Dawn of the Dead is a masterpiece. It is really scary and somehow - as I saw recognized in other comments - it has one or more messages. Why it`s so scary? For me the most scary movies are those in which everybody can become the monster, even your brother, your mother, yourself (as said in this movie). However this movie has something more than most of the other horror movies: the atmosphere, the direction and, as I said the messages. One message I found - maybe I`m wrong - is that the situation of the protagonists in the mall and zombies outthere is a metaphor of our situation, the rich western world members that ignore what`s going on outthere, in the third world. Another interpretation could be less `macro`: simply the middle class that doesn`t care of the working class and thinks only to consume (consumerism). However the dichotomy is clearly between those who are rich, few, strong, armed and those who are poor, many, hungry, angry. The scenes when the zombies out of the mall assault some piece of meat all together remind me some medieval movie in which the people was in the identical conditions. As the film was going I felt some simpathy and mercy for the zombies. In sum their only fault was to resurrect. When they ate some of the bikers I felt somehow happy because they deserved this (even if the bikers are human beings at the very end). Is this a `political movie`? I don`t know either the history behind this movie and the story of the director to say this. I can only say that this is absolutely a must see for those who want to discover or already love the horror genre.
Review of Dawn of the Dead
