The first time I saw Dawn

[capncnut]

The most popular GAR film in this community seems to be Dawn Of The Dead. What I want to know is, a.) how did you first hear of this masterpiece, b.) how old were you when you first saw it and c.) how did it affect you? Here's my story.

When i was a little kid in the late 70's, I was a massive horror fan. Even at the age of 5, I had everything from vampire books to skull mould sets etc. I developed a healthy interest in horror movies, beginning with the Hammer films and by about 7 or 8, I graduated to The Exorcist and The Omen. In about '81 or '82, one day my mother brought me home two books as a gift, one on 50's and 60's horror comics and the other, a MASSIVE book of horror movies. As I flipped through (admiring the gory pics as a kid does) I noticed on the last few pages there was an overall rating system with practically every horror movie ever known up until that point. Immediately I checked the rankings of each film to determine what was the best one out there. There were only 4 movies that had the glorious 10 out of 10 rating, Dawn Of The Dead was one of them. Tugging on my mother's dress and showing her a picture of Lenny Lies with a machete through his head I said "Mum, can we rent this movie on video?"

The following day we trudged (through the snow as I believe) to the local 'mom and pop' videostore (for Blockbuster wasn't around in them days) and asked 'John' if he had it. He did and we rented it for a night. 2 weeks later my mother went back to hand in the video and apologize. 'John' said to her "Look it's a £5 a week for the rental but if you settle up for the whole 2 weeks, your boy can keep the damn thing." She paid and I got the tape.

When I first saw Dawn, I was expecting it to be EXACTLY like that book said. It was and much, much more. I watched it three times a day and I knew it word for word within a couple weeks. It was an early UK cut of the theatrical version (Intervision Video) which was missing many gore scenes. If I'm not mistaken it was 120 minutes. That never bothered me, it was still the best movie I had ever seen in my life!

Fast forward and here I am, aged 34 and been a member of HPotD for a year. The love I have for that movie has never died and it never will. That's my story now let's hear yours.

[bassman]

My brother worked at the local video store and he would always bring home all sorts of free movies. One evening he comes home and says, "I've got this horror movie that is supposedly really good.....do you want to watch it?". I pick up the box and read "The darkest day of horror the world has ever known. DAY OF THE DEAD". My first reaction was a sort of "ehhh", but I decided I would try it anyway. Obviously, I was floored by it.

I then got online and searched for some info on the flick. I found out that it was directed by Romero and he had also done two others. One of which was "Night". Just like basically everyone on the planet, I had seen bits and pieces of it on TV(mostly during Halloween marathons). I went out, bought it, loved it. But there was one more piece to the puzzle.

Dawn was very very hard to come by around here. I looked EVERYWHERE. no store within the northern half of my state had it for sale or rent. After very much begging, I convinced my older brother to use his credit card and order it online. It cost me about $50.:rolleyes: BUT.....it was worth it.

It's still hard for me to choose between Dawn and Day as to which one is the best. I often lean toward Day because it sort of "lit the fuse", in a way. I guess I could say that they're both great counterparts to each other.

[ProfessorChaos]

I first saw Dawn of the Dead when I was about eleven or so, a few years after I saw Night of the Living Dead. I had no idea that Romero ever made a sequel to Night, and was at one of the local video stores (now a laundromat) in my hometown with my friends, just killing time until the travelling fair came to our town to set up rides that evening. The plan was to, like always, sit around and make fun of the carnies as they set up all the boring rides uptown, like the Ferris Wheel, Loop-o-planes, etc, maybe throw an egg or two at them.

Anyways, at the video store, I remember looking at the cover (with Roger's dead-face) and picking the box up. As soon as I figured out what I'd stumbled across, I almost jumped for joy. Literally. Without even telling my friends what the deal was, I raced home on my bike and counted out a couple of bucks worth of quarters, then raced back to the store to get it, only to have some dickhead behind the counter try to tell me I was too young to rent it. I then had the jerk call my house and talk to my parents, who were super cool with my obsession with horror films, and he finally let me leave with the movie.

I then ditched my friends and all my plans for the evening and locked myself in the family room with a bag of Doritos and a couple of cans of Pepsi and once again was taken along for a ride through Romero's universe where the dead hunted the living. Two hours later, I felt like a jerk for ditching my friends, so I took of to catch up with them. After I rejoined them, all I wanted to talk about was the badass movie I just saw, but they just didn't understand. So I ditched them again and went home to watch it all over again.

