My dad scared the hell out of my siblings and I with this when we were kids. He called us into the living room saying there is a emergency news report, and just as we came in he hit play on the DVD and tricked us into thinking a zombie outbreak was happening LMAO
Doctor: “This is the most contagious disease I’ve ever seen.” Also the doctor: **Standing right next to the disease with no biohazard protection whatsoever and an entire unprotected news crew**
Biohazard is different from hospital protection. Yes you would have gloves and masks but hospitals aren’t totally stocked with hazmats and oxygen suits.
They did this is the original Romero version too. Throughout the movie, well the first half anyway, they would periodically cut to the news and the rising panic of its staff and guests. It showed very well, given the time it was made, how people can break down very quickly in the face of extinction. In fairness I actually think the original movie was in many ways much better overall. It also had the most famous piece of Zombie music in history, so famous even Shaun of the Dead even used it lol
@@ASavageEyeans actually you Can see in the footage ,there is an actor from the original cast of Zombie ,the sheriff burning the corpses, Is one of the bikers in Zombie
The actor playing the news anchor did a great job. I really bought how he is progressively getting more frightened as time passes and more news come in.
You know our film industry has taken a serious step backwards when extra features on a DVD from the early 2000's are better than most full horror movies nowadays
Horror is doing fine From the last 6 years we got Get Out, It: Chapter One, Hereditary, Midsommar, Us, Nope, No One Will Save You, A Quiet Place Part 1 & 2, Doctor Sleep, Talk To Me, Skinamarink, Evil Dead Rise, the Lighthouse, Halloween '18, Whannel's the Invisible Man, X, Pearl, and Maxxine on the way
His final message is haunting because the odds of him even making it home to no doubt the suburbs or at least edge of whatever city he was supposed to be in to get home were probably very slim and as we saw in the movie itself the odds his wife and kids were zombies themselves at that point were probably pretty high
@@zachhoward9099 my theory is that he already tell them to lock their home when the outbreak hits hard but I don't think he will make it to take them judging on how definitely huge the zombie horde is already within the first 48 hours of the outbreak
@@commiesnzombies sadly it isn't when you look in the first 3 hours of the oubtreak at 3:01 But definitely one of the first "ground zero" of the outbreak is in the Midwest and one of it is Milwaukee, Wisconsin where the movie takes place (but irl, it's in Canada tho)
@@MikeNapoli1989 You'd be no safer there than anywhere else. it's not like news stations were designed to hold back a horde of runner zombies. It's surprising they even lasted long enough to get taken off the air without the building getting overrun.
The guy in the Survival Video explaining how to kill the zombies is Scott Reitz, retired 30 year LAPD vet, part of it spent in the S.W.A.T. unit. He's the author of "The Art of Modern Gunfighting" and an old-school, but humble, badass.
@@John_Smith_Dumfugg something to note about Savini, he has an interview where he explains all the pointing at things his character does. He said he noticed in the military how the bigwigs liked to point at things, especially while they looked in a different direction. He said it's a good way to look like you're in charge. I call it Executive Pointing. It's a real thing!
I love zombie media like this. The fear of being trapped in a newsroom and reporting as things deteriorate is so much stronger than being out in it. This and Pontypool just nail it.
"The LAPD has pulled out of South Central and formed a defensive perimeter around Beverly Hills" is a very clever reference to what happened during the '92 riots when the cops left the poor neighborhoods to fend for themselves while protecting the rich ones. It's sadly not farfetched to assume they'd do the same even while the world was ending.
the most scary part was the London footage, they reporter and cameraman were just reporting what they could, and the poor lady and child running in fear.
@@amon_asentir Not only did he make it home, he saved his family, built a compound in the mountains, and became a hunter of zombies and deliverer of evening news.
He knew his family would be zombies by now, but his love for them made him delusional, poor guy. Should do a spin off on his journey home though, even if it's a short film like The Walking Dead did about 'the bicycle girl' .
@@bunnitomoe3866 if were talking zombie movies most of the zombie movies out of korea have been pretty banging but over here i cant think of a single one thats been good in the last 10 years
Richard Biggs, he was also part of the main cast on Babylon 5. Great actor, unfortunately he died way too soon. The president's voice is Bruce Boxleitner, who played the Captain of Babylon 5. Weird coincidence, but neat.
I wish this was kept in the movie, I know everyone likes the intense intro, but this gives more of a feel of the original dawn with society and news stations falling apart as the hours go on, I love it. 😂😎
@@Darkpara1, they definitely could, if they had the group watching the news once in a while as the situation gets worse, and survivors start to wise up,
@@camillestrothman6478 Oh definitely. There could be some of the news boardcasts that we see in the vudeo playing in the background at different homes and businesses before the Mall enters the picture.
Could you imagine, being overseas in Iraq as a U.S Soldier and out of nowhere, your Chain of Command loses contact with STRATCOM only to find out their homeland was taken over by the undead? That'd be truly terrifying
This extra footage really is awesome. It turns this film from 'just another zombie movie' into a 'holy shit this feels way too real' experience. I really do believe DotD captured EXACTLY how it would go down if the world suffered an outbreak like this and that's why it's my favorite zombie movie of all time.
Man, more zombie media should be set during the first few hours of the outbreak. Almost everything is right after the world has gone to hell, which is cool but this really drives home just how scary a situation like this would actually be.
Agreed. It's a crime that such shows focusing on the initial outbreak are almost nonexistent currently (even though it's been more than 80 years since the first zombie movie was made). I can only think of Fear The Walking Dead, Seoul Station and Dawn of the Dead. Pretty sure a lot of people would watch a show that focuses on the progression of the apocalypse (i.e. each episode focusing on a different group of people like in the WWZ Book)
The most frightening special feature of all time. It's scarier than Dawn of the Dead (except for the first five minutes, which must surely be the most nightmarish horror film opening since Scream).
Kids who are now older and between the ages of 18-27 yrs of age- The most scary zombie movie is 28 Weeks Later. The older adults past 40-50- 28 Weeks Later the most frightening zombie movie Adults ages 29 to late 30s- We all got our first taste of modern zombies by 2004-05. It's a generation thing but for some odd reason the 28 Days Later franchise is more popular. They played the fuck out of this Dawn Of The Dead throughout the late 2000s. It will go down as the scariest horror/zombie flick. The beginning alone should be a PTSD warning for anyone between their 30s.
RIP Richard Briggs, the newscaster from this short, who also played Dr Franklin in Babylon 5 I loved seeing him in stuff when I was 13/14, unfortunately he passed away in 2004.
RIP Richard Biggs. Also, you know the world is going cold and dark out there even as he speaks, as life as we know it comes to a very final end. There is no today, there is no tomorrow, there is no safety or refuge. There is no point running, the dead don't get tired and are incapable of giving up. This is how everything ends. The film still makes my skin crawl after 18 years...
Jack Snyder did a great job at capturing chaos. This is how the news and the government would likely handle a situation like this. Whoever played the News anchor did an amazing job.
This is still one of the scariest zombie movies ever made in my opinion. No other zombie film has quite captured the hopelessness of this kind of apocalypse quite like this movie. It really did have this sense of dread hanging over it that no matter what the survivors did they were still gonna either die from the zombies or starvation at some point.
Moved to the USA in March 2004. First night there, my husband and I stayed in an hotel and I sat up and watched TV. They ran the first 5 minutes of DoTD as a trailer and I woke my husband up and said we had to secure the room against Zombies. I was terrified. I've often wondered which of us experienced the weirdest first night in the USA.
