I was one of the few who was able to watch this when it hit the theaters. I was in high school, and a friend and I cut class to go to the movies. I remember seeing the movie poster and saying, "hey let's check this out" the girl at the booth let us in for free as there was only two other people in the theater besides my friend and me. I sat down with my cold pop and box of warm popcorn, and after the movie, I sat there with a warm soda and cold box of popcorn. changed my life forever. best movie
Patrick Wheeler man your incredibly lucky to have experienced this film during its release, and not just this film. The rest of Romero’s films as well. I was born in 2000. long after Night, Dawn, and Day. But I grew up watching them. I’ll always cherish them and love them and will always be grateful to Romero for creating such incredible films, hell he created a genre. I remember when I was finding out about these films as a little kid and I would always watch this trailer over and over. Dawn was always my favorite dead film. Definitely my favorite zombie film of all time and I consider it the best
This movie quite literally gives me chills even as a movie from 1978 the aura and chills serve to magnify the horror alongside the quirks like " we have spawned our own savagery now it will consume us all" this will always be one of the greatest horror movies of all time may george Romero be at peace for there will be no one who can make a zombie movie like he can
Happy 40th Anniversary to best zombies flick of all time. George A. Romero will always lived on within the dead zombies he direct. And still remains my favorite zombie flick yet. Great trailer.
I was born in '85 and I watched this in the late '80s when I was about 4 or 5 years old, watched it with family and it was my first real fear experience like on the couch in a room full of people and Im under the blanket ever other scene. I could barely watch, kept looking away and was still scared. I miss these old trailers too it sounds real, new movies aint got shit on the 70s and 80s stuff.
Born 82 and saw it on video with my 16 and 12 year old brothers at six with exorcist and both shocked me Then saw it again at 12 and been one of my favorites
Just watched the full director's cut of this the other day, and it still has the same impact on me. The nightmarish quality to the film that provokes the thought of what it would be like if something like this really happened.
Thanx for posting this!I was only 3 when this came out,so obviously my parents didn't take me to see it.Yay for VHS back then though,because my older brother snuck it into our house so we could watch it when I was around 8.Even though I was scared shitless,I loved it and became a huge horror movie fan instantly:)Horror movies from the 70's and 80's were the absolute best,and a lot of us that grew up at that time were incredibly lucky to have experienced watching these back in the day.
The narrator in this trailer is so damn profound and solemn, along with the music it adds to the apocalyptic, end-times vibe of the first three films. It's kind of funny though that they'd spoil Roger getting bitten and reanimated in this though.
Back 6 years ago I was going out with this girl and she liked the 04 remake. I told her the I love the original version and it's way better. One day, she rents it because Blockbuster was on life support, and I'm like fuck yeah, we got this by the ass. We watch it and she said she likes it but it was bit too slow. Needless to say, we were two very different people.
The Tragic death of the Zombie Master George Romero brought me here! The creator of the Three Best Zombie Flicks, "Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, and Day of the Dead, RIP George Romero, You will be dearly missed!!!
"It is a horrible and hauntingly accurate vision of the mindless excesses of a society gone mad." Man, he knew what he was talking about. And that was back in 1978.
Zach Snyder's version is certainly watchable, but the George A. Romero original has an infectious energy and originality that only the very best horror films have. (We may not think it's so original nowadays because it virtually created all the cliches of today's zombie stories.) Also, Romero's characters feel real (to me, anyway) in a way that I don't often sense in more recent horror films. Add inspired direction and a great soundtrack, and you have a masterpiece, equal to and yet very different from its predecessor. This is one of the greats....
I didn't like Snyder's version, it had nothing of the charm of this version. The characters I thought were dull as dishwater and I didn't care about any of them. While zombies running makes them more scary, it just didn't work as well as the shambling messes that they're supposed to be.
rockys201 As I said, Snyder's version is watchable...but, I agree, the characters aren't interesting. The actors are good, but the roles they play are underwritten and the size of the cast is a problem. I'm sure it provides a high body count for those who expect quite a bit of gore, but, in the end, I didn't care about anyone in that particular film. In the Romero version, we slowly get to know Peter, Roger, Steven and Fran, and that made me care that much more about what happened in the end. On a side note, Romero's use of a shopping mall as a critique of a decadent consumer society was inspired, and even revolutionary. In the remake, the mall is simply a setting, with no extra resonance to it. Snyder's version is fair...but for greatness, you need to the original....
