Forty years after the release of George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead, the horror and despair are still vivid.

*Information as of August 2018 article publication.

"Dawn of the Dead" synopsis

Suddenly, the dead came back to life and began attacking the living. The resurrected dead = Dawn of the Dead eat the flesh of the living, and those who are eaten are also resurrected as their companions. The world has turned into Inferno. Francine, who works at a TV station, Stephen, a pilot, and Peter and Roger, SWAT officers, try to escape from the city by helicopter as the Dawn of the Dead continues to increase. They finally arrive at a huge shopping center on the outskirts of town, where they find some temporary peace, but Roger is bitten by a Dawn of the Dead. Eventually, Roger dies and comes back to life as a Dawn of the Dead. Peter's bullet sent him into an eternal sleep. The three of them feel tired and gradually lose their purpose in life as they repeat the same routine every day. Then, biker gangs who have survived the frenzy of the world burst into the area in search of supplies. The barricade is broken and a large number of Dawn of the Dead rush in. A three-way war between Peter and his gang, motorcycle gangs, and Dawn of the Dead has begun.

Index

• Influence and presence in genre
• Use of physical commercial facilities is no longer difficult
• A sharp reference to taboos that are being avoided

Influence and presence in genre

With the spread of video streaming services, many people are now enjoying watching foreign dramas. Among the hit content, ` `The Walking Dead '' (2010-), which depicts a never-ending battle between walkers (Dawn of the Dead) and survivors, has been extremely popular. Nowadays, Dawn of the Dead are no longer B-grade monsters living underground, but super characters that have taken pop culture by storm as icons of fear.

When looking at the history of modern Dawn of the Dead, `` Dawn of the Dead '' is a horror movie that stands out with its solitary, fierce prominence. The resurrected dead eat the flesh of the living, and those who are eaten also resurrect as Dawn of the Dead. This cult classic 1978 apocalypse Dawn of the Dead movie from director George A. Romero, who created this horrifying life cycle setting.

Four men and women try to escape by helicopter from a densely populated area that has fallen into chaos due to the appearance of Dawn of the Dead. However, on the way, they land on a huge shopping mall that has lost its functionality and attempt to occupy it in order to secure food and supplies. And he goes about exterminating the Dawn of the Dead wandering around the mall, regardless of the danger. However, the peace that they achieved through great sacrifice and struggle is destroyed by the intervention of a group of thieves who are doing their best to kill the enemy...

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Perhaps due to their habits in life, hordes of Dawn of the Dead continue to flock to shopping malls. Romero says it contains a critique of mass consumption society. But beyond the logic and theme, how will a group of four including combat professional SWAT conquer a vast mall and succeed in hunting highly difficult Dawn of the Dead? This life-or-death survival race is an incredibly entertaining movie. In the first place, the drama structure of `` The Walking Dead '', which repeats throughout the seasons, ``formation of a community → collapse due to the invasion of outsiders'', is also based on `` Dawn of the Dead ''. Given its influence and presence in the genre, you should probably know about it.

Use of physical commercial facilities is no longer difficult