This would be terrifying to see happening in real time in real life, everyone jokes about it but I'm pretty sure if zombie outbreaks were to start happening we as a society would be fucked
Not everyone would be fucked. If you're in bullshit liberal states like new York, New Jersey, and California where you can't own a gun to save your life, you won't survive. But if you live in the south, you have a chance. Provided they are slow moving. If they run, yeah, we're fucked.
It would be like Covid. News broadcast of events getting worse. deaths mounting up, signs for sickness and how to avoid it. Lockdowns etc. unfortunately. just like the zombie films. Covid showed how pathetic a good portion of the human race was in ignoring warnings. In doing so allowing a dangerous virus to spread.
Right? There’s only been a few great zombie flicks out there that cover this… Most either skip the outbreak or the following chaos to focus on the apocalypse. It would be a far more interesting story to watch the slow collapse of everything.
@@LordWyatt Interesting.. I like your views on this.. As it makes sense we have yet to see many good stories that watches the slow collapse of everything. Let me show you a UA-cam video that was made that likely would ironically enough fit exactly what your discussing about.. We already went through the main movie but it kinda fits ua-cam.com/video/RosSm8ovJlM/v-deo.html
Every time I see this video my heart drops because it feels like a real compilation of news footage. This just gives Zach Snyder the title for most in depth director in horror.
This is what the World War Z movie SHOULD’VE been, unlike that Brad Pitt movie which was more of an action flick. WWZ should’ve been more like a documentary centered around a doctor/journalist traveling the world & interviewing people giving their perspective on the zombie apocalypse like in the book. I was entertained by it, but it would’ve been a 1000x better if they stayed more true to the novel. This DOTD 2004 special report was more true to the WWZ novel. Also, it’s pretty messed up to hear that Shanghai & Hong Kong got blasted off of the face of the Earth by nukes. Any survivors in those cities that were hiding out in facilities from zombie hordes didn’t even have a chance to escape those cities before they got vaporized. It reminds me of the scene from World War Z where the characters witness a nuke going off in some region of the world.
Agreed and what made this really unnerving was the realistic nature of it, some parts could have been better but overall I was actually getting decent amount of anxiety from it which is rare for me with films. The newscaster was probably the best part of this.
Never saw this before; it was actually enjoyable, if cheesy. It stayed faithful to many tropes, with an appropriate amount of subtle dry wit. Long may it rise from the dead. I've suddenly gotten an inexplicable hunger for fresh liver.
It's because James Gunn wrote this (yeah the guardians of the galaxy guy), Snyder just directed. Gunn writes great horror stuff, check out "slither" if you liked this.
I keep coming back to this because the production was good for the time and the progressive outbreak is done at a great pace... in contrast to the feature film where things go from 0 - 100 with a single bite. Tom Savini looks the most badass when he was in the Sheriff uniform, better than that biker getup from _From Dusk 'til Dawn_ (1996).
@@maskedathiest ...but not used nearly enough! Granted, he didn't _need_ to be a final guy but at least more than a few minutes on screen. His transformation bit was very humorous. :)
Fun fact, the guy playing the news reporter throughout the video, was also in drake n josh on Nickelodeon, he played the fbi agent in the Gary Coleman grill episode
I was in the military in 2004. I remember how intense and high tempo our ops was during this time. We did all we could do. RIP to all those lost during this trying time.
Why wasn’t this movie made with scenes like this? Scenes like this are perfect examples of remaking the original in its style, totally envelopes the original movies tone and tension.
Just count this as "extras" and they basically did have a lot of these parts at first. The beginning stages of the movie and when the security guards had the news on before their mall got taken over by the other survivors.
Disconnected scenes like this wouldn't work for being a Dawn remake; the original had a specifically character-driven story, and the remake follows those same beats. If you were to do a film entirely in this style, it would basically be a completely different film, which is not what the 2004 Dawn was aiming to be.
This anchorman is beyond amazing. The background information of everything missed by the main characters if they had changed the channel (maybe). This is so well done.
how each cut we see his despair growing more and more. at the very end, i am almost certain that it was just him and the camera man in that room, the bare essentials for a news broadcast. his final words for his wife are very bone chilling. despite how unrealistic the spread of the infection was, the growing sense of hopelessness, the segments with home video, the LA sector, the defense against the undead, the brief side scrolls of the ever escalating situation, and the confirmation of mass suicides in the Middle East and the destruction of Shangai and Hong Kong are all presented in some of the most realistic ways possible (at the time of the movie, 2004). Dawn of the Dead is one of my favorite zombie movies and one of my favorite Zack Snyder movies, but this extra elevated this project for me. bravo for the team behind this. they deserve all the credit the movie gets.
He was well known to have played Dr Franklin One of the main characters from the sci-fi series Babylon 5. He unfortunately passed away shortly after this special.
@@atzangray-dorito9004 I heard somewhere that according to the script the origin of the zombies is actually something supernatural. Explaining such rapid spread in a mere 24 hrs.
@@atzangray-dorito9004 it’s chilling his final message because you have no idea if he’ll even make it out of the parking lot alive, if his family is even alive or most tragic he makes it home only to be greeted by his family and neighbors shuffling out of their houses towards him to finish him off
The extras in the D&D release of this movie were some of the best I've ever watched. Not just because they were well shot, but because they expanded on the lore of the movie. Really entertaining!
They could’ve done an entire series off this. First 24 hours of the out break, dawn of the dead , when they branched off to the island , and showing other survivors.
I remember watching this on the DVD remake of Dawn, it was a great special feature, kind of gave you idea of what the broadcasting would be like, though I think the chaotic news room scene from the original would be the more likely
Project Zomboid surely took a lot of inspiration for the first 7 days out of this one, it really gives you the feeling that the everything is collapsing and not even the governments can't change it
Zomboid also simulates quite well how likely you are to die within the first days if you, say, use NPC mods and have sprinters enabled and then a few other tweaks and that advanced helicopter mod to simulate a relatively early outbreak with lots of chaos going on.
The actor who plays the Channel 3 Reporter was Richard Biggs. He is well known for playing Doctor Franklin on the SciFi Series Babylon 5. Biggs died in May of 2004. This was probably the last work he ever did. May the Great Maker watch over you Richard.
If more horror movies started doing extras like this again, I would happily start buying more Blu-rays in the future. This is honestly one of the best dvd extras I have ever seen and makes the movie more horrifying and realistic. I wish more horror movies would do these sort of extras again!
Sometimes I pretend that this is set a few hours after the internet was shut off for the world. It turns this from a dark, somber look at how quickly things can deteriorate from a simple infection. To something rather amusing as a concept. "Someone shut off the internet and instead of touching grass everyone tore civilization apart."
Back when we didn't have the internet we just had more conversations with acquaintances and random people about what's been going on lately. False information was rarely fact checked, because people generally trusted other people. It was totally different, but extremely far from an apocalypse. I don't think a sudden lack of Internet will do much other than get people to go outside and talk to each other more.
@PolitelyPolite Well, see, that's what would happen if my generation were calm, reasonable people. They don't even bother fact-checking even though it's easier now than ever and just follow whoever yells the loudest. I will say your view it's very optimistic, but won't disagree because that's what I hope would happen too.
Remember in case of a zombie outbreak, go to a building with more than 1 floor. Go to the second floor or higher with as many supplies as you can take. Destroy the stairs to the high floors. You’ll be safe as long as the supplies hold out.