Matthew Richardson The original DOTD is probably my favorite horror film ever, it just exudes charm and fun. The characters were actually memorable and you cared about all of them. When Roger and Steven die you feel a sense of sadness and loss, in the remake because there's too many characters you don't care nearly as much, also none of them had any substance. I'm sure the remake is highly watchable for some but I just didn't like it, I bought it one day and took it back the next because I knew I wouldn't watch it again.
Snyder’s version had too many damn characters haha. George kept it simple, 4 characters. We follow each of them before they get together. Plus Roger and Peter are one of the best duos of all time in my opinion. So fun to watch them work off each other
I saw the trailer for this in the theater when I was a kid. The trailer alone scared me so much I remember shaking. I saw the first Halloween in the theater and the evil dead too but just this trailer alone scared me more than those other full length films did. I also saw Alien in the theater...and The Thing...oh I also saw The Shining's theatrical release. I remember me an my dad mom and sister were on a roadtrip and decided to see it spur of the moment. Afterwords it was late and we decided to stay at a motel. I remember at the hotel we were all akwardly quiet and just went to bed. I think it was because it freaked my parents out lol
Did they not do wonderful trailers back then. The narrator does a marvelous job-he nails it. And whomever wrote it was also at the top of his game! Hell, these guys probably could have made the Ghostbusters remake trailer a success ... oops, got carried away there: my bad.
It has an ominous feel to it; the narrator is excellent and is complemented brilliantly by the eerie music. Much like the film, the trailer has a nightmarish quality to it, and to this day Dawn of the Dead remains my all-time favourite zombie film. A genuine classic which never fails to instill a sense of dread in me, whenever I watch it.
Coldheart9009 Can you believe that when I saw this film in a crowded theater in rural Massachusetts when it first came out that it was rated X and that nearly every member of the standing-room-only audience laughed their butts off for the duration of the movie? Sure a huge percentage were drunk and or high but even through the audio deluge I felt exactly as you described in your response. That's how great a movie it is.
yeah bro that's The problema with The movies today, They show The best parts in The movie so no surprise, back then the trailers were Long but The Show some scenes and they make like The Best parts... that's clever.
*"Did they not do wonderful trailers back then."* I remember seeing the TV spot when I was a little kid and I was always scared just by the way the voiceover guy said, "In 1968...". haha, so good.
Saint318 no it wasn't at all. it's trash. and idc if it was first of it's time B's. it's fkin terrible. I could make a simulation movie in my backyard. the script ain't good either. worst part about the 2004 remake.
DON'T LISTEN TO HIM IT'S YOUR OPINION I PREFER THE 2004 REMAKE ANYWAYS ARE YOU SAVED SAINT318 ? HAVE YOU ACCEPT JESUS AS YOUR LORD AND SAVIOR AND RECEIVE ETERNAL LIFE I COULDN'T IMAGINE HEAVEN WITHOUT YOU YOU SEEM PRETTY COOL
Watched this as a kid with family in the early 80s when movie rentals became popular. Was so scary at the time and still one of my favorite zombie films.
I like both the 1978 original and the 2004 remake (which was loyal to the original Dawn of the Dead). I also found the 2004 parody "Shaun of the Dead" to be very well made and funny.
Happy 45th to a classic ! Saw it on video 35 years ago at six with my big brothers and shocked me then saw it again at 12 and been one of my favorites. Own it on the second sight uk import 4k set
I remember watching this trailer when I was five and having nightmares. Even today, it still kinda creeps me out. BTW best zombie film ever made! "NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD HAS ENDED... DAWN OF THE DEAD IS HERE!" Classic!
