Met him last year with Scott and Gaylen. Despite the fact that there was a actors strike going on so they couldnt comment on films, sadly, I had to start saying the "When there's no more room in hell..." And he happily finished it!
I went to see this movie in the theater when it came out and loved it. Tom Savini, who played the Machete-wielding Motorcycle Gang leader, was a combat photographer in Vietnam. He was also the special effects person for this movie. Savini said his wartime experiences influenced his eventual style of gory effects: He said he hated that when he watched a war movie and someone died. Some people die with one eye open and one eye half-closed, sometimes people die with smiles on their faces because the jaw is always slack. He incorporated the feeling of the carnage that he saw in Vietnam into his work. BTW, that was George Romero in the beginning sitting next to the young lady at the TV station who said "get me another list". In the beginning of the movie, Fran calls Stephen her boyfriend David. I've seen the movie so many times and I just recently found out. "Meet me on the roof at 9 o'clock".... "Wait David we can’t." RIP to David (Fly Boy) Emge who passed earlier this year. You have to see Day of the Dead (1985) next.
Ramiro's zombie films...... Night of the living dead, Dawn of the dead, Day of the Dead. then years later he added Land of the dead......still later he rebooted the dead films taking us back to the beginning with Diary of the dead and the films that followed
Fun Fact: In the raid on the building at the beginning, the man playing the zombie at the top of the stair was a little to into his character. When he bit the girl on the arm he went a little to deep and actually Bit her, so That scream was Real.
As a make-up SFX artist myself, I can tell you that all this was "practical" (on camera) effects. No CGI (it wasn't around at this time, '78) and the work involved to acheive these effects and make-up's, in some cases, could take hours to do / set up, for the camera.
@@earth7551 Thee best Zombie movie.Has an apocalyptic feel to it that no Zombie movie or TV show has.The Doctor in the studio being disbelieved,the priest telling Peter and Roger in the yard that soon they’ll be stronger than you,when Peter kills Roger,Fran saying it’s really all over,it’s that battle that the living are losing,especially when the bikers break into the Mall and the zombies force Peter and Fran to leave that you realise society has fallen apart,plus Roger coming back is the creepiest scene.Sophia coming out of the barn in The Walking Dead was creepy,but Roger’s reanimation stays with you.A masterpiece🧟♂️💀
If you like zombie movies, Peter Jackson, before his fame for making the LOTR trilogy made a really good one called Brain Dead AKA (Dead Alive) 1992. Definitely one of the wildest movies I've seen.
Hello. New subscriber from the UK. What you have just watched, is one of the greatest films ever made. Tom Savini, make-up sfx supremo on this is also a really cool guy.
At the 39:41 mark, those intestines had been washed clean beforehand by the actor in that scene ("Blood Pressure Machine Guy") Taso Stavrakis, as he refused to have bloodied intestines ( sheep, if I recall correctly) put onto his fake chest. Hence why they look so clean..
That, April, is the Monroeville Mall in Pittsburgh, PA. I've been there many times!!! I'm so glad that you're reacting to this!!! It's my favorite zombie movie!!! ❤️✌️
This is the follow-up to Night of the Living Dead. Taking place story wise three weeks into the situation. NOTD was 3 days or so (as stated on the radio Ben was listening to). Day of the Dead takes place 3 months, and Land of the Dead 3 years. However, each movie represents the decade it was made in.
Fun fact, the head explosion at 4:11 was taken from a mould casting of the actress who played Francine because in the original script they was supposed to kill herself at the end by putting her head in the rotor blades of the helicopter, when Romero changed the script they used it here instead
They are general flesh eaters here (brains don't become a thing until Return of the Living Dead). Zombie lore will start to diverge wildly around this point in cinematic history 😅 Night of the Comet (1984) is another good one with a mall. It's pretty wacky, but is a classic of 80s zombie movies. A zomcom you might find hilarious - My Boyfriend's Back (1993)
You might add that John (No Talent) Russo stole everything he could out of Romero when He first penned the ROTLD script. Romero, non plussed, threatened lawsuits so ROTLD got changed quite a bit before it hit production.
Depending on the movie, zombie’s usually only go after warm flesh and in some movies zombies hunt by smell. Yes, that was Ken Foree as the televangelist in the remake, but also his SWAT buddy is Scott Reiniger who also had a cameo as well as a military talking head on TV and the mall they hold up in is named after the actress in this movie, Gaylen Ross.
