George A. Romero's finest hour has him combining outrageous gore with intelligent social commentary to devise the ultimate zombie film in 1978's Dawn of the Dead. As a small group of survivors make a home for themselves at a shopping mall, Romero comments on our consumer-driven culture and, of course, asks who the real zombies are after all. Best Moment: Early on in the movie, an uninfected black man has his head blown to pieces by a shotgun-toting racist cop, a scene that is frequently cut out of TV screenings of the film. At once hilarious, violent and imbued with Romero's customary social commentary, it's one of the genre's best kills, period. Sequels: In addition to the 1968 Night of the Living Dead that preceded it, Dawn has had four sequels: Day, Land, Diary and Survival, the latter two of which are especially forgettable, suggesting that Romero just doesn't really have his heart in it anymore. In addition, Dawn, Night and Day have all had inferior remakes, though Zack Snyder's 2004 take on Dawn was at least surprisingly decent.
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