Saw this at a drive in as a kid. Not just a great film, but an extraordinary sequel.

This is THE zombie film and not just a great horror movie but a great movie. Along with Star Wars and Raiders this is the movie that had the biggest impact on me when I was a kid. Lucas, Spielberg, Romero. The trinity that made me who I am today. Heh.

@only257

7 жыл бұрын

dravenuk night of the living dead is great too 😈💀

What a classic. I grew up watching this on a worn out old VHS tape every weekend with my mates. The remake is an absolute disgrace. Who in their right mind would think they can remake something like DOTD and do it justice?

What I like about this movie is the human and dysfunctional reaction people have to the situation at the beginning of the movie. The first scene shows a mother of a zombie guy trying to keep people from shooting him and he bites a big chunk out of her neck, killing her. Then they show a chaotic scene at a television studio where a guy is trying to explain what's going on and is given rabbit ears by one of the production assistants live on air. A scene you could imagine happening today. I saw it at the theater when it first came out.

One of my all time favorite Zombie movies.

Gotta agree w/ Landis on both ver. of Dawn, also I knew that I couldn't have been the only one who thought the 1st ten mins. of Dawn (04) was good and then the rest well...

@citygirl5705

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, so many people love the remake. It's okay, but doesn't compare to the original.

As far as I'm concerned....THE zombie movie. A successful mixture of disturbing imagery,brilliant social commentary on consumerist culture and some well-executed action scenes. Groundbreaking movies almost always get imitated; Romero's first zombie film "Night Of The Living Dead" came out in '68,yet the horror movies of the seventies took their cues largely from *The Exorcist* and *Jaws* . Following this movie,zombies exploded onto the screen,often in efforts that were utter failures compared to this...unfortunately,that includes some of Romero's later zombie movies. And that remake was total forgettable crap....not surprising because this is something that cannot be remade.

John Landis said almost word for word what I have always said about the "remake". After the first ten minutes, which were great, it was crap.

This is my favorite zombie horror movie from 1978 directed by George a Romero. When there’s no more room in hell the dead will walk the earth.

Love John Landis's intros makes me laugh

i want to smoke weed with john landis (dabs)

The zombies are a major step up from those in Night of the Living Dead, and I'm certain that the improvements were inspired by the sex zombies from the movie Shivers.

its sad how I almost believed he was the news guy, thank god saw the crazies.

What Night and Dawn get right is the breakdown in society were this event to actually occur. It's probably not much of an exaggeration to see how the various chains of command would begin to crumble and the public begins to lose faith in its leaders before full-scale panic erupts and it becomes an every-man-for-themselves situation.

all these years, I did not know Condoleeza Rice was in Dawn Of The Dead

lision to the background music and moans in the movie that makes it scary

These old trailers feature just about every major plot point and often include scenes from the denouement. Trailers today are practically teasers in comparison.

Okay John, enough with the madcap intros with the gag names. You're a card...WE GET IT!

It always makes me laugh when the characters in the film first see the mall from the helicopter, and one of them is like, "What's that?"

Thanks John for giving credit where credit is due.❤

How do these John Landis trailer reviews not have 50,000 upvotes each?

@jerryrichardson2799

3 жыл бұрын

An excellent question.

Saw this when it came out when you could easily get into X rated movies under aged. Was 14.

Landis looks like the Muppet Guy Smiley with a beard

People:"This situation must be controlled!" Politician: "LOCK DOWN!"

@integral

Жыл бұрын

The MAGA klan doesn't like listening to experts.

it’s a great movie but the original NOTLD will always be Romero’s masterpiece.

@floridafyme

5 жыл бұрын

Absolutely!

@matthewwilson3202

Жыл бұрын

It's very close but I think Dawn is better. I saw a live rescore and foley of Night recently, brilliant stuff

Lucio Fulci's Zombie ( an Itaian film ) is the movie that made the zombies "uglier". HIS film was the first to feature zombies with that ROTTED look - THAT was HIS main original pioneering contribution to the zombie subgenre and why HE's considered the other "zombie king" alongside Romero. People today sort of ridicule the zombies in THIS movie for how "stupid" they look but there's a THEMATIC reason they look like this - they're supposed to resemble regular people youd actually see in a shopping mall, so that the word "zombie" has a kind of dual meaning ( both as in living dead creature and as in slavish consumer ) and so it wouldn't have suited it had they been all decayed and super gross looking.

@only257

7 жыл бұрын

Creepy Skulldini agreed seen that film on KZread 8 years ago in English 👻

@babababuck

6 жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure the rotted zombie look was around long before Zombie 2.

