Dawn Of TheDead

[Brodie]

The remake of Romero's classic Zombie flick is coming our way. And it looks promising.

Here's the link:

http://www.dawnofthedeadmovie.net

There's tons of cool features on the site, games, pictures, trailers, desktops, screensavers, everything.

The synopsis is the same, a group of survivors from the zombie attacks take refuge in a shopping mall...But the zombies follow. Sure, there's more people now than in the original, but that means more death, more gore.

"When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth..."

Now let's hope this kicks up Romero to finally do Twilight of the Dead.

Note: This is a remake of the 2nd movie in a trilogy, consisting of Night Of The Living Dead, Dawn of The Dead, Day of The Dead.

[Karpo_007]

I have a little mixed feelings about this... I doubt they can do justice to Romero's original, but I hope it will be entertaining atleast.

[Taloniss]

I'll see it. I <3 zombies in any format, and it looks like an entertaining flick.

[raphael_is_cool]

Is Dawn of the Dead the one in the shopping mall? It's just I swore that as they're leaving in the helicopter there's a quick shot of Bruce Campbell as one of the appraoching zombies..I'm sure StoneIll could probably clear that up (probably declare me insane or to have crazy eyesight)

[Brodie]

Wrong-o on the Bruce sighting. Bruce Campbell wasn't even in a 'real' movie until Evil Dead, which was released in 1981, and Dawn Of The Dead was made and released in 1978. Around '78 Bruce was making his home movies with Sammy Raimi, Within The Woods, It's Murder, etc.

Edit: Although I can understand the idea of noticing zombies looking like people. In Day of The Dead there's an uncanny resemblance to Evil Ash of AOD, the chin is there, etc. But probably just a cowinky-dink.

[raphael_is_cool]

Ok thanks for clearing that up, I'd only seen it once (and had no way of re-viewing) so I wasn't entirely sure

[Blaze DTGG]

you can't go wrong with zombies... or pirates.. OOOH or pirate zombies.. but i digress.

I am not sure how I feel about this movie being remade. I mean i love a good zombie movie. however, I;m not sure if there is such a thing as a good zombie movie. I mean I liked resident evil. It was better than I thought.

movie remakes make me nervous. I have high hopes for this film. and I really .. REALLY hope that I am not dissappointed.

[Brodie]

The only hesitation I have is the fact that Ving Rhames is in it.

[Wes]

It might not be too bad. Like Karpo, I doubt it'll come close to the original (or anywhere near Night of the Living Dead, which will always be my favorite -- and there's the ultimate "good zombie movie" for you, Blaze), but we'll see, won't we?

Btw, Brodie, any word on when the original Dawn is getting a widespread dvd release? I'd kinda like to pick that and Day up in one fell swoop. Or maybe all three, rereleased in a box set? Hmm...

[Taloniss]

Or maybe all three, rereleased in a box set? Hmm...

That would be sweet.

[Wes]

On this we agree!

[Voltron]

Dawn? That's too early. I'll go see Mid-Afternoon of the Dead, or

[Brodie]

Early Evening of the dead...howsa' bout that?

And to the DVD news, I'm not too sure. I know my girlfriend's bother has Night on dvd, and there's tons of special features, like parody movies, the last ever interview with the character who played Ben (I think that's his name). and others. But according to the new Dawn site, there's been a fan following on "dvd and vhs" so maybe there might be craptacular DVDs, like the Dumb & Dumber, or Ace Ventura DVDs, but I can't be sure.

And to the Bruce Campbell zombie thing, I kind of think it's ironic, Evil Dead and the Dead trilogy were released under the same production company (I think) Anchor Bay. Wait, might be a release company, but kinda funny that the Dead flicks have Ash lookalikes.