Dawn of the Dead 2?

Rating: 10/10 (13 November 2005)

This was such an excellent film that all horror fans should be raving about it until we get another in the same vein, perhaps a direct sequel signed over by Romero with Snyder and a few of the original (remake) cast on board. And if we're all very lucky Snyder will try to outdo himself the second time around. Except for having the same name and being about zombies it's kind of hard to really call this a remake or even compare it to the "original." They really are two entirely separate films, with two separate attitudes, ethos, and for lack of a better word, feel. It's pseudo-political timing, which every serious film that uses explicit amounts of sex or violence must ultimately be, was perfect, the escalating war in Iraq, the building of fundamentalist religious fervor bordering on madness, the almost simultaneous... compare and contrast me even though I have absolutely nothing to do with... release of the ultra-violent "Passion." I must have been glowing a dark, dark, shade of, zombified, almost black, red, when I walked out of the theater after having seen it the first time. It frightened me! It truly frightened me. I can't remember the last time a horror film frightened me. Maybe it was the first time I saw the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but I'm not sure. Please, please, please, art people and production people and finance people and Zach and Sarah and Ving and Kevin, and hoards of apocalyptic terrifying, fast and frightening zombies...come back! It's worth it, for so many good reasons...