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It was a real, working shopper’s paradise, owned by friends of his, which meant that it wasn’t just going to be shut down for weeks at a time so a zombie movie crew could come in and wreck it. The Monroeville Mall was not a Romero invention. Dawn of the Dead was released unrated in America.ĭaveynin via Flickr // CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons This is why several different cuts of the film wound up existing around the world, including an R-rated re-release that was re-cut for drive-in theaters in 1982. This increased the darkness of the film, which led to certain content cuts in other foreign markets. version, as Argento trimmed certain jokes he felt Italian audiences wouldn’t get. As a result, the Italian version of the film was shorter than Romero’s U.S. In exchange, Argento retained the right to recut the film for various foreign markets, while Romero retained final cut for North and South America. Multiple versions of Dawn of the Dead exist.Īrgento helped Romero find financing for Dawn of the Dead and served as a “script consultant” on the film. “My family is Cuban and Dario said, ‘Well you have a Caribbean background and that’s why you’re into the zombie thing zombies originated in Haiti.’ I said, well, all right, and I just figured that’s something a voodoo priest might say. It was from something Dario Argento told me,” Romero told Rolling Stone in 1978. On a drunken night when I was really crashing to finish the script and I thought that was kind of nice. He was just drunk one night, trying to get the script finished. The most famous line in Dawn of the Dead-a line so famous it became the movie's tagline and was later reused in Zack Snyder’s 2004 remake-belongs to the character of Peter: “When there’s no more room in hell, the dead will walk the Earth.” As catchy and unforgettable as it is, Romero doesn’t recall any grand moment of inspiration. Romero came up with the most famous line while drinking. “They got us a little apartment, I sat in Rome and banged this out,” Romero said. Argento offered to help Romero get financing for a Night of the Dead sequel, and even invited him to Rome to work on the script. The second big ingredient that led to Dawn of the Dead was Dario Argento, the acclaimed Italian director best known for Suspiria and Deep Red.
During the tour, he was shown some crawlspace within the mall where various supplies were stored, and started thinking about what might happen if people holed up in the mall to try and ride out a zombie apocalypse.
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Romero, who’d made a living making TV commercials in Pittsburgh before Night of the Living Dead was made, was "paranoid" about the idea of returning for a second film, and left it alone for years until an idea unexpectedly came to him.Īs Romero explained on Anchor Bay’s Dawn of the Dead commentary track, the idea for the film initially came to him when he touring Pennsylvania's Monroeville Mall, which was owned by some friends of his. When Night of the Living Dead became a massive hit after its release in 1968, Romero began fielding various offers to potentially revisit the world of ghouls that he had created. We can thank the mall (and Dario Argento) for Dawn of the Dead. In celebration of four decades of terror at the mall, here are 10 facts about the making of Dawn of the Dead.
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It’s been more than 40 years since Dawn of the Dead first arrived in theaters, and the film remains a wickedly fun piece of horror satire full of exploding heads, mischievous bikers, and one very dangerous helicopter. The result was Dawn of the Dead, an over-the-top horror comic book for the big screen that remains, for many fans, the greatest zombie film ever made. But then a chance encounter with a shopping mall and a little help from a fellow horror master changed his mind. Over the next decade, Romero-who was reluctant to revisit the creepy world of shambling corpses he’d brought to life-tried other things. Romero changed horror cinema forever with Night of the Living Dead, an instant classic that defined zombie storytelling on the big and small screens for decades to come.
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