I've been totally hooked ever since. I paid nearly 50 bucks for a copy of the DVD, long before they even started talking about a remake and did the rerelease of the original on DVD. Then on my birthday, while I was in Iraq, one of my best friends went to the PX in Baghdad and bought me the Ultimate Edition DVD. As a matter of fact, I just got it back from letting one of my pals borrow it and watched the extended version last night.

Dawn of the Dead, without a doubt, is the best FRAKKING horror film ever.

[Cykotic]

I first saw Dawn of the Dead when the Directors cut was released through BMG video. I remember being in Global Video (Worlds worse rental store=now bankrupt) and saw this black box with a zombie face on it. I really wanted to see it and since I knew the staff pretty well, I blagged it for the week (I was too young to rent it). I never expected it to be as good as it was and ever since then, I've been addicted to it.

[kortick]

when the movie came out
my neighbor wnet to see it and he
kept telling me about it

at first i thought he kept saying it was Dawna the Dead
thinking it was like some movie about a girl who is evil
then i looked in the paper and saw the ad
and realised what he was talking about

so that weekend i paid for another movie
and snuck into Dawn (cuz i wanst 18 yet)
and watched it

i was amazed at the level of intensity it had
and there was humor too

the ending made me wonder
what the hell?

but the crowd at the theater was wild
and it was great time seeing it on the big screen
with a bunch of horror fans
the movie was so popular they held it over for a month
people kept going and going to see it

i went back and saw it again myself

[ssbib]

I found my brothers hammer horror collection. I'd never really been one for watching horror films before and I saw a copy of dawn. I whacked it on, to be honest I didn't really enjoy it, but I think I was too young to really appreciate it (I must've been 10). I then watched it again when I was 16 at a friends house and loved it.

[coma]

Went to see Alien at a drive in and saw the traler before the 2nd film (which I dont remember). The trailer scared the crap out of me, when The Zombies come in the elevator. I kept seeing the trailer on TV and the coomericals were super freaky/ I read about it in Fangoria #1 and got all giddy. My buddy saw it and kept talking about it all the time.

I was a HUGE fan of NOTLD and The Crazies.
Couldnt get in until My Older brother took me.
I had butterflies really bad and when the Music sting came up with the red carpet wall I gagged and almost barfed, I was so tense. When Miguelito bit his wife I freaked out. When Roger died I shed a tear.
I yelled at Flyboy "are you retarded?!?".
When Peter was going to shoot himself I got worried and yelled "NO, NO!"
When he changed his mind I yelled "YAY!!"

I was 11 years old and it was the best thing I had ever seen. Still think so.
couple weeks later I made my first Super8 (In fact it was probably regular 8 with overdubbed dialogue) zombie movie with My brothers and friends. That was 79 or 80. I didnt see dawn right when it came out. It was alot of trouble to get someone to take me and it took a few months. Luckily back then movies stayed in theatres for Months, if not years, on a first run. These days, it's 2 weeks if your lucky.

It was also the first VHS I rented and then bought.
Wish I had a tranfer of thet Super8 movie, I would post it.

[Danny]

the first time i whent in the cinema i saw jurassic park, followed by the shining, and one of the howling movies.

i was 4 at the time.:cool: ,thanks grandma.

allways been a big fan of horror,and ghost stories,was probably the only kid in my rural town that read lovecraft stories at 7 years old i checked "the call of cthulu, and other stories" out the library at school around 40 times over 4 years, it was only checked out 50 times.

ive never loved gore much, allways preferred what you cant see, i loved the odl gothic tales like dracula, the shadows in the darkness, creepy things like light through railings in all old horror movies, but i also loved the idea of post apocalyptic movies, not like mad max or anything but ones that were more stephen king, that seemed like they could actually happen, just a little outside our own reailty , and the people that survive, and thats how i read a lot of books, which allways mentioned night of the living dead.

i didnt actually see the films till, oh maybe onyl 2 or 3 years back and instantly loved them, dawn the most, and ive seen dawn so many times now im bored of it for now, but theres plenty mroe zombie films, games, books and comics to keep me occupied till romeros next one:)

[DEAD BEAT]

i first saw it on video back in 84, but didnt really get hooked intill the second time around 4 yrs later in 88'!

after that i was totally an addict,im now somewhere in the 300 something bracket i lost count about 4 or five years ago!

it somehow has what id call,if your from california the in n out and starbucks effect,something about those places isnt right the way people are always packing those places everday and every night like zombies!

