Directed by: Lucio Fulci
Written by: Elisa Briganti and Dardano Sacchetti
Origin: Italy
Genre: Zombie
Released: 1979
In 1968, George A. Romero gave the
world “Night of the Living Dead”, an everlasting testament that proved
cannibalism can sell on the big screen, and singlehandedly brought zombies back
into the interest of the public, or at least into the smaller percentage of the
public that was willingly to admit they get off to the sight of the Undead
munching on the gooey flesh-sacks that are the living.
At first, the film reached only the
midnight movie crowd and would take about ten more years before zombies began to
become a mainstay in the mainstream horror market, and so “Dawn of the Dead”
was released into the world. And it was good. Very fucking good, as a matter of
fact. I understand that using an expletive is usually unprofessional, but I
believe sacrificing a few offended readers (which, nowadays, if you are on the
internet you are giving me and millions of others the free will to test your
morals) to express how goddamn awesome a film is says a lot about how much I
appreciated the film. But I digress.
