The first one is the best. Unfortunately, the actors in it charge $50 per signature at shows now. Just outrageous, and it taints that film a bit for me.
@@AnnusMirabilus Eh, for 60 a pop I got a autograph and a photo for each. DOTD is one of my fave movies, I didnt mind paying back for all the love I have for that film. I mean, I started saying "When there's no more room in hell" because I had to, and bless him, Ken finished the line. :)
😂 I liked except that scene at the end where the guy gets torn apart while screaming and his vocal chords stretch out...disturbing as hell and I thought it for weeks afterward...ugh
@@uraigroves7898apparently tom savini wanted that to be as realistic as possible and wanted the vocal chords to screech as they tore & broke. Also my favourite of the trilogy and I had a special edition DVD with Savini & Romero commentary back in the day but I've lost it.
Dawn of the Dead. In Germany, this film was dubbed “Kaufhaus Zombie” by fans. I saw it in the cinema when I was 14. It was a kind of dare. I heard reports that people left the theater because they were afraid. That visitors had thrown up. I was more than just excited. Half of my school class was in the movie theater. I was shocked! I couldn't look away. My eyes were glued to the movie screen. I had a lonely walk home afterwards. I kept turning around. I was so scared 😂. It wasn't any better at home. My parents weren't there, so I went to bed alone. I could almost hear the groaning of the zombies in my ear. This movie had gripped me. I loved it and hated it. I watch it regularly at least once a year and it never loses its fascination. Of course, I'm no longer afraid and the special effects have lost some of their shine. But the story, the characters and all that goes with it is still the best I've seen in a horror movie!
Some years back, I was watching this at night, and I thought I kept hearing something shuffling about in the dining room behind me. To be honest, it was kinda freaking me out because it's like 2am and completely dark. So after the 2nd time, I get up and flick the lights on... and sitting under the table is my 7 year old niece. I was watching her for my sister for a few days... and it turns out she snuck out of bed and crawled under the table, angled herself so she could she the TV from the other room. I asked her if she was scared of the movie, and she replied, "No, zombies are cool." Well, I did what any responsible uncle would do... I picked her up, plopped her on the couch beside me, and we watched the whole thing together. I suppose it's possible that because we're from the city Night and Dawn of the Dead were filmed in, maybe it's in our DNA to appreciate zombies no matter what. She's well into her 20s now and brings that night up almost every time we get together.
I love how he explains something I already knew but didn't know how to articulate. This is why the OG Dawn of the Dead is my favorite zombie movie of all time.
I could listen to QT talk about movies all day, I feel he's one of the few honest and true commentators on movies, he see's the good and the bad in all movies, he knows there's shades of grey when it comes to critical opinion on art.
Land is awesome as well. The first 4 are probably the best four movie run in cinema by a single director. Especially with elapsed time to make. It’s a shame he never got to make twilight of the dead.
I saw it in a mall theater when it came out. Own it in every format as they were released from VHS to Second Sights 4k deluxe edition. I guess it must be my favorite film.
This is the all-time great "what would you do if the shit hit the fan" survival movie! Loved it. Ken Foree is the guy you need around in the apocalypse!
Agreed. It has aged much more nicely then a lot of other seminal mid to late '70s shot classic horror films. Those opening minutes, in either of the three cuts available on the "Ultimate Edition" DVD boxset that we got here in North America, are among my favorite of any films of that time period. Romero before he hacked out was a truly unbeatable director. Alas it is a damn shame about his 1990's output onward before his passing, though...🤔
I grew up near the mall Dawn was filmed in, the Monroeville Mall, and I used to go all the because it had a great arcade. I was in my 20s when I finally saw Dawn of the Dead and had no idea it was filmed there. About halfway through the mall part, my brain is like, "Wait... wtf is this? Why does this look so familiar??" The revelation when everything clicked was such an awesome thing to experience...so I drove there the next day and walked around for like 2 hours trying to find all the spots from the movie. Even though most of the stores had been changed, you can easily tell where everything is
Dawn of the Dead freak here. First saw it at, of all places, a shopping mall multiplex in 1978, I was thirteen and my older sister took me. And I've watched Dawn so many times over the years that every shot, every frame, is burned across my mind and memory. And I can swear there are some shots in this video I've never seen before, and I've watched every extended cut, European cut, director's cut, etc. Thanks, Quentin!
There’s 5 or 6 different versions all with different camera angles cuts etc etc. it was edit not only by Romero but was brought to Italy and edited by Dario Argento and his brother. The original first screening cut of the film was almost 4 hours long I would kill for that version.
There's a new version I just watched in TH-cam someone just recently uploaded where they cut every version together it's like the super extended cut it's awesome
I actually worked on a film with Ken Foree called "Cut/Print" (unfortunately, you've probably never seen it). He was a great guy and autographed my 3 Disc Ultimate Edition of Dawn of the Dead.
Got a picture with Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez when they attended the pittsburgh premiere of land of the dead in 2005. Growing up in the burgh romero films were what I grew up with
My favourite film of all time, and the Second Sight 4K LE release is precious. The 35mm open matte version on here is great too. Check it out if you haven’t already.
