Dawn Of The Dead

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• Much of the fake blood used in the blood packets was a mixture of food coloring, peanut butter and cane sugar syrup.

• Joseph Pilato, who played Captain Rhodes in Day of the Dead(1985), appears as a policeman at the boat dock. He also auditioned originally for the role of Stephen.

• The car driven in the mall is a 1977 Volkswagen Scirocco.

• The skating rink shown in the film was part of the Monroeville Mall. It has since been replaced by a food court.

"Every dead body that is not exterminated becomes one of them. It gets up and kills! The people it kills get up and kill!"

As modern society is consumed by zombie carnage, four desperate survivors barricade themselves inside a shopping mall to battle the flesh-eating hordes of the undead. This is the ferocious horror classic, featuring landmark gore effects by Tom Savini, that remains one of the most important -and most controversial- horror films in history.

Who Will Survive The Dawn?