First Time Watching DAWN OF THE DEAD (1978) Reaction... THEY HAD GUTS!!
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- Watching DAWN OF THE DEAD 1978 for the first time!
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Back in 2017, I had a chance to chat briefly with Scott Reininger, who plays Roger the SWAT guy in the film, while getting his autograph at a convention. He told me that making the character Stephen (aka “Flyboy”) inept with a gun was actually ironic because the actor who played him, David Emge, was, in real life, a Vietnam vet and a crack shot.
Nice story.
Truly ironic.
Ya beat me to it, LOL. The late David Emge, who sadly passed away this past January, I believe was also an avid hunter growing up before his service in Viet Nam. In the cast commentary on one of the DVD versions, he admits to playing inept in the film because, "somebody had to build tension in this movie" LOL
Roger coming back to life is such a creepy scene.Up there with Sophia coming out of the barn in The Walking Dead.
They made him inept with a hammer too.
Were you at Ldw that year?
Fun story? We have Mister Rogers to thank for the modern zombie moving existing. No, really. George Romero worked on Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, and when Fred Rogers got tonsillitis and they decided to film an episode of the show to help kids understand what it means to get sick, go to the doctor, and even get surgery, Romero was in charge of filming at the hospital. Lo and behold, he found that he actually loved the blood and the gore (which obviously they didn't have on the episode, but Romero was around it), and he wanted to explore that side of himself on film, and Fred Rogers encouraged him to do so. Fast forward a few years and Night of the Living Dead becomes the start of modern zombie films. A few years later, Dawn of the Dead comes out and Fred Rogers is there on opening night with Romero. After the movie, Romero asked Rogers how he liked it, and Rogers responded with something akin to, "That was fun!"
So remember, kids. If you love zombie horror, thank Mister Rogers for giving George Romero the little push he needed.
Holy crap, yet *_another_* reason why Fred Rogers was amazing! Love this anecdote.
Rogers also stopped "Lady" Betty Aberlin from being Barbara in Night of the Living Dead, but that one is pretty understandable. He wanted to keep his world and this world as separate as possible and I respect that, although I do feel bad for the actors in situations like that.
Another Kat connection: Chef Brockett and Neighbor Aber were in Silence of the Lambs.
Literally every new thing I learn about Mr Rogers just makes him more and more awesome 👏
It's a Lovely day in the neighbourhood.
It's a real mall still in operation called Monroeville Mall in Pennsylvania. They just had their annual Living Dead Weekend there a few weeks ago.
With a stone bust of George Romero to look over it all.
Have been to the filming locating in Evans City, PA, for "Night...". Great experience.
@@jamesbednar8625 Me too, for the 2018 festival and got to go to the 50th Anniversary screening. One of the highlights of my life.
Yep, but it looks so different now. the skating rink is gone. I believe a movie theater is now in it's spot.
@DCFCfanatic The skate rink became the food court, and Penny's was where the theater is now.
A horror masterpiece. I highly recommend The original Day of the Dead. You will not be disappointed.
best zombie movie of all time 🖤
at 31.05 : the guy with the mustache brush is the legendary Tom SAVINI
I still have one of those, LOL
Savini also did a bunch of the shots with zombies getting run over/hit by the trucks.. He was so energetic and versatile he'd do stunts also. I think he got hurt pretty badly during one shot.
@@DanielWeinreb-vc6et Yes he did ! for example : at 19.38 the blonde lady , well , it's Tom with a wig 😂
at 20.21 the hit by the truck guy : also Tom .
like you said , he did lot of things on this movie
his 1990 remake of night of the dead was pretty good
“Shopping a Sale when everything’s free…now THAT’S the real horror of this movie.” 😂😂
When she started yelling “is it cake” I nearly peed my pants. Comedy gold! Took me back to the days of Mystery Science Theater 3000. The OG movie reaction videos.
Love Kats excitement for this movie.A Romero classic.💀💀💀
"Tom Savini! This is gonna be good," this woman knows what she's talking about. 💯
David Emge, the flyboy Steven, died earlier this year. He played a lousy shot in the movie but, ironically, was an infantryman in Vietnam.
