Dawn of the Dead

The zombie drama is the genre that doesn’t die. It is for ever undead. Every time you think it has exhausted ways for the dead to rise up and create mayhem, another film or TV show arrives and is once again the most talked about thing around. This happened most recently with The Last of Us, HBO’s post-apocalyptic nightmare (shown in the UK on Sky), which is now back with a second series (April 14)...[Read More]

The Test of Time series looks back at legendary director George A. Romero’s 2005 zombie movie, Land of the Dead [embedded content] Whether it’s the original director or not, following up all time classics in a series is a tall task. We have seen it with many of the greatest movies of all time like Rick Rosenthal having to follow up John Carpenter and Halloween or John Boorman followi...[Read More]

Pennsylvania has had quite the love affair with zombies. Zombie king, George Romero, shot his legendary film “Night of the Living Dead (1968)” around Butler County. His other dead creature feature, “Dawn of the Dead (1978),” was filmed in the Monroeville Mall, itself a lifeless shell of the shopping center it once was. Not to mention the state apparently comes in clutch in the event of a zombie ap...[Read More]

Guest article written by John Brennan https://linktr.ee/badtechno There are shopping malls, and then there is the shopping mall: Monroeville Mall in Pennsylvania, the original filming location of George A. Romero’s seminal 1978 horror film Dawn of the Dead. To fans of horror, film history, and American pop culture, this isn’t just a mall—it’s sacred ground. As rumors swirl about Walmart’s purchase...[Read More]

The trailer for M3GAN 2.0 reveals the plot of the sequel to the hit killer robot horror comedy, and I will be honest: I did not see this premise coming.In the original film, M3GAN is a highly-advanced robotic doll created as the ultimate kids’ plaything and companion. Naturally, she misinterprets her programming to protect her owner and goes on a kill spree. What else is going to happen in a movie...[Read More]

So I guess this is, like, a sixth night at Freddy’s? Five more nights at Freddy’s? Five additional nights at Freddy’s?Maybe I’m overthinking this. Universal is simply calling it Five Nights at Freddy’s 2. That’s probably the right call for this sequel to the surprisingly huge film adaptation of the video game franchise. (The second Five Nights at Freddy’s video game was also called Five Nights at ...[Read More]

Daily Dirt for Saturday, June 1, 2024 There is no better way to celebrate the first day of June than a look at another great era of movies: The 1970s … Welcome to today’s three thoughts that make up Vol. 966 of The Daily Dirt. 1. The 1970s were a wonderful decade for the movies. We’re in the midst of a countdown of the best movies from the modern golden age (1960-1999) of film, and the ’7...[Read More]

Director George A. Romero didn't set out to make a zombie franchise when he helmed Night of the Living Dead in 1968. He was just trying to make a satisfying film, which helps explain why it took 10 years for the first sequel to materialize. After that sequel, 1978's Dawn of the Dead, proved to be successful, he went looking for a third film story, with more than a few detours along the way.Though ...[Read More]

Fran (Gaylen Ross) heads to the mall to escape zombies in Dawn of the Dead.Screenshot: United Film Distribution Company George A. Romero’s Dawn of the Dead arrived 10 years after he invented the modern zombie movie with 1968's Night of the Living Dead. To mark the 45-year anniversary of its U.S. release in 1979—an international co-production, it world-premiered in Italy in 1978—star Gaylen Ross,...[Read More]

Gaylen Ross has only a handful of acting credits to her name, but the first of them remains significant enough even today for her to be permanently canonized in horror film history: “Dawn of the Dead.” Playing television producer Fran Parker for writer-director George A. Romero, Ross joins what’s otherwise a boys’ club cast to combat zombies (and post-apocalyptic boredom) in an abandoned shopping ...[Read More]

Gaylen Ross has only a handful of acting credits to her name, but the first of them remains significant enough even today for her to be permanently canonized in horror film history: “Dawn of the Dead.” Playing television producer Fran Parker for writer-director George A. Romero, Ross joins what’s otherwise a boys’ club cast to combat zombies (and post-apocalyptic boredom) in an abandoned shopping ...[Read More]

Gaylen Ross has only a handful of acting credits to her name, but the first of them remains significant enough even today for her to be permanently canonized in horror film history: “Dawn of the Dead.” Playing television producer Fran Parker for writer-director George A. Romero, Ross joins what’s otherwise a boys’ club cast to combat zombies (and post-apocalyptic boredom) in an abandoned shopping ...[Read More]