Yeah but what if the zombies start crawling and stacking on top of each other? If time allows, the solution from the original dawn of the dead is good; build a wall infront the door to your hideout, and paint it so no zombie or raider will ever know about it!
did you really watch these extras as a kid? that must've been terrifying. I only watched the official movie when i was 8 years old and i nearly got a trauma with zombies. That day on my way home I feared anyone in the streets would suddenly turn into a zombie, and when I got home I even feared my own family. I couldn't sleep that night lmao
Pranked my mom with this spoof years ago, almost had her until the zombie bit came up, she caught on quick after that. Literally Had her panicking on the phone with my grandma talking about “Do you see this on the news?!?” 😂
The weird thing I noticed about the infestation map is that there were no markers in Western PA for several hours. George A. Romero always seemed to center his zombie movies around Pittsburgh.
The map was the only thing I didn't like about this. Hot spots were too evenly distributed and not concentrated in population centers. A lot of the West is sparsely populated and wouldn't be affected on the first day.
I loved this film from the first time I saw it in the theater. Perfect homage to the original without being a stale copy. The DVD bonuses were great too, It's probably been 15 years since I've seen this.
@@pimentocheese618 We felt pretty great about the awesome movie we just watched. Applauded the gut punch ending, and talked about how fast things fell apart at the beginning. The choice to have an ambulance hit the neighbor was just perfect.
A+ acting. Almost makes it feel real. I remember watching this two years ago during quarantine, getting a mass communication on my cell from my organization. telling me to report to my shift as scheduled in the ER, as I waa watching the spread of COVID on the TV. Watching this again gave me chills. thnx lol
That news broadcaster is a legend, as are most people in the journalism industry. Regardless of the situation they still stick to their job of bringing information to the public, and you could tell this guy was slowly getting terrified by the minute, but he still stayed live
@Jonathan V. some Blu rays do, but it's usually generic extra content like director commentary or small deleted scenes. Nothing like an entire mini series of a background character people liked (RiP Andy and goldfish)
@@xxnositxx Tom Savini actually got his start in the film industry as a special effects artist. His most notable effects being the decapitation scene and Kevin Bacon throat stab in Friday The 13th and the shotgun head explosion in the film Maniac. He also worked on the gore effects for the og Dawn of the Dead, From Dusk Till Dawn and countless other films.
The closest thing i can think of is Pontypool. Its about a zombie outbreak seen from the perspective of a radio dj in his studio hunkering down and trying to report on the crisis
I remember going to see this in theaters when I was 15 in 2004. I have always been a fan of zombie movies. The first Resident Evil movie came out a few years earlier and I thought that was good, but this is a remake of a George Romero movie, he is the one who invented dead things coming back and eating flesh ! He created zombies so this movie was HUGE they even played the first 10 minutes of it on TNT too ! First time I seen zombies run as well. Very suspenseful and exhilarating experience. This is the best Romero remake next to the Night Of The Living Dead remake in 1990 ! R.I.P George A. Romero 🧟♂️ 🧟♀️
The running zombie... It was the first time i saw one as well. And i remember watching the directors cut and snyder talking about how much scarier he though it was for a zombie to be running full speed at you. He is correct.
This looks like something you would watch hundreds of years after the initial apocalypse. On how the world ended and how they were taken care of. Scary but educational!
28 days later is a movie about a bunch of angry people. there are no zombies in that film. everyone dies of starvation. they are not reanimated corpses. great movie though
I love how the stinger at 2:30 reads 'Violence in the The Heartland'. Like they put it out in such a hurry they forgot to spell check. I love little details like that.
I'm coming back to Dawn of the Dead content like once a year and it's this time again. I still wonder if it really was intentional or if it was some accident no one noticed at the time.
Richard Biggs did a great job on portraying this anchor David Barrows, his legacy on this masterpiece will be remembered. May he find peace in the afterlife for all of eternity.
The original 1978 Dawn Of The Dead when they’re holed up in their upstairs apartment just as Roger dies and turns, Steven and Francine are watching a Civil Defense broadcast where it’s pretty obvious things have broken down, the set backdrop is askew the camera is weaving all over as if the cameraman just gave up and walked away and someone else grabbed it showed a government scientist Dr. Forest I think his name was arguing with both the host and random tv crew members and he says ‘Since no one has touched upon our nuclear option??…Why don’t we drop bombs on all the big cities?’ to which the host says he can’t be serious to which the doctor replies ‘I’m deadly serious’ the scene then cuts to Roger reanimating and Peter offscreen putting him down to which the Dr on tv yells ‘We’ve got to remain logical! Logical…We have to, there’s no choice we have to…or it’s the end’ according to the film there were a few more broadcasts over the next few days or weeks but that we don’t ever see before ceasing for a couple of days or something that’s mentioned before a roving biker gang breaches the barricades and let’s the zombies all back in the mall. Sorry for the long winded explanation but that really stands out to my mind where in a zombie movie not part of the Resident Evil series where nuclear weapons are even mentioned
If they're anything like those in The Walking Dead we're perfectly fine unless you're walking through the woods and for whatever reason can't see more than a few inches and for whatever reason you also can't hear a zombie nearby. I stopped watching The Walking Dead after season 4. I got so tired of how they would have to zoom in tight on a character that's about to be attacked by a slow moving zombie as if the zombie popped out of thin air. It was ridiculous.
@@sweetballs4742 there's only 1 WWZ that has most, if not everyone, on edge. If you think about it, that novel has zombies that runs parallel with "The Walking Dead", and if my previous message wasn't clear enough, that means it's not the novel, but the movie. Most people associate WWZ through the film, not the novel.
My dad scared the hell out of my siblings and I with this when we were kids. He called us into the living room saying there is a emergency news report, and just as we came in he hit play on the DVD and tricked us into thinking a zombie outbreak was happening LMAO
Man I'm sorry yall were terrified back then
How terrible but also hilarious.
@@MoonlightMirage it’s called a joke, loool they wouldn’t have posted their comment if they didn’t find his joke funny years later
Did this to all my friends haha good times !
Man when I was kid the “based on a true story” from Return of the Living Dead freaked me tf out
even the bonus of 2004 zombies movies are better than 2021 zombies movies
Unless you watch the ones from Japan and Korea - now those are good.
Agree
I like 2004
@@The_Phoenix_Saga they are ok, but it's missing something
@estadiofifa10lol 1 The US is making a Train to Busan remake, remaster whatever it is. Not excited.
Doctor: “This is the most contagious disease I’ve ever seen.”
Also the doctor: **Standing right next to the disease with no biohazard protection whatsoever and an entire unprotected news crew**
You ultimately wouldn’t have any biohazard protection for a few days. Recall COVID and how long it took to get protection.
@@CNadz12 not even mask and gloves?
Because Hollywood.
Biohazard is different from hospital protection. Yes you would have gloves and masks but hospitals aren’t totally stocked with hazmats and oxygen suits.
@@CNadz12 But they’re not even wearing masks
As a former camera op, I have to respect that he still finished the shot with a slow zoom as the anchor walked away. A true craftsman.
Notice the boom above them at 9:12 ?? 😂😂
@@badhbts definitely on purpose
This is a caster I would have given my life for. His crew were blessed for how awesome he was on getting out that last broadcast.