I was thinking.... this movie absolutely terrified me when I was 12. Eight years earlier, in my neighbourhood in Rome, Dario Argento had invited Romero to write it. Argento lived ten blocks away form me. So it is very possible that going out with my father, at four, I had seen Romero in cafe discussing with Argento about the film that would scare me the most in my childhood.
DAWN of the DEAD (imo) is: -The Best Film of All Time (hands-down for me) -The Best Zombie Film of All Time -The Best 4-Character Structure of All Time -The Best Setting of All Time (old school Mall... "One of those big indoor Malls") -The Best Soundtrack of All Time (Goblin) -The Best Atmosphere of All Time -The Best TRAILER of All Times if you go to my channel I have a video from 2010 from a Horror Convention I went to where I ask George A. Romero a question at a Q&A. Before meeting him in 2010 I met Ken Foree (Peter) and Tom Savini (Effects/Makeup/Blades Character) in 2008 at the same Convention (Rock and Shock in Worcester, MA). I have also met Clayton Hill (Sweater Zombie) and his Wife Sharron (or whoever that Nurse Zombie is). Clayton Hill was also Weapons Coordinator, they are married and would heard the zombies on and off set haha. Also met "Bub" from Day of the Dead (Howard Sherman) and others.... including GOBLIN the group who composed the score (literally saw them on Tour in Boston the day before Halloween a few nights ago). In other words..... I have been obbsessed with DAWN of the DEAD ever since renting it on VHS in the 90's and watching with my friends LATE one night. We kept rewinding the part where Willie kicks in Apartment door and shoots the Zombie in the head with a shotgun and the Zombie's head EXPLODES like a watermelon (we watched that for 20 min straight and laughing).... by the time i finished the movie. I was in love, and it stuck with me forever. DAWN of the DEAD is literally my favorite film of all time, even with it's many goofs. That means I like it better than my other favorite films. I like it better than HEAT, Goodfellas, Casino, The Godfather (and Part II), Alien, Aliens, 2001, The Shining, Psycho, North by Northwest, Full Metal Jacket, Platoon, Saving Private Ryan, The Dark Knight, every Avengers film, LOGAN, Blade Runner (even loved 2049 and saw it 4x in theaters).... yes, I love DAWN of the DEAD more than all of those movies. DAY of the DEAD may have the best Zombie effects of all time (thanks Tom Savini), but Tom's effects in DAWN of the DEAD weren't quite as good as Tom originally intended (he wanted grey Zombies not blue-ish)... however the BLUE zombies add to that 70's charm. The colorful clothing, the BRIGHT RED BLOOD in contrast with the Blue-ish cold looking Zombies is ICONIC imo. I love the zombies here. Plus you got 4 character you actually ROOT FOR, the best setting (a MALL), the best soundtrack, the RAIDERS motorcycle gang which up the ante.... THE GONK. This movie has it all. I would give it a 10/10 (goofs and flaws included). MASTERPIECE, easily my favorite film of all time.
I believe the voice over actor plays a major role in these. For this one...Adolph Cesar. He was an actor also and did trailers for other niche videos. Super cool voice!
The best apocalyptic film ever made of the Z pandemic... i haven't seen this movie in 4 decades, but suddenly it's the music started to haunt me out of no where!! Boy what a trip in memory lane... It took me back home... For home is time
I saw this when I was about 11, my mom took me and my older brothers to see it in the theater, and afterwards I and my mom and brothers, all became HUGE zombie movie fans! I just wish my mom had lived long enough to have watch the series The Walking Dead, me and her talked a lot about how great it would be if they would do a zombie tv show, but she never got to see it happen! Though what we had in mind wasn't really what came to be, ours would have been with a main cast, and the ones getting killed every week, would be background characters, it would have more to do with a community or communities trying to survive, with more dramatic moments, not just senseless violence, like with TWD and it's spawns! It would have been more like George A.Romero, where you actually would have a bit more character development, and NOT just so they can get you to like the character and root for them, only to have the writers kill them off, even if it didn't help the story along, but just to shock everyone, each season! I always wanted a zombie tv show with more hope, though Z Nation did come pretty close itself, but it was too tung and cheek, humorous, mine would be more dramatic, but with some fun moments too!
