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Dawn of the Dead

"When there’s no more room in HELL, the dead will walk the EARTH!"

1978-09-02 Horror 2hr 7m

During an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia SWAT team members, a traffic reporter, and his television-executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.

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Storyline

During an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia SWAT team members, a traffic reporter, and his television-executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.

  • Released
    1978-09-02
  • Revenue
    $55,000,000
  • Budget
    $650,000
  • Runtime
    2hr 7m
  • Genre
    Horror
  • Status
    Released
  • Language
    English
  • imdb-logo
    7.8
  • Production
    Dawn Associates, Laurel Entertainment

Crew

George A. Romero
Director
George A. Romero
Screenplay
Richard P. Rubinstein
Producer
Keywords:
helicopter army chaos bite materialism machete gore martial law state of emergency shopping mall infection biker truck consumerism zombie motorcycle gang exploding head mall tv production zombie apocalypse pittsburgh, pennsylvania anxious frightened zombies

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Cast

David Emge

David Emge
Stephen "Flyboy" Andrews
Ken Foree

Ken Foree
Peter Washington
Scott H. Reiniger

Scott H. Reiniger
Roger "Trooper" DeMarco
Gaylen Ross

Gaylen Ross
Francine "Fran" Parker
David Crawford

David Crawford
Dr. James Foster
David Early

David Early
Sidney Berman
Richard France

Richard France
Dr. Milliard Rausch
Howard Smith

Howard Smith
TV Commentator
Daniel Dietrich

Daniel Dietrich
Dan Givens
Fred Baker

Fred Baker
Police Commander
James A. Baffico

James A. Baffico
Wooley
Rod Stouffer

Rod Stouffer
Roy Tucker
Jese Del Gre

Jese Del Gre
Old Priest
Clayton McKinnon

Clayton McKinnon
Officer in Project Apt.
John Rice

John Rice
Officer in Project Apt.
Ted Bank

Ted Bank
Officer at Police Dock
Randy Kovitz

Randy Kovitz
Officer at Police Dock
Patrick McCloskey

Patrick McCloskey
Officer at Police Dock
Joseph Pilato

Joseph Pilato
Officer at Police Dock
Pasquale Buba

Pasquale Buba
Motorcycle Raider
Tony Buba

Tony Buba
Motorcycle Raider
Tom Savini

Tom Savini
Motorcycle Raider
Larry Vaira

Larry Vaira
Motorcycle Raider
Marty Schiff

Marty Schiff
Motorcycle Raider
Taso N. Stavrakis

Taso N. Stavrakis
Motorcycle Raider
Sharon Ceccatti

Sharon Ceccatti
Lead Zombie (Nurse)
Mike Christopher

Mike Christopher
Lead Zombie (Hare Krishna)
Clayton Hill

Clayton Hill
Lead Zombie
John Amplas

John Amplas
2nd Guy on Roof (uncredited)
Greg Besnak

Greg Besnak
Fu Manchu Zombie (uncredited)
Rik Billock

Rik Billock
Gray Suited Zombie (uncredited)
Christine Forrest

Christine Forrest
TV Producer / Zombie / Mall Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
Roy Frumkes

Roy Frumkes
Pie-in-Face Zombie (uncredited)
Debra Gordon

Debra Gordon
Red Turtleneck Sweater Zombie (uncredited)
Michael Gornick

Michael Gornick
Radio News Reporter (voice) (uncredited)
Jim Krut

Jim Krut
Helicopter Zombie (uncredited)
Donald Rubinstein

Donald Rubinstein
Parking Lot Zombie (uncredited)
George A. Romero

George A. Romero
TV Director / Biker (uncredited)
Warner Shook

Warner Shook
Security Guard Zombie (uncredited)
Sara Venable

Sara Venable
Leotard Zombie (uncredited)
Laura Ziemba

Laura Ziemba
Ice Skating Rink Zombie
Robert Williams

Robert Williams
Soldier in Apartment Project
John 'Weezer' Wickerham

John 'Weezer' Wickerham
Black Knit Cap Sunglasses Bearded Biker
Vickie Walters

Vickie Walters
Brown Leather Jacket Biker Chick
Billie Walters

Billie Walters
Biker Chick Wearing Brown Headband
Vincent Vok

Vincent Vok
WGON - TV Station Employee
Susan Vermazen

Susan Vermazen
Dark Curly Haired Plaid Shirted Zombie
Bobbi Van Eman

Bobbi Van Eman
Beautiful Curly Haired Female WGON-TV Technician
Jeanette Lansel Vaira

