Dawn of the Dead

Movie • 1978 • Horror  

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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.
This movie contains 21 potentially triggering events.
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Does the dog die?
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Is there pedophilia?
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Is a minor sexualized?
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Is an animal abandoned?
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Is rape mentioned?
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Is an animal sad?
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Are there abusive parents?
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Are there transphobic slurs?
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Abuse
Is someone stalked?
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SclerisMockrey
Well no, but one could say there are a few scenes with a handheld camera supposed to be a zombie's POV as they watch and approach other characters. Also, one zombie dressed as a 'hare krishna' cult member makes its way through the mall to the female lead's hideout and it's a tense stretch of scenes, even if not tv cop show style 'stalking'.
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LordKapp
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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Is someone gaslighted?
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Is a child abused?
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LordKapp
Zombified children are killed
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Addiction
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Is there addiction?
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Animal
Were animals harmed in the making?
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Does a horse die?
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
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Are animals abused?
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les
around 1:18:10 there are close ups on those deer head mount things
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Does a cat die?
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Does a pet die?
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Does a dragon die?
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Are there spiders?
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Are there snakes?
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Are there bugs?
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Assault
Is someone sexually assaulted?
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Bodily Harm
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LordKapp
Multiple zombies are cut, usually in the head, with blood pouring out of the wound
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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Is there cannibalism?
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TanniHobbs
Yea, they’re zombies.
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Is someone burned alive?
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Is someone buried alive?
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Is there amputation?
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A man does have an arm torn off.
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A man’s head explodes at the beginning
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Is there a hanging?
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SclerisMockrey
Scenes of genital mutilation or trauma? In this film? Not a one.
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Does someone break a bone?
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Does someone have a seizure?
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Are any teeth damaged?
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Cryptid_Crow
Yes! Fingers get cut off.
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Is someone tortured?
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Is there eye mutilation?
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SclerisMockrey
Oh my goodness yes. Throughout, front to back, top to bottom. If gore is a trigger, run from this film.
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Children
Does a kid die?
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children zombies are seen and shot
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Family
Does a parent die?
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SclerisMockrey
No parental characters die during the film. Certainly when a ton of people in (say) an apartment building are being attacked and killed by zombies and then by SWAT teams, I am sure many of them are parents, but there is no overt parental death scene. There is no 'goodbye to mom or dad' scene in it.
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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Is someone kidnapped?
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Does someone cheat?
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Fear
Are there ghosts?
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Are there jump scares?
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Is there a shower scene?
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Are there clowns?
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Is someone possessed?
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Itmeanscloud
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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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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the woman has morning sickness but you do not see any actual vomit
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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Does someone spit?
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Itmeanscloud
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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Is there audio gore?
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LordKapp
Gory scenes throughout the film, with disgustingly bloody sound effects.
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Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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SclerisMockrey
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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LGBTQ+
Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
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Is there bisexual cheating?
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Medical
Is electro-therapy used?
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a character is shown getting injected with morphine
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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Is there a hospital scene?
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Does someone have cancer?
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Mental Health
Does someone self harm?
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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Is there misophonia?
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SclerisMockrey
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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SclerisMockrey
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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Is there body dysmorphia?
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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hermitcrab
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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SclerisMockrey
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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Noxious
Is there shakey cam?
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Does a baby cry?
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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Paranoia
Is the fourth wall broken?
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Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
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Does someone miscarry?
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SclerisMockrey
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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Is there childbirth?
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LordKapp
A character’s future childbirth is discussed, but never occurs during the events of the film.
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Are there abortions?
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there is talk of abortions
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LordKapp
No, but a pregnant character is placed into several situations where she is at risk of death or infection.
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Prejudice
Are there homophobic slurs?
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SclerisMockrey
A fairly psyched out racist SWAT cop uses a bunch of colorfully racist language near the beginning of the film.
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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Does an LGBT person die?
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Are there fat jokes?
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SclerisMockrey
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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SclerisMockrey
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 there hate speech?
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huviks
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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Cryptid_Crow
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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AmberBarnes
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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Is there bestiality?
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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hermitcrab
Some nudity, but sexuality is only implied.
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Sexism
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Sickness
Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
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Social
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Itmeanscloud
[SPOILER]
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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Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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huviks
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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SclerisMockrey
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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Does a car crash?
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Does a plane crash?
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hermitcrab
Zombies are hit by cars.
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Violence
Does someone drown?
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Is there blood/gore?
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LordKapp
While the blood doesn’t look realistic, gory killing scenes occur throughout the movie.
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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LordKapp
There is gun violence throughout the film.
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