On Facebook, I accidentally put Return Of The Living Dead as one of my past employments and couldn't get rid of it, so for years , even now, I get friend requests and fan letters from fans of the movie. A lot of people think I was the dead confederate soldier, who was much older than me. I also knew that Tarantino wasn't in Dawn and there's no way that I could ever imagine him in that role. The guy In the movie was called. Mousey, and he was played by Larry Vaira, a construction worker Romero hired him because he owned a motorcycle. All the ladies on the set had a crush on him because of his unusually good looking features. Vaira passed away a long time ago at the age of 57.
Ugh! Huge regret... Me and my older brother were asked to be extras and he didn't want to so I couldn't do it (I was 11 and the parents wouldn't let me do it alone). It's still great to see the mall we went back to school shopping at as a time capsule...
Dawn has the best explanation for why the army could lose: Morale. Everyone abandoning post to save themselves and their families. You got to sprinkle in a little dystopia to make apocalypse believable.
so then you got a whole neighborhood of armed men 'protecting their own'. More like some kind of bizarro martial law situation. See, I don't think things will get that bad once the 'cause' and 'cure' as sussed out...but it will be an ongoing infection but once we all get in the habit of decapitation and cremation of anybody who dies (and perhaps anybody who might be dying) things will probably die down--of course, there's plenty of opportunity for abuse of power and social commentary
Yeah, that's what made the movie (and the trilogy) so believable - it showed you the effect of *existential* horror on society. Very few zombie movies capture that side of it. Virtually all zombie movies are just gore, jump scares, and power fantasies. Not the Dead trilogy - they're as much about the fragility of the human condition when faced with the impossible as anything else. I think that part of it is so profoundly horrific to us that the entire zombie genre has spent decades changing the script so we can safely kid ourselves that we're stronger than that.
Few films have so successfully blended tragedy and comedy as this film did. It's by far my favorite zombie film of all time and possibly my favorite horror film also.
@@mabusestestamentYeah that European cut is just straight up horror, I was surprised when I watched it and it was almost like a different movie entirely especially without the gonk playing at the end of the movie.
The guy who played the biker with the tommy gun is actually the leader of a real biker gang called The Monguls, which they were. George ran into them and offered them a cameo in the film. I would have called bullshit on Q if he would have claimed that.
Actually his name is Larry Vaira, he's from Pennsylvania and was hired by Romero to keep the Pagans, the motorcycle club that was hired, in line. While sidecar Tommy gun isn't the leader of the Mongols and is just an actor, I'm sure the chapter president for this group of Pagans is in there somewhere.
@@FreejackVesa Yup, you got it right, the Monguls is the movie MC, they were played by the real Pagans MC. Tommy gun dude was a real life Pagan, it was Blades and Sledge who were actors. The main Bikers are Jack (Played by Rudy Ricci - Leader of the Monguls/Pagans and the one talking on the CB, "We don't like people who don't share, you just fucked up real bad".) Blades (Played by Tom Savini - 2nd-in-command) Sledge (Played by Taso N. Stavrakis, Tom's F/X assistant - 3rd-in-command) The following names are both the characters & real names/nicknames of Monguls played by Pagan members; Chickie (shot by Peter revealing his presence), Larry aka sidecar/tommy gun dude, Mousey aka driver of the sidecar, Charlie aka the very cool trike with the fin, Pedro aka the sombrero dude who gets trapped in the blood pressure chair. The rest are Weezer, Nick, Ken, Frank, Slick, Ratso, Bobby, Butchie, Lenny, Timmy, Tallo, Teddy, Joe, Gary, Davey.
Little else can be said about this film other than that if you haven’t seen it you must as soon as possible, and if you haven’t seen it for a while you must go and re-watch it (and I include myself in that).
DOTD was so grim and full of dispair and hopelessness. A very good take on American consumerism too. My buddy who introduced me to the film decades ago passed away a year ago, we loved watching it together. I think of him every time DOTD pops up.
Best zombie film of all-time. The make-up is a bit dodgy, granted, but the story is so enjoyable. The Second Sight LTD 4k is arguably the greatest release for an individual film ever too.
A quick note on the make-up FX. While the film is indeed a seminal classic of the zombie genre, the FX were openly said by Romero several times that he wanted that whole 1950s to early '60s EC Comics approach. Hence why the make-up used were different shades of grey and blue. Also explains the brighter shade of the 3M produced stage blood. The film truly is a seminal classic, to be sure. 👍🧟
Night is my favorite. It feels more like a newsreel documentary than a movie. Dawn has heavy shades of that as well, but Night feels the more realistic and less cinematic which makes it a little scarier. It's super eerie colorized too, as is the remake from Savini.
There are things about Tarantino i don't like, but what i do like about him is that he genuinely seems to love ALL movies. There doesn't seem to be a "shitty" movie in his opinion.
Dawn was my first introduction to zombie films, I was 7/8 when I first watched this in 99', since then I've been obsessed with anything zombie. Day is probably my favorite zombie film and maybe even my favourite film but dawn will always hold a place to me as my first ever introduction!
1978 Dawn of the dead and 28 days later are the best “zombie” films i’ve ever seen. And don’t give me a hard time about 28 days later not being a zombie film.