And I think Kat has found her inner gore geek.
‘WOW,HE EMERGES’.Love Kat’s reaction when she saw the reanimated Stephen.😸
One of my favourite lines in the film is when they just get in the store and Peter says "Let's just get what we need" and Roger replies "Ooh ooh Chocolate and Lighter fluid". A man after my own heart.
I somewhat looked like Roger when I was young, so I always identified with him. His protracted death always bums me when I see it, though it’s done very well. All four of the actors did a great job in this.
Day of the Dead is good, but it has a completely different tone. It's darker, and the special effects are much more realistic.
They were able to pour a much larger percentage of the budget into just the zombies and effects, for the third one. Romero had his first chance to do zombies really well.
@@roddmatsui3554 Yeah, the effects are really good on Day. There's not one likable human in sight mind you...
@@carpetfluff35 Not true. Frankenstein is likeable, the pilot is likeable, the radio man is likeable, and Captain Rhodes is THE GOAT.
The movie swears like ten sailors, though.
@@TriarchVisgroup Yes, Captain Rhodes is definitely the best thing ever in the entire film. This rousing performance by the late Joseph Pilato makes that character so perfectly lovable to hate. 😈
Romero's zombies in this order, Kat:
Night of the Living Dead
Dawn of the Dead
Day of the Dead
Land of the Dead
Diary of the Dead
Survival of the Dead
I really need to re-watch Land again, haven't seen it since around the time it came out and cant remember much of what happens.
Let's not forget "Laundry of the Dead"😂😂
@@brion0220It’s pretty good and I like it just as much as the previous ones. Survival was terrible though.
Oh, no sir. We do not talk about Diary or Survival. Again, again. We DO NOT talk about Diary or Survival... lol
In all seriousness, Diary was a sad reboot to then current times and Survival has only one good thing going for it: No Studio interference.
Every time Flyboy hits the glass with the binder, I always think to myself, "chill dude! Don't break the damn glass." 😂
Exactly! "Read the room dude!"
It was a real mall. I believe Romero knew the owner and got access to shoot after hours. They had to dress the set after the mall closed, shoot that day's material, and then undress everything so the mall could open on time in the morning.
There is nothing more gleeful in this world than Kat becoming such a gorehound, LOL.
Day of the Dead is worth watching/reacting to and it's Romero's favorite of the series and has the best practical effects of the series that won Savini a Saturn award
The best Zombie horror movie ever made. Nothing compares to it.
Have you ever seen Zombie-A.K.A. Zombie 2 from 1979? Holds 2nd place.
Fun fact, the blood splatter from the zombie in the elevator doorway ended up splashing in between the doors. They never cleaned it, and it was still splattered there decades later when they remodeled. The door is now in the the Living Dead Museum in the mall.
Kat totally gets Romero's point here - that while at first the taking of the mall is exciting and triumphant and suddenly you have some basic security and all the *stuff* you could ever need; then the boredom sets in because if all you're doing is feasting off the scraps of a dead world you're barely better than the zombies. He was a cheerful man with a great sense of humor, but he believed to his core than you couldn't embrace life as long as you were in denial about death.
Also, the late 70's when consumerism, cocaine, libertarianism etc. really started to get popular... Romero is making a commentary about decadent and complacent consumers who to a large degree are ignoring a literal apocalypse.
Anyone else notice Kats eyes light up with blood lust at the screwdriver bit?
The screwdriver scene was only put in because they realised they had a continuity error. In a scene just before Roger tied the tracksuit yop around his waist and just after in another scene it had gone so they added the screwdriver in the ear scene where the zombie won't let go of the top and Roger undoes the top from his waist it and leaves it.
And nobody ever notices that the scene is part of the filmmaking process! It comes out of nowhere, fixes the continuity issue, and then the film moves on - just as the production did. The show must go on.
She’s becoming a horror fan. Everytime she’s says “I’m Kat and I hate horror movies” I say no you don’t
She’s been fooling us for years. She loves the stuff. She’s clever
Kat: "I hate horror movies!"
