Dawn Of The Dead. The 2nd part of George A. Romero's Dead trilogy is a masterpiece. A perfect film. A film that manages to be a damning indictment of consumerism, capitalism & fascism and still finds time to creep you out and disgust you. It's funny, scary, surreal and satisfying. The plot is very high concept. People hide out in a shopping mall that's packed full of zombies and Romero squeezes all the fun you can imagine out of it. The gore and gunshots are all very pleasing but the sense of existential dread is all encompassing and its only a matter of time before things start going very wrong. And that's when Romero's direction and Tom Savini's special effects give us a climax for the ages. A climax that upset censors so much that the first version I saw of this was shorn of several minutes of gooey stuff. But it didnt matter. It was so much more than gooey stuff. Watching it I knew it was something special. An intelligent horror classic that lived up to the hype.
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