Halloween 1978, I was 8, my dad took me to the El Dorado Drive-In where they showed all-night movie marathons the last month or so of the season before they closed down for the winter. That night was Corvette Summer, The Boys In Company C, Jaws 2 (slept through most of that) and Dawn Of The Dead. It's been my favourite movie ever since, any and all genres. I saw Night Of The Living Dead on one of those public access horror shows, Dr. Demento or something similar on Halloween in 1976, had chicken pox that year. I liked it but they also showed Willard and Ben about the killer rat hordes right after and I thought they were pretty cool, I still get that Michael Jackson "Ben" theme song stuck in my head sometimes.
What episode (portion) of the Video Archives Podcast where Quentin discusses Dawn? Haven't really caught up with Season 2 yet if it's from one of them.
yah larry vaira was the motorcycle raider with the sub machinegun, died in 2007 at 57. his wife is also in Dawn of hte dead as the biker chick. He worked as a construction worker and only appeared in this movie and knight riders.
One of the greatest horror films, arguably the best zombie film. I watched with my mother on Betamax video when I was a kid, along with Zombie Flesh-Eaters. I rejoiced when zombies went mainstream later in films and games but felt like everyone else had discovered my secret.
As a kid I used to watch this movie and it seemed unrealistic that these slow, shambling zombies would take over but the older I got and the more our society changed it makes perfect sense . The stuff on tv in this movie is EXACTLY what would happen and we would just allow them to overrun us while we argue and fight with each other until its too late. Romero really understood us even way back then. This is why the movie still stands as a masterpiece today. As dated as it is in some ways in other ways it rings more true now than ever.
Even though the "Dawn of the Dead" ad said NO ONE UNDER 17 ADMITTED, the theaters would still admit kids with adults. That's how I got in. And it scared the hell out of me. But I loved it.
Well, QT had a cameo in the sitcom ''The Golden Girls'' as an Elvis impersonator, when he was still unknown, maybe just after its release of ''Reservoir Dogs'', but I recognized him. My first edition of Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide (1993), had indeed QT's name in the cast of Godard's ''King Lear''.
Dawn of the Dead was a film that tempted all the boys in my high school to view it, however, as I recall the girls were too afraid or repelled by what they had heard about it. I didn't see it until the mid 80's on VHS. I loved it then and still do today. The blood/flesh FX are a little dated, but no zombie film ever captured the chaos and pathos of a zombie takeover better than this film did. It was a zombie epic.
I was 10 in 77 when we we were driving up to Pittsburgh to visit relatives. I saw a billboard that said, 'Wanna be a zombie? Come to Monroeville Mall.' I begged my Dad to take me there. He didn't. I've never forgiven him. CUT TO: 1984 when Day of the Dead was being filmed. I called the film production offices and asked to be a zombie. They said sure and gave me directions. Unfortunately, since I was 17 at the time I wasn't allowed because they were filming in an abandoned mine shaft and for insurance reasons everyone had to be 18. CUT TO: 1991. After I had written my own adaptation of Stephen King's The Dark Half (which I later realized was being adapted by Romero) I ended up working for two days on the fx crew for re-shoots of that very film.
For those that haven't seen it that think this looks corny, you are somewhat correct. It's not something you would watch to actually get scared like a typical modern horror film or even more polished classics such as Alien, The Shining, and so forth. Dawn is more of a fun adventure film like Indiana Jones, that just happens to have a horror current running throughout. The occasionally crude effects add a charm like when you do your own makeup for a Halloween party. The '70s Italian disco/prog rock soundtrack make it very funky and weirder than what would you normally see in a movie trying to be genuinely frightening. And yet there are other moments in it that are surprisingly poignant and make you think about your own life, particularly in how you relate to material possessions. Much like the old Twilight Zone show or the Thriller music video it may not be all that scary, but it has such a unique vibe that it's undeniably cool. This is why you will see comments from people saying it's their all time favorite movie and that they've seen it hundreds of times. It's a fun thing to re-experience over and over like your favorite album.
Indeed. We also have to remember that the Savini-era FX were not meant to be so overly realistic but alas Romero was openly going for a more EC Comics 1950s to early '60s vibe. Hence the different shades of grey & blues on the zombie extras faces and the overly bright stage blood usage. Another thing to add, among your many fine & very good points, is also the fine acting. The situations among the acting really added to any cut of Dawn that you view (Theatrical, Cannes Film Festival/Director's Cut or Argento's "Zombi" European Cut) adds to its replay value. Something a lot of other seminal classics of the genre lack. 👍This, as well as Romero's under discussed Martin, are among the best of his films.
It's definitely dated and you need to use your imagination a bit, but I find the make-up, the colours, the soundtrack and the low budget 1970s look combine to give it a nightmarish feel. The whole film feels like a surreal nightmare none of the characters can awaken from.
I really don't want him to retire from filmmaking, but if he does, he should do a movie podcast I could listen to him talk about movies all day. Each podcast he could talk about a different film
The scene Tarantino mentioned where he bites his wifes shoulder and her arm, I totally agree with him. But imagine I was born in 1977, my mother rented it in 1985. To say the least that scene traumatized me so much. I couldn't eat ketchup for over a year after watching the entire movie.
Aside from the Star Wars OT, I've watched Dawn more times than any other film. Even in 3D at an old Regal in Gilbert, Arizona. Is it my favorite film? No, not at all. But holy shit is it entertaining *every single time* and you have three distinct versions to choose from.
The woman embracing her zombie husband in the apartment, the dude bit through the rubber prosthetic with the blood pack in it and her scream was real pain.
