Dawn of the Dead is quite simply the greatest zombie movie ever made and may well be the greatest horror film ever too. Released in the cinema the year I was born I didnt get the chance to see it until it had been out for 14 years already and I think the first time I seen it I just didnt get it. But a couple of year later after viewing countless other zombie and horror movies I gave it another chance, I enjoyed it the first time but for all the wrong reasons, I liked it for the gore not the brilliant storyline and tension created thoughtout the film.

They flee in the helicoptor and come across a shopping mall, the mall is infested with zombies but upon further investigation they find this would be a good place to stay. They block the entrances and make a base in the roof storage rooms, they build up supplies and rid the mall of the zombies, locking the others outside. But then an unforeseen event manages to destiry their paradise and lets all the zombies back in to roam the isles of the mall once more.

When you need blood and gore you call Tom Savini, no one else can make the blood pour like he can, back in the late 70 and early 80's there wasnt a horror film that he didnt have a part in, but now with the introduction and wide use of CGI his form of special effects are dying. The blood runs in rivers in Dawn of the Dead and its been stated that Tom Savini wasnt happy wit the bright colour of it but Romero kept it to add a comic book appeal to the film. When zombies die, the blood splashes all over the place; one particularly gruesome exploding head near the end of the film is especially memorable. The director's cut of the film (which has about fifteen minutes of additional footage) also includes more scenes of zombies eating humans alive, ripping out and devouring the entrails of their still living victims. By listening to the audio commentaary on the UK DVD by Tom Savini (the only version that has this commentary) we discover the blood was made form food colouring, peanut butter and can sugar syrup. The funniest killing is when a zombie climbs on a pile of boxes and gets his head cut off by the helicoptor blades, This zombie was Tom Savinis friend who had been subject to jokes about is low forehead for all his life, so they thought sticking a big fake top to his head would look normal.

The script was written by Romero and Italian horror legend Dario Arngeto, and alternative cut of the film is available which is Argentos cut that gets rid of most of the humour and focuses on the horror of the film, moving scenes around and adding new footage. The Romero version has a score by Goblin, an Italian rock band that work on most of Argentos work, the Argento cut also has a Goblin score but it is completely different. The score is much the same style as all other Goblin scores and feature elecltric keyboards and all sorts of funny noises. There is also rumours that an alternativ ending exists were Peter shoots himself and Fran also kills herself by sticking her head in the helicoptors rotor blades. The UK version released now is neraly completely uncut, only Peter shooting the zombie kids is missing but the uncut version was shown on FilmFour recently.