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Elite / Hammer Dawn of the Dead WS CAV Elite Rare LaserDisc Boxset Horror

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Romero's Epic Cult Sequel to Night of the Living Dead

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Romero's Epic Cult Sequel to Night of the Living Dead

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Romero's Epic Cult Sequel to Night of the Living Dead

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Scott Reiniger and Ken Foree in...

Dawn of the Dead

( Catalog Number EE6255 )
(1.85:1) (6 Sides) (CAV) (NTSC)

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Best Version on LaserDisc

Dawn of the Dead
1978 - 126 min. - Color
Genre: Horror
Not Rated
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Review:
Director George A. Romero's epic sequel to his legendary Night of the Living Dead has firmly established itself as the equal of its ground-breaking predecessor. Though shot in 1978 --- ten years after the first films' release --- Dawn's story begins as if the events in Night had happened only a few months before: after shambling armies of the recently-dead take over every major city --- seeking warm human flesh for food --- the U.S. government imposes a state of martial law, sending in special National Guard units to attack and destroy zombie infestation where they find it. Two members of one such unit, Peter (Ken Foree) and Roger (Scott Reiniger) have been tasked to overthrow a nest of zombies in a Pittsburgh housing project (one of the film's most explicitly gory scenes). When the job turns ugly and Peter is forced to terminate his own berserk, racist commanding officer, the pair decide to split the outfit with the help of his friend Stephen (David Emge), a traffic pilot for WGON-TV, and the station's floor manager, Stephen's girlfriend Frances (Gaylen Ross). Together they steal the station's helicopter and head for less-populated areas, but after some narrow scrapes with flesh-hungry redneck ghouls in the country outside Harrisburg, they opt for a more secure hideout. Eventually they find the perfect solution: a massive, sprawling shopping mall. After the lengthy process of purging the building of zombies is complete, the four secure themselves snugly in the miniature city, consigned to live out their lives in a dull but cushy consumer's paradise... but the arrival of a menacing gang of nomadic bikers proves that this is not to be. With their survival instincts weakened by a mallful of toys and trinkets, the crew are again forced to face grim reality as they face both living and undead foes in a final battle. Romero's excellent, multi-layered story combines high-adventure heroics, three-dimensional characters and explicit gore (by the always masterful Tom Savini, who plays a small role as a leering biker) to excellent effect. The subtext comparing the glassy-eyed behavior patterns of the ghouls to those of American consumers is clear, but not overdone: "It's some kind of instinct," Stephen comments, observing the zombies' attraction to the mall; "This was an important place in their lives." Despite the glimmer of hope offered by the film's closing scene, the outlook for humankind is grim. Perhaps it is Frannie who best expresses Dawn's outlook for humanity: "We're not gonna make it, are we?" Several versions of this film are available on video, including a faster-paced European version edited by overseas distributor Dario Argento and a "Director's Cut" with a great deal of exposition restored (though Romero is quoted as having preferred the unrated cut released initially to U.S. theaters). The shooting script also contains a more downbeat ending, which was never filmed. --- Cavett Binion

One of the most successful independent films ever made --- as well as one of the bloodiest --- this first sequel to Night of the Living Dead couches its splattery goings-on in the context of a satire on pop consumerism. A handful of humans are trapped in a shopping mall filled with flesh-eating zombies who look for all the world like the regular blissed-out customers. Tom Savini's effects are brilliantly and disgustingly realized, with screwdrivers in the head, chunks of flesh bitten from necks, scalps lopped off with helicopter blades, and so on, but this is really more of an action movie than either horror or satire, resembling a particularly gory version of Rio Bravo more than it does its predecessor. Romero fills the film with soldiers, bikers, and other action-movie stalwarts, prefiguring his more obscure genre mel