I was one of the few who was able to watch this when it hit the theaters. I was in high school, and a friend and I cut class to go to the movies. I remember seeing the movie poster and saying, "hey let's check this out" the girl at the booth let us in for free as there was only two other people in the theater besides my friend and me. I sat down with my cold pop and box of warm popcorn, and after the movie, I sat there with a warm soda and cold box of popcorn. changed my life forever. best movie
Patrick Wheeler man your incredibly lucky to have experienced this film during its release, and not just this film. The rest of Romero’s films as well. I was born in 2000. long after Night, Dawn, and Day. But I grew up watching them. I’ll always cherish them and love them and will always be grateful to Romero for creating such incredible films, hell he created a genre. I remember when I was finding out about these films as a little kid and I would always watch this trailer over and over. Dawn was always my favorite dead film. Definitely my favorite zombie film of all time and I consider it the best
Patrick Wheeler
Hahaha warm pop and cold popcorn, I love it. You know the movie is good when you’re too focused to eat your movie snacks.
Patrick Wheeler that elevator scene where the living dead attack poor Steven still freaks me out.
Don't know how because I had it booked vip for me the wife and my 2 sons so I had the full theatre to ourselves
Wow so jealous of you
"When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the Earth." RIP George Romero
but what if there is no more room on earth?
SigmaDraconis87
Then they’ll release a virus like COVID-19 to cull the numbers back down to manageable levels.
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Rest in peace, George. The genre you created will go on forever, no headshot can take it down.
I've actually had the grand pleasure of meeting both George Romero and Tom Savini! I'll cherish both moments for the rest of my life :)
This movie quite literally gives me chills even as a movie from 1978 the aura and chills serve to magnify the horror alongside the quirks like " we have spawned our own savagery now it will consume us all" this will always be one of the greatest horror movies of all time may george Romero be at peace for there will be no one who can make a zombie movie like he can
My favorite movie! No matter how many times I've seen it, it never gets old!
The original Dawn Of The Dead is my all time favourite film I love every second of it
Happy 40th Anniversary to best zombies flick of all time. George A. Romero will always lived on within the dead zombies he direct. And still remains my favorite zombie flick yet. Great trailer.
Rest in peace George A Romero thank you for all the wonderful memories.
I was born in '85 and I watched this in the late '80s when I was about 4 or 5 years old, watched it with family and it was my first real fear experience like on the couch in a room full of people and Im under the blanket ever other scene. I could barely watch, kept looking away and was still scared.
I miss these old trailers too it sounds real, new movies aint got shit on the 70s and 80s stuff.
Born 82 and saw it on video with my 16 and 12 year old brothers at six with exorcist and both shocked me
Then saw it again at 12 and been one of my favorites
I feel so sorry for you, George A. Romero! Rest in peace, director of the living dead series!
When there's no room in hell. The dead walk the earth! Night of the Living Dead has ended... ...Dawn of the Dead is here!
Rest in Peace George A Romero. :(
George A Romero is now one of the dead. He's coming back as a zombie.
R.I.P George you'll be truly missed.
My all time favorite Zombie movie.
Rest in Peace George Romero. Thank you for the memories.
The original Dawn Of The Dead is my all time favourite film I love every second of it
I can see the influence this had on the Resident Evil games.
Just watched the full director's cut of this the other day, and it still has the same impact on me. The nightmarish quality to the film that provokes the thought of what it would be like if something like this really happened.
Thanx for posting this!I was only 3 when this came out,so obviously my parents didn't take me to see it.Yay for VHS back then though,because my older brother snuck it into our house so we could watch it when I was around 8.Even though I was scared shitless,I loved it and became a huge horror movie fan instantly:)Horror movies from the 70's and 80's were the absolute best,and a lot of us that grew up at that time were incredibly lucky to have experienced watching these back in the day.
