Top 5 Surprisingly Awesome Horror Movie Remakes
Jeremy Dick
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Dawn of the Dead – Courtesy of Universal Pictures
2. Dawn of the Dead (2004)
George A. Romero will always be the king of zombie films. After all, he started the whole thing with his black-and-white directorial debut Night of the Living Dead. Creating “zombies” as we know them today, Romero would create several sequels to his undead classic. And that first sequel was 1978’s Dawn of the Dead.
I don’t need to tell you that Romero’s Dawn of the Dead is one of the greatest horror movies of all time. If you’ve seen it, you already know this. The mall setting takes a well written zombie story and makes it even more entertaining. In my humble opinion, it’s easily the best of Romero’s entire catalog of films.
You wouldn’t think a 2003 remake by Zack Snyder — who would go on to direct schlocky films like Batman v Superman — would be any good. In this case, you’d be pleasantly surprised. Snyder’s Dawn reboot is not only a very entertaining, quality horror film, it’s probably the best zombie flick of the new millennium.
There are no political messages hidden in the writing of the Dawn remake. It’s just a simple story of a zombie outbreak trapping survivors in a local shopping mall. Snyder’s Dawn also utilizes an entire separate set of characters in their own storyline — also a smart move. It basically takes the fun setting of the original and updates it, and most zombie movies since still haven’t been able to match it.
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