Also Kat: "Ohhhh yeahhh!!"
You know, I've seen this movie over 100 times, starting with seeing it at when it was first released, and it never occurred to me to think "What the hell is Flyboy actually doing in the chopper while they're moving the trucks?". That's actually a damn good point.
Hes wasting gas, thats what! And if someone tries to say he's keeping watch from above, how was he going to relay any info to them on the ground? Dont think they had walkies!
@@asarishepard8171 He did relay info to Peter when he came down low to suggest something was wrong with Roger.
I would never DREAM of calling you……
Rat-Face?
Fatty?
or…
Big-Mouth??
Captain Kronos: A little bit of both - not enough of either!
I assumed to pick them up if things got fubar but I'm sure there was some reason. Even if they died he would at least know and could be like "yep, they're gone. Saw it all. Couldnt do nothing. It was weird. Anyway, it's just the two of us now. Also, the helicopter's dry"
16:03 - Actually Kat, back in the day, before 1970, people used to commit [street] abortions by using a wire coat hanger. Peter doesn't get into the gory details in this scene, but that's pretty much how it was done back then. It was extremely dangerous, sometimes causing serious, even irreparable damage to women's reproductive systems, and in worse cases when someone really botched it, death. This movie, Dawn of the Dead, came out only five years after Roe v Wade, and those infamous Planned Parenthood clinics didn't begin performing medical abortions on a regular until about 1973. Since that ruling was still new at the time, many people would still do the "street abortions" instead of going to a Planned Parenthood clinic to get it done. Hence, why Peter mentioned knowing how to do in this scene. It was very common in those days; especially in low income neighborhoods, where many people did not have health insurance. And I believe also that, in those days, abortions were not covered by medical insurance, so people would have to pay out of pocket. Clinics were cheaper than hospitals for the procedure, but still, it was all too expensive for many in low income neighborhoods. So again, they went with the "street" option. Abortions weren't covered by health insurance until lobbyists and legislators convinced the lawmakers of the land to categorize it as a "health" procedure, thereby eligible to be covered under medical insurance plans.
Yes, even children in those days knew that an unbent wire hanger was the main tool used for a home abortion. Common knowledge, and often published.
Peter in his spare time performed back alley abortions.
Actress Polly Bergen talks about how she had a "back alley abortion" once and it caused her to never be able to have kids, something I bet she regretted
@@homelesshannah50 - Thank you, I couldn't remember what the other term for it was, yes, "back alley abortion".
Not sure we needed your comment in a movie reaction video comment section, but I think it's common sense that a SWAT team member with no extensive medical training and/or the proper equipment might botch a complicated surgery.
That script consultant Dario Argento in the opening credit deserved a huge pop of excitement as well. Respect to the master of Giallo.
Fun Fact: In the very beginning, when the first zombie on the stairs bites the girl on the arm - He went a little to far and actually Bit her. Her scream was real. Also, David Emge (Stephen) was a real life Ex-green Beret, so those scenes when he had to fumble around with the guns like he didn't know what he was doing were difficult.
Yeah that was crazy, he bit a HUGE bite!
"Also, David Emge (Stephen) was a real life Ex-green Beret"
Where is there any info that he was a Green Beret? I don't see that.
@@shawbros You can Google it, or read Tom Savini's book "Grande' Illusions" where he spoke on the subject. :)
This is Kat's best reaction so far imho. She was having a total blast!❤😀👍
"Undead weight...," lol
Kat has really come into her own. If a zombie outbreak ever happened, I'm looking up Kat, STAT!
It's my favorite movie of all time. This film was what let me know horror can be fun and be used in so many different ways.
Day of the Dead next!
