Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by RGA (A) on March 10, 2004 at 17:37:57

In Reply to: Re: Dawn of the Dead - Remake - coming out March 19. Oh no!!! posted by Rob Doorack on March 10, 2004 at 08:06:52:

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.