who knows!:)

[_liam_]

great stories guys...

i think when i was about 12 i saw evil dead 2 at a dealers house and thought it was the single greatest thing ever. went to a pawnbrokers and found it, to my amazement he sold it to me, so i went and grabbed a few other alluring looking titles ; "day of the dead" "dawn of the dead" and "zombie flesh eaters".

hooked from thereon in, didnt even think movies like that actually existed. i think i was hooked on the ambience and the daydream possibilities more than the actual movies themselves. saw a link to hpotd (and a dinky interview with neil!) in a 1998 issue of gamesmaster magazine - been here on/off ever since :cool:

[HLS]

Ok. Forgive me if I brag. But given I lived in Monroeville at the time my dad thought it was the coolist thing and we saw it when it first came out. There was a movie theater in the parking lot of the mall actually. I was 8 or 9 years old I think at the time. I remember getting excited every time it was on TV. I thought it was the coolest thing that all the stores I shopped at was on TV. I always remember asking my dad about the movie and how much I want to see it again. I think it was one of the first horror movies for me to have ever seen.

[Philly_SWAT]

This was a good question to ask, and has sparked a few interesting stories. Here's mine. Like you, the first time I saw Dawn was from the "mom and pop" rental store. Back in those days, you actually had to pay a membership fee just for the priveledge of renting movies. I think it cost my parents $75, but I cant remember. Luckily, they put me on the account that I was allowed to rent movies too. I used to ride my bike up there and rent movies all the time. Funny thing was, this store had no problem at all renting a young kid R rated movies. In fact, they had no problem renting porno movies to me either! They didnt even have a seperate "adult only" room, they had there own section right out with the rest of the movies! I had a lot of fun with those, but thats another story. For some reason I really liked the horror movies, and this was in the midst of the splatter craze. I watched them all, Silent Night, Bloody; Last House on the Left; so many more that I cant remember them all. During this time, I rented and watched both Dawn and Day. At the time, I liked them, but I was in a renting movie frenzy, and didnt pay special attention to them, I just took them back and rented more.

It wasnt until years later that I saw them again. My mother had a client at work that told her that she was in a movie years ago. I was surprised when I went to my mom's house to see Dawn of the Dead sitting on her TV. I asked her why she had that. She said she rented because of her client told her that she was in Dawn of the Dead as a zombie. She told my mom that you couldnt miss her, that she was wearing a band uniform. My mom watched the movie, and said she couldnt see her client, and asked if I wanted to watch it and see if I could see her. (Turns out my mom misheard or remembered incorrectly, her client must have said Day of the Dead, not Dawn, because you can clearly see a band uniform zombie in the beginning of Day.) I watched the movie, and I was transfixed. I only had vague recollections of seeing the movie before. But now as an adult, I had a much better appreciation of the movie. It changed me in a way that is hard to describe. After watching it several times in the next few days, I took it back to the Blockbuster for her, went to the mall, and bought a copy. I watched it regularly after that. It has to be the greatest movie I have ever seen.

Since then, I have made two trips to Pittsburgh/Monroeville because of the movie. I stayed a week in Ft. Myers because of Day. I have visited most of the shooting locations that I could find. I have purchased via e-bay figures, posters, DVD's, VHS, and Laserdics, yes LASERDICS, of all of GAR's movies. I get the laserdiscs mainly because of the artwork, and the fact that not many havae them. I may even end up moving to Pittsburgh one day. I could talk about Dawn forever, but I guess that ends this particular story.

[TerryAlexanderF]

A) I blind bought this when I was a child, because I think the cover looked cool. I always liked scary movies as a child, watching both NOTLD's over and over, enjoying them yet never knowing that Dawn and Night had any relationship. I picked it up, told "Mommy," I wanted it, and I got it, and was shocked at what I saw, but, I loved it. Havne't turned back since!

B) I'd say around 8, they had a VHS copy at Target when I was a kid, I saw the scary looking pictures on the cover, and I wanted it.

C) It brought me to get into horror movies much more, espeically zombie movies, which are still my favorite kind of horror movies, it also introduced me to gore.