Jeanette Lansel Vaira
Biker Chick
Danny Vail

Danny Vail
Mall Zombie
Milt Thompson

Milt Thompson
Checkered Shirted Zombie Who Attacks Stephen
Ralph Tallo

Ralph Tallo
Stephen's Grey Suited Airport Zombie Attacker
Stephen M. Silverman

Stephen M. Silverman
Zombie
Donna Siegel

Donna Siegel
Dark Haired Light Brown Bloused Woman
Gina Sestak

Gina Sestak
Longhaired Glasses Zombie
Frank A. Serrao

Frank A. Serrao
Fat Grey-Suited Zombie
Mike Savini

Mike Savini
Zombie Boy in Airport Chart House
Donna Savini

Donna Savini
Zombie Girl in Airport Chart House
Charlie Peters

Charlie Peters
Bearded White Collared Shirted WGON-TV Crew Member
Jeff Paul

Jeff Paul
Biker Who Shoots Flyboy
Ken Nagin

Ken Nagin
Pendant Headband Biker with Axe
Robert V. Michelucci

Robert V. Michelucci
Bearded Scope Zombie / Zombie Who Attacks Mousey
Doug Mertz

Doug Mertz
Preppie Zombie - 2nd Pie-In Face
Molly McCloskey

Molly McCloskey
Lovely Woman at WGON (uncredited)
Nicholas Mastandrea

Nicholas Mastandrea
Mall Zombie Outside Gun Store
Leonard Lies

Leonard Lies
Machete Zombie
Ed Letteri

Ed Letteri
Long-Haired Man by Door at WGON-TV
Maxine Lapiduss

Maxine Lapiduss
Redhead Zombie Outside J.C. Penny
Robert Langer

Robert Langer
Mustachioed Plaid-Shirted Zombie Eating Bikers' Flesh
Ralph Langer

Ralph Langer
Green Collared-Shirted Zombie in Ice Skating Rink
Tommy Lafitte

Tommy Lafitte
Miguel, The Zombie
'Wild Bill' Laczko

'Wild Bill' Laczko
Head Bandage Redneck
Katherine Kolbert

Katherine Kolbert
Brunette Biker Chick Throwing Pies and Cakes
C. Courtney Joyner

C. Courtney Joyner
Zombie Wearing Eyeglasses
Jeannie Jefferies

Jeannie Jefferies
Blonde Zombie Who Attacks Roger in Truck
Jon Hayden

Jon Hayden
Featured Zombie
John Harrison

John Harrison
Screwdriver Zombie
Barry Gress

Barry Gress
Parking Lot Zombie Knocking Sign Over
Ingeborg Forrest

Ingeborg Forrest
Mall Zombie Wearing Blue Nightgown
Cliff Forrest

Cliff Forrest
Tony, Man at WGON - TV ('You all right?')
Tom Dubensky

Tom Dubensky
Young WGON-TV Man Wearing Plaid Shirt
Zilla Clinton

Zilla Clinton
Blonde Biker Chick Riding Motorcycle
Mary Lee Casey

Mary Lee Casey
Featured Light Blue Bathrobe Zombie
Adolph Caesar

Adolph Caesar
Narrator of Theatrical Trailer
David W. Butler

David W. Butler
2nd Biker in Elevator
Ben Barenholtz

Ben Barenholtz
Cowboy Hat Zombie Hit by Sledge
Renee Banks

Renee Banks
Wild Haired Plaid Shirted Apartment Zombie
Joe Abeln

Joe Abeln
Redneck Rifleman That Misses
Nick Tallo

Nick Tallo
Motorcycle Raider
Joe Shelby

Joe Shelby
Motorcycle Raider
Rudy Ricci

Rudy Ricci
Motorcycle Raider
Joey Baffico

Joey Baffico
Zombie Attacking Roger (uncredited)

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Reviews for Dawn of the Dead
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A Review by talisencrw 9

Written by talisencrw on 2016-07-03

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... read more

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...

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A Review by Wuchak 8

Written by Wuchak on 2018-08-22

Romero’s imaginative and thrilling zombie sequel A decade after the excellent “Night of the Living Dead” (1968), writer/director George ... read more

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-

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A Review by JPV852 8

Written by JPV852 on 2020-12-16

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... read more

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**

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A Review by FilipeManuelNeto 1

Written by FilipeManuelNeto on 2024-03-14

**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 wel... read more

**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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A Review by talisencrw

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 generation...

reviewer avatar

A Review by talisencrw 9

Written by talisencrw on 2016-07-03

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 thousan...

read more
reviewer avatar

A Review by Wuchak 8

Written by Wuchak on 2018-08-22

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 rean...

read more
reviewer avatar

A Review by JPV852 8

Written by JPV852 on 2020-12-16

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 li...

read more
reviewer avatar

A Review by FilipeManuelNeto 1

Written by FilipeManuelNeto on 2024-03-14

**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 thi...

read more