Dawn of the Dead (1978)

The Confused Breakfast

Cloud10

Comedy, Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 118 minutes

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August of 70s starts off with a review of one of the greatest zombie movies ever made! This movie set the bar for the genre and made us all wonder what it would be like to hole up in a shopping mall during the zombie apocalypse. Would you go slowly insane? Would you be smart enough to realize that your girlfriend will never be able to learn how to fly a helicopter? Due to your constant scrolling and purchasing of things you don’t need, are you actually a zombie right now?! Tune in for this full episode. •0:00:00 - Introductions •0:03:00 - Memories of first viewing •0:05:30 - Pertinent movie details •0:11:00- Critical and fan reviews •0:21:00 - Scene by scene breakdown •1:49:00 - Modern day ratings —————————————————————— SPONSORS- ****Quince- Grab your EXCLUSIVE eal by going to http://nordvpn.com/breakfast to get a Huge Discount off your NordVPN Plan + 4 additional months on top! It’s completely risk-free with Nord’s 30-day money-back guarantee! —————————————————————— **Support us at http://patreon.com/confusedbreakfast for bonus weekly episodes, voting on upcoming movies, giving your modern-day ratings on our movies and much more. **Mail us something The Confused Breakfast PO Box 10016 Cedar Rapids, IA 52402-9802 Special thanks to our executive producers- Josh Miller, Starling, Michael Guiliano and NicMad. Welcome to our newest members - Mike H, Tony Haga, Nick Heiderscheit, Caesar, jon boy, WA-1-1, Matthew Zwick, Brian Iobello, This Justin, Kevin Surnear, Edison Cruz, Dan Doty Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I cannot believe you're not listening to my podcast.
0:03.6	Your one-stop shop for all things, TV and film, pop culture, hot topics, and more.
0:08.7	If you're a fan of The Real Housewives, Bridgetton, Big Brother, House of the Dragon, Vanderpump Rules, Marvel, basketball wives, or any random Netflix true crime documentary, then this is the podcast for you.
0:20.6	Listen to I Cann Not with Kendrick Tucker
0:22.8	wherever you listen to podcast. Welcome, friends to the Confused Breakfast, the podcast where we hit pause on the chaos of today and rewind to a simpler time when it wasn't about convenience.
0:53.2	It was about the experience remember the
0:55.5	magic of a friday night trip to the mall yeah wandering the aisles and making the big decision of what
1:01.7	movie was coming home with you yeah we're all part of the last generation that knows the joy of the
1:07.4	search the snap of the plastic clamshell and we're here to revisit the movies
1:11.3	that shaped us and defined our childhoods. My name is Mike Schulte, joining me as always.
1:17.5	One of them's going downriver, the other's going straight up. Sean Pryor and AJ Vends,
1:21.4	how the heck are you? Oh. Who is that guy? Is he somebody or is he a nobody? I don't know. He's got a face. He's got a face. And it seems like that face has never aged. Like I feel like I've seen that face. He was in Happy Gilmore, too. Correct. Yeah. Yes. And he was just there. And he also made the same face. Oh, and then ran off screen. Well, boys, it's not spooky season,
1:47.4	but it is officially summer of 70s. Yeah. And Sean just loves watching AJ Squirm. So today's episode
1:54.7	is a full review of one of the arguably the greatest zombie films ever made. This movie
2:00.6	taught the majority of us what zombies
2:02.5	act like and inspired a generation to dream about holding up in a shopping mall during the zombie
2:08.1	apocalypse. The sequel to George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead with a body count of just under
2:13.7	100. We're of course talking about 1978's Dawn of the Dead.
2:19.0	Well, damn, dang it.
2:20.5	Ladies and gentlemen, it's time for another nostalgic journey to the past with the
2:26.5	confused breakfast.
2:28.2	Sit back, relax, and enjoy wherever you are in the world.
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