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Dawn of the dead - Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Jake Weber, Zack Snyder

Threat advisory: Elevated - Significant risk of entertaining activities

Movie propaganda

When there's no more room in Hell, the dead will walk the Earth.

As the USA is turned upside-down by a strange plague-like event in which millions of corpses walk the earth as blood-thirsty zombies (with the recently-deceased that the zombies kill usually returning as zombies themselves, multiplying their number), a small group of survivors of the onslaught, which include nurse Ana (Sarah Polley) and police officer Kenneth (Ving Rhames), try to find shelter and protection within a massive shopping mall in the city of Everett, Washington USA. What they don't reckon on is that the zombies still have some sort of residual memory, and everyone loves going to the mall, right? Realising that their time is running out, they decide to make another attempt at flight, to a presumably un-zombie-infested island, but to do so, they'll have to get past thousands of zombies in-between...

Persons of interest

Sarah Polley .... Ana
Ving Rhames .... Kenneth
Jake Weber .... Michael
Mekhi Phifer .... Andre
Ty Burrell .... Steve Markus
Michael Kelly .... CJ
Lindy Booth .... Nicole
Boyd Banks .... Tucker
Jayne Eastwood .... Norma
Ken Foree .... Preacher
Matt Frewer .... Frank
Hannah Lochner .... Vivian
RD Reid .... Glen
Kevin Zegers .... Terry
George A Romero .... Screenwriter (1978)
James Gunn .... Screenwriter
Zack Snyder .... Director

Cinematic intelligence sources

Dawn of the dead official movie site
Dawn of the dead QuickTime movie trailers
Awards and film festivals:

Cannes Film Festival 2004: Out of competition

Intelligence analyst

Special Agent Matti

Theatrical report

Dawn of the dead is a fun zombie flick centred on the American heartland (ie the mall). It's not as scary or exciting as, say, 28 days later, but it's still a hoot.