Watch: Dawn of the Dead 2004 123movies, Full Movie Online – Ana goes home to her peaceful suburban residence, but she is unpleasantly surprised the morning that follows when her husband is brutally attacked by her zombified neighbor. In the chaos of her once picturesque neighborhood, Ana flees and stumbles upon a police officer named Kenneth, along with more survivors who decide that their best chances of survival would be found in the deserted Crossroads Shopping Mall. When supplies begin running low and other trapped survivors need help, the group comes to the realization that they cannot stay put forever at the Shopping Mall and devise a plan to escape..
Plot: A group of survivors take refuge in a shopping mall after the world is taken over by aggressive, flesh-eating zombies.
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Come on, man. You must’ve heard the priest say something about life and death.George Romero fans feared the worst, another one of his sacred original zombie trilogy films was being remade, this even though the remake of Night of the Living Dead didn’t disgrace itself. As it happened, the fears were unfounded, for Zack Snyder and his team crafted one of the best horror remakes going.
The premise follows Romero’s wonderful version, a mysterious epidemic is causing the populace to turn into undead zombies, the bite of which transfers the illness to another. A small group of survivors make it to the Crossroads Mall and hole up there whilst trying to keep at bay the zombie hordes, but inner fighting threatens the group whilst they know they can’t stay there for ever.
Right from the off the film grabs you around the throat, it’s a blistering and terrifying opening which brings heartbreak and terror in equal measure. It also announces to us that these zombies are different to Romero’s, these suckers can run, and run fast. After some chaos and blood, the introductions to our survivors is set up and the pic settles into a superb group dynamic situation, where machismo and brains meet dumb and dumber, all while little devilish moments trickle away in the background.
It’s the focus on the survivors that really lifts it to greater heights, how they variously react to their plight, there’s good thought gone into the screenplay (James Gunn). The natural progression of this type of film calls for horror moments, and Snyder deftly slots them in when the pic needs them, which again brings about scenes of terror and genuine heartbreaking moments. Some neat cameos will be cheered by fans of Romero’s work, while the cast are superb here, with Sarah Polley the standout fulfilling the believable promise of the character as written.
A remake that is its own beast yet still pays homage to what inspired it, and good at both! Now that’s a rare thing in horror! 8/10
Great watch, will watch again, and can definitely recommend.Granted, if you’re not a zombie fan, you’re probably not even considering this one. Then you have the great argument about infection vectors (this is pretty classic, bite infection transfer), and slow vs fast (this movie is fast) zombies. I’m basically just pointing out why we can’t have nice things, people argue about it.
This has a great cast: Ving Rhames, Sarah Polley and Jake Weber in particular. The production value was definitely present, and not just in renting a mall to trash, or even just the zombie practical effects.
The large scale scenes look amazing, and the details on the various infections are fascinating to watch. And sure, there is lots of quality gunfire (foley is good) and shooting zombies for people you are just in it for the action. While it’s actually got some good (if dark at times) humor to it, it’s not “Warm Bodies”.
Of course the presence of zombies / apocalyptic situation / lack of central authority gives us great philosophical opportunity to discuss what life means and see how people behave, but this leans more towards survival strategy aspects.
If anything, I think that is where the “flaw” is in this movie: (most of) the characters are relatively competent so it detours some from typical movie formula relying on the characters to make mistakes to progress the story, but more of there is just a hopeless unending storm of bad things happening to them, it’s honestly a little refreshing.
This is probably one of my favorite zombie movies, and I don’t even like running zombies.
Why I gave Dawn a 10 (well, maybe it should have been a9).
I’ve been to thousands of movies in my lifetime and own hundreds of videos and DVDs, so I am a fan but not a bona fide film critic. This is my first online review.My wife and I saw the original Dawn of the Dead 25 years ago at a midnight show and left wired enough to talk each other down till the morning. Perhaps a quarter of a century has inured us to the violence a bit since we just watched it again (rental video) last week prior to yesterday’s venture to the local multiplex to see the remake/”reimagining” and were mostly unperturbed by the revisit.
For some reason, I was hooked on the new Dawn months ago from the teaser and, subsequently, the actual trailer. The Sparklehorse song in the former fit perfectly and the suburban shot followed by killer Vivian and closing with the burned projector film of the latter was intriguing in its own way. So I was primed to see the movie, usually a recipe for disaster since preview expectations are rarely fulfilled by the finished product. This time, however, they were.
