A decade after his grizzly B&W horror outing Night of the Living Dead, George A. Romero returned to form with an even grizzlier blood soaked and full-color zombie epic: Dawn of the Dead. Taking advantage of developments in make-up technology, the film contains many grueling episodes, but there is much more to this study of social mores, racism, and community. With some bloody assistance from Italian giallo-master Dario Argento (director of Suspiria), the film is a wonderfully unhinged time capsule of life in the almost Midwest wilds of Pennsylvania.
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