@AnonURnot

6 жыл бұрын

TheGreaterGood80 yeah. Fulci's zombies were made to be frightful to look at. Romero had decaying zombies in day of the dead, but it would make sense since it takes place years after the initial outbreak. But Fucli zombies were scary. You can kind of feel sorry for Romero zombies but by looking at Fulci zombies you just want to run away, far far away from those god awful looking things.

This is my favorite zombie horror movie dawn of the dead from 1978.

Landis loved the helicopter decapitation, he used it in a later film

@integral

Жыл бұрын

Your infantile whining is most impressive.

@fredflintstone7943

Жыл бұрын

@@integral yeah it is and three people are dead...

all these years, i did not realize john landis was in this movie. lol

@Aguilo.Designs

4 жыл бұрын

Because he wasn’t. That’s Richard France as Dr. Millard Rausch.

@danwroy

2 жыл бұрын

That's Condoleeza Rice

Best movie ever made thanks

Why on earth would they show Roger getting bit and Turned into a zombie in the trailer? "Im gonna try...I'm gonna try REAL HARD not to come back" 😢

Did not know that was a remake of Dawn of the dead

Nice to hear someone say the remake was not that great. It wasn't bad, but not near as good as the original.

CLASSIC

The end of our society. Nobody did it like George A. Romero. All of his movies are Masterpieces.

someone add his cameo to the IMDB

@sdovas

4 жыл бұрын

That ain't Landis, it's the actor who played the scientist with the cure for the madness plague in Romero's earlier THE CRAZIES. He came to a bad end in that picture too.

@Aguilo.Designs

4 жыл бұрын

Richard France as Dr. Millard Rausch.

@Tchernobog

4 жыл бұрын

@@sdovas lol I was making a joke dude, I know, I know. I've seen every Romero movies backwards and forwards

My favorite zombie film by far. Didn't know until now that Landis played the talking head on TV! Haha.

best zombie movie EVER hahahahhahahahahahahah

Both this and the remake are great (change my mind, haters)!

what the hell????....what is he talking about , he's the not the guy...

@PoisonedDragon1964

3 жыл бұрын

He's speaking facetiously, like he does at the beginning, when he introduces himself as Condoleeza Rice. (Richard France played Dr Millard Rausch, the scientist with the eyepatch.) But somebody evidently took Landis' joke seriously enough to have edited the claim into the DotD Wiki article.

@danielgrimes8312

3 жыл бұрын

@@PoisonedDragon1964 i guess so ...

now mall dead

Condoleeza Rice also killed Vic Morrow and two innocent children on the Twilight Zone movie set. She is what I call a multi-tasker.

@integral

Жыл бұрын

Do you whine this way on all of John's TFH videos? Bless your pointy little head.

@jimmybonez8928

Жыл бұрын

@@integral are you a little bitch ass hater on every video I comment on!!! Bitch as hater🖕🏽🖕🏽🖕🏽🖕🏽🖕🏽🖕🏽

How can you say that about the remake? The remake of DotD was totally awesome, start to finish. And in fact, the 1990 remake of NOTLD was really awesome, too. I rare treat for die hard horror/zombie fans. John Landis should maybe rethink his review.

hahahah condolesa ur da shxt!!!!!

You’re John landis!!!😠

I agree with those who disagree with Landis about the 2004 remake, which was masterful. Ten years later, it still packs a punch, whereas the 1978 version, with its horribly distracting, outdated clothes and hairdos was obsolete by the time the 1984 classic "Return of the Living Dead" came along.

@ThawedTroglodyteJury

9 жыл бұрын

Some of us prefer movie critique, not a Mr. Blackwell-esque bitchfest about fashion no-nos.

@sdovas

7 жыл бұрын

TexasChainsawJesus what he doesn't get is that it is SUPPOSED to be funny, it is SUPPOSED to make you think and not just gag (Michael O'Donoghue said comedy was the icing and the Idea was the cake, and here Romero's icing is to get you to the cake), and above all, it is an action movie before it's a horror movie, it's an Idea movie before it's a horror movie, and as such Romero kicks ass on both Michael Bay and Zack Snyder without even 1/10th of either's budget, even today.

John Landis has no credibility with me after The Twilight Zone tragedy.

@integral

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

Hire some high school kids to walk around a mall for a few bucks and call it a movie. Smart. This pile of shit cost0.6mil and made 55mil. What more can you ask for a movie. I can't watch this unless I've had several beers and am in a good mood. The remake cost 28mil and made 102mil...great film! Yea..right.

@plasticweapon

2 жыл бұрын

you're no brando. you look more like keifer sutherland. and you seem like a fucking loser.