Dawn of the Dead (2004) on Netflix
Ana, a Milwaukee nurse, loses her husband to an infected neighbor's bite as the city falls to the flesh-eating dead. She joins other survivors barricading themselves in a shopping mall.
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Plot summary
Ana works a nursing shift in Milwaukee and returns home to her husband, Luis; the two pay little attention to news bulletins about a spreading plague. A neighbor girl, already turned, gets into their bedroom and bites him. Luis dies and revives, and Ana escapes through the neighborhood, crashing her car and losing consciousness. She comes to and falls in with Kenneth Hall, a police sergeant, Michael, an electronics salesman, and Andre, a criminal traveling with his pregnant wife, Luda. Inside a nearby mall, a guard who is already infected attacks them, and three guards who are not infected, C.J., Bart and Terry, take their weapons but allow them to remain. From the mall the survivors see Andy, another survivor, holed up in a gun store across the parking lot.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Dawn of the Dead (2004)
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- Screenwriter James Gunn faced online backlash over the remake because of his earlier writing credit on Scooby-Doo, with fans doubting he was qualified. Critic Harry Knowles, originally against the remake, read Gunn's script, praised it on his site Ain't It Cool News, and that review helped quiet the doubts.
- To fake gunshot head wounds without endangering actors, makeup artist David LeRoy Anderson dropped the standard exploding-squib method for a remote-controlled 'air ratchet system' that yanked wired, blood-packed prosthetic scalps to mimic the same gruesome hit.
- The zombie makeup operation was enormous: on its busiest days the production painted between 200 and 400 extras, and by the time filming wrapped on September 6, 2003, the crew had completed 3,000 separate zombie makeups in total.
- Composer Tyler Bates deliberately avoided the original film's famous Goblin score, even dropping its popular main title theme, and instead mixed electronic music with dissonant 20th-century orchestral styles influenced by Béla Bartók and Krzysztof Penderecki to make audiences 'very, very uncomfortable.'
