Free Flick of the Day: Dawn of the Dead (2004)
In keeping with the evil spirit of the season, allow me to commit a little blasphemy: I enjoyed the 2004 remake of Dawn of the Dead more than George Romero's original, which I've always felt was pretty clumsy with its social commentary. The remake has nothing on its mind other than gore, laughs, and thrills, and it delivers them in buckets.That's why I've chosen it as the Free Flick of the Day at SlashControl. 'Tis the season, you know. Sarah Polley and Ving Rhames star as a couple of the suburbanites holed up in a shopping mall as zombies take over the city. These are the speedy zombies of the 21st century, you'll recall, not the lumbering, cow-like creatures of yesteryear. While I agree with the logical argument that you wouldn't be light on your feet if you'd just crawled out of a grave, fast zombies are a lot scarier. I'm just sayin'.
The film has a wicked sense of humor, too. I love the scene of zombie-hunting set to a cheesy lounge-singer version of "Down with the Sickness," and the way the bored refugees kill time by picking off zombies that look like celebrities. If you've got 100 minutes to kill, why not head over to SlashControl and enjoy some late-October mayhem and carnage?
Watch Dawn of the Dead at SlashControl.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
10-29-2009 @ 10:21AM
Rocket Raccoon said...
The remake was great! You should feel no shame in loving this movie.
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10-29-2009 @ 10:48AM
Badgerspit said...
Funny that you called it a "cheesy lounge-singer version of "Down with the Sickness", as it is , in fact, Richard Cheese (get it...) & Lounge Against the Machine, Lounge singer extraordinaire!
Check him out, he does awesome covers over popular songs...
http://www.richardcheese.com/
Thanks!
P.S. - I find the first ten minutes of that movie to be some of the best ever in cinema...
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10-29-2009 @ 1:21PM
Robobagins said...
So awesome. I always wondered who sung that. So very very awesome.
10-29-2009 @ 12:13PM
Jay said...
I love this movie. Which made it quite shocking when I was totally turned off by his next movie, 300.
In retrospect, some of qualities that would be criticized and parodied in 300 and Watchmen, I see in this movie; just not as over-the-top.
He got fantastic camera angles, fast edits, cool music, slow-mo's of people reloading their guns, and MORE cool music.
Its just so cool to see Sarah Polley in a hard-hitting action zombie movie, I guess she only does something like that once every decade.
Michael Kelly rocks it hard.
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10-29-2009 @ 6:46PM
Smiggy said...
Considering I actually watched the end credits all the way through, it reminded me of your Credits Report series. You really should do one on this movie, because both the beginning and end credits are absolutely spectacular. Thanks for the link, I forgot how great this movie was.
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