Out of all the different zombies, from all different zombie movies, the zombies from dawn of the dead would be so easy to defeat! They are so slow, and are not at all very strong. The biker gang just had fun with them, they wasn't even slightly nervous or felt threatened.
Dawn of the Dead is the best American Horror Film of the 1970s. A social commentary on the consumer society Mixed with a crisis movie , Dawn provided an intriguing take on the end of society horror film. A first rate movie
All three of the series are GREAT! But Dawn of the Dead certainly my fav. I agree with Tarantino...He made a totally ridiculous story idea believable. And he found tghe perfect vehicle with appropriate gore. haha
Quentin Tarantino, lol...he talked like this with me in the restroom of Alamo Ritz in Austin, Texas back in like 2006-2007 for nearly 20 minutes about a movie called "Vigilante" I had to go find at Vulcan Video to watch a week later, lol.
That's really funny. I knew Quentin claimed to have been in Dawn, but get this - there actually is a biker who is only onscreen for a couple of seconds who resembles him more closely. I thought he'd just claimed to have been an extra - Tommy Gun is more like a featured player! He's almost a principal cast member. He must be a stunt guy or weapons master, right? I remember QT saying in interview, 'I said I was a biker - I wasn't gonna say I was a *zombie*, for chrissakes ...'
Dawn of the Dead is even greater now than it was then because of The Walking Dead. George Romero does in 2 hours what The Walking Dead does in 11 seasons. The writer of the Walking Dead inspiration was this movie. He said, "What would happen if Dawn of the Dead continued?" And thus answered his own question. It is just more 'Dawn of the Dead' over and over. Until you come to Day of the Dead. There hasn't been a successful post-Day of the Dead film. No has attempted it yet. What happens after the last zombie dies?
I went and watched this a few years ago in 3D and it was awesome but I couldn't last through the entire movie because I still get scared of it all these years later lol
As a big zombie horror fan I'd be very interested and excited to see how a zombie film written, and directed by Tarantino would turn out. I know he plans on putting out exactly 10 films of his own before he retires and he's already at 9, and I definitely wouldn't mind that being his last.
It would be a bunch of characters holed up in a building exchanging florid 15 minutes monologues and threatening to shoot each other, and the zombies never even break in.
So happy I got to see all 3 films in one day in a theater. Few months before I met 3/4's of the main cast of Dawn. RIP Flyboy.
The first one is the best. Unfortunately, the actors in it charge $50 per signature at shows now. Just outrageous, and it taints that film a bit for me.
@@AnnusMirabilus Eh, for 60 a pop I got a autograph and a photo for each. DOTD is one of my fave movies, I didnt mind paying back for all the love I have for that film. I mean, I started saying "When there's no more room in hell" because I had to, and bless him, Ken finished the line. :)
What year ? 1997?
I want Taratino commentaries on his favourite movies. I could watch that endlessly.
His podcast is about films or supposed to be at least. I can't listen to that many hours of him at once, so i wouldn't really know.
Surely you could listen, to that all day.
Day of the Dead is my favorite one out of the Dead Trilogy. But the trilogy as a whole is a masterpiece.
😂 I liked except that scene at the end where the guy gets torn apart while screaming and his vocal chords stretch out...disturbing as hell and I thought it for weeks afterward...ugh
Every movie is great one of the best trilogies in cinema ever
Land of the dead is good as well
@@uraigroves7898 my favorite part
@@uraigroves7898apparently tom savini wanted that to be as realistic as possible and wanted the vocal chords to screech as they tore & broke. Also my favourite of the trilogy and I had a special edition DVD with Savini & Romero commentary back in the day but I've lost it.
Romero nailed this movie to history, it is perfection.
Dawn and day of the dead are fucking classics. Love those movies
Dawn of the Dead. In Germany, this film was dubbed “Kaufhaus Zombie” by fans. I saw it in the cinema when I was 14. It was a kind of dare. I heard reports that people left the theater because they were afraid. That visitors had thrown up. I was more than just excited. Half of my school class was in the movie theater. I was shocked! I couldn't look away. My eyes were glued to the movie screen. I had a lonely walk home afterwards. I kept turning around. I was so scared 😂. It wasn't any better at home. My parents weren't there, so I went to bed alone. I could almost hear the groaning of the zombies in my ear. This movie had gripped me. I loved it and hated it. I watch it regularly at least once a year and it never loses its fascination. Of course, I'm no longer afraid and the special effects have lost some of their shine. But the story, the characters and all that goes with it is still the best I've seen in a horror movie!
now that is what a good movie should be
Some years back, I was watching this at night, and I thought I kept hearing something shuffling about in the dining room behind me. To be honest, it was kinda freaking me out because it's like 2am and completely dark. So after the 2nd time, I get up and flick the lights on... and sitting under the table is my 7 year old niece. I was watching her for my sister for a few days... and it turns out she snuck out of bed and crawled under the table, angled herself so she could she the TV from the other room. I asked her if she was scared of the movie, and she replied, "No, zombies are cool." Well, I did what any responsible uncle would do... I picked her up, plopped her on the couch beside me, and we watched the whole thing together. I suppose it's possible that because we're from the city Night and Dawn of the Dead were filmed in, maybe it's in our DNA to appreciate zombies no matter what. She's well into her 20s now and brings that night up almost every time we get together.
