Comments on: DAWN OF THE DEAD (1978): FAST-MOVING ZOMBIES http://dublinopinion.com/2009/12/29/dawn-of-the-dead-1978-fast-moving-zombies/ It's a group blog. What more do you need to know? Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:02:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Conor McCabe http://dublinopinion.com/2009/12/29/dawn-of-the-dead-1978-fast-moving-zombies/#comment-71899 Conor McCabe Fri, 01 Jan 2010 11:47:12 +0000 http://dublinopinion.com/2009/12/29/dawn-of-the-dead-1978-fast-moving-zombies/#comment-71899 Well, if truth be known.... Well, if truth be known….

]]> By: John Green http://dublinopinion.com/2009/12/29/dawn-of-the-dead-1978-fast-moving-zombies/#comment-71897 John Green Fri, 01 Jan 2010 11:02:02 +0000 http://dublinopinion.com/2009/12/29/dawn-of-the-dead-1978-fast-moving-zombies/#comment-71897 Yikes! I have that DVD and never noticed the extras. Thanks Conor. I shall have to dig it out. Those hobbies you list sound pretty healthy to me. At least they're not porn, football and reality TV. Yikes! I have that DVD and never noticed the extras. Thanks Conor. I shall have to dig it out.

Those hobbies you list sound pretty healthy to me. At least they’re not porn, football and reality TV.

]]> By: Conor McCabe http://dublinopinion.com/2009/12/29/dawn-of-the-dead-1978-fast-moving-zombies/#comment-71883 Conor McCabe Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:54:24 +0000 http://dublinopinion.com/2009/12/29/dawn-of-the-dead-1978-fast-moving-zombies/#comment-71883 Here's one of the clips of the news report extra on the 2004 Dawn of the Dead. At one point the studio cuts to a live report from Monroeville, Pittsburgh (where the original Dawn of the Dead is set) and interviews a cop played by Tom Savini, zombie make-up artist extraordinaire. <object width="300" height="265"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/bxHa1XlL1pc&hl=en_GB&fs=1&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&border=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/bxHa1XlL1pc&hl=en_GB&fs=1&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="300" height="265"></embed></object> Here’s one of the clips of the news report extra on the 2004 Dawn of the Dead.

At one point the studio cuts to a live report from Monroeville, Pittsburgh (where the original Dawn of the Dead is set) and interviews a cop played by Tom Savini, zombie make-up artist extraordinaire.

]]> By: Conor McCabe http://dublinopinion.com/2009/12/29/dawn-of-the-dead-1978-fast-moving-zombies/#comment-71882 Conor McCabe Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:33:33 +0000 http://dublinopinion.com/2009/12/29/dawn-of-the-dead-1978-fast-moving-zombies/#comment-71882 I'm in two minds about the slow/fast xombie thing. I really liked Dawn of the Dead (2004) and Dead Set. Both work as satire and as horror, which for me is the benchmark. The news broadcaster extra on the DVD is great fun. I think the clips are on YouTube. Have you seen Diary of the Dead? Romero gets one of the characters to make a point about how zombies can't run and then goes on to make a shite film with slow zombies. Having said that, I'm looking forward to his new movie, Survival of the Dead, which looks like it may be a DVD only release in Europe. It's due out in March and the ad's already on amazon. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Survival-Dead-DVD-Devon-Bostick/dp/B002VD5S6K/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1262277123&sr=8-1 I don't know how I ended up with an obsession with Marxist economics, Irish labour history, and zombie movies. Life's funny that way, I suppose. I’m in two minds about the slow/fast xombie thing. I really liked Dawn of the Dead (2004) and Dead Set. Both work as satire and as horror, which for me is the benchmark. The news broadcaster extra on the DVD is great fun. I think the clips are on YouTube. Have you seen Diary of the Dead? Romero gets one of the characters to make a point about how zombies can’t run and then goes on to make a shite film with slow zombies. Having said that, I’m looking forward to his new movie, Survival of the Dead, which looks like it may be a DVD only release in Europe. It’s due out in March and the ad’s already on amazon.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Survival-Dead-DVD-Devon-Bostick/dp/B002VD5S6K/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1262277123&sr=8-1

I don’t know how I ended up with an obsession with Marxist economics, Irish labour history, and zombie movies. Life’s funny that way, I suppose.

]]> By: John Green http://dublinopinion.com/2009/12/29/dawn-of-the-dead-1978-fast-moving-zombies/#comment-71881 John Green Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:07:04 +0000 http://dublinopinion.com/2009/12/29/dawn-of-the-dead-1978-fast-moving-zombies/#comment-71881 Loved World War Z, and I'm not really a big fan of the slow-moving, lumbering metaphor that constitutes the zombie genre. The Dawn of the Dead remake had a decent soundtrack, as I recall, though. Loved World War Z, and I’m not really a big fan of the slow-moving, lumbering metaphor that constitutes the zombie genre. The Dawn of the Dead remake had a decent soundtrack, as I recall, though.

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