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UNITED STATES · 1978
Dawn of the Dead
Synopsis
During an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia SWAT team members, a traffic reporter, and his television-executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.
Cinematic DNA
It depicts the consumerism of American society, and it’s a horror film, but it also has amazing social commentary about consumerism, capitalism, and materialism. It was really a shock to me, that you could tell a story with those genre elements but also have such a sharp social critique. So it’s a film that I constantly revisit, it’s one of my favorites, and a film that gave me a lot of inspiration.
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Films with Similar Themes
zombie apocalypse · consumerism · survival · social collapse · isolation