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Cast for Dawn of the Dead

Scott Reiniger - Roger
Ken Foree - Peter
David Emge - Stephen
Gaylen Ross - Francine
Tom Savini - Motorcycle Raider
Jay Stover - Lead Zombie
Rod Stouffer - Young Officer on Roof
Howard K. Smith - TV Commentator
Marty Schiff - Motorcycle Raider
Taso N. Stavrakis - Motorcycle Raider
John Harrison - Screwdriver Zombie
James A. Baffico - Wooley
Fred Baker - Commander
George A. Romero - TV Director
Pasquale A. Buba - Motorcycle Raider
John Rice - Officer in Project Apt
Pan Chatfield - Lead Zombie
Jim Christopher - Lead Zombie
David Crawford - Dr. Foster
Ted Bank - Officer at Police Dock
Sharon Ceccatti - Lead Zombie
Tony Buba - Motorcycle Raider
Clayton McKinnon - Officer in Project Apt
Randy Kovitz - Officer at Police Dock
Richard France - Scientist
Patrick McCloskey - Officer at Police Dock
Jese del Gre - Old Priest
Daniel Dietrich - Givens
Christine Forrest - TV Producer (uncredited)
David Earle - Mr. Berman

Crew for Dawn of the Dead

George A. Romero - Director / Screenwriter / Editor
Richard P. Rubinstein - Producer
Donna Siegal - Producer
Michael Gornick - Cinematographer
Dario Argento - Composer (Music Score)
The Goblins - Composer (Music Score)
Kenneth Davidow - Editor
Claudio Argento - Associate Producer
Josie Caruso - Costume Designer / Production Designer / Set Designer
Tony Buba - Sound/Sound Designer
Tom Savini - Makeup / Special Effects / Makeup Special Effects
Christine Forrest - First Assistant Director
Taso N. Stavrakis - Stunts
John Amplas - Casting
Carl Augenstein - Lighting

Feature Details

Title: Dawn of the Dead
Feature Release Date: 1978
Genre: Horror
Rating: Not Rated
Color: Color
Runtime: 126 Minutes
Chapters: 75
Picture: Letterboxed
Ratio: 1.85:1
Playback Format: CAV

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Technical Details

LD Release Date: 24 Dec 1996
Catalog Number: EE6255
UPC: 790594625566
Manufacturer: Pioneer USA
Publisher: Elite Entertainment

Diameter: 12"
Sides: 6
Cover: Box Set
Spoken Language: English
Country: USA
Video Format: NTSC

Model: EE6255
Shipping Weight: 3 lbs
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Scott Reiniger and Ken Foree in...

Dawn of the Dead

( Catalog Number EE6255 )
(1.85:1) (6 Sides) (CAV) (NTSC)

