Dawn of the Dead
Movie • 1978 • Horror
ReportDuring 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.
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Are there end credit scenes?
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The entire end credits are a scene, but there are no end credit scenes.
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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Is someone stalked?
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Near the end of the film, a group of raiders spy on the main characters using binoculars.
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Zombified children are killed
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Not in the traditional sense, but a raid occurs at the beginning of the film, and several characters are killed in their own homes.
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Addiction
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Nothing more than cigarette addiction.
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Alcohol is used to cope by the three male characters after stressful incidents, but excessive drinking isn't shown.
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A character is administered morphine to help with their pain.
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Is there a dead animal?
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les
around 1:18:10 there are close ups on those deer head mount things
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Is someone restrained?
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People are held back, chained up, and pinned down.
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Is someone drugged?
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A character is doped up with morphine to calm them when they scream and thrash in pain.
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Bodily Harm
Is someone crushed to death?
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A few zombies are rolled over by lorries, but are technically already dead, and do not squish.
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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Scenes of genital mutilation or trauma? In this film? Not a one.
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Does a head get squashed?
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A man’s head explodes at the beginning
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Fingers are trapped in doors, but are not shown with damage and recede when threatened with heat.
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Is there cannibalism?
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Yea, they’re zombies.
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Is there excessive gore?
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Oh my goodness yes. Throughout, front to back, top to bottom. If gore is a trigger, run from this film.
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Is there decapitation?
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When the bandits are driving through the mall, Tom Savini beheads a lot of zombies.
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Is there amputation?
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A man does have an arm torn off.
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Is there shaving/cutting?
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Multiple zombies are cut, usually in the head, with blood pouring out of the wound
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Does a kid die?
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Yes, children who are already undead zombies are shot. But you never witness a living human child die.
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Family
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Flyboy dies and he is the father of Frans baby
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Does a family member die?
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Child death, romantic partner death.
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Fear
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Are there mannequins?
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The movie takes place primarily in a mall and therefore there are mall mannequins throughout the film, including close ups, mannequins falling and at one point a zombie blending in with them before jumping out.
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Is someone eaten?
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A scientist on a television broadcast discusses the option of humans eating the infected, but we only see zombie munching.
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Does someone vomit?
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the woman has morning sickness but you do not see any actual vomit
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Is there audio gore?
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Gory scenes throughout the film, with disgustingly bloody sound effects.
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Does someone spit?
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I don’t know why these say no, a character experiences morning sickness and while there isn’t a ton of explicit vomiting she has clearly been throwing up and spits/gags into the toilet a few more times
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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No. As a matter of fact, the SWAT team scenes early on (and a few other runaway cops in a later scene) tend to present them as either racist, corrupt and insane at worst, or noble but ineffective or just plain useless at best, and dismiss the whole notion of policing the general population as a joke now that the zombies are taking over.
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Medical
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Are needles/syringes used?
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a character is shown getting injected with morphine
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At the beginning of the film, we see a few characters who commit suicide. We also are shown an attempt at the end of the film.
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There's a point at the beginning of the movie where a different character than the one mentioned holds a gun to his head and presumably pulls the trigger, though we don't see this happen on screen.
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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No, technically. It is never mentioned overtly as PTSD but really they are all suffering with it -- the whole concept of the film means everyone in it has been experiencing abrupt, severe, life-altering horrific trauma and they each behave according to how their stress and grief cause them to react. You certainly see moments of a few characters zoned out, paranoid, terrified, angry, etc.. If people kinda whacked out from awful events triggers you, then you might want to look elsewhere.
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Is there misophonia?
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A lot of the sounds in this film were grating, including the oldschool mall music and gory zombie munching sounds.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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No one says that... but there is a scene where one of the SWAT members shoots himself in the head (the camera pulls away before he pulls the trigger). Near the end, one of the main characters nearly does the same, but decides to keep fighting.
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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There are scenes of people snapping and behaving in ways they certainly would not in normal circumstances. Anxiety will do that. But no obvious anxiety attacks as such.
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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The characters choose to stay inside of a large building. Those who hate the idea of being unable to go outside will hate this.
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Are there abortions?
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Is there childbirth?
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A character’s future childbirth is discussed, but never occurs during the events of the film.
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Does a pregnant person die?
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No, but a pregnant character is placed into several situations where she is at risk of death or infection.
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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The female lead is pregnant, though she does not give birth before the end of the film. I'd guess that's an unborn child present in the film.
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Does the black guy die first?
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No, the black lead lives... but there are a number of black/brown-skinned people and zombies who get attacked and shot near the beginning of the film as a SWAT team takes over an apartment building in the projects.
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Is a minority is misrepresented?
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Multiple dodgy interpretations of race and religion.
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Are there fat jokes?
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Not as such but there are a few scenes of some nearly naked very obese zombie in shorts belly-bumping his way into a glass door, and later falling into a mall fountain.
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Are there usages of the n-word?
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A fairly psyched out racist SWAT cop uses a bunch of colorfully racist language near the beginning of the film.
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Is there hate speech?
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The SWAT commander at the beginning of the film has some nasty things to say about the ethnic minority tenants of an apartment complex.
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Race
Is there blackface?
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Yes. During the first military fight, someone fighting on the side of the projects is in blackface.
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Sex
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Some nudity, but sexuality is only implied.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Are there nude scenes?
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There is a scene in some cuts of the film where Stephen and Francine are in a bed together. Francine is topless.
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Social
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No. there is a conversation about a pregnant woman contemplating abortion and a character offers it to her as an option, when she and her partner discuss she asks if he wants to and he only asks her if She wants to. There’s no sense that she would be judged for choosing it or prevented from accessing it. She does not choose to abort her pregnancy but is not pressured either way.
No. there is a conversation about a pregnant woman contemplating abortion and a character offers it to her as an option, when she and her partner discuss she asks if he wants to and he only asks her if She wants to. There’s no sense that she would be judged for choosing it or prevented from accessing it. She does not choose to abort her pregnancy but is not pressured either way.
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Does it have a sad ending?
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It's not a 'happy' ending, but it's definitely closer to a happy ending than a bad one, and there is a decent amount of hope at the end.
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Zombies are hit by cars.
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Does a car honk or tires screech?
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A virtual army of a chopper/motorcycle gang has a lot of screentime near the end. I don't recall specifically honking horns but there's a lot of tire noises and loud engine rumbling and roaring.
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Is there blood/gore?
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While the blood doesn’t look realistic, gory killing scenes occur throughout the movie.
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Is there gun violence?
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There is gun violence throughout the film.
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