@ That’s so awesome you got to meet them, especially Gaylen. I wasn’t aware she did conventions? Good for her. She doesn’t get a lot of credit for her role in Dawn.
Peter and "Flygirl" were both supposed to die in the original script. Peter by his own hand and Flygirl puts her head in the propeller. Not making this up. 🤣 I think they actually shot the effect but didnt use it. but by the end Romero liked these characters to much to kill them off so thats why we got a "hopeful ending"
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I forgot to mention they would film super early in the mall and one day they replaced all the photos at a photo booth with zombie photos to prank people and one incident a groom of seniors went on what they call a mall run for exorcise and the seniors and were coming one way, the hoard of zombies being filmed came the other and according to Romero the two groups met.. he didn't give a clear reaction but I'm guessing seniors out on a morning stroll for exorcise bumping into a hoard of zombies didn't go well lol
In the remake, Scott renniger (Roger) is on TV being interviewed, he is a general. There is a beauty salon named Gaylen Ross (Francine) in the last Romero zombie flick "land of the dead" Tom savini pretty much plays the same character but dead, named "machete zombie"
Thanks for reacting to this. So many only react to the remake, and don't realize the OG is the best. And... you reacted to the extended version (2hrs 19 mins)... the best version (IMO). ...and you reacted to NOTLD (1990)?!!! i'm subbed... lol
@@SinisterSouthernbelleReactions it was the old days with the old speakers but we were used to it, Saw Halloween, Alien, Piranha and Invasion of the Body Snatchers there also, so much fun!
Got to see all 3 films in a theater earlier this year for like 20 bucks. 3 great things happened in 1978-this movie, Halloween, and oh yeah, me being born.
Love this movie. Especially after watching it back then at a midnight show in a mall. While I liked Zack's remake well enough; especially the first ten minutes, George's zombies will always be the OG of the dead. The other film which gave his franchise real competition was Return of The Living Dead in 1985, which was written by his buddy John Russo as a sequel to NOTLD but became a sharp as nails satire of the zombie films.
Fact the people playing the zombies were getting drunk to help with their zombie walking a couple of them drove a golf cart into a collum inside the mall the marks where it hit are still there
I loved the begining 70's had unique taste I found the rug covered wall and matching flooring very interesting. the fun bit was the two people the main actress was sleeping behind that were playing with the buttons and machine device that was Romero and his wife. one other fun fact was the exploding head in the near begining where that trigger happy cop guy just kills someone That was actually a head cast from the actress. In the original ending the last remaining guy shoots himself and our final girl climbs up the helicopter and kills herself with he helicopter wings. but that ending was canceled but they still had that head , filled with blood ready to go so they changed it's gender and ethnicity was a victim of the trigger happy guy.
4 versions of this film: Theatrical, Directors, Extended, and European. I actually prefer the extended or European versions, but difficult to find. Doubt they are on streaming
I prefer Romero's slow moving zombies. They give you a false sense of security and you get over confident and then find yourself in trouble. It's also better to build suspense. The fast movers are all over you in a second and it's done. In World War Z, the zombies are super fast. But the most suspenseful scene is when someone is in a research lab and the zombies are just walking around.
I completely agree. as to how long you can actually maneuver around the zombies without being eaten alive. The remake of this they are so fast. I have read world war Z and actually watched the adaptation at the movies this scene where they all pile up on one another in order to go over the wall still sits with me until this day I took a science fiction, appreciation class and college love this book
@@SinisterSouthernbelleReactions I wish the movie was more like the book, which uses the Romero style slow zombies. There's a part of the book where they talk about people moving up north because in the winter, the zombies freeze. I can imagine a scene of people walking in a field of frozen zombies.
My personal favorite of the "Dead" sequels is 1978's Dawn of the Dead, mostly for nostalgic reasons. It is also the reason why I'd "hole up" in a Mall during a Z-Day Apocalypse. Just sayin', if you don't have a plan...
@@SinisterSouthernbelleReactions Another criminally underrated gem is 1989 Edgar allen poes " Buried Alive " with Donald Pleasence a school teacher goes to teach at a troubled girl's school to find out they go missing
this is the best zombie movie ever. The Fearless Vampire Killers = best vampire movie ever, The Beast Must Die = best werewolf movie ever, The Haunting 1963 = the best ghost movie.
