When Hell Freezes Over...

Rating: 8/10 (21 March 2004)

Wow what an awesome flick. I'm sorry I doubted them. If you thought the Chainsaw remake was good just wait until you see the light of Dawn.
A ragtag group of survivors fortify their position in a spralling mall. They enjoy their surroundings while dealing with the Hell on earth around them.
Sounds familiar huh...
That pretty much ends the similarities. What you get is a somewhat high gloss but down and dirty re-imagining
of the sacred 1978 Romero classic, by a first time director and the scriptwriter of Scooby-Doo. Go figure.
They succeed in making one of the best remakes I have seen and they deliver all the bloody good.
===possible spoilers=== Fast moving zombies, thousands and thousands of the undead and zombie babies to boot. Great cameos by Savini, Reiniger and it was so cool to hear Ken Foree say the lines that he made famous again. ===End Spoilers==== ...all that and a killer swing rendition of Disturbed's
song The Sickness. The film pays homage very well to the Zombie classics of yore and bites out a chunk of its'
own for the future.
My only minor beef was that at times they relied a bit
too heavily on CGI, but the effects are done well and with such a solid cast and respectful and fanatic creators I enjoyed this totally.
As a die hard fan of the original, I must say.
Kudos guys and gals....you done good.