Original and Remake: 'Dawn of the Dead' by George A. Romero (1978) and 'Dawn of the Dead' by Zack Snyder (2004)

Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject Communications - Movies and Television, grade: 1,6, Utrecht University (Media Studies), course: Remakes & Parody, language: English, abstract: 'Dawn of the Dead', which is also known as 'Dawn of the Living Dead' and 'Zombie: Dawn of the Dead' or 'Zombie', was issued in 1978. The director George A. Romero added to the title the tagline 'When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth'. It is hard to match this movie with only one genre because there are aspects of horror, drama, thriller and splatter in it (this applies also for the remake). The movie originally was part of Romero's zombie-series including 'Night of the Living Dead', that appeared in 1968, 'Dawn of the Dead' and 'Day of the Dead' from 1985. A forth movie 'The Land of the Dead' is in preproduction. Apart from 'Dawn of the Dead' another movie from this series was remade in 1990, namely 'Night of the Living Dead' by Tom Savini, who also took part in the more famous movie 'Dawn of the Dead', both in the original movie and the remake.