Dawn of the Dead [Blu-ray] [1978]

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The music scores on both are credited to Argento faves Goblin, but the subtle effectiveness of their contribution to Romero's version is traded in on the Argento cut for something louder and brasher that's a long, long way from the group's sublime work on Argento's Suspiria.

It is scary, engaging, thought provoking and demands repeat viewing – we will likely never see its like again. This site is a destination for AV enthusiasts to share experiences, opinions, and ideas with others, eschewing egotistical debate, with an end goal of helping each other design and tweak systems to reach this “nirvanic” state. Personally, I’ve always been more of a Night man, largely because it’s the one I saw first, a little too young, and it scared the crap out of me.Being a horror fan, he'd been to a number of conventions in London where VHS bootlegs of uncut Nasties were freely available. The tenement scene early on is brutal and intense, but later on more comedy seeps in and the whole wish-fulfilment side of having a mall all to themselves, on top of having S. In Europe, Second Sight Films raises the dead on 4K Ultra HD as an awesome seven-disc limited edition box set with brand-new 4K presentations for all three versions of Romero's cult classic, making them the definitive watch at home.

Memories of Monroeville: A tour of the mall – New 30 minute feature with Michael Gornick, Tom Savini, Tom Dubensky and Taso Stavrakis revisiting the famous mall. This is unlikely to be a problem for most, although many Blu-Ray players in the USA will not play PAL content, so please check this won't be a problem for you. Dawn of the Dead may not be as unremittingly tense and disturbing as its predecessor – nor was it ever intended to be – but in all other respects it's everything a great horror movie should be and a whole lot more besides.

original camera negative with the unrated scenes featuring insert footage from the 2K digital intermediate scan. Only thing is, rest and relaxation is the last thing that she’s going to have as her daughter mutates into the living dead before her very eyes and her husband infected with the same evil in the process. Realising they might be on to a good thing, they decide to hold up for a while and plan their next move. It wasn’t Tom Savini’s first film as a special effects make-up artist, but it’s the one in which he made his name and lead to him finding fame with Friday the 13th not long after.

Reiniger) shoot their way through a tenement block that’s overtaken with zombies and gun-toting residents. Creating something original, truly original, requires an extraordinary melding of skills, hard work and good fortune, in the writing, in the visual realisation, in the casting and in the securing of funding, and a whole lot more. As for the Argento Cut, there doesn't appear to be a significantly notable difference from the The stereo track is closer to how the film originally played, but the DTS track appears to be a legit remix, with a crisper clarity and distinct separation in places, although both tracks spend most of their time at front and centre.

Even Andre is played well, as a gang banger/thief who is willing to team up with the afore mentioned people and survive. mix is deep and heavy, pounding us mercilessly with deep waves of LFE from the opening shots of the film.

So there is at least another 2-3 hours of footage which seems not to have been released in the bootleg community. There have been some claims made recently, usually by younger horror fans for whom 1980 is ancient history, that Dawn of the Dead hasn't dated that well and that Zack Snyder's 2006 remake is somehow superior. The stories of the bikers are particularly enjoyable and don’t crop up elsewhere as a lot of the zombie anecdotes do.Arguably, Romero's original is the most consistent and stable, except that around the 56-minute mark when Fran confronts the men about her role in the group, we see a bit of flickering or pulsing in the background. You do have to take into consideration the age and budget of the film, it was quite limited at the time, and thus the restoration is not going to work miracles – it is still a cheap horror flick and is never going to rival modern digital filming techniques – and judged on those merits this is an amazing picture. And The Argento cut, which, again, some prefer due to its much faster pacing and musical score, but this is offset by missing huge swathes of characterisation, some of the best gags and some, what appear to be, indiscriminate cuts to action scenes – for me the worst of the presentations; but at least everyone has something. The former strangers become intwined with each-others lives in a bid for survival against a horde of flesh-eating zombies. Apparently this is also Romero's preferred version, something recognised here in its selection for Blu-ray treatment, while the other two are on standard def DVDs.