The psychological horror of it endures despite the dated effects. It makes the viewer obsessively terrified of trying to survive in a world like this.
I love how he explains something I already knew but didn't know how to articulate. This is why the OG Dawn of the Dead is my favorite zombie movie of all time.
I could listen to QT talk about movies all day, I feel he's one of the few honest and true commentators on movies, he see's the good and the bad in all movies, he knows there's shades of grey when it comes to critical opinion on art.
I can't think of a better trilogy. Night, Dawn, Day. Each movie is so unique and equally great for different reasons in my opinion.
Unfortunately, the Dead series isn't a trilogy. LOTR is the best trilogy.
Land is awesome as well. The first 4 are probably the best four movie run in cinema by a single director. Especially with elapsed time to make. It’s a shame he never got to make twilight of the dead.
True Land of the dead is good as well
@@darkhierophant4914yer hole it is
My second favourite movie of all time, after Day. Huge Romero fanboy for over 40 years.
I saw it in a mall theater when it came out. Own it in every format as they were released from VHS to Second Sights 4k deluxe edition. I guess it must be my favorite film.
I managed to get 'Dawn' on UMD format too.
This is the all-time great "what would you do if the shit hit the fan" survival movie! Loved it. Ken Foree is the guy you need around in the apocalypse!
Agreed. It has aged much more nicely then a lot of other seminal mid to late '70s shot classic horror films. Those opening minutes, in either of the three cuts available on the "Ultimate Edition" DVD boxset that we got here in North America, are among my favorite of any films of that time period. Romero before he hacked out was a truly unbeatable director. Alas it is a damn shame about his 1990's output onward before his passing, though...🤔
I grew up near the mall Dawn was filmed in, the Monroeville Mall, and I used to go all the because it had a great arcade. I was in my 20s when I finally saw Dawn of the Dead and had no idea it was filmed there. About halfway through the mall part, my brain is like, "Wait... wtf is this? Why does this look so familiar??" The revelation when everything clicked was such an awesome thing to experience...so I drove there the next day and walked around for like 2 hours trying to find all the spots from the movie. Even though most of the stores had been changed, you can easily tell where everything is
Dawn of the Dead freak here. First saw it at, of all places, a shopping mall multiplex in 1978, I was thirteen and my older sister took me. And I've watched Dawn so many times over the years that every shot, every frame, is burned across my mind and memory. And I can swear there are some shots in this video I've never seen before, and I've watched every extended cut, European cut, director's cut, etc. Thanks, Quentin!
There’s 5 or 6 different versions all with different camera angles cuts etc etc. it was edit not only by Romero but was brought to Italy and edited by Dario Argento and his brother. The original first screening cut of the film was almost 4 hours long I would kill for that version.
There's a new version I just watched in TH-cam someone just recently uploaded where they cut every version together it's like the super extended cut it's awesome
@ the extended mall hours cut is fucking awesome
@@jonisafreak3 it's so cool
I actually worked on a film with Ken Foree called "Cut/Print" (unfortunately, you've probably never seen it). He was a great guy and autographed my 3 Disc Ultimate Edition of Dawn of the Dead.
😂 love your profile pic ,that’s rad
Got a picture with Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez when they attended the pittsburgh premiere of land of the dead in 2005. Growing up in the burgh romero films were what I grew up with
My favourite film of all time, and the Second Sight 4K LE release is precious. The 35mm open matte version on here is great too. Check it out if you haven’t already.
I didn't find out until later in life that Ken Foree plays the Dad on Keenan and Kel.
@@ryanarborist Indeed he does lol. I knew that way back when I first watched Dawn in 2001, because I was already a fan of Kenan & Kel.
I love the black and white version someone uploaded to TH-cam it gives it a more sinister grittier feeling
@jonisafreak3 Cool I'll check that out, but I do like the 70s colour pallete of Dawn.
This is one of my favorite movie openings of all time.
Larry Vaira was a biker with The Pagans but mostly a construction worker who died in 2007 at the age of 56.
You put together great little nuggets of film history/lore videos. I appreciate them. Thanks
On Facebook, I accidentally put Return Of The Living Dead as one of my past employments and couldn't get rid of it, so for years , even now, I get friend requests and fan letters from fans of the movie. A lot of people think I was the dead confederate soldier, who was much older than me.
I also knew that Tarantino wasn't in Dawn and there's no way that I could ever imagine him in that role. The guy In the movie was called. Mousey, and he was played by Larry Vaira, a construction worker Romero hired him because he owned a motorcycle. All the ladies on the set had a crush on him because of his unusually good looking features. Vaira passed away a long time ago at the age of 57.
Filmed at Monroeville Mall, just a few miles from where I grew up. Unfortunately, I was too young to be an extra or I would have!
Ugh! Huge regret... Me and my older brother were asked to be extras and he didn't want to so I couldn't do it (I was 11 and the parents wouldn't let me do it alone). It's still great to see the mall we went back to school shopping at as a time capsule...
@@adriangarver3246 All those defunct stores!
One of my top 3 movies
Dawn has the best explanation for why the army could lose: Morale. Everyone abandoning post to save themselves and their families.
