Episode 591: Dawn of the Dead (1978)

The Projection Booth Podcast

The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2022

⏱️ 163 minutes

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Summary

We’re continuing Shocktober 2022 with an episode on George Romero’s Dawn of the Dead. Released in 1978, the film is a stalwart of the zombie film pantheon. Ostensibly picking up after the events of Night of the Living Dead, the film stars Gaylen Ross as Francine, one of a handful of people trying to survive the zombie apocalypse. She and the others find refuge in a mall where they rebuild a facsimile of contemporary American society.

Father Malone (Dark Destinations) and Jamie Russell (Book of the Dead: The Complete History of Zombie Cinema) join Mike to discuss the film. Interviews feature Gaylen Ross, John Amplas, and Jon Towlson (author of the Devils Advocates book on Dawn of the Dead).

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0:00.0	Hold your ears, folks.
0:06.8	It's showtime.
0:08.6	People pay good money to see this movie.
0:10.9	When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.
0:17.3	Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:20.2	Shut it off.
0:21.6	Turn it off.
0:24.6	Turn it off. In 1968, George Romero brought us
0:47.0	Night of the Living Dead.
0:49.4	It became the classic horror film of its time.
0:52.3	Not that room! Not that room!
0:57.7	Now, George Romero brings us the most intensely shocking motion picture experience for all times.
1:05.3	It gets up and kills.
1:07.3	The people it kills get up and kill.
1:10.2	This situation must be controlled before it's too late.
1:13.7	They are multiplying too rapidly.
1:16.1	Dawn of the Dead.
1:18.1	Meet me on the roof at 9 o'clock.
1:19.3	Get out.
1:19.9	I don't believe it's what?
1:20.7	We're going to get out in the chopper.
1:21.9	We've got to survive.
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