[MinionZombie]

*rubs hands with memory lane glee*


a.) how did you first hear of this masterpiece

In a 1997 issue of SFX magazine I picked up on a school trip. There was a small bit of text on the cover going on about blood and zombies or something like that, and at that stage I'd never seen a zombie film, and wanted to learn more about zombies. The article inside was an interview with GAR in connection with the release of the (wrongly titled) Director's Cut of Dawn on BMG VHS in the UK (it was the Extended Cut). There was also a review of the film in the mag, and the images I saw connected to that article just made me go "WOW!" - I simply had to see it.


b.) how old were you when you first saw it

When I was 14 I tried to get it rented from the video shop, but their copy was busted - some dickhead left a note in the case rather than remove it from the shelf. My first zombie film experience was The Evil Dead and then a few weeks later I got Day of the Dead on video (Woolworths, £5.99 :D) and was blown away by the gore.

Then my 15th birthday rocked up and that very day I was taken to MVC in Gloucester and got Friday 13th Part 3 and Dawn of the Dead (that very version I'd seen talked about in that 1997 SFX magazine).


c.) how did it affect you?

I watched Friday 13th Part 3 first as I knew I wanted to save the best for last - I wasn't let down. I put the Dawn tape in (extended cut, remember) and parked my ass on the edge of the sofa and sat there immobile for 2 hours and 20 minutes because I was so struck by what I was seeing on the screen. After the final chimes of the clock rang out into the blackness I sat there dumbfounded after having spent over 2 hours being spellbound by the film. Dawn of the Dead was the film that took me from being a guy who just really enjoyed films to being a guy who wants to make films - and here I am many years later at the start of the road towards fulfilling my dream. :)

Long live Dawn of the Dead! How I love it so - and yes, it is my favourite movie of all time. :cool:

[EvilNed]

a.) how did you first hear of this masterpiece, b.) how old were you when you first saw it and c.) how did it affect you?


I was visiting my relatives in the U.S. when I was younger. I think I was around 12-13 or so. I really have no idea, I might have been younger. I was already pretty into sci-fi and horror at that point. But by then, slasher was my main point of interest.

I hadn't seen that many zombiefilmes. As I recall, only a few old ones and Braindead. But in a store I headed over to the HORROR/SCI-FI shelf (at that age I was already pretty upset that they put those two genres together, as if they somehow had a relation to each other) and found two zombie flicks. Day of the Dead and Dawn of the Dead.

By that time I had watched a show called Munsters! on latenight TV. My bro' had told me of an episode where a bunch of scientists had taken shelter in nuclear bunkers after a global war. I must have developed a rather cynical view of the world back then, because the sheer summary of the show he told to me (it didn't have a happy ending...) made me drool.

And when I saw the text at the back of both Day and Dawn I just HAD to have them. I mean, survivors bunkering up to survive zombies taking over the world? There's not a word in the english language that can describe just how appealing that sounded to me. So of course, I got them.

I first watched Day, and I remember the harsh language in it and that it was really a dark movie. Then I watched Dawn and wasn't as impressed. I thought it was rather silly at the time, and I found the zombiemakeup to be really lacking (something I believe to this day, but I'm not bothered by it now).

The affect of it wasn't that great. Dawn didn't interest me that much. Day is my favorite. It's so much darker. I like that. Dawn definetly has a darker ending, but overall Day is the sheer nightmare of a zombie apocalypse whereas Dawn sometimes show it as sort of an adventure.

Oh well. As time went by I rented and bought more zombiefilms and now I've seen pretty much all of it. And if I haven't seen it, I have it in my library of films yet to be watched. Currently waiting are:

Zombie Apocalypse
Zombie Lake
Hell of the Living Dead
Zombie 3: Burial Ground

I covered City of the Living Dead the other night. As expected with a Fulci flick, it totally sucked ass. But I'm still glad I've seen it.

[Adolf Kitler]

At the tender and way too sensitive age of ten, my older bully of a brother decided to have some fun at my expense. He bought a copy of NOTLD, threw it into the vcr, and then dragged me to the living room, sat on top of me, thereby forcing me to watch the movie.

Needless to say, I had nightmares for months. It got so bad that every night before it got dark I'd do a perimeter check around the neighborhood to make sure no zombies were heading to our house anytime soon (which was no fun, when you also consider that many senior citizens lived in our neighborhood. I had at least one zombie sighting a night!).

Once my mom caught on to my new quirk, she had her best friend, who was a big horror film fanatic, invite me over to watch Dawn of the Dead. My feeling about this was a mixture of intrigue and dread, but my mom's friend assured me that my fear of zombies would be cured if I came over and watched it with her and her sons.

Man, was she ever right. Knowing my fears were serious, at least to me, she and her sons pulled the Mystery Science Theater 3000 treatment on the movie (in 1985, no less. She must have been prophetic) and I had a great time. It was everything you'd want in a great horror film.

