Cinema DNA
Dawn of the Dead
3 films
Films it shaped
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I grew up with those movies, I grew up with Sam Raimi, with Dario Argento, with Romero. I mean, Dawn of the Dead is just the perfect film in my eyes.
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He just had this incredible talent for satire, for taking the temperature of society, and for taking genre and twisting it, and adding something to it. And I think that’s something that certainly always appealed to me. Every zombie film after Dawn of the Dead has been compared to it. It’s unavoidable because it’s a brilliant blueprint. In a sense, Shaun of the Dead is also doing that.
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For the second part of the movie in the shopping mall, I told my cinematographer that I wanted it to be like a mix between George A. Romero’s Dawn of the Dead and Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s The Last Days.