The narrator in this trailer is so damn profound and solemn, along with the music it adds to the apocalyptic, end-times vibe of the first three films. It's kind of funny though that they'd spoil Roger getting bitten and reanimated in this though.
I don't really care much for horror films anymore but DAMN this one was awesome!
I would like to go on record & say that David Emge’s unique strut remains the best zombie walk of all time.
Rest In Peace Legendary Director Of All Time.
Back 6 years ago I was going out with this girl and she liked the 04 remake. I told her the I love the original version and it's way better. One day, she rents it because Blockbuster was on life support, and I'm like fuck yeah, we got this by the ass. We watch it and she said she likes it but it was bit too slow. Needless to say, we were two very different people.
+BaronOfAnarchy OMG PLEASE TELL ME WHAT SHOW YOUR PICTURE IS FROM
***** You're the second person to ask me. It's from the movie Osmosis Jones.
ok thank you so much xDD... its just cause its that kind of show/movie that everyone knows, but doesn't talk about it.
+Tetocka wow ima watch the movie now
Yep,she most definitely needed to go after that!
The Tragic death of the Zombie Master George Romero brought me here! The creator of the Three Best Zombie Flicks, "Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, and Day of the Dead, RIP George Romero, You will be dearly missed!!!
modernwarfare Stay scared! As George himself would say.
Zombie Apocalypse won't be the same without him. RIP indeed. 😭
He even directed The Crazies
R.I.P. George A. Romero... to that big shopping mall in the sky
2/14/1940 - 7/16/2017
"It is a horrible and hauntingly accurate vision of the mindless excesses of a society gone mad." Man, he knew what he was talking about. And that was back in 1978.
Rest in Peace,Flyboy(2024)
George Romero:The Godfather of Zombie flicks. Romero was everything to this genre - and still is. RIP George... just don't wake up! ;-)
Zach Snyder's version is certainly watchable, but the George A. Romero original has an infectious energy and originality that only the very best horror films have. (We may not think it's so original nowadays because it virtually created all the cliches of today's zombie stories.) Also, Romero's characters feel real (to me, anyway) in a way that I don't often sense in more recent horror films. Add inspired direction and a great soundtrack, and you have a masterpiece, equal to and yet very different from its predecessor. This is one of the greats....
I didn't like Snyder's version, it had nothing of the charm of this version. The characters I thought were dull as dishwater and I didn't care about any of them. While zombies running makes them more scary, it just didn't work as well as the shambling messes that they're supposed to be.
rockys201 As I said, Snyder's version is watchable...but, I agree, the characters aren't interesting. The actors are good, but the roles they play are underwritten and the size of the cast is a problem. I'm sure it provides a high body count for those who expect quite a bit of gore, but, in the end, I didn't care about anyone in that particular film. In the Romero version, we slowly get to know Peter, Roger, Steven and Fran, and that made me care that much more about what happened in the end.
On a side note, Romero's use of a shopping mall as a critique of a decadent consumer society was inspired, and even revolutionary. In the remake, the mall is simply a setting, with no extra resonance to it. Snyder's version is fair...but for greatness, you need to the original....
Matthew Richardson The original DOTD is probably my favorite horror film ever, it just exudes charm and fun. The characters were actually memorable and you cared about all of them. When Roger and Steven die you feel a sense of sadness and loss, in the remake because there's too many characters you don't care nearly as much, also none of them had any substance. I'm sure the remake is highly watchable for some but I just didn't like it, I bought it one day and took it back the next because I knew I wouldn't watch it again.
You lost me at "great soundtrack"...the music in DotD '78 was god awful.
Snyder’s version had too many damn characters haha. George kept it simple, 4 characters. We follow each of them before they get together. Plus Roger and Peter are one of the best duos of all time in my opinion. So fun to watch them work off each other
The best movie ever made, not even just horror.
No fucking way it is, it's just one of the most IMPORTANT zombie sub genre movies ever. Not all time in any sense... Stop please
How many movies have you seen, 2?
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@@fokkusuh4425 Modestly, I've seen so many movies... but I agree with him
He can think whatever he want and indeed it is one of the greatest movies i'ver ever seen too.
