25 Greatest Easter Eggs From The Last 20 Years Of Horror
20. Dawn Of The Dead
Picture the scene: Ana (Sarah Polley) is hightailing it, pretty much to anywhere that doesn't have brain-chomping zombies. After all, her house has two zombies running riot in it: one her pint-sized neighbour, the other her husband. As she drives all over the road like shes been at the furniture polish, the camera cuts to a wide angle.
This Egg here is so subtle that only the biggest Dead fans are likely to have clocked it. As she slaloms down the road, the camera tracking her in a birds eye view shot, a truck veers off-road and hurtles into the pumps at a gas station, before blowing up. This small action piece directly references a comment made by Ben in the original Night Of The Living Dead, who mentions being sat in his car outside a gas station-diner when a huge truck smashed into the petrol pumps.
Its not just a cool nod to George Romeros original, but the possibility that in Zack Snyders version of events, the first outing and the sequel took place together.