If you like to be scared and you can handle a little bit of gore (OK, a lot of gore) then I heartily recommend this movie. The plot is basically the same as the original George Romero version from 1979. Although the basic ideas are the same, the execution is where these movies really diverge. George Romero’s Dawn of the Dead , especially in todays light, is fun and funny, but rarely elicits the type of visceral horror it might once have conjured from it’s intended audience. In 2004’s Dawn of the Dead, it’s as if the most horrific elements have been supercharged. The zombies move quickly and with greater purpose as opposed to the slow shambling dead of Romero’s film. The gore is much more realistic and frightening. I could describe some of my favorite scenes of splatter, but as with earlier reviews I rather whet your appetite than give you a full description. The pace of the movie is similarly sped up and the first twenty minutes of the film is well done with a great panorama of the horrible events unfolding around the film’s main character. Those scenes intercut with news footage had me almost convinced that I should begin boarding up the doors and windows on my house and prepare for the zombie apocalypse.

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