).
@@AuspexAO Yep, same here. The movies makes archery look so simple, but I help out on a lot of beginner courses, and it's always fun seeing people who have never picked up a bow before try to use one. We stand them 10 metres away from the target to begin with and most of them are missing the target even from that range! After three and a half years of doing field archery, I am able to hit a stationary human sized target fairly accurately at around 35 metres, but if I was to try to get a shot through the *head* at that range, it would probably take me several attempts. And by the time I got one on target, I'd be zombie lunch! 😆
I watched it long ago while it still fresh and loved it instantly. One of the best Zombie movie in my list.
The zombies in the original movie were grey, they just came off looking weirdly blue because of lighting and post production processing that didn't go the way it was intended to
Cool reaction as always Simone & George, you both have a great weekend
It understated how the early to mid 2000s brought the Zombie genre to the mainstream, in the movie front we had this remake but also the Resident evil movies, 28 days later, Shaun of the Dead and Papa Zombie himself coming back with Land of the Dead, the Walking Dead comic started also around this time and the books of The Zombie Survival Guide and WWZ also Came out.
Oh man, I can't tell you how my family and I used to take a visit to the tropical islands in Wisconsin.
For those who are not familiar, Wisconsin is not a tropical climate and it gets quite cold there in the winter.
That zombie baby scene is still horrific no matter how many times I see it.
There’s a great 90s movie with Sarah Polley titled GO. It’s all about a girl who tried to deal some pills that she found (If I remember correctly) for money and of course it all goes wrong. It’s really fun. It really is one of the many hidden gems that people have mostly forgotten but it deserves a place in cult cinema IMO.
This was also written by James Gunn
Rewrite by Michael tolkin
not exactly. It was mainly rewritten because of the too many jokes inside.
If you haven't seen it already, I would recommend checking out Go from 1999, which is the only other movie I think I have seen with Sarah Polly
The preacher is Ken Foree, the badass from the original Dawn.
i love the scream at 31:05 gives me a laugh, he did it great!
Great movie!!! I used to work at a mall ('99-03) for my first job outta high school :) This was must see! 🤣😂🤣
The guy singing the lounge version of "Down With Sickness" has a couple of albums of similar covers! 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣 His name is Richard Cheese!
Seeing Dawn of the Dead (2004) in the theater is one of the best movie experiences that I have ever had.
Steel toed boots. Soccer shin guards for shins. Doubled up soccer shin guards for forearms covering both sides. Shoulder pads vary depending. Bulletproof vest for chest.
If you guys love this cover of Down With the Sickness, it's Richard Cheese & Lounge Against the Machine, and you should really check out their whole catalogue. They do lounge covers of all kinds of different popular songs, and they're all *fantastic* 🤣
The pastor was Ken Foree, and the cop talking about the army base on the news was Scott Reiniger, both leads from the original film, Tom Savini was the "shoot them in the head " cop, he did the original practical effects and played the biker Blade
I would likely turn a nearby school into a fortress. The first floor windows are all fairly high off the ground as it is, but they could be barricaded. If theres a pool, drain it and refill with fresh water, that can be used for fresh water storage, or maybe even creating a fish pond for long term food. Black out the windows on all floors, stick to interior areas of the building to insulate noise and light getting out to alert zombies. Rooftop garden and rainwater collection. Quarantine zones for incoming and outgoing people. strict inventory management and rationing until the fortress becomes sustainable. Solar panels and windmills on the roof for power generation.
I'm not much for remakes but this I actually enjoyed when I saw it.
If I remember correctly in the DVD extras there's a video diary of Andy the gun store owner. It shows his perspective in short clips from being trapped there, surviving, getting bit, and his "death".
Never watched this one because I liked the punk rock version and it’s soundtrack are awesome
Dude! A video of George teaching Simone how to play Project Zomboid would be awesome!
Tarantino once said this movie has one of the best opening sequences of that decade.
Some of the news footage we saw in the intro was the L.A. LAKERS Championship Win Riots from Spring '04 and from other events around the world.
"how lucky are we that we know about zombies, so if this ever happens we will know" *waves vaguely around at everything that's been happening the last few years*
didn't conspiracy theoriest saying after 2 years, people who got vaccinated will be zombie???
One of the few remakes that pays homage and improves its source material. Fun facts - legendary make-up artist Tom Savini (who worked on the Romero originals) and Ken Foree (who was in the original DAWN) have cameos as the peace officer being interviewed on camera ('shoot them in the head!') and the onscreen doomsday prophet.
Improves hardly.
