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Dawn of the Dead 1978 Full Length Reaction (Patreon)

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2024-06-11 13:00:11
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This one feels long overdue!! THANK YOU SO MUCH JOSH LINK FOR SENDING ME THIS DVD!!

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BubblyRainbows

Not gonna lie here, even though it's an unpopular opinion. I think the 2004 remake of this one is not just the better version, but FAR better. But to be fair, this may just be an age thing. Most old horror movies are not scary to me. Like at all. Horror is the genre I feel has improved most over the years due to advances in technology and loosening of restrictions about what could be shown in movies. I do really like the ending of this one, and of course the cinematography and all is great in most of the movie, but as far as being horror, it fails. But again, this may just be a matter of preference and the kind of horror I grew up with. But I do hope you'll eventually watch the 2004 remake so you can see for yourself. I'd be interested to hear which one you think is superior.

Jeb Manning

One of the best zombie movies ever made. So influential on movies and stuff like Dead Rising. The social commentary is still great. Like the comparison of mall shoppers to zombies or the fact that humans are still the real monsters. The looters are stealing stuff that's not important, or Flyboy being his own worst enemy. Couple that with the effects of Tom Savini and its great stuff. Great reaction, as usual.

Jeb Manning

I would recommend the 1985 sequel, Day of the Dead, If that's OKay? It brings everything Romero was building on to the best entry of his trilogy. I'd also recommend Lucio Fulci's Zombie. It too like Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead, are some of the best zombie movies ever. Fulci's Zombie is really brutal, and it's Fulci's best movie.

laurax22

Yesss! And I can’t wait for you to watch the remake, it’s one of my favorites!

Anton Hennicker

Ah so glad you got around to catching this Kat. Brilliant watch. Stoked you picked up on the Shaun of the Dead music, Edgar Wright (director of Shaun) did indeed play homage to Dawn with many musical excerpts and throwback references. Interesting sidenote, apparently Edgar and team were close to making From Dusk Till Shaun, another hat tilt to From Dusk till Dawn, but sadly was never produced, instead focusing on Hot Fuzz...now there's a movie for another day...

Gr8movies12

Oh my god, is it cake had me dying. 🤣🤣🤣

Gary Trousdale

The remake (2004), back when Sarah Polley was *in front* of the camera, is awesome, with one of the best opening/title sequences EVER.

Gary Trousdale

Totally agree. IMO, this one does not age well at all, while the 2004 Ving Rhames, Sarah Polley one holds up brilliantly.

Gr8movies12

So, if you were still wondering.

Gr8movies12

The mall was an actually mall not a stage. The Monroeville Mall in Pittsburg is still open to this say and a major tourist spot for fans. They actually weren't allowed to close the mall during filming so they would film from closing to opening. Apparently a few times they surprised some mall walkers in the morning.

Symon O'Hagan

Okay. So I had the super super extra long extra entrails version. But I found Kat's Version (hey it's kind of like Taylor's Version!) on YouTube for freeeeeeeee.

Eddie Perkins

I love this movie. I saw it when it first came out at the theater. I met Tom years ago; he's such a nice guy, and his Practical effects and makeup skills are outstanding. Tom Savini's first feature film as a director was the 1990 remake of Night of the Living Dead, which had many great effects. You need to do a reaction to Planet Terror (2007); so many people have been asking for that, and I am one of them.

Max Pujals

Hi K@t! .. I tried to watch my first full length reaction today .. got 37 minutes in but my system could not keep up .. that's one of the reason's why I watch you and your reaction videos on YouTube. This is one of my favorite zombie films .. DAWN OF THE DEAD (1978) kinda started it all for me when it comes to zombie movies .. It has it all! .. action, gore, a world turned upside down .. it's a bloody mess and a very good horror movie .. their is another not to well known pretty good and scary, spooky film from back in the day known as CHILDREN SHOULDN'T PLAY WITH DEAD THINGS (1972) that one you have to watch K@t .. YouTube has it... Enjoy! I'll be seeing you there my friend .. till then .. M@x.