The camera man never dies, that's the code
Lol i just started the job and noticed that too lmfao
“Stay away from the city of Los Angeles. It’s a war zone. ” is the most relatable and true-life piece of advice in this 😂
It really is a shit hole 🤣
just like florida or long island
Well thats just normal LA
@@P3ndejosG4ngthat's just any city honestly
@@theoneandonlyartyom Florida and Long Island isn't as bad as LA or NYC
It really is daunting how over the broadcasts you can hear the news room become more and more panicked
And to silent, probably two guys left.
Its cool, it gives it a disturbing aspect I like it
They did this is the original Romero version too. Throughout the movie, well the first half anyway, they would periodically cut to the news and the rising panic of its staff and guests. It showed very well, given the time it was made, how people can break down very quickly in the face of extinction. In fairness I actually think the original movie was in many ways much better overall. It also had the most famous piece of Zombie music in history, so famous even Shaun of the Dead even used it lol
@@ASavageEyeans actually you Can see in the footage ,there is an actor from the original cast of Zombie ,the sheriff burning the corpses, Is one of the bikers in Zombie
literally better acting and atmosphere than what you get in mainstream movies today, by far
The sheriff rambling about how he knew some of the undead before they turned was probably the most realistic reaction in this entire thing.
Even the part where he mentioned the chick he did!
Tom Savini. You know who that is, right?
@@Dravianpn02 I thought it was him!
I thought it was Robin Williams
@@lilfashionkillaHOW DO YOU EVEN MISTAKE THE TWO?!
Imagine advertising your book during a widespread *zombie* plague lmao
Sounds like something Fauci would do.
I guess the book came out before the Outbreak.
@@Jules279 more like Donald Trump or some other conservative grifter and that is after denying the existence of the zombie pandemic for several weeks.
Oh you know people would take advantage of it to sell shit.
@@sammysstopmotionoas2004 it happened during 2020 lol
The actor playing the news anchor did a great job. I really bought how he is progressively getting more frightened as time passes and more news come in.
Notice how more dissheveled he becomes. His tie gets looser and the collar gets more opened
Richard Biggs. Great actor. Sadly he actually passed away between filming this and the DVD release.
Eternal Doctor Stephen Franklin in Babylon 5
And he took off his glasses at the end.
I noticed that too, I wonder if he was turning.
You know our film industry has taken a serious step backwards when extra features on a DVD from the early 2000's are better than most full horror movies nowadays
Agreed. Part of the problem? The amount of horror movies they try to make PG-13 just to get extra asses in seats!
Horror is doing fine
From the last 6 years we got Get Out, It: Chapter One, Hereditary, Midsommar, Us, Nope, No One Will Save You, A Quiet Place Part 1 & 2, Doctor Sleep, Talk To Me, Skinamarink, Evil Dead Rise, the Lighthouse, Halloween '18, Whannel's the Invisible Man, X, Pearl, and Maxxine on the way
@@OvertheHedge06 That's doing fine?
@@MM-ql9xj Well I guess not if you got bad taste
@@OvertheHedge06Because you control it?
I feel so bad for the news anchor, hes trying to stay calm but still panicking inside. But still this feels so realistic and i have goosebumps
His final message is haunting because the odds of him even making it home to no doubt the suburbs or at least edge of whatever city he was supposed to be in to get home were probably very slim and as we saw in the movie itself the odds his wife and kids were zombies themselves at that point were probably pretty high
pretty sure florida will be ground zero start if outbreak happens
@@zachhoward9099 my theory is that he already tell them to lock their home when the outbreak hits hard but I don't think he will make it to take them judging on how definitely huge the zombie horde is already within the first 48 hours of the outbreak
@@commiesnzombies sadly it isn't when you look in the first 3 hours of the oubtreak at 3:01
But definitely one of the first "ground zero" of the outbreak is in the Midwest and one of it is Milwaukee, Wisconsin where the movie takes place (but irl, it's in Canada tho)
I would have liked it if he had signed off. "Signing off...for perhaps the final time...this is Channel 3 News. I'm David Barrows."
The guy at the main news desk goes from calm to downright frantic and worried and even leaves at the end for his family
Richard Biggs, RIP, mostly know for playing Dr Franklin in Babylon 5.
The network was getting shut down anyway to switch to the EBN. He had no reason to stay any longer. He was probably one of last to leave.
@@SirCraigius I wouldn’t leave with all that’s happening. I would barricade myself in the news station.
@@MikeNapoli1989 You'd be no safer there than anywhere else. it's not like news stations were designed to hold back a horde of runner zombies. It's surprising they even lasted long enough to get taken off the air without the building getting overrun.
I got the impression he was going home to kill his family and then himself. "Get the kids ready...I'll be there soon."
The guy in the Survival Video explaining how to kill the zombies is Scott Reitz, retired 30 year LAPD vet, part of it spent in the S.W.A.T. unit. He's the author of "The Art of Modern Gunfighting" and an old-school, but humble, badass.
i thought he looked familiar
That explains a lot
And Sheriff Cahill is none other than Tom Savini, the SFX artist on the original Dawn of the Dead! They put alot of love into this short.
I wish we could watch his movie during this outbreak
@@John_Smith_Dumfugg something to note about Savini, he has an interview where he explains all the pointing at things his character does. He said he noticed in the military how the bigwigs liked to point at things, especially while they looked in a different direction. He said it's a good way to look like you're in charge. I call it Executive Pointing. It's a real thing!
I love zombie media like this. The fear of being trapped in a newsroom and reporting as things deteriorate is so much stronger than being out in it. This and Pontypool just nail it.
I could only watch Pontypool once. Just too stressful to sit there as the town collapses around them but they can only hear of it
check out the original dawn of the dead same idea but it the opening 10 min of the movie
Have you played zomboid? The first what 14 days has broadcasts like this and they’re nerve racking
Dead set.
"The LAPD has pulled out of South Central and formed a defensive perimeter around Beverly Hills" is a very clever reference to what happened during the '92 riots when the cops left the poor neighborhoods to fend for themselves while protecting the rich ones. It's sadly not farfetched to assume they'd do the same even while the world was ending.
Most definitely basically protect those upper class neighborhoods with all the white people and leave black and brown people defenseless
I would hope so
I've never understood why the police would give priority to the rich because what do they benefit out of it?
@@SamuelBlack84
Maybe that's where all the good survival shelters are? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@jabberwocky1707 I mean in real life
the most scary part was the London footage, they reporter and cameraman were just reporting what they could, and the poor lady and child running in fear.
They’re coming !!!
And, strangely she has an American accent
Why didn’t they run inside her house too
@@Ally.Cat.252 because of zombie
@@Ally.Cat.252She probably wouldn’t have let them in to protect her kid.
It makes you wonder if the News Anchor ever made it home to his family. What a chilling scene this was.
Nah. You know that guy never made it home. And even though that movie never got made, you can imagine it for yourself...
@@amon_asentir Not only did he make it home, he saved his family, built a compound in the mountains, and became a hunter of zombies and deliverer of evening news.
would have made a great movie in and of itself
He knew his family would be zombies by now, but his love for them made him delusional, poor guy. Should do a spin off on his journey home though, even if it's a short film like The Walking Dead did about 'the bicycle girl' .
I just found out the actor who played the news anchor died before the DVD was released.
This bonus content from 2004 beats easily about 99% of the movies nowadays.
And what are those 1%?
Still waiting for an answer
That's because they had passion creating this.
