Tragic Reviews Night of the Living Dead or
They're coming to get you Barbara...

Johnny and Barbara drive out to the country to lay a wreath on their father's grave. Without warning or provocation, the two are attacked. Barbara takes refuge at a nearby farm where she is joined by survivors of other similar attacks. The dead are returning to life and feasting upon the living.

What a delightfully macabre premise. The dead are rising to life and attacking the living. You can't argue with them. You can't reason with them. If they bite you, you're infected and become one of them. If you die you become one of them.

This film so deftly dances between a gluttony of fears and taboos, that one can forgive the B-movie aspects.

Night of the Living Dead is the grand-daddy of all zombie films and a true horror classic. Tragic grants this film a well deserved 8 out of 10 flesh-eating ghouls.

Tragic Reviews Dawn of the Dead or
I'm sorry, Hell's a little full right now. Could you stroll about the Earth for a while?

Filmmaker George Romero follows his B-Movie classic, Night of the Living Dead, with a splatter-filled extravaganza. This movie picks up from where Night of the Living Dead left off. The dead are rising and attacking the living and the world is plunged into chaos. A pair of news reporters and a pair of police officers decide to flee the city in the news helicopter and take their chances in the wilds of Canada. Along the way, they make a rest stop on the roof of a shopping mall and are seduced by the siren call of a mall full of goods, there for the taking.

Horror effects master, Tom Savini drips and rips and splatters his way through this film. Flesh is torn, rendered and blasted. Not for the weak stomached.

Underneath the viscera and entrails is an interesting social commentary film about greed and the masses. While not quite hitting the same cord that NotLD struck, Dawn is another cornerstone of horror history and pushed the envelope into squishy realms still avoided by most filmmakers.

Dawn of the Dead -- Tragic gives this film 6 out of 10 nasty teeth that gnash and bite.