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Dawn of the Dead

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Directed by Zack Snyder

A group of survivors take refuge in a shopping mall after the world is taken over by aggressive, flesh-eating zombies. From TMDB

409 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy, TMDB reviews) · newest Nov 4, 2026 · last updated Nov 4, 2026 · How this works

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Dawn of the Dead is a 2004 horror action film, directed by Zack Snyder, starring Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames and Jake Weber.

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  • Dragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 11, 2025

    it's really funny that, like, Dawn of the Dead (2004) is like, "oh yeah we're not your DADDY'S zombie movie" and has the political complexity of a cartoon, while the original Dawn of the Dead's cold open is a SWAT team ethnically cleansing downtown Pittsburg

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  • Miss Machete, Pumpkin Spice Cannibal @miss-machete.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 21, 2025

    Good morning, Horror Fam. We spoke on The Blob and its remake yesterday - how do we feel about Dawn of the Dead (1978) and its 2004 remake? I'll be honest, I'm positive in both but I think the '78 is a classic. What's your favorite flavor of zombie movie? #horrorsky #filmsky #nowwatching

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  • MadameNostalgic✨Tanya @madamenostalgic.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 14, 2025

    I enjoyed Anna and the Apocalypse for what it was trying to do: High School Musical meets Dawn of the Dead. The real strength here is how the film gut punches you with raw emotion that comes not from the music, but from the relationships. The characters are fully formed and well acted. 3.5 ⭐

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  • Trevors (1990) starring Kevin Bacon @slimyswampghost.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 29, 2025

    Thinking about how one of my favourite things to see in a film is a character coming up with a plan, and then executing that plan down to the minutiae of every step. IMO the perfect action / thriller version of this is THIEF and the perfect horror film version of this is DAWN OF THE DEAD '78.

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  • Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 5, 2025

    The first 11 minutes or so of Zach Snyder's DAWN OF THE DEAD is maybe the best zombie movie. Just like the trailer for MAN OF STEEL is the best Superman movie.

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  • 𝚂𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚍𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝙿𝚛𝚘𝚝𝚘𝚌𝚘𝚕 @2ndaryprotocol.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 24, 2026

    Share a horror movie title that begins with the letter “D” 🎥 D is for… ‘Dawn Of The Dead’ (1978) 🖤

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  • Horror & Coffee @foundfootagefan.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 27, 2026

    Alternative movie poster of the day 🎥😍 Dawn of the Dead (1978) By Graham Humphreys

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  • Horror & Coffee @foundfootagefan.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 9, 2025

    Alternative movie poster of the day 🎥😍 Dawn of the Dead (1978) By Graham Humphreys

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  • Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dave @davebrowne.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 3, 2025

    Guy whose favourite movie is "Dawn of the Dead" doesn't like when movies are political.

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  • Brian W. Collins @brianwcollins.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 12, 2025

    Think anyone in 2004 watched the Dawn of the Dead remake and thought "I bet these guys will have radically different ideas of what a Superman movie should be like"?

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  • The Emotion Engine @emotion-engine.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 26, 2025

    CINEMA EIKAIWA - ZOMBIE (1999 | Success. | PS1) Have you ever wanted to harness the power of your Sony PlayStation to learn English by watching the public domain film Dawn of the Dead spread across four CDs with Japanese subtitles and an on-screen dictionary for each English word?

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  • optiMSTie @optimstie.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 29, 2024

    What’s a “comfort” horror watch you don’t mind playing often? My most-viewed movie on Letterboxd? The OG Dawn of the Dead. Don't get it twisted. I dig Night of the Living Dead better & consider it to be Romero's true masterpiece, but that goes heavy & hard. For comfort/entertainment? Dawn, baby. 📽️

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  • Cinefeast33 (demon version) 📽📺📚 @cinefeast33.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 21, 2026

    #NowWatching DAWN OF THE DEAD (1978). Director: George A. Romero. David Emge, Ken Foree. For my money, THE definitive zombie extraordinaire. Rewatch. #filmsky 📽 #horrorsky

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  • Ben @benjamage.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 24, 2026

    Ah yes, the movie with references to The Shining, Monty Python, Pirates of the Caribbean, Bud Light commercials, Dawn of the Dead, The Matrix, M.C. Hammer, and Karate Kid all in the span of a single 2-minute scene.