Fun Fact: Filming at the Monroeville Mall took place during the winter of 1977-78, with a three-week reprieve during the Christmas shopping season (during which other footage, e.g. the TV studio, was shot). Filming at the mall began around 10 p.m., shortly after the mall closed, and finished at 6 a.m. The mall didn't open until 10:30, but at 6 the Music came on and no one knew how to turn it off, there were a few bars in that area, and Savini remembers making up zombies who would then go to the bar and drink. Everyone agreed this probably helped their performances. Savini does say the drunk zombies caused damage, particularly a couple who stole a golf cart and crashed it inside the mall.
On top of that, they left the Christmas decorations up because if they had tried to take them all down (and then put them back after filming) it would've basically eaten up all of their filming time there. I also read somewhere that they hadn't intended to be filming the mall scenes over Christmas, it was just that the earlier parts of filming took longer than expected.
Dawn 1978, now that's a movie! Thanks for the reaction!
I was at a horror convention twenty years ago. I wasn’t a fanatic but I knew enough to be dangerous. My roommate was standing in line to meet Sid Haig, I wound up chatting with this middle aged woman who was there. We chatted for about ten minutes when someone came to get her autograph (she wasn’t behind her table…). I asked her what movie she was in and she pointed to the banner, “Dawn of the Dead”. I felt like an idiot. Here I was thinking I’m just chatting with some horror kid’s mom and the whole time I was chatting with Gaylen Ross!
She was in Creep Show also.
In 1997 I had the chance to fly to the U.S. with a friend to interview Tom Savini in Pittsburgh (in February, brrrrrr....), in his workshop no less... 😃 Tom even took us to a pizza restaurant near his house, then invited us back to his home. Such a nice guy. Whilst in Pittsburgh we also interviewed John Amplas (from Romero's film MARTIN) and visited the Monroeville mall that was used for the main location in DAWN... The lamp poles in the car park were (in '97 at least) the same ones seen in the film, and a few key things inside the mall remained the same and if you looked closely at the gaps between the floor tiles a few traces of the fake blood they used in 1978 could still be discerned! The interview with Tom was used in a book we did called 'Tom Savini: The Wizard of Gore'... Still a crazy memory that I will forever cherish 🤩
"Goblin" are absolute legends. Great film, The Extended Mall cut of this is worth watching. Fun reaction, wish more people did this one, made my day.
Goblin soundtracks are always a delight! Especially for Argento projects.
@@LordVolkov "Demons" is a banger.
The extended cut is my favorite too! I'd be fine with a 4 hour cut of this haha
@@LordVolkovDeep Red is definitely their best!
I have the bell-sounding Part of "l'albei dei morti viventi" as my ringtone.
Thanks for reacting to the original Kat 😊👍🏽 other reactors watch the remake which is good, but nothing beats a classic.
Oh, Kat, are you kidding me? You have picked one of the greatest movies ever to do today. Wow, what a movie. Wow. I’m really old now! I was twelve when this movie came out, and it took a couple of years to get into a theater to see it!
Were movies running in theatres for a lot longer back then? They come and go now within a few weeks. I guess it makes sense to keep them running longer since there weren't as many being made?
Dawn played in theaters for years. First in regular theaters, then 2nd run houses. It played a lot of midnight shows.
It was also a great Drive-In movie!
Haven’t had the pleasure of seeing it at a drive-in!
Good movies were 'held over' for weeks, months and even years - at least in some cities. ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW ran for decades in some cities, usually a Saturday Night midnight party with the audience in full costume, and sometimes in clubs - no seating, just standing, dancing, etc. "Held over for 33 weeks" was the sign of a good film, and audiences returned week after week, usually dragging their uninitiated friends. The Theatre Experience remains awesome when the audiences are huge and enthusiastic, providing a mass excitement that home-video never ever will achieve.
"... even if you're dead, that's embarrassing!" Almost crying with laughter here :D
I bumped into Tom Savini in line at a McDonald's in Ohio once. I was a teen on a school trip and he was on his way to a horror convention. After he finished eating he put his kid in the car and came back in to chat with our group for a minute. This was right after From Dusk til Dawn so he was "Sex Machine" to us. He told us to search out the laserdisc version of the movie for some special features he created. Really nice guy.
Great reaction Kat!
So happy you finally got to this movie, it's not only one the best zombie movies, it's one of the best horror movies EVER!