Dawn of the Dead rulez forever 💯👀🔨🍻🍻🍻R.I.P. George a Romero + David Flyboy Emge 😢😢😢
R.I.P. George A.Romero,the zombie film maker master.
I saw the trailer for this in the theater when I was a kid. The trailer alone scared me so much I remember shaking. I saw the first Halloween in the theater and the evil dead too but just this trailer alone scared me more than those other full length films did. I also saw Alien in the theater...and The Thing...oh I also saw The Shining's theatrical release. I remember me an my dad mom and sister were on a roadtrip and decided to see it spur of the moment. Afterwords it was late and we decided to stay at a motel. I remember at the hotel we were all akwardly quiet and just went to bed. I think it was because it freaked my parents out lol
Fuck the remake, this is 1000 times better and I don't care if anyone disagrees with me.
Linny The Dragon Queen Yesss!!!!!!!! You´re right!! The music and the atmosphere was so scary... Fuck the Remakes!!! GODDAM RIGHT!!!!
+Judith Meyhoefer hurr I hate remakes durrr
You're right that CRAPPY remake can't even compare to this Raw Gritty ALLTIME ORIGINAL CLASSIC!!!
I love the remake its my favourite zombie movie
You have bad taste in movies.
Classic movie 🎥
Thank you, George. R.I.P
Did they not do wonderful trailers back then. The narrator does a marvelous job-he nails it. And whomever wrote it was also at the top of his game! Hell, these guys probably could have made the Ghostbusters remake trailer a success ... oops, got carried away there: my bad.
It has an ominous feel to it; the narrator is excellent and is complemented brilliantly by the eerie music. Much like the film, the trailer has a nightmarish quality to it, and to this day Dawn of the Dead remains my all-time favourite zombie film. A genuine classic which never fails to instill a sense of dread in me, whenever I watch it.
Coldheart9009 Can you believe that when I saw this film in a crowded theater in rural Massachusetts when it first came out that it was rated X and that nearly every member of the standing-room-only audience laughed their butts off for the duration of the movie? Sure a huge percentage were drunk and or high but even through the audio deluge I felt exactly as you described in your response. That's how great a movie it is.
Trailers used to be crafted with care - now they are crafted by committee
yeah bro that's The problema with The movies today, They show The best parts in The movie so no surprise, back then the trailers were Long but The Show some scenes and they make like The Best parts... that's clever.
*"Did they not do wonderful trailers back then."*
I remember seeing the TV spot when I was a little kid and I was always scared just by the way the voiceover guy said, "In 1968...".
haha, so good.
not only is this the best zombie movie ever - it's also a hell of a trailer! :-) no cheap jumpscares here, but some true chilling atmosphere.... :-)
Easily the greatest Zombie movie of all time, as well as one of the greatest horror films and sequels ever made.
Saint318 no it wasn't at all. it's trash. and idc if it was first of it's time B's. it's fkin terrible. I could make a simulation movie in my backyard. the script ain't good either. worst part about the 2004 remake.
DON'T LISTEN TO HIM IT'S YOUR OPINION I PREFER THE 2004 REMAKE ANYWAYS ARE YOU SAVED SAINT318 ? HAVE YOU ACCEPT JESUS AS YOUR LORD AND SAVIOR AND RECEIVE ETERNAL LIFE I COULDN'T IMAGINE HEAVEN WITHOUT YOU YOU SEEM PRETTY COOL
The original Dawn Of The Dead is my all time favourite film I love every second of it
@JoelCraike Me it's were I fell in love with zombie films.
This movie is on my top 10 favorite horror films. r.i.p George Romero
i love how this zombie movie has a latent content on it too,like an actual philosophy on how materialistic people act like zombies.genius!!!
Thanks George A. Romero, you taught us how to fight zombies.
R.I.P. George Romero.
STILL the GREATEST zombie movie EVER...!!
And my favourite movie of all time too
Watched this as a kid with family in the early 80s when movie rentals became popular. Was so scary at the time and still one of my favorite zombie films.
