Remake of The Dead

Just got back earlier from watching 2004 remake Dawn of The Dead. It was quiet a shock of a viewing experience for me. It was just as unsettling when I watched before 28 Days Later a few months ago.

It seems to me that the current generation of zombies now in movies are the fast moving variety with the standard lethargic gait in non-chase mode. Its still a given that zombies sense and home in onto live normal humans for them to feed and further the spread. Kinda reminds that attribute point aspect from All Flesh Must Be Eaten RPG, "one bite and you're hooked".

The movie gets into the thick of the zombie menace as the first 10 minutes would put it. Just compared to the 1978 version, the
DOTD happens to be a remake of the 1978 version done by George Romero. The version back then was a social satire about the commericialism aspect of society in the US. It was loosely retained but seems to more on the matter and realities of survival with such a gruesome scenario to happen in anywhere, anycountry.

The movie was rather much also the depiction of the human condition when faced with survival issues of such bizarre magnitude. At least a part of the movie relieves a bit of tension and gloom that pervade the earlier part of the movie. It just boggles any sane viewer as to the matter of figuring a plan of reinforcing a pair of mall shuttles with aluminum siding, barbed wire and some other add-ons which pretty much harkens back to the improvisation days of The A-Team and Macgyver.
Of course with the human condition matter brought up, the slightly off-tangent matter has to do with the dog (Yay for Chips the dog!!! ^_^) in the movie. Its current master goes into the thick of the deadheads in the streets to attempt a rescue of the trapped canine that prompts 5 men to go in bail her and the dog out with one casualty. It also upped the timetable for their departure since the inevitable overrun occurred.

In this case for a horror movie, the ending didn't turn out so cheery, especially if one sits through the ending credits. It was just an open-ended yet grim outlook given overrun with zombies where humans used to be living normal lives.

Makes one think: If such a thing happened here and you made it out of your home in one piece, which mall would you go? With whom for that matter?

Unexpected thought provoked eh? I'll tackle a similiar matter on my next post. *Secures the doghouse and loads up his guns.*