Dawn of the Dead Image Analysis

This is one of the few gory scenes in Dawn of the Dead. We have a close up to emphasise the goriness of the scene. George Romero was an auteur and liked to lull us into a false sense of security. By really emphasising on the gore back in the 1970s, was a big thing and stuck with the films audience. Dawn of the Dead was banned in Germany, Finland and Norway when it was originally released as it was one of the most shocking films about at the time. In the 1979 film, the Zombies are more of a slow moving monster than a fast moving monster compared to the 2005 remake of the film. The context of this film was very much institutional. Shopping malls were still fairly new at the time and for all this blood and gore to be shown in something so mainstream as a shopping centre it was very realistic to the audience. Each shopping mall scene presents the theme of loneliness or fear of being trapped as throughout the whole film once they are in there, the first thing they do is look for an escape.