During an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia SWAT team members, a traffic reporter, and his television-executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.
Romero's sensibility approaches the Swiftian in its wit, accuracy, excess, and profound misanthropy.
– Dave Kehr,
Chicago Reader,
29 Mar 2007
fresh:
Undoubtedly the zombie movie to end 'em all.
– David Pirie,
Time Out,
26 Jan 2006
fresh:
Dawn of the Dead is one of the best horror films ever made -- and, as an inescapable result, one of the most horrifying. It is gruesome, sickening, disgusting, violent, brutal and appalling.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
23 Oct 2004
rotten:
Perhaps horror-movie buffs will consider this an improvement.