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  • Fantasy & Apocalyptic films reviewed @gabecrate.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 20, 2025

    ☢️#70. Dawn of the Dead, 1978. A zombie film high-water mark from the director who started the genre. Social commentary that doesn’t get too preachy and zombies that don’t move too fast. Wonderful gags, gore, and whip-smart humor. Let’s go to the mall! #DawnoftheDead 4.5/5 ☢️

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  • ✨🌯 jamie @glitterburrito.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 2, 2025

    crazy how Dawn Of The Dead (1978) is the perfect movie

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  • Cinefeast33 (demon version) 📽📺📚 @cinefeast33.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 23, 2026

    My ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review of DAWN OF THE DEAD boxd.it/grPASr Undead masterpiece by which I measure every other zombie endeavor. Many are good. None are equal. Theatrical cut expertly blends humorous satiric elements with character development with gnarly practical effects. Mall life rules! #filmsky 📽

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  • Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 2, 2024

    Dawn of The Dead is an Easter Movie, it’s about resurrection and the shops are closed. QED

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  • Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 3, 2025

    Dawn of the Dead 2004 is the best zombie movie ever just for fitting two different versions of Down With the Sickness in it

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  • Miss Machete, Pumpkin Spice Cannibal @miss-machete.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 6, 2026

    Rather than sleep, a friend and I are trying to remember every undead baby in recent film. We got... 28 Years Later (kinda) Dawn of the Dead One of the Twilight movies (don't remember which lol) Van Helsing (kinda) Man, I could be using this brainspace for anything else lol.

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  • Rock @ricosblues.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 22, 2025

    Rewatch of Zack Snyder’s DAWN OF THE DEAD, a movie I like more with each viewing. One of the essential Bush era horror movies. #filmsky

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  • 🌌Jack🌟Off🌟All🌟Trades🌌 @wnycubby.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 3, 2024

    Day 14/100 of Horror Movie Watches: *28 Days Later (2002) *28 Weeks Later (2007) *Night of the Living Dead (1968) *Dawn of the Dead (1978) Bonus Nighttime Watch: *Day of the Dead (1985)

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  • 🖤🌹🪦MorTosha Addams @headintheclouds13.bsky.socialBluesky · May 22, 2025

    #NowWatching: 🎥 Dawn of the Dead (1978) 🎬 Directed By: George A. Romero "Every dead body that is not exterminated becomes one of them. It gets up and kills! The people it kills get up and kill!" #movie #film #70s #horror #zombie

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  • Sergio @[email protected]Lemmy · Sep 10, 2026

    Night of the Comet (1984) - Mastodon watch party this Sunday evening!. > ... stars Catherine Mary Stewart, Robert Beltran, and Kelli Maroney as survivors of a comet that has turned most people into either dust or zombies. Night of the Comet grossed $14.4 million in the US on a $700,000 budget. > > ... > > On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 79% of 33 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.5/10. The website's consensus reads: "Valley Girl culture…

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  • Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 31, 2026

    Share your fave: Vampire Movie: Vamp Zombie Movie: Dawn of the Dead (78) Haunting Movie: The Haunting (63) Creature Feature: Alien Found Footage: Noroi: The Curse Slasher: Perfume of the Lady in Black Cosmic Horror: Night of the Comet Psychological Horror: Possession Horror Comedy: TCM 2

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  • Dark Talk @dark-talk.ukBluesky · Jun 25, 2026

    My mount Rushmore of Zombie movies. Zombi 2, Night of the Living Dead, Return of the Living Dead, 28 Days Later. Each film is so vastly different and important to the zombie genre as a whole. Honourable mention to Braindead, Dawn of the Dead and House By the Cemetery.

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  • 𖤐 Bri 𖤐 @brianimator.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 19, 2026

    Zack Synder’s iconic zombie film DAWN OF THE DEAD was released on this day in 2004 #filmsky

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  • James Damron @runswindows95.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 18, 2025

    Smash two movies together to make a new movie Red Dawn of The Dead

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  • ♡ℙ𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕝♡ @xxpearlxx.bsky.socialBluesky · May 24, 2025

    What's that? Zombie movie marathon, you say? You ain't gotta tell me twice 😘🥰 #NowWatching Day of the Dead (1985) I always loved this one just the teeny tiniest bit more than Dawn of the Dead...shh, don't tell on me.

