Dawn of the Dead (2004)

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This movie is in my Top 10 favorite horror films. So you needn't read on unless you wanna hear what I have to say about it. Just go rent or buy it NOW! It's really that good. Actually, you should rent the original too and have an awesome day of undead film watching. What a great double feature.

Ana (Sarah Polley) is a nurse just getting off shift and heading home for date night with her boyfriend. As she walks out of the hospital things seem a bit on edge, but is it any more so than usual? She shakes the feeling of impending dread and heads home. Upon pulling into Ana's driveway we meet the little neighbor girl who has learned to skate backwards and we realize that Ana is living in a suburban American dream of a hood. Lawn after lawn of happy families, about to be eaten by undead family members. Yay!

The next morning Ana is woken by the neighbor girl in her bloodied nightgown wandering toward her bedroom. The boyfriend goes to help the little girl. Big mistake, HUGE! The little girl chews open his neck and thus starts the rollercoaster events that send Ana to her fate. She's attacked by her boyfriend who has been instantly turned into the flesh eating dead. Ana has a narrow escape from her once beautiful neighborhood that now seems to have been turned into Beirut, only to run her car off the road and into a tree.

This is when the title credits roll. In the first ten minutes we've already received enough gore and ultra-violence to understand that this movie ain't kidding around, but wait...we have so many gory surprises to come.

Ana wakes up at her steering wheel and ambles into the wooded area she's crashed into when she meets Kenneth (Ving Rhames) and a party of other survivors looking for a place to hide. Roll call? Okay! Michael (Jake Weber) that white guy you feel really comfortable around cuz he's so non-threatening, Andre (Mekhi Phifer) and his very pregnant wife Luda (Inna Korobkina). Those are the important ones anyway, I hope I haven't left anyone out. Our survivors decide the closest and ...

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