@@bunnitomoe3866 if were talking zombie movies most of the zombie movies out of korea have been pretty banging but over here i cant think of a single one thats been good in the last 10 years
This felt like a syfy channel movie dude, who u kidding
The Anchorman's slow descent into madness is frightening.
This guy is a tremendous actor
Richard Biggs, he was also part of the main cast on Babylon 5. Great actor, unfortunately he died way too soon.
The president's voice is Bruce Boxleitner, who played the Captain of Babylon 5. Weird coincidence, but neat.
His last role before he died. Babylon 5 was a terrmendous show.
@@zaephyros5101 Yes it is.
Reporter: “DAVID CUT AWAY”
David: “hell no this is the money shot”
🤣
I wish this was kept in the movie, I know everyone likes the intense intro, but this gives more of a feel of the original dawn with society and news stations falling apart as the hours go on, I love it. 😂😎
@GuataGuata yeah there's no way they could incorporate all of this in a flowing narrative. It's a cool extra though.
@@Darkpara1, they definitely could, if they had the group watching the news once in a while as the situation gets worse, and survivors start to wise up,
@@camillestrothman6478 Oh definitely. There could be some of the news boardcasts that we see in the vudeo playing in the background at different homes and businesses before the Mall enters the picture.
Yeah more of this stuff would have been cool
I completely agree
Could you imagine, being overseas in Iraq as a U.S Soldier and out of nowhere, your Chain of Command loses contact with STRATCOM only to find out their homeland was taken over by the undead?
That'd be truly terrifying
Irak is very close to Turkey. In movie intro Istanbul Hagia Sophia is overrun by the zombies. So in Iraq beginng overrun too.
Some troops would stay some would be pulled back to the states
@@joseph_1283 not to mention, the mass suicides that are occuring in the Middle East on this universe iirc.
It was global so it wouldn't really matter.
@@theuglykwan Correct. even in The Walking Dead universe the outbreak was global
This extra footage really is awesome. It turns this film from 'just another zombie movie' into a 'holy shit this feels way too real' experience. I really do believe DotD captured EXACTLY how it would go down if the world suffered an outbreak like this and that's why it's my favorite zombie movie of all time.
"just another zombie movie" doesnt do the movie justice tho. its one of the best ones in my opinion
@makepr The first 20 or so minutes of the film is 👌fantastic. However the rest of the film is a bit of a mixed bag.
@@yardslammer009kennedy2I liked the rest of the film
Man, more zombie media should be set during the first few hours of the outbreak. Almost everything is right after the world has gone to hell, which is cool but this really drives home just how scary a situation like this would actually be.
Agreed. It's a crime that such shows focusing on the initial outbreak are almost nonexistent currently (even though it's been more than 80 years since the first zombie movie was made). I can only think of Fear The Walking Dead, Seoul Station and Dawn of the Dead. Pretty sure a lot of people would watch a show that focuses on the progression of the apocalypse (i.e. each episode focusing on a different group of people like in the WWZ Book)
Fear The Walking Dead Season 1-2 was the closest thing we got to this, then it ended up being a generic as
@@captainbroady black summer, while not perfect, does give an idea for that sort of thing.
I know a movie called Alive, a Korean Zombie movie. I believe it's a remake of other movies with the same plot.
The president considering cancelling his fishing trip is spot on, that’s the realism I was looking for
Reporter: David, cut away!!!
David: ZOOMS IN AS CLOSE AS POSSIBLE
He’s one of the best zombie apocalypse cameramen you ever saw.
This is why we love David
David understood the assignment.
Based David is camera Chad energy
David you had one job
The most frightening special feature of all time. It's scarier than Dawn of the Dead (except for the first five minutes, which must surely be the most nightmarish horror film opening since Scream).
28 weeks later opening scene was intense
Scream wasn't scary at all compared to this
The original Day of the Dead's opening scene is the most dreadful intro imo
Kids who are now older and between the ages of 18-27 yrs of age- The most scary zombie movie is 28 Weeks Later.
The older adults past 40-50- 28 Weeks Later the most frightening zombie movie
Adults ages 29 to late 30s- We all got our first taste of modern zombies by 2004-05.
It's a generation thing but for some odd reason the 28 Days Later franchise is more popular. They played the fuck out of this Dawn Of The Dead throughout the late 2000s. It will go down as the scariest horror/zombie flick. The beginning alone should be a PTSD warning for anyone between their 30s.
@@D_2387 Agreed! That whole movie made you feel ill (in a good way).
RIP Richard Briggs, the newscaster from this short, who also played Dr Franklin in Babylon 5
I loved seeing him in stuff when I was 13/14, unfortunately he passed away in 2004.
One nice touch at the end is that the voice of the president is Bruce Boxleitner who of course played the Captain in B5.
Wow..I didn't know.
@@Borusa1976 nice I thought that was Boxleitner’s voice
I thought it was Richard RIP x
He was also on days of our lives and guiding light he is still missed
RIP Richard Biggs. Also, you know the world is going cold and dark out there even as he speaks, as life as we know it comes to a very final end. There is no today, there is no tomorrow, there is no safety or refuge. There is no point running, the dead don't get tired and are incapable of giving up.
This is how everything ends. The film still makes my skin crawl after 18 years...
Jack Snyder did a great job at capturing chaos. This is how the news and the government would likely handle a situation like this. Whoever played the News anchor did an amazing job.
Zack*
Jesus, can you just IMAGINE this happening in real life?! The absolute terror and fear going through you?!?! The adrenaline rush would kill you!!!
If you're a wimp yeah but if you can handle bloodshed you live for that thrill since everything you love & lost is DEAD
Yeah look at what happened with COVID. The whole country went into quarantine.
Gamers and zombie geeks would get a bit excited I guess
@@cjvoid9404 stop acting like a tough guy, you buckle down in your bedroom if you knew running zombies like in the movie we're on the prowl...
@@MrRepoman197 and it wasn't even the worst disease in history... So something like this humanity would definitely be screwed...
This is still one of the scariest zombie movies ever made in my opinion. No other zombie film has quite captured the hopelessness of this kind of apocalypse quite like this movie. It really did have this sense of dread hanging over it that no matter what the survivors did they were still gonna either die from the zombies or starvation at some point.
Wach the Original 1978 then u will really be scared
I have and while it was good I found it to be a bit on the goofy side even if it's still pretty bleak overall.
@@pureluck8767 i watched both og and 2004 and imo i prefer the remake because of its zombie sprinters...
@@rjayamsedel3225 that's the scariest, the runners 😥
cough* 28 days later
That cameraman is a legend, never shook, never cut away and the best part.
The cameraman has balls of steel and also no matter what he or she cannot be harmed no matter the circumstances
Moved to the USA in March 2004. First night there, my husband and I stayed in an hotel and I sat up and watched TV. They ran the first 5 minutes of DoTD as a trailer and I woke my husband up and said we had to secure the room against Zombies. I was terrified.
I've often wondered which of us experienced the weirdest first night in the USA.
A movie trailer scared you to the point you woke up your husband over it?
@@Ronfost89 yay: you can read!
@tomsdottir Stubborn European broad alert…
You must be a delight!
Haha, that is hilarious did you watch the movie in theatres after that?
The ending with the anchor telling his wife he's coming home & to get the kids ready. Heartbreaking
this is so realistic, it could be mistaken for a real broadcast.