The cast was uniformly believable and, more important, empathizable (at least with the good guys who got sorted out along the way). Even the playboy jerk had several relevant lines. Polley was a good, strong female lead (with another great rebuttal — “No, I’m a * nurse” to a query about her medical skills) and Rhames a cheerable, if reluctant, hero. The camaraderie, such as it was, worked, and visceral me-first survival gave way more often to self-sacrifice.
So, what’s not to like? The fundamental premise that a classic got remade? Doesn’t wash. These are two different movies with the same name and similar premises but very different attitudes. (Better special effects didn’t hurt, either, although this new version was oddly less disturbing sans zombies munching on dismembered body parts.) Speedy zombies (except for the “twitchers”)? No problem; hey, they’re hungry and, as always, persistent. My attention was held for the better part of two hours; the story was interesting; the outcome ambivalent; the characters arisen to the task at hand, becoming coldly rational to the divisions between life and death and zombiedom; the music weirdly appropriate; the black humor welcome respite. No, Dawn of the Dead isn’t Citizen Kane nor is it a sacrilegious assault on the horror genre. It’s solid filmmaking that’s entertaining and thought-provoking. Otherwise, I suspect Romero would never have put his imprimatur on the remake.
As good as the original, with exciting new directions and room for a sequel!
Shortly after a number of strange cases begin to appear at the hospital where Ana (Sarah Polley) works, a bizarre zombie “epidemic” hits the Milwaukee, Wisconsin area full force. Sarah escapes her immediate threats and meets a number of other humans who decide to seek shelter inside a large shopping mall. As they learn that the zombie outbreak is much more widespread than anyone could have imagined, their chances of survival grow increasingly dim.I know an awful lot of genre fans rail against remakes, but like the update of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003), this version of Dawn of the Dead is so good that we should instead be clamoring for more.
Writer James Gunn and director Zack Snyder knew that they had to come into the remake with both barrels blasting. Hardly five minutes into the film we’re already into hardcore, high tension, gore-filled horror material. In lesser films, our introduction to full-fledged zombie activity would have been dream material as a kind of teaser. Gunn and Snyder dispense with such weak-willed tactics and immediately launch into Armageddon. We quickly move to a wide shot of explosions, brutal car crashes and other mayhem.
We do finally get a breather while we’re learning our cast of characters at the mall in nicely written scenes that bring out personality and depth to the relatively large cast, but horror fanatics need not fret that the film will evolve into a drama–tension and gore are never far removed from the film.
Gunn and Snyder earn credit for both paying homage to their source material and taking off into other interesting directions. This remake is just as intense and titillating as Romeo’s original, but with a different spin.
The cast is excellent, the cinematography and editing exciting and innovative, and the makeup and “creature” effects are top notch.
Even though I’ve seen greater quantities, the DVD for Dawn of the Dead also has some of the best extras I’ve seen on a disc in terms of quality. You get two excellent short films that effectively extend the feature. In one, a new character from the remake, Andy (Bruce Bohne), who runs a gun shop across the street from the mall, gives us a 15-minute video diary of his last 15 days. It’s similar in some ways to the feel of The Blair Witch Project (1999), but for my money, it’s much better than that film. In the other, we get a 30-minute condensation of the news broadcasts following the outbreak of the zombie “epidemic”. This also easily beats any mock horror documentary (such as The Last Broadcast (1998)) with its hands tied behind its back. Make sure you at least rent the DVD to check out these extras.
Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 41 min (101 min), 1 hr 50 min (110 min) (unrated director’s cut)
Budget 26000000
Revenue 102278712
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Action, Horror
Director Zack Snyder
Writer George A. Romero, James Gunn
Actors Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Mekhi Phifer
Country United States, Canada, Japan, France
Awards 1 win & 17 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Arriflex 435, Zeiss Ultra Prime Lenses, Moviecam SL, Zeiss Ultra Prime and Angenieux Optimo Lenses, Moviecam Cameras
Laboratory DeLuxe, Toronto, Canada, EFILM Digital Laboratories, Hollywood (CA), USA (digital intermediate), DeLuxe, Hollywood (CA), USA (prints)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (2K) (master format), Super 35 (source format)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (anamorphic)