Romero’s second film in “The Dead” franchise, Dawn of the Dead is probably one of the most famous zombie films and probably the most well known, next to Night of the Living Dead (the first in Romero’s franchise). This film follows the events as a zombie apocalypse starts and continues on till when zombies have virtually taken over America and as far as we know maybe even the world. The film follows 4 survivors who escape the chaos of the city and end up hiding out in a shopping mall, something which would constantly be reused, remade, satire and become a cliché with anything zombie related, let alone movies. The opening minutes of the film mainly centres around two different scenarios. The first one, being centred around a news room, shrouded in chaos, as everyone one is trying to keep up with the broadcast and keep up with the amount of reports flooding in and also having to deal with staff walking out. The second scenario is the more interesting one, this one following a swat team sent to clear out a building of zombies. The zombies here are very typical, in that they are slow, show very little emotion (if any at all) and due to low the budget of the film just have very pale skin and a few splatters of blood on them, however there are a few others throughout the film that have had more applied making them look a little more menacing and decaying.
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