Not nearly enough political blaming and advertisements
Good point lmao
War of the Worlds
Yeah, until the mic boom comes in at 8:57
@@Mad_Hazardous this happens in real news all the time
This would be terrifying to see happening in real time in real life, everyone jokes about it but I'm pretty sure if zombie outbreaks were to start happening we as a society would be fucked
If they were slow moving i would be out there chopping all of them up!!!
Not if it was rabies
Considering how the country responded to covid.... Not even the worst disease in our history... We would most definitely be screwed.
Not everyone would be fucked. If you're in bullshit liberal states like new York, New Jersey, and California where you can't own a gun to save your life, you won't survive. But if you live in the south, you have a chance. Provided they are slow moving. If they run, yeah, we're fucked.
i would be happy if ""the one society"" would be dead.
I wonder what a whole movie like this would be like. This was downright scary so I think it'd make for a pretty good horror movie.
It would be like Covid. News broadcast of events getting worse. deaths mounting up, signs for sickness and how to avoid it. Lockdowns etc.
unfortunately. just like the zombie films. Covid showed how pathetic a good portion of the human race was in ignoring warnings.
In doing so allowing a dangerous virus to spread.
Right? There’s only been a few great zombie flicks out there that cover this…
Most either skip the outbreak or the following chaos to focus on the apocalypse.
It would be a far more interesting story to watch the slow collapse of everything.
@@LordWyatt Interesting..
I like your views on this.. As it makes sense we have yet to see many good stories that watches the slow collapse of everything.
Let me show you a UA-cam video that was made that likely would ironically enough fit exactly what your discussing about.. We already went through the main movie but it kinda fits
ua-cam.com/video/RosSm8ovJlM/v-deo.html
@@LordWyatt yea the best part of Fear The Walking Dead was the outbreak part
REC is kinda similar but on a smaller scale. Also just a great zombie movie
Every time I see this video my heart drops because it feels like a real compilation of news footage. This just gives Zach Snyder the title for most in depth director in horror.
This is what the World War Z movie SHOULD’VE been, unlike that Brad Pitt movie which was more of an action flick.
WWZ should’ve been more like a documentary centered around a doctor/journalist traveling the world & interviewing people giving their perspective on the zombie apocalypse like in the book.
I was entertained by it, but it would’ve been a 1000x better if they stayed more true to the novel.
This DOTD 2004 special report was more true to the WWZ novel.
Also, it’s pretty messed up to hear that Shanghai & Hong Kong got blasted off of the face of the Earth by nukes. Any survivors in those cities that were hiding out in facilities from zombie hordes didn’t even have a chance to escape those cities before they got vaporized. It reminds me of the scene from World War Z where the characters witness a nuke going off in some region of the world.
Yeah pakistan and iran blow themselves up because of the refugee situation.
Yeah, World War Z movie should have been a series. Could have explored the book more.
I think this special report was scarier and in many ways, better than the movie itself.
would've made a pretty interesting movie to watch a news crew try to survive an apocalypse to help people
@@nuttybutty9028 You are thinking the same thing I am
@@nuttybutty9028 A Spanish film called Rec is sorta like that
@@BlueIzHyper_91 i mean you're not wrong but the program in Rec was more of a late night show than news program
Agreed and what made this really unnerving was the realistic nature of it, some parts could have been better but overall I was actually getting decent amount of anxiety from it which is rare for me with films. The newscaster was probably the best part of this.
Never saw this before; it was actually enjoyable, if cheesy. It stayed faithful to many tropes, with an appropriate amount of subtle dry wit. Long may it rise from the dead. I've suddenly gotten an inexplicable hunger for fresh liver.
Zombie
Try the Fava beans
@@1428elm Why thank you Clarice.
@@skateboardingjesus4006 you're a zombie
I recommend to combine it with some fine chianti.
I still cant believe the same person made this and Army of the dead. What a difference in effort and passion
Dawn of the Dead not the Army. It’s Zack Snyder and the movie is actually good.
It's because James Gunn wrote this (yeah the guardians of the galaxy guy), Snyder just directed.
Gunn writes great horror stuff, check out "slither" if you liked this.
@JohnSmith-px5nf no, it's not it was TRASH 🗑
Army of the dead wasnt horrible. It was fun atleast but not great like this
@@Batchall_Acceptedzack brought it to life. No pun
The acting from the news guy was brilliant, loved how everything slowly dawned on him and you see prim and proper turn into a man on the edge 👍
Love seeing Tom Savini as the Sheriff. Great tribute to an OG zombie special effects artist.
I knew I recognized him
I’m a fan of Dawn of the Dead, but I’ve never seen this footage before!!
Same! I’m glad I’ve come along this
You don't seem like too big of a fan than.
JokerScars69 lol it’s just a movie so take it how you want
@@CarlosReyes-rs1rk I did, hence my comment.
JokerScars69 congrats kid? Lol
I keep coming back to this because the production was good for the time and the progressive outbreak is done at a great pace... in contrast to the feature film where things go from 0 - 100 with a single bite. Tom Savini looks the most badass when he was in the Sheriff uniform, better than that biker getup from _From Dusk 'til Dawn_ (1996).
I love how you can tell Tom Savini was having a great time, the rest of this is spooky and Toms like "I think I banged that one :D"
It's also a subtle nod, but it could also explain what the biker leader from the original Dawn of the dead did before the world went to shit.
come on now.
sex machine is a great character.
@@maskedathiest ...but not used nearly enough! Granted, he didn't _need_ to be a final guy but at least more than a few minutes on screen. His transformation bit was very humorous. :)
Fun fact, the guy playing the news reporter throughout the video, was also in drake n josh on Nickelodeon, he played the fbi agent in the Gary Coleman grill episode
Yes !!!
@@MikeNapoli1989 also in Babylon 5
The man playing the news reader. What a great actor.
I was in the military in 2004. I remember how intense and high tempo our ops was during this time. We did all we could do. RIP to all those lost during this trying time.
Why wasn’t this movie made with scenes like this? Scenes like this are perfect examples of remaking the original in its style, totally envelopes the original movies tone and tension.
Just count this as "extras" and they basically did have a lot of these parts at first. The beginning stages of the movie and when the security guards had the news on before their mall got taken over by the other survivors.
Disconnected scenes like this wouldn't work for being a Dawn remake; the original had a specifically character-driven story, and the remake follows those same beats.
If you were to do a film entirely in this style, it would basically be a completely different film, which is not what the 2004 Dawn was aiming to be.
@@HappyMan0203 It could still work by showing one of the later boardcasts we see in the video in the movie, being watched by some of the characters.
Because its stupid and a parody. It would bring down the movie. This is something for the special features.
If you want a zombie film with similar style, watch Savageland
"Get the kids ready". That line, as I realized, left to many implications. Shivers.
Wowwwwwwwwwwww I never thought of that, and I’ve seen this so many times…..
@@mustardbiscuits9750appetizers for the zombies
@@ksoundkaiju9256or a rare family of survivors since there was apparently 2 people remaining at the newsroom
This anchorman is beyond amazing. The background information of everything missed by the main characters if they had changed the channel (maybe).
This is so well done.
how each cut we see his despair growing more and more. at the very end, i am almost certain that it was just him and the camera man in that room, the bare essentials for a news broadcast. his final words for his wife are very bone chilling. despite how unrealistic the spread of the infection was, the growing sense of hopelessness, the segments with home video, the LA sector, the defense against the undead, the brief side scrolls of the ever escalating situation, and the confirmation of mass suicides in the Middle East and the destruction of Shangai and Hong Kong are all presented in some of the most realistic ways possible (at the time of the movie, 2004). Dawn of the Dead is one of my favorite zombie movies and one of my favorite Zack Snyder movies, but this extra elevated this project for me. bravo for the team behind this. they deserve all the credit the movie gets.
