#Scott reiniger

[georgeromeros]

Night Dawn and Day Artwork by Ryan Samuel Carr

[fanofspooky]

When there's no more room in hell the dead will walk the Earth!

[duranduratulsa]

Up next on my Spooktober Filmfest...Dawn Of The Dead (1978) on glorious vintage VHS 📼! #movie #movies #horror #nightofthelivingdead #dawnofthedead #georgeromero #ripgeorgeromero #Zombies #davidemge #ripdavidemge #tomsavini #kenforee #GaylenRoss #ScottReiniger #RichardFrance #JosephPilato #ripjosephpilato #christineforrest #michaelgornick #vintage #VHS #70s #Spooktober #october #halloween

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[abs0luteb4stard]

W A T C H I N G

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Dawn of the Dead (1978)

Summary: A zombie outbreak forces a group of friends to take shelter in a nearby mall.

Groundbreaking and satirical character-focused zombie horror in which cause of outbreak is never explained. Rather refreshing.

Rating: 3.5/5

Photo credit: Happyotter

[suspiria76]

In honour of David Emge.

Farewell, Flyboy.

DAWN OF THE DEAD

USA

1978

Directed by George A Romero

[classichorrorblog]

Dawn Of The Dead (1978)

[vulcansalute]

DAWN OF THE DEAD (1978) Ken Foree and Scott H. Reiniger as Peter Washington and Roger DeMarco (inspo)

[weirdlookindog]

Dawn of the Dead (1978)

[lobbycards]

Dawn of the Dead, Italian Lobby Card (fotobusta). 1978

[gurumog]

Dawn of the Dead (1978) Laurel Group Dir. George A. Romero

Scott H. Reiniger as Roger Jim Krut as Chop-top Zombie

Special Effects by Tom Savini

[duranduratulsa]

Now showing on DuranDuranTulsa's Horror Show...Dawn Of The Dead (1978) on classic DVD 📀! #movie #movies #horror #dawnofthedead #nightofthelivingdead #georgeromero #ripgeorgeromero #Zombies #davidemge #ripdavidemge #tomsavini #kenforee #GaylenRoss #ScottReiniger #christineforrest #JosephPilato #ripjosephpilato #RichardFrance #dvd #70s #durandurantulsa #durandurantulsashorrorshow

[scholarofgloom]

[horrororman]

💀☠️🎂 A Happy #horror Birthday to Scott H. Reiniger, Michael Keaton, and Rose McGowan 🎂☠️💀

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#DawnoftheDead

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#Scream

[watching-pictures-move]

Dawn of the Dead… in 3D!

This has been one of my favourite movies since I was sixteen years old, and formative in my love of the horror genre, so it was very nice to be able to see it with @thedrillerkiller on the big screen, and in 3D. That’s 1.5 times as much movie, if you do the math. So obviously I had a good time. I won’t have any great new insights about a movie I’ve seen a billion times and that much smarter people than myself have discussed to death, so let me rattle off a few thoughts about the 3D conversion.

I used to be a purist for this stuff, but I think this is a really interesting choice for the format. A lot of the movie has characters looking down the barrels of their guns either towards or away from the camera, so this visual strategy lends itself pretty naturally to the depth offered by the format. Think of the part where H. Scott Reiniger kicks and shoots a zombie, or when Ken Foree looks through the scope of a rifle in the gun shop.

So as a result the gore pops as well, as Romero often frames it for obvious emphasis or will sometimes have viscera pop out at the camera. At least one headshot results in a zombie’s brains erupting towards the viewer. If someone near the front had tossed their ketchup-covered fries behind them, this could have been a 4D viewing, but luckily this was not the case.

But there are moments when the 3D accentuates other effects, varied in tone. There’s montage of the trophy heads in the gun shop or the different products on sale though out the mall, Romero’s satirical jabs getting just a little more punch from the extra dimension. Or, in contrast, the scene where Foree comforts a deteriorating Reiniger from the other room, the 3D almost adding a visual echo to the shot where Foree is framed through a doorway. It feels just a little more poignant.

And while one of the complaints about 3D conversions has been their dimness, I think the extra pop of the candy coloured blood against the extra brown, Carter-era sheen works really well. Has any movie used the period’s visual drabness to such deadening effect? This truly is a zombie epic for the Malaise era.

And speaking as someone who had a huge crush on Gaylen Ross when I first saw this as a teenager, I was not immune to the power of her performance on the big screen with the extra dimension.

And as for the movie, I think Ebert put it best:

“If you can see beyond the immediate impact of Romero's imagery, if you can experience the film as being more than just its violent extremes, a most unsettling thought may occur to you: The zombies in ‘Dawn of the Dead’ are not the ones who are depraved. They are only acting according to their natures, and, gore dripping from their jaws, are blameless.

“The depravity is in the healthy survivors, and the true immorality comes as two bands of human survivors fight each other for the shopping center: Now look who's fighting over the bones! But ‘Dawn’ is even more complicated than that, because the survivors have courage, too, and a certain nobility at times, and a sense of humor, and loneliness and dread, and are not altogether unlike ourselves. A-ha.”

Listen, you can whine about some of the times he’s been wrong or whatever, but when he’s right, he’s right.