You definitely need to react to "Day Of The Dead" (1985) and the re-imagining/remake"Dawn Of The Dead" (2004, the unrated version).
I love your fun and snappy remarks and observations during your reactions, keep up the great work!
I'd love to see you react to "Session 9" (2001).
Many blessings to you and yours!
Went to see this movie in the theater when it came out and loved it. Tom Savini who played the Machete wielding Motorcycle Gang leader was a combat photographer in Vietnam. He was also the special effects person for this movie. Savini said his wartime experiences influenced his eventual style of gory effects: He said that he hated that when he watched a war movie and someone dies. Some people die with one eye open and one eye half-closed, sometimes people die with smiles on their faces because the jaw is always slack. He incorporated the feeling of the stuff that he saw in Vietnam into his work. RIP to David (Fly Boy) Emge who passed earlier this year.
Fun fact: It was filmed in an actual mall in Monroeville, Pennsylvania, they shot around the business hours of the mall
That is a very Fun Fact.
People also ask
What mall was Dawn of the Dead 1978 filmed in?
the Monroeville Mall
With 150 stores, the Monroeville Mall is currently the eighth largest shopping mall in Pennsylvania. The mall is famous for being the filming location of the 1978 George A. Romero horror film Dawn of the Dead.
Ken Fore (who plays Peter) is a horror film legend! He also stars in H.P. Lovecraft's "From Beyond" (great movie, btw), which also stars incomparable Jeffrey Combs. BTW, several people from the original Dawn of the Dead, including Ken Fore, Tom Savini, and Scott Reiniger (Roger) have small cameos in the 2004 remake. :)
And also Leatherface part 3
Ken Foree goes hand to hand combat with Leatherface
I remember him from "Joshue Tree".
The remake of Night of the Living Dead is worth watching. It was produced by Romero and directed by Tom Savini. One of the reasons it was made was that Romero and Russo lost the rights to the original NotLD and didn't make any money off it because the distributor cheated them. It's pretty faithful to the original with a few changes and a major twist on one of the main characters.
The Dawn of the Dead remake is good. But pretty different. It's directed by Zack Snyder (his best film actually) and it's written by James Gunn (probably why it's Snyder's best film).
Day of the Dead is pretty damn good. Arguably the best gore fx ever done. The Dawn remake is also very good, helped kick start the zombie resurgence 20 years ago. It really only has the mall setting in common with the original. And don't sleep on the Night of the Living Dead remake from 1990, which is very underrated/unseen. Stars Tony Todd as Ben and follows the original pretty closely. Directed by Savini as well.
I adore this movie. I remember first seeing it on video as a kid in the early 80's and absolutely loving it and have done ever since. For me, Night, Dawn, and Day is the holy trilogy of horror movies. RIP George Romero.
This girl's reactions are just the very best!
John Russo and George Romero wrote the night of the living dead together and then split off into their own personal franchises. Russo kept the “living dead” part of the title and went on to do the Return of the living dead series. While Romero went to make his series starting with Dawn.
So Dawn of the dead is essentially Return of the living deads cousin.
"I want to keep the baby"
Proceeds to smoke in the next scene
Very common for pregnant women to smoke and drink back then, they didn't know how dangerous it was yet
Great Reaction 👍👍👍 Thanks for introducing me to this movie😊
Fun fact. The blonde zombie who attacks Roger while he's hot wiring the lorry was Tom Savini's girlfriend.
cute
I love how Kat called out Flyboy doing helicopter overwatch duty during the truck scene. It make zero sense, but I guess it added some tension when Steven could see that Roger was being approached by the zombies and he didn't know. But without walkie talkies, there was no point in him being up there at all. Just wasting fuel like she said.
peter: “fly boy?!”
kat: “more like ‘die boy’”
"Humanity's the REAL horror in this movie!"
Kat, honey, humanity's the real horror in this world. The trick is to find the humans who don't suck.
I found my wife. Everyone else can go away.
Amen.
