George A. Romero did a good job at making Dawn of the Dead but in my own personal opinion Zack Snyder has taken this first rate story, dusted the cobwebs off and made it new again. The remake has always appealed to me. The sights, sounds, and story all hit me in that soft warm gooey center I have from zombies of all kinds.
During the film you may notice that the zombies decay over time. If you compare the infected in the beginning of the film to the shambling corpses at the end, you can really notice the time and effort put into the living dead. Faces start to decay and become gaunt, limbs become weak, the clothing is soaked in dried blood. Zack Snyder also used people with handicaps such as missing limbs to add effect to his film. These characters were used as infected whose limbs were also missing. This plus crochet mallet handle through the lower jaw out the top of a fake head bring the feeling of survival home. Horror is also lurking around the shopping mall, (Warning Small Spoiler) the birth of an abomination takes place and its screams give me goose bumps, brrrrrgh.
The movie has sounds from Johnny Cash and Richard Cheese's band Lean Against the Machine. Deeply moving by Johnny Cash and yet still keeping a good sense of humor with Richard Cheese. This film is what introduced me to Lean Against the Machine. There is a scene in the movie where the survives are on top of the mall roof playing a little zombie killing game where one survivors tells a sniper to find and kill famous individuals in the zombie crowd outside the mall. Even at the worst of times you can still find something to laugh at, oooh Mr. Leno.
I have to say, I've watched this movie more times then I can count and I still can't get enough. From beginning to end this is one of my favorite stories. Only the strongest survive and this is how the story goes.
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