It didn't take long for me to hunt down my own copy of the film (got it for ten dolla used from a local video shack) and I wore that thing out, and before DVD's were the norm I went through no less than eight vhs copies of it. Love it love it LOVE IT!

[TerryAlexanderF]

Zombie 3 and Hell of the Living Dead are worth seeing, Hell of the Living Dead rips off Dawn a lot, but it's sorta reminiscient.

[MinionZombie]

Go for Zombie Lake next and get stoned or drunk before/during. It's hilarious, green zombies with Nazi uniforms, chicks getting their 70's/80's muff out and diving into a lake (which is blatantly a swimming pool), a really maniacal town mayor type bloke. It's really stupid, but it's irresistable to enjoy for being so funny/retarded.

I'm not talking Return of the Living Dead 4 retarded mind you, I'm talking 'the good kind of retarded' in movies.

[capncnut]

I'm not talking Return of the Living Dead 4 retarded mind you, I'm talking 'the good kind of retarded' in movies.

There was a fourth Return Of The Living Dead? :confused:

[MinionZombie]

If that shook your foundations, get some adult nappies on cos there's a Return of the Living Dead 5 - made with 4 in a back-to-back style by Ellory "8 Legged Freaks" Elkayem...

I don't think 5 has even been properly released, 4 is on DVD ... let's just say I'm insanely glad I didn't drop any money on it, because it's hideously bad ... seriously, it made my heart shrivel up and die...*shudders*

[Danny]

careful cap'n return: rave to the grave, may dstroy your hope in humanity.

[capncnut]

Oh
My
GOD!!!

I just checked out the trailers for Return 4 and 5. What stinking pile of rotting dogs testes decided to resurrect this? This has got to be somebody's idea of a joke surely. :barf:

[strayrider]

I first saw Dawn of the Dead in a walk-in theater back in ’78. The theater was part of strip mall which has since been leveled to make way for a Target department store.

If I remember correctly I went with a couple of geeks from my high school who thought they were the Siskel and Ebert of Hicksville, Ohio. I knew these cats from study hall and all they talked about was movies they had seen.

One of them, Dave I think his name was, had a mini-theater set up in his basement with a 16mm projector and such. His dad was friends with the projectionist of a local walk-in and had access to various “trailers” which Dave would show on the weekends down in the basement. One of my other friends really wanted to bang Dave’s sister, so on the rare occasions we were out cruising in my mother’s (and smoking reefer, which we always did while cruising in mom’s car) we would stop by his house and while my bud was trying to get into Dave’s sister’s pants Dave would be screening all of these trailers his dad had brought home. (if I remember correctly he had clips from “Clockwork Orange, Exorcist, etc. all on genuine 16mm celluloid).

Anyway, Dave and I became friends and, as such, I was allowed to hang out with him in study hall while he and his geek buddy (a kid named Maged from Eqypt) discussed various films.

One afternoon Dave called my house and asked if I wanted go and check out a film called Dawn of the Dead. I had already seen the ads on TV for the movie and read a short story in Heavy Metal magazine of the same title, so I knew the film was a sequel to Night of the Living Dead (a movie I had seen 7 years earlier at the tender age of nine and which had scared the crap out of me.) So, hell yeah, I wanted to see the movie.

We arrived at the movie house (which was attached to a tire store of all things) in Dave’s parent’s Chevy Impala station wagon, bought our tickets and settled our arses down in seats very near the front row of the moderately populated theater. I can’t claim at this late date to remember a whole lot of detail of that night’s viewing, but I do remember several things quite vividly.

A man with two young children walking out after the exploding head scene.

A Black couple sitting directly behind us cheering when Wooley met his end. ( and later the young woman patron cooing “Oooh, baby! during the part where a shirtless Ken Foree plays racket ball on the roof of the mall.)

And, I remember the “raid” on the gun store (which I figured my other friend, the one who wanted to pork Dave’s sister, would probably get into the film for the gunplay alone. His dad was a big time gun collector, he himself was into shooting and,that summer, had gotten me into shooting (bought my first rifle, a Ruger 10/22 at the age of 16, with my own driver’s license, back when such things were still legal on the US)).

Anyway, I was kinda disappointed after my first viewing of Dawn of the Dead. I had expected to be horrified as I was at the age of 9 after seeing Night at the drive-in. It was still a good enough film for me and my other buddy (the one who wanted to boff Dave’s sister) to see several more times, stoned (the way any decent film should be viewed), before it dropped from the “screen” a month or so later.