So glad you watched this and not the remake. The remake is good, but it doesn't have the same level of satiric commentary that this one has and the original was groundbreaking for it's time. Every zombie film after this, owes "Dawn" a great deal. This is Romero's portrait of America and consumerism at the time. "Day of the Dead" is awesome too, and well worth a watch.
In all truth the remake is really good in the first twenty minutes and the last fifteen. The rest is just meh at best.
@@darkstar6909I didn't care for most of the actors in the remake....
@@darkstar6909 the remake is a very hollywood movie, it lacks the charm of the Romero one and the characters feel more like movie characters rather than real people
"Every dead body that is not exterminated becomes one of them. It gets up and kills, the people it kills get up and kill." This line explains zombies perfectly.
George Romero made his home in the metro Pittsburgh area and shot many of his films there, often using local talent. The mall featured in “Dawn of the Dead” is the Monroeville Mall in Monroeville, a suburb of Pittsburgh. And it is still there today. I’ve had more than one meal at the food court. And at the mall, you’ll also find The Living Dead Museum, a small museum dedicated to zombies in movies and pop culture.
43:18 - LOL, watching you sway your head back and forth to this music delights me! Hehe, every now and again, either me or my wife bust out humming this tune, because it is just so hilarious! lol. 😅
70's horror just hits different, it's what I grew up on and still love to this day: gritty, raw, loud, clumsy, along with levels of creativity out the wazoo due to low budgets and lack of resources. Pioneers and legends.
so glad you are watching one of my favourite movies of all time, your reactions are great! I got to meet George A. Romero before he passed, and Ken Foree (Peter) at a comicon, and it will always be one of my favourite meetups.
Intro: "Hey, I'm Kat & I hate watching horror movies."
So much so that all 143 movies in her library are Horror Movies of one sort or another. I think we're being conned here, folks! LOL 🤣🤣🤣
I've seen a zillion zombie movies and this is still my favorite! There are movies with bigger budgets and better zombies and better known actors and more gore and blah blah blah, but there's just something special about this movie and how all of the pieces come together. It's a great survivalist horror movie but it's also creative, smart, charming and quirky at the same time. It has its own unique personality.
Nothing left to say. 👏
Same opinion.
Completely agree.The set pieces,the horror of what’s being told by the Doctor in the TV studio,The WACO type siege in the housing project,the survivors escaping the city in the helicopter,travelling across the countryside and seeing how the Zombie pandemic has spread,just escaping from the abandoned airfield,finding the abandoned shopping mall and making their home there,Rogers death and the boredom that’s taking over,the bikers then attacking the Mall and the ensuing battle that sees Stephens death then reanimation which sees him taking his fellow dead to the hiding place,and finally Stephen’s destruction and Peter and Fran leaving the Mall for pastures new.It’s those set pieces and the apocalyptic feel that makes this movie the classic that it is.Romero’s masterpiece.💀💀💀
" Shopping sale section when everything's free, that's real horror of this movie " Bam 😄
Roger: Would you like a screwdriver?
Zombie: Sure. They go straight to my head.
The longer Kat watches horror movies the more she says 'I hate watching them' becomes more unbelievable!!
One of the greatest horror movie openings ever.
So was Day of the dead " 1985
"Is it cake" will be sticking with me for awhile.😂 Really fun reaction Kat
Exoricst 3 (1990)
Yes!
Actual! Sequel !
Kat that homie you want at your side during a zombie apocalypse
berk
“More like die boy!”
Kat, you are a treasure 😂
Great reaction Kat (as always, of course). I distinctly remember seeing "Dawn of the Dead" for the first time in the theater when it came out in 1978. I had never seen 'Night of the Living Dead" after reading Roger Ebert's now infamous review of it, but saw a review of DotD in 'Fangoria' magazine and thought I would check it out. I was not at all prepared for the realism in the effects of various ways the zombies ate or dismembered their victims, but loved the overall film. With merchandising not being what it is now, I had an airbrush artist at a country fair booth make me a custom t-shirt based on the poster, and the cover of the tie-in novel, which I owned, along with the film's title in black felt letters on the back.
