Dawn of the Dead (1978)

Movie Details

Original Title Dawn of the Dead

Original Language EN

Budget $650,000

Revenue $55,000,000

Status Released

Popularity 3.0

Cast

David Emge

Stephen "Flyboy" Andrews

Popularity: 0.6

Ken Foree

Peter Washington

Popularity: 0.7

Scott H. Reiniger

Roger "Trooper" DeMarco

Popularity: 0.1

Gaylen Ross

Francine "Fran" Parker

Popularity: 0.2

David Crawford

Dr. James Foster

Popularity: 1.1

David Early

Sidney Berman

Popularity: 0.7

Richard France

Dr. Milliard Rausch

Popularity: 0.6

Howard Smith

TV Commentator

Popularity: 0.6

Daniel Dietrich

Dan Givens

Popularity: 0.1

Fred Baker

Police Commander

Popularity: 0.8

James A. Baffico

Wooley

Popularity: 0.6

Rod Stouffer

Roy Tucker

Popularity: 0.1

Key Crew

Producer Richard P. Rubinstein, Alfredo Cuomo, Claudio Argento

Director George A. Romero

Screenplay George A. Romero

Editor George A. Romero

Music Dario Argento

Production

Dawn Associates

Laurel Entertainment

Videos & Trailers

Quentin Tarantino on Dawn of the Dead

Featurette

Bill Hader on Dawn of the Dead

Featurette

George A. Romero and How He Created DAWN OF THE DEAD

Featurette

Original Trailer

Trailer

Image Gallery

Backdrops

Posters

Keywords

helicopter army chaos bite materialism machete gore martial law state of emergency shopping mall infection biker truck consumerism zombie motorcycle gang exploding head mall tv production zombie apocalypse

Reviews from TMDB

talisencrw 9/10

Jul 3, 2016

This is one of the finest sequels ever, in that it's both of comparable quality with the original, yet is fundamentally different from it at the same time. Marvelous stuff, with aspects copied thousands of times over the past two generations, with no end in sight. This and 'Salo, or the 120 Days ... Read more

Wuchak 8/10

Aug 22, 2018

Romero’s imaginative and thrilling zombie sequel A decade after the excellent “Night of the Living Dead” (1968), writer/director George Romero offers up this exceptional sequel. The plague of reanimated corpses with a hunger for warm flesh is now global and society is increasingly breaking ... Read more

JPV852 8/10

Dec 16, 2020

Been a while since I last watched this one, but with the new 4K UHD out, decided to give it another watch going with the Extended Cut. Still very well made with some great zombie effects and really liked the characters, Peter (Ken Foree), especially. I'm not a big fan of the zombie horror genre but ... Read more