Good Zombie Flick

Rating: Null/10 (25 October 2004)

OK, I do not know exactly what qualifies as a spoiler so I will just go ahead and warn that what I am going to say about the movie Dawn of the Dead can and possibly will be considered a spoiler, so be warned if you haven't seen the movie as there is some info here that is in the movie. I personally go to a horror flick to be scared, but I also value a good storyline as in order for me to be properly frightened I need a "good" logical reason, and not something stupid. I feel that Dawn of the Dead did just that, for the most part there was a good storyline and I did have to stop eating my nachos a couple of times (naw, I kept eating them). I do not care what other people's opinion of this movie was, but I can say in good faith that for a movie in this genre it was good. My reasoning for the movie being good was the storyline was SCARY and there was a personal connection with the characters, also I feel that instead of a remake this was another zombie movie all on its own. The whole part that scares our inner self about zombies is the personal part, and the director KNEW that, he made us connect with the characters before they died...even the ones at the beginning of the movie...you know how hard it would be to see the child zombie at the beginning of the movie...I made my husband lock the bedroom door when we went to bed for months after seeing that scene! (Still do) That is how scary this film is. Also, this zombie movie hit home, and movies that show something that could possibly happen are the scariest. I was in the military, just got out, and I was in Iraq. When I saw the movie I kept thinking of the biological threat in the Middle East that is threatening the United States. I kept thinking that who knows what is being experimented with biologically, and then the speed in which the disease spread added to that innate fear...hence...reeeeaaaally scary movie. So for those who think that the zombie movie remake Dawn of the Dead doesn't touch on things going on in today's world...oh well!!! This is a great movie, scary, I was disappointed by the unfinished ending, but overall I give it an 8.....oh, and the RUNNING zombies that was the scariest of all!!!!