"What if"

Rating: 10/10 (29 March 2004)

In an alternate ending of 28 DAYS LATER the caption reads "What if . . .". "what if" there were no 28 DAYS LATER("what IF" Danny Boyle couldn't get the financing for his movie or, "WHAT IF" at the end the jet crashed into the crew incinerating the negative materials). "What if . . ." ". . ." if DAWN OF THE DEAD '04 had no 28 DAYS LATER to use as a blue-print would Z. Synder have had the zeiiest, the surrendipitidy (sp) to reach back 24 years prior to grab-up Umbreto Lenzi's "INCUBO NELLA SULLA CITTA CONTAMINATA" penchent for agile-dead people (meatloaf-headed creatures w/ sub-machine guns. Dawn of the dead is not a rip off, no. Its merely an eclectic mix (a salad, if you will) of a plethora of iconic sources to deconstruct we have:
1. editing/sound-track choices-NATURAL BORN KILLERS MPAA edit
2. Video clips/fast, impatient zombies 28 DAYS LATER and DEMONI and NIGHTMARE CITY (Lenzi), RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD '85
3. The Marina GEORGE A. ROMERO'S DAY OF THE DEAD (original screenplay
4. The doggy DAWN OF THE DEAD '78 screenplay/novelization
5. The Island/video POV CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST,ZOMBI 2, BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, early scene in DAWN OF THE DEAD '78
6. Suicide ending DAWN OF THE DEAD '78 screenplay
7. (spoiler) V-THE FINAL BATTLE/ DEMONI 2(sort of)
8. zombification scene DEAD WORLD comic. thanks. excuse my spelling focus on M-E-A-N-I-N-G, please.
I LOVED THE ACTION AND THE MUSIC, by the way. ZOMBIES GALORE!!!!!!
I FOUND MYSELF DIRELY MISSING THE FIRST ONE (DAWN '78)I play goblin's soundtrack while washing my cars.