Unlike the mildly diappointing "Van Helsing" viewed the night before, I found "The Dawn of the Dead" to be a fun pre Halloween fright fest. Taking a page from "28 Days" the flesh eating Zombies in this Dawn are not the shambling dessicated shamblers of George Romero's original, easy to sidestep and easier to kill. No, these current zom's are fast, quick and very nasty and they really heightened the tension.

Good ensemble cast, that get well developed (at least somewhat) in the unrated "Directors Cut". Lot's of scares, lots of splatter (if you go for that kind of thing), tons of dark humor and enough weaponry to make a whole edition of S.O.F. On the whole I liked the film and you could much worse if you're in the mind for a halloween fright. Good soundtrack and even better sound, although no DTS. Johnny Cash sings the opening track and it's amazingly appropriate.


Da Worfster