Mac Murphy wrote:
I lost interest after Day of the Dead, but Dawn of the Dead is one of my favorite horror flicks. Is the new version any good?
I hated the remake of "Dawn". It absolutely drained every ounce of meaning from the original, and made no new statements about itself as a zombie movie or a social commentary (though I'm not saying it needed to). It wasn't fun for me. I was disappointed too because I like James Gunn who wrote the script (former Troma alum and the guy who made the charming "Slither"). Maybe his script got hacked to death, I don't know--but the remake used the idea that "28 Days Later" did, making the zombies these rampaging *fast* zombies...I guess the motto would be..."these ain't your father's zombies!". But I liked my father's zombies. So I hated the movie--though it had a few nice scenes of gore.