“DON’T LET THEM BURY ME I’M NOT DEAD” Bill Pullman in serpent and the rainbow
24:13 Isn't KFC packaging bilingually labelled throughout Canada? I know I've seen PFK (for "Poulet Frit du Kentucky") in Alberta, and francophones are like hen's teeth there...
My favourite part is how this movie introduced running zombies. Kind of a terrifying concept at the time.
There was a cool vignette on the DVD extras of Andy surviving on his own
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Note: There are some dvd extra shorts made for this movie.
- A 20 minute long news coverage.
- Found footage from Andy. (Which also means some survived the apocalypse afterall.)
One of my favorite movies of all time. As a teenager I literaly watched this everyday after school.
One of the fun games when watching a zombie movie is 'pick the character who will hide that they've been bitten' sometimes it's easy, sometimes not.
There's a good zombie movie that came out a few years ago called Exit Humanity. It's a self contained zombie world movie set a few years after the Civil War. I think it was filmed in Canada too. It's got beautiful cinematography.
While the baby's eyes were CG, they did use an actual baby -- all the makeup was edible and the baby was very happy.
It's technically not being bitten that turns you in to a zombie, like with vampires or werewolves. Being bitten kills you, and there are zombies because the dead are coming back to life, so you come back as a zombie after the bite kills you. Anyone that's dead, including recently buried in graveyards, can come back to life whether they've been bitten or no
On the OG Romero films yes, in this one they pretty much go with you have to be bitten, killed any other way and you don't reanimate.
For how tropey and goofy they are, the 'Living Dead' spinoffs/unofficial sequels are some of the bleakest in concept, were there is no way to actually kill the zombies, they are smart and can talk, and are in constant agony that is only relieved by eating living people, and you can't stop the spread because it's an airborne chemical that gets everywhere.
@@MandoWookie that concept has never made much sense to me. If you can only become a zombie by being bitten by one, then most victims will then be eaten by the zombie after being bitten, meaning it wouldn't spread particularly well
@@chrisnorman1902 unless you get bit once and just give up, until it has spread enough to have hoards it would spread as people got bit, got away, turned, bite someone else or three.
And it takes a long time to eat someone.
Assuming the zombies lose interest once someone turns, and the fact they are undead, you would have what is presented. A lot of heavily damaged corpses running around.
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The "Down With The Sickness" lounge cover song was by 'Richard Cheese'. They also had quite a few lounge covers of songs from the early 2000s. Hilarious stuff.
If you love that version of the "Down with the Sickness" song it is from Richard Cheese. He takes regular rock/pop songs and loungifies them. Most of them are just part of the song, but they are so much fun to listen to.
That down with the sickness cover was done by Richard Cheese ...worth checking out ...
Simone has the right idea, carhartts and work boots
The news shot of the SWAT Officer shooting tear gas on their knee and the SWAT VAN seen, are real.
This movie still has the best zombie movie opening I've ever seen. Most people I've talked to seem to agree regardless of how people feel about the rest of it.
6:32 The actor portraying that zombie really does only have one arm.
Don’t know if any one has said this before, but fun fact in the original Night of the living Dead Ben describes to Barbara how he saw an ambulance swerve and crash into a gas station causing it to explode. Which you can see in the beginning sequence of this film When Ana is driving away. 4:18
Also the Cop who who says shoot them in the head 9:54, is Tom Savini who did the special effects for the original Dawn of the Dead (as well as Friday the 13 and a lot more) and played a biker in Dawn to I think.
And the pastor at 12:31 is Tony Todd the Mortician in Final destination. And he played Ben in the 90’s remake of Night of the living dead.
The televangelist was played by Ken Foree. He was in the original Dawn of the Dead as one of the four main characters who lives in the mall.
I love the actress who plays Ana (Sarah Polley), she is always great in everything I have seen her in. She was also in one of my favorite 90s movies called "Go", which if you have not seen you really really should.
this movie is by zack snyder and james gunn. so next time you see that fight happen, remember, these guys are IRL actually cool with each other.
Richard cheese's version of down with The sickness was so needed in this movie. Just more proof that Zack Snyder knows good storytelling and filmmaking.
He's not creative... this screenplay was by James Gunn.
All of Snyder's best films weren't his own originals.
Visually, he's a good director... but he needs to stay in his lane, frankly.
He definitely knows how to take other people's stories (James Gunn in this case) and do a slightly worse version of them.
Generally I'm a ZS fan, but he can be very hit & miss.
Take Army of the Dead for example. The opening montage is brilliant. So brilliant that its considerably better than the entirety of the rest of the film.
I actually like how the best "love story" element of the movie (Ana and Michael) is never really expressed. They clearly care about each other, but they don't really show it until.the very end.