Zombiemania Runnin’ Wild

March 24, 2004

I’m not a huge fan of Zombie Action, except for my beloved Dead-Alive (BrainDead), but Dawn of the Dead turned out to be a lot of b-movie fun. People start getting eaten within minutes of the start and it never really stops, and that’s the kind of cannibal pacing I can really get behind.

In general, I just dug that there weren’t lots of startling cuts and shocking out of the corner of the frame zombie attacks. The movie is really more about building this impending sense of dread and hopelessness and that worked. Fighting zombies is a war of attrition more than anything, and the film got that.

There are some pretty bad horror movie tropes, but that’s part of the fun. You’ve got to be able to yell at dumb people, because really, isn’t the real horror of life dealing with INCREDIBLY DUMB PEOPLE? Is that just me?

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