I do not understand your entire "be content" rant. You can learn to fly a helicopter without flying the helicopter. Someone would have seen it sooner or later. Three people living in a mall, plus a baby...? Also sooner or later you would have to venture out into the world to find more people.
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Trivia fact: The Jack Daniels they were drinking in the film was ACTUAL JD.
Ken Foree, (Peter) is also a really cool guy. I met both he and Tom Savini at a convention here in the UK. Really nice, friendly, and COOL.
Met him last year with Scott and Gaylen. Despite the fact that there was a actors strike going on so they couldnt comment on films, sadly, I had to start saying the "When there's no more room in hell..." And he happily finished it!
The original Day of the Dead by George Romero is a really good movie as well.
@@vashmdk make-up effects artist Tom Savini's masterpiece. He never topped his work in that film.
I went to see this movie in the theater when it came out and loved it. Tom Savini, who played the Machete-wielding Motorcycle Gang leader, was a combat photographer in Vietnam. He was also the special effects person for this movie. Savini said his wartime experiences influenced his eventual style of gory effects: He said he hated that when he watched a war movie and someone died. Some people die with one eye open and one eye half-closed, sometimes people die with smiles on their faces because the jaw is always slack. He incorporated the feeling of the carnage that he saw in Vietnam into his work.
BTW, that was George Romero in the beginning sitting next to the young lady at the TV station who said "get me another list".
In the beginning of the movie, Fran calls Stephen her boyfriend David. I've seen the movie so many times and I just recently found out. "Meet me on the roof at 9 o'clock".... "Wait David we can’t." RIP to David (Fly Boy) Emge who passed earlier this year. You have to see Day of the Dead (1985) next.
The young lady seated next to George Romero was his wife, Christine.
And, ironically, David Emge was an infantryman in Vietnam.
Aww. RIP.
Met 3/4 of the cast last year, save David Emge. RIP.
Ramiro's zombie films...... Night of the living dead, Dawn of the dead, Day of the Dead. then years later he added Land of the dead......still later he rebooted the dead films taking us back to the beginning with Diary of the dead and the films that followed
Fun Fact: In the raid on the building at the beginning, the man playing the zombie at the top of the stair was a little to into his character. When he bit the girl on the arm he went a little to deep and actually Bit her, so That scream was Real.
As a make-up SFX artist myself, I can tell you that all this was "practical" (on camera) effects. No CGI (it wasn't around at this time, '78) and the work involved to acheive these effects and make-up's, in some cases, could take hours to do / set up, for the camera.
Before 1990, it's just safe to assume theres no CGI, cause if they're was it would be *really* obvious (Tron, Last Starfighter, etc).
Robin Sparkles: 🎶Let's go to the mall today.🎶
Me: Absolutely NOT!!!
Nice reaction to George Romeros masterpiece this superior then the remake
No contest !!!!!!!
@@earth7551 Thee best Zombie movie.Has an apocalyptic feel to it that no Zombie movie or TV show has.The Doctor in the studio being disbelieved,the priest telling Peter and Roger in the yard that soon they’ll be stronger than you,when Peter kills Roger,Fran saying it’s really all over,it’s that battle that the living are losing,especially when the bikers break into the Mall and the zombies force Peter and Fran to leave that you realise society has fallen apart,plus Roger coming back is the creepiest scene.Sophia coming out of the barn in The Walking Dead was creepy,but Roger’s reanimation stays with you.A masterpiece🧟♂️💀
@@DerekHarrison-d5d
I agree with you
If you like zombie movies, Peter Jackson, before his fame for making the LOTR trilogy made a really good one called Brain Dead AKA (Dead Alive) 1992.
Definitely one of the wildest movies I've seen.
Hello. New subscriber from the UK. What you have just watched, is one of the greatest films ever made. Tom Savini, make-up sfx supremo on this is also a really cool guy.
At the 39:41 mark, those intestines had been washed clean beforehand by the actor in that scene ("Blood Pressure Machine Guy") Taso Stavrakis, as he refused to have bloodied intestines ( sheep, if I recall correctly) put onto his fake chest. Hence why they look so clean..
That's insane.. but I can see why he would want that. ewwww
Great choice SSB! This is my favorite George A. Romero film! 🍿🎥🧟♂️
Thank you Freddy!
@@SinisterSouthernbelleReactions You're welcome SSB!!