A bit later when the film began a midnight run in a local theater, a small group of us would go and sit towards the back each week (me always in my t-shirt) waiting for that initial exploding head shot scene, and stand up and cheer, and then wait to see how many people left right then, or at some point soon thereafter. I loved that you recognized the music that Edgar Wright later used in "Shaun of the Dead" and, in honor of Ken Foree, who played Peter, the name of the electronics store where Shaun worked was named Foree Electronics. You can see it on the name badges.
"Is it cake?" I remember seeing this in the theatre years ago. People were walking out to the lobby at certain points when it got to be too much. This was the time when movies like this were really introducing gore. Having Dario Argento as a script consultant I'm sure amped up Romero's horror. The mall serves as a sly comment on our culture (then and now). A suggestion of a future watch, 'Altered States'. Great film, great script, really terrific cast including William Hurt.
2004's Dawn of the Dead is by far top 3 zombie movies in my book. Although, a lot of people rag on it.
I can’t understand why anyone would rag on it. It’s a FANTASTIC remake with a great cast and a great script by James Gunn.
It’s still Zack Snyder’s best film as far as I’m concerned.
@@keefriff99 I saw a vid saying some of the decisions made in the movie aren't faithful to the original and how out right idiotic they are. Dont get me wrong, I still love the script but it isn't for everyone I suppose.
it has a strong opening but the characters are just very generic movie characters who don't feel like real people and it just lacks the charm of the original, it feels very much like a typical hollywood movie
I bow to The Queen of Puns. Such fun thumbnail wordplay in these videos. 😄
OMG Kat, Major Kudos for doing this film. George A. Romero wasn't the only director interested in zombie films but he was definitely one of the most influential of the early Zed Boom, and Dang! If you liked this one, "Day of the Dead" (1985) is absolutely a Must See thing.
Also, I hope you enjoy all the practical effects!
Finally, someone on YT is watching the original. Thank you 🥳🥳. Day of the dead coming soon, I hope.
This is the greatest horror film of all time in my opinion…. The Thing is my favorite horror film ever but Dawn is the GOAT. The remake is also incredible.👍
My most seen horror movie. Even more than the Thing.
Love your reactions ! Kat, I met Ken Foree several years ago and he was going to sign a picture for me.... when he asked what he should sign (as in my name) I jokingly said, " oh, just sign it ' to vera: my grandfather once told me when there's no more room left in hell, the dead will walk the earth'.... he looked at me like I was NUTS, then he realized I was joking lol
Well you have to pay the man an extra
$100
This was such a treat to watch! I've watched this movie countless amount of times since I was 5 years old and I'm 45 now. Subbed!
The actors of the 4 main characters, Ken Foree, who played Peter, David Emge, who played Stephen, Scott Reiniger, who played Roger, and Gaylen Ross, who played Fran. Notable facts: Ken Foree was in Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3, the Rob Zombie remake of Halloween, and quite a few other good movies, David Emge was in a few movies like Basket Case 2, and fun fact, he was from a town near where I live, Evansville, Indiana
Such a guilty pleasure of a film! The clever social commentary of the rise of mindless consumerism, combined with low budget, b-grade horror silliness! An all-time classic.
Don’t feel guilty about this masterpiece. 😊
Agreed. No guilt in observing brilliance.
Kat! I thought I was the only one who loves looking at background characters! Secondary characters are great but every now and then there's a tertiary (TER-she-err-ee) character that stands out amongst the crowd! Ya gotta love 'em! 🎥❤️
the 2004 remake is absolutely worth watching and I think your reaction will be great.
Great reaction to this horror classic...
Which version did you watch? The US Theatrical Cut, the Dario Argento/European Cut, The Cannes/Producer's Extended Cut or the 'fan edited Mall Hours' Cut?...
Hmm, the Argento (Euro) Cut didn't have the scene with the rotor blades killing the zombie and I heard a lot of stock music instead of the Goblin soundtrack, so my guess is it's either the Theatrical (Romero) Cut or the Extended Cut.
