Monday, October 22, 2007

Dawn of the Dead (2004)

No. 11 Dawn of the Dead


Plot outline: A nurse, a policeman, a street gang member, his wife, a salesman, and other survivors of a worldwide plague that is producing aggressive, flesh-eating zombies, take refuge in a mega Midwestern shopping mall.

Tagline: When the undead rise, civilizationwill fall.

Trivia: According to director Zack Snyder, Starbucks Coffee refused to be featured in the film.

For the scene where Ana stitches Kenneth's wounds, the director hired a real nurse for the close-ups. She misunderstood the director's directions to go deeper and inadvertently punctured Ving Rhames' skin and stitched the prosthesis to his arm. He didn't say anything until after the scene was done filming and the director thought the blood was merely "a really good effect".

Quotes: Michael: Look, there's no point in arguing about this, all right? We need a solution. We need... we need to get some food over there. Steve: Yeah, OK, I have an idea. We draw straws and the loser runs across the lot with a ham sandwich.

I am not a huge fan of the zombie genre but this one always makes me feel nervous when I watch it. The thought of being out numbered and stranded with thousands of people waiting to eat me is just not pleasant.

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