You got to sprinkle in a little dystopia to make apocalypse believable.
so then you got a whole neighborhood of armed men 'protecting their own'. More like some kind of bizarro martial law situation. See, I don't think things will get that bad once the 'cause' and 'cure' as sussed out...but it will be an ongoing infection but once we all get in the habit of decapitation and cremation of anybody who dies (and perhaps anybody who might be dying) things will probably die down--of course, there's plenty of opportunity for abuse of power and social commentary
Yeah, that's what made the movie (and the trilogy) so believable - it showed you the effect of *existential* horror on society. Very few zombie movies capture that side of it. Virtually all zombie movies are just gore, jump scares, and power fantasies. Not the Dead trilogy - they're as much about the fragility of the human condition when faced with the impossible as anything else. I think that part of it is so profoundly horrific to us that the entire zombie genre has spent decades changing the script so we can safely kid ourselves that we're stronger than that.
"When the dead walk señores...we must stop the killing, or lose the war!" - one legged priest.
One of the most powerful lines in any zombie movie! imo
Few films have so successfully blended tragedy and comedy as this film did. It's by far my favorite zombie film of all time and possibly my favorite horror film also.
Depends on the cut🍻
@@mabusestestamentYeah that European cut is just straight up horror, I was surprised when I watched it and it was almost like a different movie entirely especially without the gonk playing at the end of the movie.
I stumbled across this movie when I worked at a video store, and I was hooked
The guy who played the biker with the tommy gun is actually the leader of a real biker gang called The Monguls, which they were. George ran into them and offered them a cameo in the film. I would have called bullshit on Q if he would have claimed that.
I thought it was the pagans
@andrewjames7438 You're right! Thank you.
It's not like you'd have known at that pre-internet time.
Actually his name is Larry Vaira, he's from Pennsylvania and was hired by Romero to keep the Pagans, the motorcycle club that was hired, in line. While sidecar Tommy gun isn't the leader of the Mongols and is just an actor, I'm sure the chapter president for this group of Pagans is in there somewhere.
@@FreejackVesa Yup, you got it right, the Monguls is the movie MC, they were played by the real Pagans MC. Tommy gun dude was a real life Pagan, it was Blades and Sledge who were actors.
The main Bikers are Jack (Played by Rudy Ricci - Leader of the Monguls/Pagans and the one talking on the CB, "We don't like people who don't share, you just fucked up real bad".)
Blades (Played by Tom Savini - 2nd-in-command)
Sledge (Played by Taso N. Stavrakis, Tom's F/X assistant - 3rd-in-command)
The following names are both the characters & real names/nicknames of Monguls played by Pagan members;
Chickie (shot by Peter revealing his presence), Larry aka sidecar/tommy gun dude, Mousey aka driver of the sidecar, Charlie aka the very cool trike with the fin, Pedro aka the sombrero dude who gets trapped in the blood pressure chair. The rest are Weezer, Nick, Ken, Frank, Slick, Ratso, Bobby, Butchie, Lenny, Timmy, Tallo, Teddy, Joe, Gary, Davey.
The 4K remastered theatrical cut they showed in theaters 3 years ago was Fing gorgeous
With Quentin's skull shape he should have said he was the copter head scalper zombie
Quentin genuinely doesn't know what he looks like
He's black isn't he?
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"Doo ridge yore"
Little else can be said about this film other than that if you haven’t seen it you must as soon as possible, and if you haven’t seen it for a while you must go and re-watch it (and I include myself in that).
DOTD was so grim and full of dispair and hopelessness. A very good take on American consumerism too. My buddy who introduced me to the film decades ago passed away a year ago, we loved watching it together. I think of him every time DOTD pops up.
Best zombie film of all-time. The make-up is a bit dodgy, granted, but the story is so enjoyable. The Second Sight LTD 4k is arguably the greatest release for an individual film ever too.
Hell yeah, my wife got that for me for Christmas 2023!
She also got me the DVD set.
I've seen the movie over 1,000 times... and I think I'm autistic.
A quick note on the make-up FX. While the film is indeed a seminal classic of the zombie genre, the FX were openly said by Romero several times that he wanted that whole 1950s to early '60s EC Comics approach. Hence why the make-up used were different shades of grey and blue. Also explains the brighter shade of the 3M produced stage blood. The film truly is a seminal classic, to be sure. 👍🧟
This movie proved you didn't need stellar makeup and believability to be a great film. Evil Dead 1 and 2 are in the same camp.
Night is my favorite. It feels more like a newsreel documentary than a movie. Dawn has heavy shades of that as well, but Night feels the more realistic and less cinematic which makes it a little scarier. It's super eerie colorized too, as is the remake from Savini.
My whole life when I asked people about this movie. They all agree that it deserved a sequel and were surprised it never happened.
@ ~1:10 "What were they doing the next day?" lol 😎
Wow Tarantino was in Diary of the Dead, time for a re-watch.
Rest In Paradise GEORGE ROMERO
There are things about Tarantino i don't like, but what i do like about him is that he genuinely seems to love ALL movies. There doesn't seem to be a "shitty" movie in his opinion.
Dawn of the Dead is the greatest zombie film of all time
Dawn was my first introduction to zombie films, I was 7/8 when I first watched this in 99', since then I've been obsessed with anything zombie. Day is probably my favorite zombie film and maybe even my favourite film but dawn will always hold a place to me as my first ever introduction!