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  • Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 5, 2026

    Like, the cops in the beginning of Romero's Dawn of the Dead are nowhere near as vicious as they would be in a movie if he were still alive. He would absolutely not show Wooley as an *unusually* violent cop. He'd be the norm.

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  • Phil Nobile Jr. @philnobilejr.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 21, 2025

    PSYCHO DAWN OF THE DEAD THE ZAPRUDER FILM

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  • jaykeeley @doomedparade.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 5, 2025

    Dawn of the Dead. 1978. Dir: George Romero. Mostly know for its social critique of mass consumerism — w/ the majority of the film based at the mall — its opening 20 mins of SWAT teams going nuts while clearing out tenement buildings of its ‘illegals’ remains deftly poignant even today. #filmsky

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  • David Kuhne @davidkuhne.bsky.socialBluesky · May 31, 2024

    Seeing Romero’s Dawn of the Dead at a midnight screening in a mall theater so you had to walk through an empty mall at 3 in the morning after the movie was over. It’s why god made the movies.

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  • the Night of the Living Catbus @catbus.phdBluesky · Oct 29, 2026

    Share Your Favorite 📽️ Vampire Movie: Near Dark Zombie Movie: Dawn of the Dead Haunting Movie: The Haunting Creature Feature: The Thing Found Footage: [REC] Slasher: In a Violent Nature Cosmic Horror: The Void Psychological Horror: Don't Look Now Horror Comedy: Return of the Living Dead

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  • Clinton of the Damned 🎃👻 @puritythrufire.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 27, 2025

    Picking a random film from my collection to show off for no real reason! Day #75 "Dawn of the Dead" (Zack Snyder/2004) An entertaining reimaging of the original Romero classic. In my opinion the most fun Zach Snyder film with likeable characters and great gore gags. Check it out!

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  • Aaron - Thorgi's Haunted Arcade @thorgisarcade.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 28, 2026

    Couldn't let October go by without a zombie film, so tonight's #HalloweenRecs is Dawn of the Dead. Now I like the remake as well but it's definitely worth watching the original if you've never seen it. It expanded on Romero's concept of zombies from Night and showed a world truly overrun by the dead

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  • Cinefeast33 (demon version) 📽📺📚 @cinefeast33.bsky.socialBluesky · May 8, 2025

    Post a movie you love beginning with the letter "D." Dancer in the Dark (2000) Dawn of the Dead (1978) Dead Ringers (1988) Dog Day Afternoon (1975) #filmsky 📽

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  • Stephanie Kemmerer @doubtisthewayout.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 20, 2024

    One of the very best horror films. The action comes in small spurts. That tunnel scene almost killed me the 1st time I saw it. The film has underlying longing for family. That kiss. The film starts & ends w the same word HELLO. There's a Dawn of the Dead (orig) zombie referenced.

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  • HunkyKubrick/♑♄ ZoSo/🇮🇪🇬🇧 @hunkykubrick.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 24, 2026

    #NowWatching #FilmSky #Horror 'Dawn Of The Dead (Extended 'Cannes' film festival cut). 1978 (George Romero)

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  • gorlock @gorlock.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 16, 2026

    girl, you must be George A. Romero the way you was an American-Canadian film director, screenwriter and editor, best known for his gruesome and satirical zombie films, including the seminal "Night of the Living Dead" (1968) and "Dawn of the Dead" (1978)

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  • James “Vamp” Fleet @horrorfilms101.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 27, 2024

    n(r)w: “Dawn of the Dead” Or less “rewatching” and more “I know this movie by heart so baking pumpkin bars while my mall buddies are going through their classic issues.”

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  • Coy Hall @coyhall.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 26, 2026

    Having friends over for our annual Halloween movie ‘festival.’ 4 movies over the next 4 weeks. This is our 11th year. The lineup: Demons (1985) The Beyond (1981) Dawn of the Dead (1979) Horror of Dracula (1958) lining this up with the release of the new 4K with restored footage.