How old were you when you saw this? I saw it 35 years ago at six with my big brothers
Greatest zombie movie of all time will never be another like this RIP George A Romero you've made the greatest zombie movie of all time
Agreed
great trailer brings me back to a simple time in my life I remember watching this movie with my dad when I was like 13 on a sunny afternoon
One of the best movies ever made - not just one of the best horror movies ever made.
My favourite film of all time
R.I.P. George Romero. :'(
R.I.P George Romero you will be missed :(
This fucking shit traumatized me when I was a kid. I could not sleep...
"When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth"
I like both the 1978 original and the 2004 remake (which was loyal to the original Dawn of the Dead).
I also found the 2004 parody "Shaun of the Dead" to be very well made and funny.
Happy 45th to a classic
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Saw it on video 35 years ago at six with my big brothers and shocked me then saw it again at 12 and been one of my favorites.
Own it on the second sight uk import 4k set
R.I.P George =(
George Romero r.i.p
Damn that zombie was smart to pretend to be a mannequin at 2:10😨
this movie made my 5 yr old niece cry.. i think she was traumatized, i told her it was just a movie.. what a wimp
I remember watching this trailer when I was five and having nightmares. Even today, it still kinda creeps me out. BTW best zombie film ever made! "NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD HAS ENDED...
DAWN OF THE DEAD IS HERE!"
Classic!
In my opinion, the best Zombie movie ever made.
The greatest masterpiece ever made
My favorite movie.
My favourite movie of all time too
I like how George A Romero always make us brothaz last until the end
Memory, instinct, this was an important place in their lives
At 1:35 some kind of instinct, memory of what they used to do, this was important Place in their lives
These 70s horror movies are way scarier than today’s ones
George Romero himself can be seen in a cameo role, on the left at 0:35. His wife Christine also appears as a cameo in the movie.
I was thinking.... this movie absolutely terrified me when I was 12. Eight years earlier, in my neighbourhood in Rome, Dario Argento had invited Romero to write it. Argento lived ten blocks away form me. So it is very possible that going out with my father, at four, I had seen Romero in cafe discussing with Argento about the film that would scare me the most in my childhood.
DAWN of the DEAD (imo) is:
-The Best Film of All Time (hands-down for me)
-The Best Zombie Film of All Time
-The Best 4-Character Structure of All Time
-The Best Setting of All Time (old school Mall... "One of those big indoor Malls")
-The Best Soundtrack of All Time (Goblin)
-The Best Atmosphere of All Time
-The Best TRAILER of All Times
if you go to my channel I have a video from 2010 from a Horror Convention I went to where I ask George A. Romero a question at a Q&A. Before meeting him in 2010 I met Ken Foree (Peter) and Tom Savini (Effects/Makeup/Blades Character) in 2008 at the same Convention (Rock and Shock in Worcester, MA).
I have also met Clayton Hill (Sweater Zombie) and his Wife Sharron (or whoever that Nurse Zombie is). Clayton Hill was also Weapons Coordinator, they are married and would heard the zombies on and off set haha. Also met "Bub" from Day of the Dead (Howard Sherman) and others.... including GOBLIN the group who composed the score (literally saw them on Tour in Boston the day before Halloween a few nights ago).
In other words..... I have been obbsessed with DAWN of the DEAD ever since renting it on VHS in the 90's and watching with my friends LATE one night. We kept rewinding the part where Willie kicks in Apartment door and shoots the Zombie in the head with a shotgun and the Zombie's head EXPLODES like a watermelon (we watched that for 20 min straight and laughing).... by the time i finished the movie. I was in love, and it stuck with me forever.
DAWN of the DEAD is literally my favorite film of all time, even with it's many goofs. That means I like it better than my other favorite films. I like it better than HEAT, Goodfellas, Casino, The Godfather (and Part II), Alien, Aliens, 2001, The Shining, Psycho, North by Northwest, Full Metal Jacket, Platoon, Saving Private Ryan, The Dark Knight, every Avengers film, LOGAN, Blade Runner (even loved 2049 and saw it 4x in theaters).... yes, I love DAWN of the DEAD more than all of those movies.