1978 Dawn of the dead and 28 days later are the best “zombie” films i’ve ever seen. And don’t give me a hard time about 28 days later not being a zombie film.
Halloween 1978, I was 8, my dad took me to the El Dorado Drive-In where they showed all-night movie marathons the last month or so of the season before they closed down for the winter. That night was Corvette Summer, The Boys In Company C, Jaws 2 (slept through most of that) and Dawn Of The Dead. It's been my favourite movie ever since, any and all genres. I saw Night Of The Living Dead on one of those public access horror shows, Dr. Demento or something similar on Halloween in 1976, had chicken pox that year. I liked it but they also showed Willard and Ben about the killer rat hordes right after and I thought they were pretty cool, I still get that Michael Jackson "Ben" theme song stuck in my head sometimes.
Great video bro
What episode (portion) of the Video Archives Podcast where Quentin discusses Dawn? Haven't really caught up with Season 2 yet if it's from one of them.
Dr Millard Rausch has always been my favorite TV personality.
yah larry vaira was the motorcycle raider with the sub machinegun, died in 2007 at 57. his wife is also in Dawn of hte dead as the biker chick. He worked as a construction worker and only appeared in this movie and knight riders.
One of the greatest horror films, arguably the best zombie film.
I watched with my mother on Betamax video when I was a kid, along with Zombie Flesh-Eaters. I rejoiced when zombies went mainstream later in films and games but felt like everyone else had discovered my secret.
My first rental on.....VHS.
Ok, do you want a prize or something?
my buddy's dad actually played the character Tarantino is describing. I never met him as he died long before I met Mylo but this is kind of wild.
“Dummies! Dummies! Dummies.”
Permanent part of my lexicon.
As a kid I used to watch this movie and it seemed unrealistic that these slow, shambling zombies would take over but the older I got and the more our society changed it makes perfect sense . The stuff on tv in this movie is EXACTLY what would happen and we would just allow them to overrun us while we argue and fight with each other until its too late. Romero really understood us even way back then. This is why the movie still stands as a masterpiece today. As dated as it is in some ways in other ways it rings more true now than ever.
It's too late.
Even though the "Dawn of the Dead" ad said NO ONE UNDER 17 ADMITTED, the theaters would still admit kids with adults.
That's how I got in. And it scared the hell out of me. But I loved it.
Well, QT had a cameo in the sitcom ''The Golden Girls'' as an Elvis impersonator, when he was still unknown, maybe just after its release of ''Reservoir Dogs'', but I recognized him. My first edition of Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide (1993), had indeed QT's name in the cast of Godard's ''King Lear''.
Dawn of the Dead was a film that tempted all the boys in my high school to view it, however, as I recall the girls were too afraid or repelled by what they had heard about it. I didn't see it until the mid 80's on VHS. I loved it then and still do today. The blood/flesh FX are a little dated, but no zombie film ever captured the chaos and pathos of a zombie takeover better than this film did. It was a zombie epic.
I watch dawn at least once or twice a year, it’s my favorite of the trilogy
Tarantino is a pure lover of film. The perfect video store employee.
I was 10 in 77 when we we were driving up to Pittsburgh to visit relatives. I saw a billboard that said, 'Wanna be a zombie? Come to Monroeville Mall.' I begged my Dad to take me there. He didn't. I've never forgiven him. CUT TO: 1984 when Day of the Dead was being filmed. I called the film production offices and asked to be a zombie. They said sure and gave me directions. Unfortunately, since I was 17 at the time I wasn't allowed because they were filming in an abandoned mine shaft and for insurance reasons everyone had to be 18. CUT TO: 1991. After I had written my own adaptation of Stephen King's The Dark Half (which I later realized was being adapted by Romero) I ended up working for two days on the fx crew for re-shoots of that very film.
Still have my VHS tape. Was apart of my steady rotation on the family VCR :}
Guess I know what I'm rewatching tonight...
I was born in 1983 but I was in Dawn of the Dead too.
For those that haven't seen it that think this looks corny, you are somewhat correct. It's not something you would watch to actually get scared like a typical modern horror film or even more polished classics such as Alien, The Shining, and so forth. Dawn is more of a fun adventure film like Indiana Jones, that just happens to have a horror current running throughout. The occasionally crude effects add a charm like when you do your own makeup for a Halloween party. The '70s Italian disco/prog rock soundtrack make it very funky and weirder than what would you normally see in a movie trying to be genuinely frightening. And yet there are other moments in it that are surprisingly poignant and make you think about your own life, particularly in how you relate to material possessions. Much like the old Twilight Zone show or the Thriller music video it may not be all that scary, but it has such a unique vibe that it's undeniably cool. This is why you will see comments from people saying it's their all time favorite movie and that they've seen it hundreds of times. It's a fun thing to re-experience over and over like your favorite album.
Indeed. We also have to remember that the Savini-era FX were not meant to be so overly realistic but alas Romero was openly going for a more EC Comics 1950s to early '60s vibe. Hence the different shades of grey & blues on the zombie extras faces and the overly bright stage blood usage. Another thing to add, among your many fine & very good points, is also the fine acting. The situations among the acting really added to any cut of Dawn that you view (Theatrical, Cannes Film Festival/Director's Cut or Argento's "Zombi" European Cut) adds to its replay value. Something a lot of other seminal classics of the genre lack. 👍This, as well as Romero's under discussed Martin, are among the best of his films.
