Dawn of the Dead...cult or crap?

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Fri, 2001-10-26 01:03

Ok..ok Now I enjoy a good cult movie like the rest of the human race, but I just sat through Dawn of the Dead and was gobsmacked! What a pile of shite! The acting was bollox, the direction was bollox and quite frankly, the storyline was bollox!
I loved Alien and The Thing and I will even squeeze in Nightmare on Elm Street(groan) but what gives, with this "cult" praise of Dawn of the Dead????

Is this a lad thing or am I hopelessly out of touch....(I fear my previous praise of Nightmare on Elm Street may already answer that question)
I can name a number of horror movies better than this load of codswallop!

Please, tell me your favourite horror movie flicks, and why you liked them...

Hammer House of Horrors rules!

Fri, 2001-10-26 01:05

Linsi

P.S You know that part when they are in the shopping mall? Well, did you see that stupid Zombie fall into the penny fountain when the music came on? Rubbish!!

Fri, 2001-10-26 08:44

justyn_thyme

I've never seen Dawn of the Dead, but I well recall a film entitled From Hell It Came. It was about a mobile tree trunk (it could walk on its roots) that would get on top of a human and kill the victim by drawing their blood up through the roots. As a tree trunk, it could escape detection by hiding amongst other tree trunks. It was a dead tree trunk, of course, just the highth of a human (so an "actor" could fit inside). Low budget does not describe it. The reviewers' consensus about From Hell It Came was, predictably, Send It Back.

Fri, 2001-10-26 12:14

Martin T

...have to disagree with you here Linsi, Dawn of the Dead is an exellent film, George Romero, the director did two or three of these Zombie films, can't immedialtely recall the other titles (someone help me on that !!) they are gore-fests and although the acting is fairly wooden, it is fair to say that most of the cast are playing zombies so have to be wooden... The shopping mall setting reflects an obsession with consumerism, the zombies are desperate to get to the Mall......something American teenagers can probably relate to....

Fri, 2001-10-26 13:56

Mark Yelland-Brown

Just saw `Jeepers Creepers`, fairly good yarn, enjoying the effects, the humour, and the jumpy bits, then it ended, just like that . Very weird it felt like the plug had been pulled, it was so sudden. Great film unbelievably sudden and bad ending, why? I think we should know!!

Fri, 2001-10-26 14:35

max_dog

Night Of the Living Dead was the first of his films Martin.

Fri, 2001-10-26 14:39

max_dog

Dawn of the Dead was a prequil.

Fri, 2001-10-26 17:15

Linsi

I think, on reflection that if a Zombie were to approach you mouth dripping blood, arms out stretched just walk briskly away and you will be quite safe...they never walk over 1 mph anyway!

Sat, 2001-10-27 10:34

spag man

Dawn of the dead is great. As are all his films. You can't beat killing zombies ( ??) or trying to. There comes a point when a film is so bad that it is great. Anyone who watches films on Channel 5 will know what I mean. Take Eveil Kenival ( bad spelling) film that was on the other night. I weeped when I saw Gene Kelly in the film. It really must have been skid row for him at that time. The only thing that made me slightly happy was that Leslie (God) Neilsen was in it. All in all it was so bad that I started to enjoy it.

Sat, 2001-10-27 13:06

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Kiko Korea

I sure some one asked what the other Romero films were in the series: Night of the living dead, dawn of the dead and day of the dead. I not one to suddenly jump up and down about films because they are perceived as cult but I found dawn of the the dead highly enjoyable and at times funny. It is the best of the series and satirises American consumerism rather well (the dead collect in shopping malls). But everyone is entitled to there own opinion. It does seem cheap and the sound editing is poor, but what do you expect from a zombie movie.

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