That, April, is the Monroeville Mall in Pittsburgh, PA. I've been there many times!!! I'm so glad that you're reacting to this!!! It's my favorite zombie movie!!! ❤️✌️
Thank you 🙏🏻
@@SinisterSouthernbelleReactions You're welcome, dear lady! ✌️❤️
This is the follow-up to Night of the Living Dead. Taking place story wise three weeks into the situation. NOTD was 3 days or so (as stated on the radio Ben was listening to). Day of the Dead takes place 3 months, and Land of the Dead 3 years. However, each movie represents the decade it was made in.
Fun fact, the head explosion at 4:11 was taken from a mould casting of the actress who played Francine because in the original script they was supposed to kill herself at the end by putting her head in the rotor blades of the helicopter, when Romero changed the script they used it here instead
They are general flesh eaters here (brains don't become a thing until Return of the Living Dead). Zombie lore will start to diverge wildly around this point in cinematic history 😅
Night of the Comet (1984) is another good one with a mall. It's pretty wacky, but is a classic of 80s zombie movies.
A zomcom you might find hilarious - My Boyfriend's Back (1993)
I agree. "Night Of The Comet" is really good film. It's low budget, but you can tell that it was made with "heart."
You might add that John (No Talent) Russo stole everything he could out of Romero when He first penned the ROTLD script. Romero, non plussed, threatened lawsuits so ROTLD got changed quite a bit before it hit production.
I think I've seen that, but I had to have been 19 maybe and randomly caught it.
Depending on the movie, zombie’s usually only go after warm flesh and in some movies zombies hunt by smell. Yes, that was Ken Foree as the televangelist in the remake, but also his SWAT buddy is Scott Reiniger who also had a cameo as well as a military talking head on TV and the mall they hold up in is named after the actress in this movie, Gaylen Ross.
Yeah, met Ken last year, also Scott and Gaylen. I started the "when there's no more room in hell" and bless him, he finished it!
@ That’s so awesome you got to meet them, especially Gaylen. I wasn’t aware she did conventions? Good for her. She doesn’t get a lot of credit for her role in Dawn.
@@Deadpunk271 Yeah. It was the 45th anniversary of DOTD. Hell, I was born in 1978.
33:08.......That crazy dude combing his mustache is Tom Savini, April. He is responsible for the excellent makeup effects in this movie.
It’s Sex Machine from “Dusk till Dawn” 😂
@@SinisterSouthernbelleReactions He's great in From Dusk Till Dawn! 👏👏👏👏👍
These Movies are Excellent "How to" guides for Preppers.
Indeed!
Yep, this movie, Mad Max 1&2, and Red Dawn started many of us down that road.😁 Back then it was called "Survivalism".
Peter and "Flygirl" were both supposed to die in the original script. Peter by his own hand and Flygirl puts her head in the propeller. Not making this up. 🤣 I think they actually shot the effect but didnt use it. but by the end Romero liked these characters to much to kill them off so thats why we got a "hopeful ending"
Great Reaction To Dawn of The Dead and your Horror Movies Suggestion another Suggestion Checkout Marvel Comics Blade starring The Bad Man Wesley Snipes Awesome movie Awesome Trilogy of movies Thank You for your Reactions
Thank you for taking the time to watch!
I forgot to mention they would film super early in the mall and one day they replaced all the photos at a photo booth with zombie photos to prank people and one incident a groom of seniors went on what they call a mall run for exorcise and the seniors and were coming one way, the hoard of zombies being filmed came the other and according to Romero the two groups met.. he didn't give a clear reaction but I'm guessing seniors out on a morning stroll for exorcise bumping into a hoard of zombies didn't go well lol
i think your best conclusion was "don't be THAT ONE DUDE" 😉 your advice could apply in so many ways! enjoyed your reaction 👍☺
Glad you enjoyed!
Awsome Reaction as always. You are one of the best! Keep rockin
Thank you 🙏🏻
In the remake, Scott renniger (Roger) is on TV being interviewed, he is a general. There is a beauty salon named Gaylen Ross (Francine) in the last Romero zombie flick "land of the dead" Tom savini pretty much plays the same character but dead, named "machete zombie"
Thanks for reacting to this. So many only react to the remake,
and don't realize the OG is the best.
And... you reacted to the extended version (2hrs 19 mins)... the best version (IMO).
...and you reacted to NOTLD (1990)?!!! i'm subbed... lol
Thank you so much.
Thank you for taking time to watch it!
