Dawn of the Dead

HorrorScience Fiction
Overview : 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.
Budget : 650000USD
language : en
Runtime : 127 min
Release Date : 1978-09-02
Imdb ID : tt0077402
Status : Released

Cast

David Emge
Stephen "Flyboy" Andrews

Ken Foree
Peter Washington

Scott H. Reiniger
Roger "Trooper" DeMarco

Gaylen Ross
Francine "Fran" Parker

David Crawford
Dr. James Foster

David Early
Sidney Berman

Richard France
Dr. Milliard Rausch

Howard Smith
TV Commentator

Daniel Dietrich
Dan Givens

Fred Baker
Police Commander

James A. Baffico
Wooley

Rod Stouffer
Roy Tucker

Jese Del Gre
Old Priest

Clayton McKinnon
Officer in Project Apt.

John Rice
Officer in Project Apt.

Ted Bank
Officer at Police Dock

Randy Kovitz
Officer at Police Dock

Patrick McCloskey
Officer at Police Dock

Joseph Pilato
Officer at Police Dock

Pasquale Buba
Motorcycle Raider

Tony Buba
Motorcycle Raider

Tom Savini
Motorcycle Raider

Larry Vaira
Motorcycle Raider

Marty Schiff
Motorcycle Raider

Taso N. Stavrakis
Motorcycle Raider

Sharon Ceccatti
Lead Zombie (Nurse)

Mike Christopher
Lead Zombie (Hare Krishna)

Clayton Hill
Lead Zombie

John Amplas
2nd Guy on Roof (uncredited)

Greg Besnak
Fu Manchu Zombie (uncredited)

Rik Billock
Gray Suited Zombie (uncredited)

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

Roy Frumkes
Pie-in-Face Zombie (uncredited)

Debra Gordon
Red Turtleneck Sweater Zombie (uncredited)

Michael Gornick
Radio News Reporter (voice) (uncredited)

Jim Krut
Helicopter Zombie (uncredited)

Donald Rubinstein
Parking Lot Zombie (uncredited)

George A. Romero
TV Director / Biker (uncredited)

Warner Shook
Security Guard Zombie (uncredited)

Sara Venable
Leotard Zombie (uncredited)

Laura Ziemba
Ice Skating Rink Zombie

Robert Williams
Soldier in Apartment Project

John 'Weezer' Wickerham
Black Knit Cap Sunglasses Bearded Biker

Vickie Walters
Brown Leather Jacket Biker Chick

Billie Walters
Biker Chick Wearing Brown Headband

Vincent Vok
WGON - TV Station Employee

Susan Vermazen
Dark Curly Haired Plaid Shirted Zombie

Bobbi Van Eman
Beautiful Curly Haired Female WGON-TV Technician

Jeanette Lansel Vaira
Biker Chick

Danny Vail
Mall Zombie

Milt Thompson
Checkered Shirted Zombie Who Attacks Stephen

Ralph Tallo
Stephen's Grey Suited Airport Zombie Attacker

Stephen M. Silverman
Zombie

Donna Siegel
Dark Haired Light Brown Bloused Woman

Gina Sestak
Longhaired Glasses Zombie

Frank A. Serrao
Fat Grey-Suited Zombie

Mike Savini
Zombie Boy in Airport Chart House

Donna Savini
Zombie Girl in Airport Chart House

Charlie Peters
Bearded White Collared Shirted WGON-TV Crew Member

Jeff Paul
Biker Who Shoots Flyboy

Ken Nagin
Pendant Headband Biker with Axe

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

Doug Mertz
Preppie Zombie - 2nd Pie-In Face

Molly McCloskey
Lovely Woman at WGON (uncredited)

Nicholas Mastandrea
Mall Zombie Outside Gun Store

Leonard Lies
Machete Zombie

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

Maxine Lapiduss
Redhead Zombie Outside J.C. Penny

Robert Langer
Mustachioed Plaid-Shirted Zombie Eating Bikers' Flesh

Ralph Langer
Green Collared-Shirted Zombie in Ice Skating Rink

Tommy Lafitte
Miguel, The Zombie

'Wild Bill' Laczko
Head Bandage Redneck

Katherine Kolbert
Brunette Biker Chick Throwing Pies and Cakes

C. Courtney Joyner
Zombie Wearing Eyeglasses

Jeannie Jefferies
Blonde Zombie Who Attacks Roger in Truck

Jon Hayden
Featured Zombie

John Harrison
Screwdriver Zombie

Barry Gress
Parking Lot Zombie Knocking Sign Over

Ingeborg Forrest
Mall Zombie Wearing Blue Nightgown

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

Tom Dubensky
Young WGON-TV Man Wearing Plaid Shirt

Zilla Clinton
Blonde Biker Chick Riding Motorcycle

Mary Lee Casey
Featured Light Blue Bathrobe Zombie

Adolph Caesar
Narrator of Theatrical Trailer

David W. Butler
2nd Biker in Elevator

Ben Barenholtz
Cowboy Hat Zombie Hit by Sledge

Renee Banks
Wild Haired Plaid Shirted Apartment Zombie

Joe Abeln
Redneck Rifleman That Misses

Nick Tallo
Motorcycle Raider

Joe Shelby
Motorcycle Raider

Rudy Ricci
Motorcycle Raider

Joey Baffico
Zombie Attacking Roger (uncredited)

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Reviews

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 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...
Wuchak
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-
JPV852
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**
FilipeManuelNeto
**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.