DAY of the DEAD may have the best Zombie effects of all time (thanks Tom Savini), but Tom's effects in DAWN of the DEAD weren't quite as good as Tom originally intended (he wanted grey Zombies not blue-ish)... however the BLUE zombies add to that 70's charm. The colorful clothing, the BRIGHT RED BLOOD in contrast with the Blue-ish cold looking Zombies is ICONIC imo. I love the zombies here. Plus you got 4 character you actually ROOT FOR, the best setting (a MALL), the best soundtrack, the RAIDERS motorcycle gang which up the ante.... THE GONK.
This movie has it all. I would give it a 10/10 (goofs and flaws included). MASTERPIECE, easily my favorite film of all time.
Minute 1:35 daphne Blake and fred Jones talking and is teenage young
Classic and timeless
I expected cheap schlock but I fell in love with it ! What a movie, it stays with you 🤯
RIP George A. Romero
RIP George
I prefer the TV Spot intro, but it's still killer! Long Live the Dead!
0:25 *Murdoc laugh intensifies*
DAMN good Horror movie! One of my ALL TIME favorites!
The original Dawn Of The Dead is my all time favourite film I love every second of it
The greatest masterpiece ever made
This Great zombie movie, and this is why have lots best Zombie video game and Best T.V. Show the Walking Dead.
R.I.P. Romero
This is one of my favorite horror movies directed by George a Romero
I saw this on VHS in 2003. Rented from Blockbuster. I was blown away by it...
Thanks for this post
I believe the voice over actor plays a major role in these. For this one...Adolph Cesar. He was an actor also and did trailers for other niche videos. Super cool voice!
He did other trailers did you know that?
Every time i enter a mall i think about this movie. Classic
One of my favorite zombie horror movies directed by George a romero
dang this movie was epic
It's the best movie ever made
The best fucking horror movie ever made!
The greatest masterpiece ever made
Best zombie movie in the history of cinema, in my opinion.
And my favourite film of all time too
R.I.P George
The best apocalyptic film ever made of the Z pandemic... i haven't seen this movie in 4 decades, but suddenly it's the music started to haunt me out of no where!! Boy what a trip in memory lane... It took me back home... For home is time
*WE HAVE SPAWNED OUR OWN SAVAGRY, SOON IT WILL CONSUME US ALL*
Good-bye, George Romero.
Thanks for the great films
I saw this when I was about 11, my mom took me and my older brothers to see it in the theater, and afterwards I and my mom and brothers, all became HUGE zombie movie fans! I just wish my mom had lived long enough to have watch the series The Walking Dead, me and her talked a lot about how great it would be if they would do a zombie tv show, but she never got to see it happen!
Though what we had in mind wasn't really what came to be, ours would have been with a main cast, and the ones getting killed every week, would be background characters, it would have more to do with a community or communities trying to survive, with more dramatic moments, not just senseless violence, like with TWD and it's spawns!
It would have been more like George A.Romero, where you actually would have a bit more character development, and NOT just so they can get you to like the character and root for them, only to have the writers kill them off, even if it didn't help the story along, but just to shock everyone, each season!
I always wanted a zombie tv show with more hope, though Z Nation did come pretty close itself, but it was too tung and cheek, humorous, mine would be more dramatic, but with some fun moments too!
Best zombie flick ever
The original Dawn Of The Dead is my all time favourite film I love every second of it
Yes, it certainly is one of the creepier zombie movies out there. Classic horror at its finest!
This movie set the Stage for the thoughsands of others that followed
So the guy that talks about no more room in hell, dead walk the earth in the remake was in the first film. Thats pretty cool.
fuck yeah man this movie is what really kicked things off and now we got all these great movies and video games and i do like the walking day
*Welcome to 2020.*
Night of the Living Dead has ended, Dawn of the Dead is here
Damn ,i missed those old years :((
Classic horror film
My favourite movie of all time