Dawn of the Dead (1978) Reviews & Ratings

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Dawn of the Dead reviews

Dawn of the Dead holds a 7.5/10 average from 2,383 TMDB ratings.

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 r…
— talisencrw (9/10)

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 Rein…
— Wuchak (8/10)

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**
— JPV852 (8/10)

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.

Movies like Dawn of the Dead

If you enjoyed Dawn of the Dead, these movies have a similar feel:

• Dawn of the Dead (2004)
• Night of the Living Dead (1968)
• Wrong Turn 2: Dead End (2007)
• Chopping Mall (1986)
• Planet Terror (2007)
• Grindhouse (2007)
• The Stakelander (2016)
• The Crazies (1973)
• Freddy vs. Jason (2003)
• Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)
• Thanksgiving (2023)
• V/H/S/2 (2013)

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