It's definitely dated and you need to use your imagination a bit, but I find the make-up, the colours, the soundtrack and the low budget 1970s look combine to give it a nightmarish feel. The whole film feels like a surreal nightmare none of the characters can awaken from.
Gen Z has no idea what good Cinema is
It preceeds all the zed movies since. It set a tradition that cant be changed.
I really don't want him to retire from filmmaking, but if he does, he should do a movie podcast
I could listen to him talk about movies all day. Each podcast he could talk about a different film
I could listen to tarentino talk movies all day
The scene Tarantino mentioned where he bites his wifes shoulder and her arm, I totally agree with him. But imagine I was born in 1977, my mother rented it in 1985. To say the least that scene traumatized me so much. I couldn't eat ketchup for over a year after watching the entire movie.
I was around 13 when I saw it and that totally F'ed me up for a long time.😄
When I was a kid I used to tell people it was me who was Goose's son in Top Gun. The one on the piano when he's singing great balls of fire.
Aside from the Star Wars OT, I've watched Dawn more times than any other film. Even in 3D at an old Regal in Gilbert, Arizona.
Is it my favorite film? No, not at all. But holy shit is it entertaining *every single time* and you have three distinct versions to choose from.
Greatest Zombie film of ALL TIME
My favorite is dawn of the dead directed by George a Romero from 1978.
The woman embracing her zombie husband in the apartment, the dude bit through the rubber prosthetic with the blood pack in it and her scream was real pain.
my favorite movie of all time!!!!
Dawn of the Dead is my favorite zombie movie! 🧟♂️
MIGUEL! MIGUEL! 😱
I ♥️ this movie so much. 🤣
Out of all the different zombies, from all different zombie movies, the zombies from dawn of the dead would be so easy to defeat! They are so slow, and are not at all very strong. The biker gang just had fun with them, they wasn't even slightly nervous or felt threatened.
Dawn of the Dead is the best American Horror Film of the 1970s.
A social commentary on the consumer society
Mixed with a crisis movie ,
Dawn provided an intriguing take on the end of society horror film.
A first rate movie
Pretty sure that was the Exorcist
@roywilson4514
Pretty sure it wasn't
It's Dawn of The Dead
Pretty sure it was TCM.@writeralbertlanier3434
You can hear Quentin Tarantino in diary of the dead ???? Anyone know the time stamp ?? It’s not on TH-cam
The synthesizer music was creepy , still remember it almost 40 years later
I love this movie.
Neck biting scene traumatized me. I was numb for the rest of the film.
I always wondered how they got access to the mall.
Dawn of the dead is one of the best movies ever
I liked Day more but Dawn was the better movie.
One has to see this film a second time to see how much of what you first saw was your imagination freaking out.
Any big city
All three of the series are GREAT! But Dawn of the Dead certainly my fav. I agree with Tarantino...He made a totally ridiculous story idea believable. And he found tghe perfect vehicle with appropriate gore. haha
Quentin Tarantino, lol...he talked like this with me in the restroom of Alamo Ritz in Austin, Texas back in like 2006-2007 for nearly 20 minutes about a movie called "Vigilante" I had to go find at Vulcan Video to watch a week later, lol.
That's really funny. I knew Quentin claimed to have been in Dawn, but get this - there actually is a biker who is only onscreen for a couple of seconds who resembles him more closely. I thought he'd just claimed to have been an extra - Tommy Gun is more like a featured player! He's almost a principal cast member. He must be a stunt guy or weapons master, right? I remember QT saying in interview, 'I said I was a biker - I wasn't gonna say I was a *zombie*, for chrissakes ...'
Even the newspaper add for this film scared me!!! When theres no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth.
You should've edited this into two parts, the second half really takes away from how great the first half is and vice versa
An absolute blast of a movie. I'd take this to a desert island.
The first 20 minutes is the scariest part when nobody realizes whats goin on yet
That's cool, I didn't realize the start of Last Of Us was similar to this movie
Dawn of the Dead is even greater now than it was then because of The Walking Dead. George Romero does in 2 hours what The Walking Dead does in 11 seasons. The writer of the Walking Dead inspiration was this movie. He said, "What would happen if Dawn of the Dead continued?" And thus answered his own question. It is just more 'Dawn of the Dead' over and over. Until you come to Day of the Dead. There hasn't been a successful post-Day of the Dead film. No has attempted it yet. What happens after the last zombie dies?
I was in the Dawn of the Dead...no cap 😂
Best movie of all times
I went and watched this a few years ago in 3D and it was awesome but I couldn't last through the entire movie because I still get scared of it all these years later lol
I would love to see Tarantino do a Zombie film (on his own)
Awesome movie.
As a big zombie horror fan I'd be very interested and excited to see how a zombie film written, and directed by Tarantino would turn out. I know he plans on putting out exactly 10 films of his own before he retires and he's already at 9, and I definitely wouldn't mind that being his last.
It would be a bunch of characters holed up in a building exchanging florid 15 minutes monologues and threatening to shoot each other, and the zombies never even break in.
He has, it’s called From Dusk Till Dawn.
I know it has vampires but on the commentary he called it his and Rodriguez zombie movie.