Tyfox81

I love this movie. If I had to do a zombie apocalypse, a mall would be great to be in. I’m so glad you do the blurred version in the corner. I guess I own a longer directors cut version but was able to correct at times and get back to synced up.

Symon O'Hagan

Okay, here's a Tom Savini story from "Smoke & Mirrors" the documentary about him. In Vietnam, he was put on guard duty, and his job was to watch the trip-wire all through the night. And he said it was a really tense job because you were just there to monitor the trip-wire but if the Viet Cong tripped it, you were NOT to shoot. You were alert base ONLY. NO SHOOTING. Got that? So he's on duty and the trip-wire gets triggered. And Tom Savini reacted by FIRING ALL THE BULLETS. This meant that all the guards around him also unloaded. It was ANARCHY. Like that scene in "Predator". And then... ...a duck wandered out of the forest. A duck had triggered the trip-wire. Savini was summoned to explain by his commanding officer. He admitted that he'd fired on instinct. At a duck. "Tell me that we at least killed the duck," said his CO. Savini had to admit that no, the duck had emerged from the encounter unscathed. It was at this point that he was put onto the photographic unit, taking pictures of casualties and horror movie history was changed FOREVERRRRR...

Wade Wallenstein

I've been watching your YouTube videos for a while and have loved your reactions. I check my Subscriptions page, see this was uploaded so I just had to come over here for the full reaction. Love this version and it gave me a good excuse to watch it again :) Some trivia: Extras who appeared in this film were reportedly given $1 in cash, a donut, and a Dawn of the Dead T-shirt. The outdoor scene where hunters, emergency crew and soldiers are shooting at zombies was done using local volunteers. Several local hunters arrived on-scene with their own weapons, the local National Guard division showed up in full gear, and local emergency crew (police, fire and ambulance) were present, all voluntarily. Zombie actors took photographs of themselves dressed up in full zombie makeup inside a photo booth on the second floor. They then replaced the sample pictures on the front of the booth with the ghoulish ones. The scene between Roger and Peter in the trucks when they are kidding each other about their height as (Scott H. Reinger is 5'7 and Ken Foree is 6'5) was entirely improvised by the two actors. Several members of the marauding band of bikers were played by members of the local chapter of the Pagans Motorcycle Club. The elaborate motorcycles they drove were their own.

Max Pujals

I also Loved your reaction to this classic zombie film .. You couldn't go wrong with DAWN OF THE DEAD when you had people like Romero, Savini and Argento working together .. so much fun .. what a great choice K@t .. always your friend .. M@x.

James Rogers

When this played in the little theater in my town I went to see it 5 consecutive nights. I LOVE this film. The 2004 remake does not compare. Accept no substitutes. Fast zombies are an abomination.

Gary Trousdale

I much prefer the 2004 remake. It’s effing terrifying. The ‘78 original feels like a rough draft with no budget to me. I totally get the love for the ‘78 original by folks who saw it when they were 11 and it blew their minds. ‘04 is just a better movie.

Just Plain Bob

I disagree wholeheartedly with those that think the remake is better than the original. As for fast zombies, other than Return of the Living Dead, they bore the hell out of me. The slow implacability of Romero’s zombies is much more horrifying to me. There’s also the issue of marksmanship. I remember watching the remake and thinking “we’re really supposed to believe people with little or no experience firing guns can hit them in the head at a full sprint?” Absurd. If Kat should happen to read this, none of the actors were famous at the time of filming and most of them did little or nothing on screen afterwards. Ken Foree (Peter) was the exception. He became a horror movie staple of the 80s. My favorite film of his was “From Beyond”, the film that saw Jeffrey Combs reteamed with Barbara Crampton and director Stuart Gordon (“Re-Animator”). Finally, in response to the question about whether it was a series of sets or a real mall, it was a newly built mall that was owned and operated by a friend of George Romero’s. They’d film at night and clean up when the elderly mall walkers arrived in the early morning. Romero has a cameo early on in the tv studio and that was his real life wife next to him - she’s the sassy one and he’s the one with the beard.