Living Dead Collection

David Emge

Ken Foree

Scott H. Reiniger

Gaylen Ross

David Crawford

David Early

Richard France

Howard Smith

Daniel Dietrich

Fred Baker

James A. Baffico

Rod Stouffer

Jese Del Gre

Clayton McKinnon

John Rice

Ted Bank

Randy Kovitz

Patrick McCloskey

Joseph Pilato

Pasquale Buba

Tony Buba

Tom Savini

Larry Vaira

Marty Schiff

Taso N. Stavrakis

Sharon Ceccatti

Mike Christopher

Clayton Hill

John Amplas

Greg Besnak

Rik Billock

Christine Forrest

Roy Frumkes

Debra Gordon

Michael Gornick

Jim Krut

Donald Rubinstein

George A. Romero

Warner Shook

Sara Venable

Laura Ziemba

Robert Williams

John 'Weezer' Wickerham

Vickie Walters

Billie Walters

Vincent Vok

Susan Vermazen

Bobbi Van Eman

Jeanette Lansel Vaira

Danny Vail

Milt Thompson

Ralph Tallo

Stephen M. Silverman

Donna Siegel

Gina Sestak

Frank A. Serrao

Mike Savini

Donna Savini

Charlie Peters

Jeff Paul

Ken Nagin

Robert V. Michelucci

Doug Mertz

Molly McCloskey

Nicholas Mastandrea

Leonard Lies

Ed Letteri

Maxine Lapiduss

Robert Langer

Ralph Langer

Tommy Lafitte

'Wild Bill' Laczko

Katherine Kolbert

C. Courtney Joyner

Jeannie Jefferies

Jon Hayden

John Harrison

Barry Gress

Ingeborg Forrest

Cliff Forrest

Tom Dubensky

Zilla Clinton

Mary Lee Casey

Adolph Caesar

David W. Butler

Ben Barenholtz

Renee Banks

Joe Abeln

Nick Tallo

Joe Shelby

Rudy Ricci

Joey Baffico

Barbara Lifsher

Arthur J. Canestro

Fabio Pignatelli

Gary Zeller

Richard P. Rubinstein

Massimo Morante

Claudio Simonetti

Josie Caruso

Agostino Marangolo

Dario Argento

Billy 'Silver Dollar' Baxter

Leonard DeStefans

Joseph Eberle

Nancy Allen

Carl Augenstein

Jay Stover

Claudio Argento

Ellen Hopkins

Carl Scott

Michael Lies

Trudy Gray

Rick Dior

John Konter

Alfredo Cuomo

Joseph A. Campayno

Benjamin Meade

Kenneth Davidow

Dan Bertha

Bradley Drumheller

Tom Wholey

Daniel Silk

Don Harper

Michèle Martin

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Dawn of the Dead

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Laurel Entertainment

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This is one of the finest sequels ever, in that it's both of comparable quality with the original, yet is fundamentally different from it at the same time. Marvelous stuff, with aspects copied thousands of times over the past two generations, with no end in sight.

This and 'Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom', from about the same time frame, would make one of the best double-bills ever on the evils of consumerism gone rampant...

Romero’s imaginative and thrilling zombie sequel 

A decade after the excellent “Night of the Living Dead” (1968), writer/director George Romero offers up this exceptional sequel. The plague of reanimated corpses with a hunger for warm flesh is now global and society is increasingly breaking down. A television exec (Gaylen Ross), her helicopter-reporter beau (David Emge) and two SWAT officers (Ken Foree and Scott Reiniger) take refuge in a suburban mall. Unfortunately for them, a veritable army of biker-raiders wants the mall for their own.

One of the main reasons this film is so iconic is because Romero seriously considered what it would be like after a ‘zombie apocalypse’ and came up with an inspired story. While the bleakness of the situation is addressed there’s also a sense of adventurous freedom; for instance, the protagonists having an entire mall to themselves.

The movie’s disturbing, ghastly and gory, but also action-packed and sometimes humorous. The zombies make for good bullet fodder while, at the same time, satirizing consumer society. The creative score is varied and I’m sure it was cutting edge at the time, but it’s very dated today, although you’ll probably find yourself acclimating to it. The no-name cast is convincing with the towering Foree standing out while Emge comes across as a poor man’s Donald Sutherland.

The movie runs 2 hours, 7 minutes with the longer version running 2 hours, 19 minutes (the one I watched). It was shot in Monroeville, Pennsylvania, and nearby Pittsburgh.

GRADE: A-

Been a while since I last watched this one, but with the new 4K UHD out, decided to give it another watch going with the Extended Cut. Still very well made with some great zombie effects and really liked the characters, Peter (Ken Foree), especially. I'm not a big fan of the zombie horror genre but this is one of the exceptions. **4.0/5**

Filipe Manuel Neto

**This must be some kind of joke, right?**

Firstly, allow me to clarify: I am not a fan of “zombie” films, although I understand very well the interest that, in recent years, there has been for this material. I totally respect those who enjoy it. But let's be honest: a film has to have some aesthetic quality and some good taste to become “digestible”. And, well, I just finished watching this film, and I honestly can't understand how it has survived without ending up in the vault of oblivion. There are incredibly better films that have been forgotten as the years pass, but a certain type of crap, purely and simply because it's bad, lives on.

The plot is essentially based on a moment of chaos in which the USA (the rest of the world does not exist) is taken over by zombies and no one knows what to do or where to go. Everyone thinks of themselves, saves their own skin and that's it. In the meantime, the usual opportunists take advantage of the situation as they see fit, and a small group of “surviving heroes” look for somewhere to take shelter. It's the plot of this film and a dozen other disaster films (zombies, volcanoes, wars, earthquakes, alien invasions, you name it). The level of originality is below zero, and the situations are all predictable and highly cliché. We know who is going to die and who is going to be saved by a whisker, and the fact that the film starts without any kind of introduction is just confusing and a little stupid.

Directed by George A. Romero, a man who must have suffered from some bizarre sexual fetish with dead people and zombies (look at his filmography!), the film is absolutely trash and could compete in poor quality and bad taste with all of Ed's films Wood and with the historical rigor of Ridley Scott's period films. I lost count of the script problems, continuity errors and gross editing errors. The cinematography is ugly, there is a blatant exaggeration of the sets and the zombies' makeup is so obviously fake that they look like what we did at fifteen in school plays. And we'd better not even talk about the cast: I have doubts whether those people were actors.

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