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  • The Mutant Fam @themutantfam.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 7, 2026

    There was an attempt to re-release the film as “Return of the Living Dead” to capitalize off Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead. George Romero successfully got a restraining order against the use of this title. -Keith/ @Livingdadkeith.bsky.social.bsky.social #MutantFam #TheLastDriveIn

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  • 🩸💀 The Horror Guru 💀🩸 @thehorrorguru.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 15, 2025

    In his defense, his Dawn of the Dead remake was not only one of the better early 2000s horror remakes, it is also Zack Snyders best film imo

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  • michael lutz @ztul.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 1, 2024

    If you watch Dawn of the Dead backwards it's a movie about a bunch of people going home from the mall

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  • Boing Boing @boingboing.netBluesky · Jun 16, 2026

    Monroeville Mall — where Romero filmed Dawn of the Dead in 1978 — is hosting its final zombie tour.

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  • Mathew @theartofmathew.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 28, 2025

    Watching original Dawn of the Dead movie from 1978 😍 such a good movie!!!! Girlfriend made me soup and tea 🥹❤️

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  • Sydney 👻 @misstacobelle96.bsky.socialBluesky · May 9, 2025

    📽️ Now Watching: Dawn of the Dead ‘78!

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  • Cinefeast33 📽📺📚 @cinefeast33.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 3, 2026

    Happy Birthday to Special Effects/Makeup wizard Tom Savini, 11/3/1946. Legend of splatter flicks, resume also includes actor, stunts, author. Early makeup/SFX: 77 Martin 78 Dawn of the Dead 80 Friday the 13th 80 Maniac 82 Creepshow 85 Day of the Dead Fave Performance: 81 Knightriders #filmsky 📽

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  • Gory Thing @korybing.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 18, 2026

    I’ll be celebrating my BIRTHDAY by selling art at the @hollywoodtheatre.org Dawn of the Dead pop up market by Mall Rats on the 28th! Come see a classic zombie film remake with a lounge cover of Down With the Sickness and buy some local creepy and movie themed art!!!

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  • Ally Roth @alinaisyou.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 23, 2025

    Watching Dawn of the Dead (1978) which, for a long time, was my favorite zombie movie. Honestly might still be. Pacing issues aside, I'm not sure there's a more human zombie movie that also effectively tackles so many of society's ills.

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  • Casket Based @cineblah.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 21, 2025

    What is your favourite and least favourite film by one of your favourite filmmakers? 📽️ #Filmsky Mine is George Romero with the excellent and iconic Dawn of the Dead. And on the opposite end the deathly dull There's Always Vanilla.

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  • Pazuzus fathers brothers nephews cousins former roommate @mark-80.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 23, 2025

    #NowWatching Dawn of the Dead (2004) #Horror #Movies #Film #HorrorSky

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  • Kimberly @macabreish.comBluesky · Nov 30, 2024

    I think about this scene in Dawn of the Dead way too much #film

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  • Aries @arieskadmon.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 10, 2026

    I'm watching the 2004 version of Dawn of the Dead and goodness is this movie fucking stupid and I love it

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  • ☆͏Weir͏d͏y͏J͏i͏m͏☆͏🎃🌈⃤ @beardyjim.comBluesky · May 24, 2026

    #NowWatching 28 Years Later (2025), dir: Danny Boyle. First watch, and enjoyed the previous two, so here's hoping it's good! 🤞🏻 (My favourite zombie film is still Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead remake)

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  • This is Halloween! @tlmylm2002.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 21, 2025

    Considering that both Gunn and Snyder worked together on the 2004 Dawn of the Dead film... ...it's no wonder they are both still friends.

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  • ☆͏Weir͏d͏y͏J͏i͏m͏☆͏🎃🌈⃤ @beardyjim.comBluesky · Oct 12, 2026

    Share a SCARY movie title that begins with the letter “D” 🎥 D is for… Dawn of the Dead 💙

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  • Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 7, 2026

    One of the coolest movie going experiences of my life was seeing the 78 DAWN OF THE DEAD at a drive-in 30 mins from the Monroeville Mall, where the film was shot.

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  • Brian W. Collins @brianwcollins.bsky.socialBluesky · May 4, 2025

    It's a shame that the guy who directed the Dawn of the Dead remake never made another movie.

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