Ferocious

Rating: 9/10 (22 March 2004)

What a ferocious horror movie! This is a remake basically in name only (with a few of the original concepts tossed in); Dawn of the Dead 2004 is a straightforward survival horror adventure - and a brutally intense one at that (not since the first Jurassic Park have I found myself trying to slip down into my seat and shield myself from what was going on up on the screen). To be perfectly honest, I was not 100% pleased - POSSIBLE SPOILERS AHEAD! - that the zombies were able to run and be so violent and I was not 100% pleased that it was a virus, rather than radiation, which caused the zombie plague (making it almost more of a homage to 28 Days Later than the original Dawn of the Dead), but these are quibbling matters. This was a superb horror movie and will probably do so well we will be seeing another spate of remakes on the way.