Now watch George Romero Day of the day, land of the Dead and darie of dead
Classic! Saw at the drive in back in 78!
Now I’m super jealous! That would have been epic!
@@SinisterSouthernbelleReactions it was the old days with the old speakers but we were used to it, Saw Halloween, Alien, Piranha and Invasion of the Body Snatchers there also, so much fun!
Got to see all 3 films in a theater earlier this year for like 20 bucks. 3 great things happened in 1978-this movie, Halloween, and oh yeah, me being born.
Love this movie. Especially after watching it back then at a midnight show in a mall. While I liked Zack's remake well enough; especially the first ten minutes, George's zombies will always be the OG of the dead. The other film which gave his franchise real competition was Return of The Living Dead in 1985, which was written by his buddy John Russo as a sequel to NOTLD but became a sharp as nails satire of the zombie films.
Fact the people playing the zombies were getting drunk to help with their zombie walking a couple of them drove a golf cart into a collum inside the mall the marks where it hit are still there
Oh that's freaking cool!
22:05.....They are using the trucks to block the entrance doors to the mall, April.
Caught on to that
23:33......They only eat warm, living flesh, April.
Who knew… a picky zombie.
This movie ranked at #39 in the 100 scariest movie moments on Bravo
I didn’t know that. The effects were amazing.
@@SinisterSouthernbelleReactions Yep, check it out
I loved the begining 70's had unique taste I found the rug covered wall and matching flooring very interesting. the fun bit was the two people the main actress was sleeping behind that were playing with the buttons and machine device that was Romero and his wife. one other fun fact was the exploding head in the near begining where that trigger happy cop guy just kills someone That was actually a head cast from the actress. In the original ending the last remaining guy shoots himself and our final girl climbs up the helicopter and kills herself with he helicopter wings. but that ending was canceled but they still had that head , filled with blood ready to go so they changed it's gender and ethnicity was a victim of the trigger happy guy.
I am new to your channel but I love you. If it's a zombie outbreak you are the person I want to be with. And I am 66 years age young
Thank you! I'll have all the guns and all the spam!
4 versions of this film: Theatrical, Directors, Extended, and European. I actually prefer the extended or European versions, but difficult to find. Doubt they are on streaming
I’ll keep an eye out.
I prefer Romero's slow moving zombies. They give you a false sense of security and you get over confident and then find yourself in trouble. It's also better to build suspense. The fast movers are all over you in a second and it's done. In World War Z, the zombies are super fast. But the most suspenseful scene is when someone is in a research lab and the zombies are just walking around.
I completely agree. as to how long you can actually maneuver around the zombies without being eaten alive. The remake of this they are so fast. I have read world war Z and actually watched the adaptation at the movies this scene where they all pile up on one another in order to go over the wall still sits with me until this day I took a science fiction, appreciation class and college love this book
@@SinisterSouthernbelleReactions I wish the movie was more like the book, which uses the Romero style slow zombies. There's a part of the book where they talk about people moving up north because in the winter, the zombies freeze. I can imagine a scene of people walking in a field of frozen zombies.
Ah yes! The real Dawn of the Dead
Yes, I know it was so freaking good
My personal favorite of the "Dead" sequels is 1978's Dawn of the Dead, mostly for nostalgic reasons. It is also the reason why I'd "hole up" in a Mall during a Z-Day Apocalypse. Just sayin', if you don't have a plan...
You tell me what mall and I will be there
Ken Foree was a badass in
Leatherface 3 1990 Texas chainsaw massacre
Goes hand to hand combat with Leatherface
Thank you!!
@@SinisterSouthernbelleReactions
Another criminally underrated gem is
1989 Edgar allen poes " Buried Alive "
with Donald Pleasence a school teacher goes to teach at a troubled girl's school to find out they go missing
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Trailer to Buried Alive
this is the best zombie movie ever. The Fearless Vampire Killers = best vampire movie ever, The Beast Must Die = best werewolf movie ever, The Haunting 1963 = the best ghost movie.
Thank you ❤️❤️❤️
Your blood pressure is 00/00! 😂
I do not understand your entire "be content" rant. You can learn to fly a helicopter without flying the helicopter. Someone would have seen it sooner or later. Three people living in a mall, plus a baby...? Also sooner or later you would have to venture out into the world to find more people.
Thanks for mansplaining 🤦🏼♀️
George A Romero stated that the film was his commentary on American consumerism.