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Okay I've seen the trailer they are not cpying the original too much - other than the mall it looks totally different.My favorite horror film - great satire - and the beginning detestable gory figures are pitiable and even likeable...excellent character development and a strong artistic feel throughout.
SO not being able to leave a masterpiece/classic/cult classic well enough alone hollywood has to get a first time diirector in to possibly ruin everything. Though the casting seems not bad.
The original is coming out on DVD on the 9th in a SE so it looks like March is zombie fever...
Anytime I go to a shoping mall I always have a little grin and a thought back to Dawn of the Dead.
Something tells me the new version will be light on satire and human relationships and heavy on things springing from behind, gore and violence.
Any inside tracks on this new release?
I'd be happy if it was as good as 28 Days Later - not holding my breath.
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maybe if it sells well they will remake "Day of the Dead" which wasn't fully realized due to cutting Romero's budget in half.
Then with some luck that 4th unmade Dead movie may be made as well.
go to the dawn of the dead website lots of goodies on the remake.
Maybe keeps the humour as well one of the sound bites has them talking about how to draw the zombies so they can seal the mall?
He says something like "what do you want me to do run across the parking lot with a ham sandwich!"Lot of scary chilly clips and sights.
> > I'd be happy if it was as good as 28 Days Later < <That's a pretty low standard!
I thought 28 Days Later was mediocre at best. The plot didn't make a lot of sense even by horror movie standards; in one scene the virus victims seemed to be too tired to get off the floor, in the next scene they're running around like Carl Lewis on crank. I was also bothered by the point that it didn't occur to any of the survivors to get a gun, instead they preferred to beat the zombies with bats.
It's England. There aren't 8 guns on average per citizen like the U.S.The original Dawn of the Dead worked for me because it had something to say and character development - and heck it worked as a horror film as well.
I fear the new one looks to have at least double the characters - will probably have a 40 minute shorter run time. The best it will likely achieve is an effective slick horror flick. With video game attention spans if something doesn't jump or explode or a punchline not doled out every minute - it's automatically considered a dry bore.
Even John Carpenter said that if he made the original Halloween today there is one scene that he would have to entirely cut. Yet that scene on release had audience members shouting at the screen. It was a scene lasting several minutes where Jamie Lee Curtis walks up the street toward the house Michael Myers was in. Today that scene would be considered a yawner - back then it freaked people out.
Here's hoping this remake is both fast paced insightful well acted plenty gory and scary. It's been a LONG LONG time since I've seen a top notch horror film. In fact I practically have to count Aliens as a horror film otherwise I have to go back to 1982
s The Thing...and even this is more of a guilty pleasure than a masterful horror film.
On the other hand London is home to some of the finest bespoke gunsmiths in the world. Then there's Scotland Yard, I bet there's a few guns in that building. The characters in 28 Days Later had no trouble breaking into stores for food, they could have broken into Holland & Holland for some exceptional shotguns and ammunition. Horror films require some level of suspension of disbelief, but I thought 28 Days Later was so poorly thought out that it was almost insulting.
with that stupid award he made him take. Sheesh, the most embarassing moment in showbiz.
even though the new one is rated R. They are big fans (like me) of the original - a cult classic. Hope they keep their tongue in their cheeks in the remake...I remember seeing the original "Night of the Living Dead" at a midnight showing on Halloween, 1971 - in college.
Regards,
Mike
nice for the younger generations to actually see some kind of intelligent NEW horror film in theaters. This remake has a lot to live up to - but it's working from a good original.The remake of Night of the Living dead was an utter disaster area. Night was a brilliant movie as well. It was one of if not the first film to have a Black person as the central and hero of the piece if Iremember reading correctly as well as an anti-Vietnam War film (I'd need to re-watch it because that commentary must have slipped past my radar).
13 is old enough too...I saw Dawn in Grade 6. Films don't make you violent...bad parenting, bad influences, bad personality and lack of super-ego make you violent.
I saw it at the same time. I was a living nightmare, falling with the Vietnam war. Both were too much to cope with...
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