LaserDisc Special Features

Best Version on LaserDisc

Dawn of the Dead
1978 - 126 min. - Color
Genre: Horror
Not Rated
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Review:
Director George A. Romero's epic sequel to his legendary Night of the Living Dead has firmly established itself as the equal of its ground-breaking predecessor. Though shot in 1978 --- ten years after the first films' release --- Dawn's story begins as if the events in Night had happened only a few months before: after shambling armies of the recently-dead take over every major city --- seeking warm human flesh for food --- the U.S. government imposes a state of martial law, sending in special National Guard units to attack and destroy zombie infestation where they find it. Two members of one such unit, Peter (Ken Foree) and Roger (Scott Reiniger) have been tasked to overthrow a nest of zombies in a Pittsburgh housing project (one of the film's most explicitly gory scenes). When the job turns ugly and Peter is forced to terminate his own berserk, racist commanding officer, the pair decide to split the outfit with the help of his friend Stephen (David Emge), a traffic pilot for WGON-TV, and the station's floor manager, Stephen's girlfriend Frances (Gaylen Ross). Together they steal the station's helicopter and head for less-populated areas, but after some narrow scrapes with flesh-hungry redneck ghouls in the country outside Harrisburg, they opt for a more secure hideout. Eventually they find the perfect solution: a massive, sprawling shopping mall. After the lengthy process of purging the building of zombies is complete, the four secure themselves snugly in the miniature city, consigned to live out their lives in a dull but cushy consumer's paradise... but the arrival of a menacing gang of nomadic bikers proves that this is not to be. With their survival instincts weakened by a mallful of toys and trinkets, the crew are again forced to face grim reality as they face both living and undead foes in a final battle. Romero's excellent, multi-layered story combines high-adventure heroics, three-dimensional characters and explicit gore (by the always masterful Tom Savini, who plays a small role as a leering biker) to excellent effect. The subtext comparing the glassy-eyed behavior patterns of the ghouls to those of American consumers is clear, but not overdone: "It's some kind of instinct," Stephen comments, observing the zombies' attraction to the mall; "This was an important place in their lives." Despite the glimmer of hope offered by the film's closing scene, the outlook for humankind is grim. Perhaps it is Frannie who best expresses Dawn's outlook for humanity: "We're not gonna make it, are we?" Several versions of this film are available on video, including a faster-paced European version edited by overseas distributor Dario Argento and a "Director's Cut" with a great deal of exposition restored (though Romero is quoted as having preferred the unrated cut released initially to U.S. theaters). The shooting script also contains a more downbeat ending, which was never filmed. --- Cavett Binion

One of the most successful independent films ever made --- as well as one of the bloodiest --- this first sequel to Night of the Living Dead couches its splattery goings-on in the context of a satire on pop consumerism. A handful of humans are trapped in a shopping mall filled with flesh-eating zombies who look for all the world like the regular blissed-out customers. Tom Savini's effects are brilliantly and disgustingly realized, with screwdrivers in the head, chunks of flesh bitten from necks, scalps lopped off with helicopter blades, and so on, but this is really more of an action movie than either horror or satire, resembling a particularly gory version of Rio Bravo more than it does its predecessor. Romero fills the film with soldiers, bikers, and other action-movie stalwarts, prefiguring his more obscure genre mel

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Cast for Dawn of the Dead

Scott Reiniger - Roger
Ken Foree - Peter
David Emge - Stephen
Gaylen Ross - Francine
Tom Savini - Motorcycle Raider
Jay Stover - Lead Zombie
Rod Stouffer - Young Officer on Roof
Howard K. Smith - TV Commentator
Marty Schiff - Motorcycle Raider
Taso N. Stavrakis - Motorcycle Raider
John Harrison - Screwdriver Zombie
James A. Baffico - Wooley
Fred Baker - Commander
George A. Romero - TV Director
Pasquale A. Buba - Motorcycle Raider
John Rice - Officer in Project Apt
Pan Chatfield - Lead Zombie
Jim Christopher - Lead Zombie
David Crawford - Dr. Foster
Ted Bank - Officer at Police Dock
Sharon Ceccatti - Lead Zombie
Tony Buba - Motorcycle Raider
Clayton McKinnon - Officer in Project Apt
Randy Kovitz - Officer at Police Dock
Richard France - Scientist
Patrick McCloskey - Officer at Police Dock
Jese del Gre - Old Priest
Daniel Dietrich - Givens
Christine Forrest - TV Producer (uncredited)
David Earle - Mr. Berman

Crew for Dawn of the Dead

George A. Romero - Director / Screenwriter / Editor
Richard P. Rubinstein - Producer
Donna Siegal - Producer
Michael Gornick - Cinematographer
Dario Argento - Composer (Music Score)
The Goblins - Composer (Music Score)
Kenneth Davidow - Editor
Claudio Argento - Associate Producer
Josie Caruso - Costume Designer / Production Designer / Set Designer
Tony Buba - Sound/Sound Designer
Tom Savini - Makeup / Special Effects / Makeup Special Effects
Christine Forrest - First Assistant Director
Taso N. Stavrakis - Stunts
John Amplas - Casting
Carl Augenstein - Lighting

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