Hanna Season 1: 7 Brilliant Details You Probably Missed

Utrax Regenesis began in 2004, the same year that Universal Pictures released the Dawn Of The Dead remake that Anton screens for his movie night. There might not be real meaning behind this particular detail, but the film choice itself might be very intentional.

When Hanna tells Anton that she doesn't like the movie, her eyes are focused on the zombies. Watching them tear their victims apart disturbs her to the point that she leaves early, almost in tears. The portrayal of mindless creatures instinctively causing violence would understandably strike a note with someone who was genetically altered to become a killing machine. That said, any zombie movie could have made the same point. So why this one?

For a possible answer, it's worth considering what Hanna would have seen had she not left early. Hanna leaves during a parking garage scene that precedes one of Dawn Of The Dead's most famous moments - the zombie baby. If the adult zombies hit too close to home for Hanna, the appearance of a child deprived of its human potential since birth would be ten times as disconcerting. She's lucky that she left when she did.

Not only does Dawn Of The Dead's zombie baby link thematically with Hanna's roots, it also echoes Wiegler's story arc throughout the same episode. After Wiegler admits that it was her job to incinerate the infant Utrax subjects following the program's termination, she finds herself haunted by the cries of dead children. The creation of infant monsters has left its mark on both Hanna and her enemy, and the inhumanity of it all is summed up perfectly by juxtaposing their stories with Dawn Of The Dead.