He was well known to have played Dr Franklin One of the main characters from the sci-fi series Babylon 5. He unfortunately passed away shortly after this special.
@@atzangray-dorito9004 I heard somewhere that according to the script the origin of the zombies is actually something supernatural. Explaining such rapid spread in a mere 24 hrs.
@@Howyaduing damn, didnt knew that, he was kinda young yet.
@@atzangray-dorito9004 it’s chilling his final message because you have no idea if he’ll even make it out of the parking lot alive, if his family is even alive or most tragic he makes it home only to be greeted by his family and neighbors shuffling out of their houses towards him to finish him off
The extras in the D&D release of this movie were some of the best I've ever watched. Not just because they were well shot, but because they expanded on the lore of the movie. Really entertaining!
They could’ve done an entire series off this. First 24 hours of the out break, dawn of the dead , when they branched off to the island , and showing other survivors.
This is exactly what I've been hoping for! A zombie outbreak told from the perspective of a news station
I remember watching this on the DVD remake of Dawn, it was a great special feature, kind of gave you idea of what the broadcasting would be like, though I think the chaotic news room scene from the original would be the more likely
"Our responsibility is finished"
they did a really good job of making this look like a real news cast
Project Zomboid surely took a lot of inspiration for the first 7 days out of this one, it really gives you the feeling that the everything is collapsing and not even the governments can't change it
Would not surprise me in the slightest. You can definitely see the similarities.
Zomboid also simulates quite well how likely you are to die within the first days if you, say, use NPC mods and have sprinters enabled and then a few other tweaks and that advanced helicopter mod to simulate a relatively early outbreak with lots of chaos going on.
@Jonathan V. didn't expect these two games in the comments
The actor who plays the Channel 3 Reporter was Richard Biggs.
He is well known for playing Doctor Franklin on the SciFi Series Babylon 5.
Biggs died in May of 2004. This was probably the last work he ever did.
May the Great Maker watch over you Richard.
Actually his last work was a drake n Josh episode
If more horror movies started doing extras like this again, I would happily start buying more Blu-rays in the future. This is honestly one of the best dvd extras I have ever seen and makes the movie more horrifying and realistic. I wish more horror movies would do these sort of extras again!
this was awesome,really sad that such stuff aren't made anymore,zombie movies are nowadays more confusing than anything else.
we have so many real world disasters actually going on that a zombie outbreak would be the least of our worries, FJB
They would add trans zombies and non binary ones and it would racist to kill the black zombies ans lefties would go into meltdown
check out Savageland.
you will not regret it
Have you seen Train to Busan or the last of us? Both are pretty great zombie TV that have come out in the last decade
Sometimes I pretend that this is set a few hours after the internet was shut off for the world. It turns this from a dark, somber look at how quickly things can deteriorate from a simple infection. To something rather amusing as a concept. "Someone shut off the internet and instead of touching grass everyone tore civilization apart."
The same thing would happen if food was deprived for three days
Famine + no internet = true chaos
@@zipdakill its coming
Back when we didn't have the internet we just had more conversations with acquaintances and random people about what's been going on lately. False information was rarely fact checked, because people generally trusted other people. It was totally different, but extremely far from an apocalypse. I don't think a sudden lack of Internet will do much other than get people to go outside and talk to each other more.
@PolitelyPolite Well, see, that's what would happen if my generation were calm, reasonable people. They don't even bother fact-checking even though it's easier now than ever and just follow whoever yells the loudest. I will say your view it's very optimistic, but won't disagree because that's what I hope would happen too.
Remember in case of a zombie outbreak, go to a building with more than 1 floor. Go to the second floor or higher with as many supplies as you can take. Destroy the stairs to the high floors. You’ll be safe as long as the supplies hold out.
It is a good idea..and maybe as well as having a ladder that you can retract by any chance that you might need to resupply..
What happens if there is a fire?
Yeah but what if the zombies start crawling and stacking on top of each other? If time allows, the solution from the original dawn of the dead is good; build a wall infront the door to your hideout, and paint it so no zombie or raider will ever know about it!
Has anyone tried this???
"Once the tripods start moving... No more news comes out of that area."
This is so realistic, from the ever growing panic in the news station and the country to the actions taken to combat the situation
The amount of world building this movie had was quite admirable. Andy’s Lost Tape is also pretty well acted and written.
this 20 minutes is better then alot of zombie movies ive watched
Still one of my favorite bonus feature ever. Tells it own narrative and keeps you wanting more.
the amount of dedication that was put into this is amazing. The level of realness watching this as a kid genuinely frightened me
did you really watch these extras as a kid? that must've been terrifying. I only watched the official movie when i was 8 years old and i nearly got a trauma with zombies. That day on my way home I feared anyone in the streets would suddenly turn into a zombie, and when I got home I even feared my own family. I couldn't sleep that night lmao
@@pimentocheese618 every time I would see an ambulance or hear an emergency alert I got super anxious haha
Pranked my mom with this spoof years ago, almost had her until the zombie bit came up, she caught on quick after that. Literally Had her panicking on the phone with my grandma talking about “Do you see this on the news?!?” 😂
The weird thing I noticed about the infestation map is that there were no markers in Western PA for several hours. George A. Romero always seemed to center his zombie movies around Pittsburgh.
Everyone in PA has guns so I'm not surprised
The map was the only thing I didn't like about this. Hot spots were too evenly distributed and not concentrated in population centers. A lot of the West is sparsely populated and wouldn't be affected on the first day.
I loved this film from the first time I saw it in the theater. Perfect homage to the original without being a stale copy. The DVD bonuses were great too, It's probably been 15 years since I've seen this.
how did you all feel at the end of the movie? I mean you and the people at the theater
@@pimentocheese618 We felt pretty great about the awesome movie we just watched. Applauded the gut punch ending, and talked about how fast things fell apart at the beginning. The choice to have an ambulance hit the neighbor was just perfect.
@@Nananki amazing! saddly there are no more zombie movies like these nowadays to go watch at the theater :(
I wish there was a whole movie like this
check out savageland
not on a mass scale......but very much like this
The world war z book was like this, just cutting to different people telling their story of the outbreak starting
@@darnellbryant5354I wish the movie kept to the stories in the book, they were very entertaining.
@@aaronblaylock2092 I didnt know there was a dotd book thanks!!!
A+ acting. Almost makes it feel real. I remember watching this two years ago during quarantine, getting a mass communication on my cell from my organization. telling me to report to my shift as scheduled in the ER, as I waa watching the spread of COVID on the TV. Watching this again gave me chills. thnx lol
That news broadcaster is a legend, as are most people in the journalism industry. Regardless of the situation they still stick to their job of bringing information to the public, and you could tell this guy was slowly getting terrified by the minute, but he still stayed live
*”the President is considering returning from his fishing trip at Jackson Hole”* 💀
I wish DVDs had this kind of background content today.
@Jonathan V. some Blu rays do, but it's usually generic extra content like director commentary or small deleted scenes. Nothing like an entire mini series of a background character people liked (RiP Andy and goldfish)
This shows the real world honestly, some people will be making jokes about it, guy wrestled a zombie, ends up dying, his friends laughing oh he's dead
7:50 hey, I'm pretty sure this was on the TV the security guards were watching the news on!