I got a job the following year, pumping ethyl at a filling station, and my own car. That summer Dawn of the Dead returned to the “big screen” as a weekend midnight movie regular, as well as the occasional drive-in screening. And it came back the following year at the “midnights”. During this two year period I guess I must have seen Dawn 15-20 times (some weekends it was a flip of the coin – Dawn of the Dead, or Apocalypse Now, both of which were playing) on a regular basis.

I’ve also had the rare privilege of watching Dawn on TV via a bootleg copy of the movie back in the good old days when VHS was the latest craze and good films were hard to come by. 9You younger people won’t remember this, but we used to pay upwards of $100 to buy a film on tape and our VCRs cost $500-$600 for a cheap one, and they weighed about 1000 pounds. (Hey, if you owned a VCR and a few flicks, (esp. skin flicks starring Johnny Holmes) your place was THE place to party).

For the record, my buddy never did screw Dave’s sister. We hung around for a few years after high school, then he married and moved off to some dinville way out in the sticks. Last I heard he was living in Alaska with his wife and three kids. We never did get to see Day of the Dead when it came out.

Dave and Maged – your guess is as good as mine. Lost track of these dudes after high school.

Dave’s sister – she was flat out ugly then ...

:D

-stray-

[Griff]

Thanks for sharing.

[RustyHicks]

I just thought it was very interesting to see how people started to like Dawn of the dead and how it affected them through the years.

I first saw it in 1984, I was twelve at the time. My best friend told me about this movie his mother rented called Dawn of the Dead. He went on describing scenes, like when Roger runs over the zombie and how he uses the whippers to wipe away the blood. It just sounded so cool, he invited me up to his apartement and we spent the afternoon watching it. I was hooked, I couldn't remember ever seeing a movie that had captured me so much. My friend went crazy over it too, so much so that his mother made a copy of it, she got tired of renting it every weekend. My friend and I use to act out the movie, knew the diaglogue off by heart and we would even act out sequels to the movie as well. We had the most fun watching the movie. I didn't get my own copy until 1989, when I saw a copy of it in K-mart for twenty books and bought it.
Been a fan ever since. It is the greatest film ever:cool:

[sandrock74]

a.) how did you first hear of this masterpiece?
In high school, 10th grade. I had already seen Night and never knew there was a sequel. As soon as a buddy of mine and I watched it after school one day, I was hooked on the universe Romero had created! I loved the film and never looked back. On a side note, I am an avid comicbook collector and I realized that I had seen several pictures from the movie in the backs of some of my older comics as advertisements for horror magazines. Because the pics were in black and white, I never realized the pics were of zombies! I thought they were of murder victims in slasher movies.

b.) how old were you when you first saw it?
I think I was 14 (or 15 at most).

c.) how did it affect you?
Made me a fan for life! And I always do weird things like park my car by the back door with the drivers side door even with the door to my house so if I have to run in a hurry, I can jump into my car and pull out of the drive (no wasting time backing up with zombies around), also, never leaving my gas tank below half a tank!

That's just me...

[jdog]

i first saw dawn when i was about 6 and i was blown away. we had just bought a vcr and the place we got it from threw in something like 20 or so free rentals with the machine (which was like $600 or so). my dad told me i could pick out a movie to take home so after looking around a bit a picked dawn because of the cool cover. i went home and watched this masterpiece and was hooked. my dad seen that i liked it so much he had his friend bring over his vcr and they made me a bootleg copy. i watched this copy till the tape broke, probly over 200 times.
this movie rocked my youth, i would daydream often about what i would do in those situations and often would have nightmares about being eaten by zombies. as i got older about 10 years pased without seeing dawn then one day at wallmart i saw a dvd copy of dawn and i bought it up quick. i scored a bag and called some of the boys up and introduced them to it. since this i have been able to locate and buy the original copy of dawn that i first seen as a child. it a strange story how i came about finding this tape. the peaple who owned the store where i grew up have other stores around the province and in prince albert where i live now they had 2. well one of them went out of business and i bought some tapes off them for 50 cents each. in those tapes was a copy of dawn and day from the old store back home that i used to rent at, it was like finding a piece of your childhood that was long lost.

[acealive1]

saw it on cablevision when i was around 5. loved it

[MissJacksonCA]

Found it by pure dumb luck... bought it... savored it endlessly for years