Dawn of the Dead

Name: Dawn of the Dead
Director: George A. Romero
Released: 1978

George A. Romero

zombie apocalypse consumerism survival social collapse isolation

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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.

Cinema Atlas Connection

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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