Supplanting that other zombie movie the at least twice as gory The Passion of the Christ at the top of the box office charts last weekend, Dawn of the Dead compelled me to request a phone interview with its director, Zack Snyder. I should amend that I was driven not by pressing questions, but by that flicker of fanboyism Id thought longextinguished; I was stunned to have liked the film, just as I was stunned to have enjoyed Marcus Nispels remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Nevertheless, it strikes me that in a day of high production values and sophisticated action editing, the personal horror films of the seventies are being reimagined as selfaware takes on the slick formula and stainless steel look of Aliens from a decade later. Theres even a Carter Burke character in the new Dawn of the Dead.

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