It was! It kind of gives you an interesting scope of time in the movie
That guy is actually Tom Savini. He plays in a lot of Robert Rodrigues movies like Machete and Grindhouse
@@xxnositxx Planet Terror. He even remade George A. Romero's Night of the living dead.
@@xxnositxx Tom Savini actually got his start in the film industry as a special effects artist. His most notable effects being the decapitation scene and Kevin Bacon throat stab in Friday The 13th and the shotgun head explosion in the film Maniac. He also worked on the gore effects for the og Dawn of the Dead, From Dusk Till Dawn and countless other films.
@@franknb7827 don’t forget he was one of the bikers that breaks into the mall also in the 1978 Dawn Of The Dead
You know whats sad to think about? This is probably the last time the world saw Casey Diaz alive. These are the last unofficial words of Casey Diaz.
The Emergency Broadcast System kicking in right at the end is the scariest part. No more news, it's over.
We need a whole movie done in this format, it would be such a unique take on a zombie film
Yeah but it would have to include some solid story outside the actual broadcasts. Constant broadcast for 90 minutes would get dull.
The closest thing i can think of is Pontypool. Its about a zombie outbreak seen from the perspective of a radio dj in his studio hunkering down and trying to report on the crisis
Diary of the dead? Lol
Savageland
it is docu style. amazing performances. it sucks you in and never lets go.
Watch a movie called Savageland
Richard Biggs was a great actor. R.I.P. And to have Bruce Boxleitner as the president made this a B5 complimentary piece of sorts.
Wait.... The actor who portray as a reporter here?! He died two months after the original movie Dawn of the Dead was released wtf?!
@@sweetballs4742 yeah he was a terrific actor, sadly cut down by cancer I believe
Ohh, when it's 2004 zombie movie, and it's just completely coming in 2024.
new jersey was chill until hour 20 💀
Which isn’t realistic 😂😂😂😂
I remember going to see this in theaters when I was 15 in 2004. I have always been a fan of zombie movies. The first Resident Evil movie came out a few years earlier and I thought that was good, but this is a remake of a George Romero movie, he is the one who invented dead things coming back and eating flesh ! He created zombies so this movie was HUGE they even played the first 10 minutes of it on TNT too ! First time I seen zombies run as well. Very suspenseful and exhilarating experience. This is the best Romero remake next to the Night Of The Living Dead remake in 1990 ! R.I.P George A. Romero 🧟♂️ 🧟♀️
The running zombie... It was the first time i saw one as well. And i remember watching the directors cut and snyder talking about how much scarier he though it was for a zombie to be running full speed at you. He is correct.
@@mixtapeweezy6871 28 days later did the running zombie first. And better, in my opinion, but DOTD remake is still a good zombie film.
no one asked.
Haha actually, I believe it was your mom who asked.
@@lunaractivities7598 my mom is dead
6:00 I love the fact that this doctor is just talking bolony and advertizing hes own books during zombie epidemic xD
wtf you're absurdly cute.
Bros down bad
@@Ch4rlz_ThA_Princ3 stop lying to the poor girl
If the zombies didn’t run this could easily tie into Max Brook’s WWZ. The novel, not that shit stain movie
Look at the credit
The novel was INSANE, imagine the battle of yorks in film
@@JudicialBrat think you’re meaning Yonkers, if you’re thinking of the battle that happened just outside New York City
RIP actor Richard Briggs, the Doctor from Babylon 5. He did an excellent job as the news anchor.
He played Dr Franklin on that science fiction television series loved it! RIP
@@CHARMING_PLAYBOY_101don’t know if you caught it but that’s Bruce Boxleitner (John Sheridan) voicing the President in his final message
This looks like something you would watch hundreds of years after the initial apocalypse. On how the world ended and how they were taken care of. Scary but educational!
I haven't seen any zombie movie or series top this, perhaps 28 Days Later. So very well put together and "realistic".
The end is extremely fucking nigh
28 days later is a movie about a bunch of angry people. there are no zombies in that film.
everyone dies of starvation. they are not reanimated corpses.
great movie though
Seems accurate. Within 24 hours everything will go to complete shit and chaos.
I love how the stinger at 2:30 reads 'Violence in the The Heartland'. Like they put it out in such a hurry they forgot to spell check. I love little details like that.
I'm coming back to Dawn of the Dead content like once a year and it's this time again.
I still wonder if it really was intentional or if it was some accident no one noticed at the time.
7:58 love to see a good ol Tom Savini cameo. That man is a legend
Richard Biggs did a great job on portraying this anchor David Barrows, his legacy on this masterpiece will be remembered. May he find peace in the afterlife for all of eternity.
Seeing my town specfically mentioned with a shriff scene is surreal
18:10 how come zombie films never mentioned nuclear weapons being used? I want more of this.
Return of the Living Dead ends with a nuclear explosion.
World War Z (book and movie) go on to explain that China ended up resorting to those means.
Highschool of the dead had a nuke and emp scence
@@josephtremblay4 Same with the game
The original 1978 Dawn Of The Dead when they’re holed up in their upstairs apartment just as Roger dies and turns, Steven and Francine are watching a Civil Defense broadcast where it’s pretty obvious things have broken down, the set backdrop is askew the camera is weaving all over as if the cameraman just gave up and walked away and someone else grabbed it showed a government scientist Dr. Forest I think his name was arguing with both the host and random tv crew members and he says ‘Since no one has touched upon our nuclear option??…Why don’t we drop bombs on all the big cities?’ to which the host says he can’t be serious to which the doctor replies ‘I’m deadly serious’ the scene then cuts to Roger reanimating and Peter offscreen putting him down to which the Dr on tv yells ‘We’ve got to remain logical! Logical…We have to, there’s no choice we have to…or it’s the end’ according to the film there were a few more broadcasts over the next few days or weeks but that we don’t ever see before ceasing for a couple of days or something that’s mentioned before a roving biker gang breaches the barricades and let’s the zombies all back in the mall.
Sorry for the long winded explanation but that really stands out to my mind where in a zombie movie not part of the Resident Evil series where nuclear weapons are even mentioned
The survival video tactical guy is “Uncle Scotty” Reitz, an LAPD SWAT legend and host of his own UA-cam channel today.
“Avoid LA at all costs!” Dont worry, I already Do
If the zombies are from:
WWZ, we’re fucked.
The Walking Dead, we might stand a chance.
Thriller, we dance….
If they're anything like those in The Walking Dead we're perfectly fine unless you're walking through the woods and for whatever reason can't see more than a few inches and for whatever reason you also can't hear a zombie nearby. I stopped watching The Walking Dead after season 4. I got so tired of how they would have to zoom in tight on a character that's about to be attacked by a slow moving zombie as if the zombie popped out of thin air. It was ridiculous.
Which WWZ? The novel or the movie?
Because the novel have the walking zombies, while the movie have the sprinters.
@@sweetballs4742 there's only 1 WWZ that has most, if not everyone, on edge. If you think about it, that novel has zombies that runs parallel with "The Walking Dead", and if my previous message wasn't clear enough, that means it's not the novel, but the movie. Most people associate WWZ through the film, not the novel.
@@permafrostinsanity1799 Novel >>>>> very bad film.
7:50 Big shoutout to Tom Savini, SFX artist on the original Dawn Of The Dead, as Sheriff Cahill! "That woman over there? I think I did her..." LMAO