My 11 year old daughter loves this movie. She renamed it "Stupid Steve and the Truck Eaters.
That's legitimately hilarious 😂
Lol, your only concern on the worst death was if it was chicken or not! 😂 Excellent! I subscribed ❤
Re: the machete in the head, its got a piece carved out to fit the head and they shot it going into the head in reverse. So on action it’s always on the actor’s head and then he pulls it back. So when it’s played in reverse it looks like it stuck in his head.
And they use real animal guts for the human guts.
I absolutely love your reactions to horror movies 👍👍👍👍
David Emge, Stephen or Flyboy, RIP Jan 20, 2024.
It says something when us George A. Romero fans are finishing dialog from the characters. I had the pleasure seeing this when it first came out at a midnight showing in a New Jersey mall theatre. Years later I met George at a Monster-Mania con, forked over twenty bucks to have him sign a book called The Zombies That Ate Pittsburg; which he pointed out wasn't written by him( it was written by Paul R. Gagne, 1987). I countered that it's about you and your films. And then we exchanged e-mails. 😎
I lost count of how many times I've seen this movie over the years. I managed to memorize most of the dialogue at this point without even trying. And I still love it.
I know I said recently that my favourite is Dawn of the Dead, but I just realised it's Day of the Dead. 🤦♂The one that has Bob the Zombie. Such a character. My bad - I made a mistake, but these old movies are such a laugh.
That's BUB the zombie!
You enjoyed that screwdriver in the ear a little too much.
But then disliking a needle in an arm. You are weird ... in a good way. :D
Not quite sold that Kat hates horror films 😂😂😂😂
Hilarious reaction Kat your a diamond.
The 2004 remake is definitely worth watching.
Tom Savini was a combat photographer in Vietnam so he saw quite a lot of human anatomy. That’s where he learned to do the gore sfx.
Day is IMO the last of Romero’s good movies. The only interesting thing about Diary and Survival is they are the only two that have a direct connection.
Kat, you might like the 1990 Night remake. It’s directed by Tom Savini. The director commentary is cool too. The Dawn remake is not a straight remake but has a lot of Easter eggs pointing to the original like a store named after Gaylen Ross. I won’t mention the others.
Fun fact, Romero was American-Canadian and is actually buried up in Canada. I have a feeling this is why the characters have the idea of escaping to Canada.
Max Brooks and Ken Foree have the same idea
@@Poochpatrol Escaping to Canada in a zombie apocalypse?
I've seen that idea in a number of zombie films and shows. Just FYI, we don't want you all coming here
The idea is that the Zombies will freeze in the cold due to not having any body temp. Also there are vast wilderness areas where there would be little to no zombies.
ZOMBIE - 1979 - Flesh Eaters . That's the greatest zombie ever made by a French director Lucio Fulcci . That's a MUST watch if you Love / Hate horror movies !!!
Fulci was Italian. Zombie 2 (aka Zombie Flesh Eaters) was his direct response to Romero's "Dawn" as the Italian's loved to make films in the style of whatever had done well in America at the time. You can see this in action with his film "Conquest" which was riding on the success of early 80's Sword and Scorcery movies which were huge at the time. Would love to see Kat react to some Fulci films for sure, especially "The Beyond" or "House by the Cemetery".
@phantomexposure to me the Flesh Eaters soundtrack was great
@@guitarman8462 It's brilliant. A cult soundtrack.
@@guitarman8462 Was it Fabio Frizzy or something like that?
@@kaseybales8011 Lucio Fulcci
Great, fun reaction to one of my favorite and most rewatched films of all time.
‘Is it cake?’ 😂
You watched one I suggested! Awesome! My older siblings took me to see this when I was a kid; it put me off of watching horror movies until I was nearly thirty. LOL
Night, Dawn and Day are sequel in the sense that they take place in the same universe. Through the films the zombie situation gets worse. Honestly, the remakes of the first two arerreal good as well. The newer Night was directed by Tom Savini and Dawn was directed by Zach Snyder,
The 1990 night is criminally underrated