Dawn of the Dead featuring RARE Commentary from Tom Savini and Christian Stavrakis

[@charlessedlacek5754]

Respect to savini..he was a combat photographer in viet nam. My uncle, a paratrooper with the 173rd airborne division, 82nd airborne division, met him and served with dennis franz, a fellow viet nam vet and 82nd airborne trooper.

[@Charbear25]

I love Tom Savini

[@alpharomero88]

Savini is a special guy.

[@curtismatthews3113]

The part when Ken Foree character Peter strips off his fancy clothes , jewelry, and money and swaps into his swat gear is symbolic to me. It shows that Peter may value these things as materialistic and pointless compared to his battle gear that serves more of a purpose. Like Fly boy girlfriend said earlier. This place is a neatly wrapped prison that it has all of you blinded by how pretty it looks. Peter, at this point, may see the picture. But Fly Boy himself could not. Due to his spoiled greed of wanting it all for him. He ensues in a gunfight with the bikers only to land himself in danger. Roger also yells we whipped him and GOT IT ALL!" But in a small detail, you see Roger looking around the room to barely nothing but the gun and other useless objects. When they arrived at the mall, It partially stripped them all from being survivalist to spoiled house snobs.

[@alpharomero88]

Fantastic analysis! 👏 as many times as I have seen this film, I never picked up on that little detail with Roger. Great job pointing that out!

[@curtismatthews3113]

@alpharomero88 You're very welcome! Dawn of the Dead is one of my favorite films alongside Day of The Dead. Thanks to my parents, I was raised on both films at such a young age. I'm 34 now, but I have been watching them since I was 8 years old. I enjoyed the commentary as well on this video. I also thank you for reaching back. 🧟‍♂️

[@alpharomero88]

@@curtismatthews3113 I think I was 10 when I first saw Dawn. And I’ve been obsessed ever since. I’m 35 now.

[@johnf4022]

Green faces all the blood and gore dawn of the dead simply legendary

[@Valkonnen]

they were grey and sometimes appeared blue

[@aaronjordan2770]

Love this commentary!

[@alpharomero88]

Definitely one of my favorites

[@ELDIABLO444]

First thing you do in a zombie apocalypse Round up all the smoke's you can find, Second thing get ALOT of Pepsi and lighter's (can't smoke without a lighter. Third find a nice looking red head big boobies chicky !!!! (Squeeze time) THEN run like all hell till you find a killer vehicle and place to hangout where idiots and zombies can't reach you (UNDERGROUND BUNKER TYPE PLACE) THEN you do your best to survive !!!

[@thekesslerboy9337]

Savini talking over the UK cut version.

[@tonywhite3620]

Lovely!

[@Emulous79]

This is so cool.

[@tegofido]

Insanity!

[@followingtheroe1952]

"Just for anyone in the UK watching, these are not your typical Americans, this is a select group... hey! I bought a shotgun off that guy!" Lmao 24:35

[@dr.danchallice3888]

What year was this recorded?

[@alpharomero88]

Late 90’s. It was included on a UK release of Dawn in 1999.

[@edbeasant9494]

This is on a really old dvd I own. A terrible cut version with a terrible transfer lol

[@terencemiguana]

Oh wow. This channel is a goldmine. George A Romero is one of The greatest film directors of any genre. I am so please to see an entire channel dedicated to this great man. Nice work

[@alpharomero88]

Thanks for checking it out! I’m really happy to hear you say that about George. My goal is to pay tribute to Romero the FILMMAKER and not just Romero the “zombie guy”.

[@lpn8585]

I know, I know I know I know!

[@mhaze210]

I've seen this movie a lot including when they re-released it in theaters in 3D. I never watched it with Tom Savini commentary though so this should be great!

[@brynmawrwawa]

They barely talked about the behind the scenes...how would the bikers raid of gone if Rodger was still alive.

[@alpharomero88]

How do you think it would've gone?

[@brynmawrwawa]

@@alpharomero88 Stephen would of been with Fran and Rodger and Peter would of closed the gates.

[@stellviahohenheim]

Some people are so entitled, they made the thing they can talk whatever they wanted

[@brynmawrwawa]

@@stellviahohenheim the point of a commentary is to give a commentary.

[@mikecoulter9427]

Depends if Roger was in his right mind or reckless

[@CharliRay]

I had this version from anchor bay on dvd the first rerelease in maybe 99 or early y2k era i actually still have the dvd it skips very badly now though

[@sydIRISH]

Awesome!!!!! Best zombie film ever.

[@alpharomero88]

💯 agree! Thanks for subbing!

[@squirrelattackspidy]

The commentary is solid gold.

[@smjjohnson]

Something I just noticed after all these years and never really thought about till now, so if "We might as well have power in everything. We might need it." Why then did the escalators in Penneys have none? (Hence Roger sliding down one when he and Peter are 'shopping')

[@tokyosmash]

Serious answer, most anchor stores have their own switchboards and such independent of the malls as they normally have different hours and such

[@applesteve004]

I wonder what edit they were watching, where they cut the head explosion. I've never heard of that one.

[@aarongarcia1101]

Thank you for this❤

[@MusicandMonsters]

Thank you for sharing this!

[@TheRedDevil-1968]

Anything with Tom, who I'm proud to call a mate of mine, is AWESOME. The guy, if you are ever lucky to meet him, is SO COOL. I luv that man to bits. (no pun intended here. lol)

[@connorsimpson503]

This film is an all-time classic! It's arguably the best zombie movie ever made! The zombies could have looked better, though. I understand this was in the late 70s, but the makeup looked very cheap and fake. Flyboy was by far the best-looking zombie, though!

[@samuelday93]

Probably my favorite movie of all time. But man, this commentary is awful. The guys have no chemistry. They don't talk about hardly any of the details i would want from Savini, who's a horror god, by the way, i'm not hating), but it just falls flat. The commentary with the 4 main actors is wayyy better. You can tell they're still friends and Ken Foree, at least, is clearly getting his buzz on. You just get way more of the fun stuff. I was really disappointment in this one. Maybe if Savini was in on the one with the actors, it would have gone better. Anyway, it does have a few goodies. Worth watching.

[@brynmawrwawa]

I would love to hear the commentary w/ the actors. Is it on KZbin? If so, I've never seen it posted, could you send the link.

[@richardblatt9986]

thanks a lot

[@tomlichnofsky.7048]

RIP George A Romero 😔🍁

[@ernestmijaresiii1060]

Love this Commentary it's the best!❤ Love Tom he is the G.O.A.T. the other guy is not so good he tries to upstage and out smart Tom.

[@joannechance1971]

RIP David Emge!😢 Flyboy can now fly with the angels!

[@Z3AL316]

I just learned of his passing, I grew up with this film, it hurts to see all the greats starting to pass away, but that’s life, they live forever through there work

[@sb61fury]

I wish I had the chance to meet George Romero I heard he was a very nice man RIP George and Thank you for the movies you made .

[@alpharomero88]

George was incredibly kind when I met him on 08.

[@SynthAddict]

as a huge fan of this and other Romero films, it's great to hear a rare commentary for the first time and see how they chose to edit this for the UK market - at least this wasn't banned as a "video nasty" like Evil Dead and so many others however, I have a rare DOTD French poster that has the X rating on it 🙂 I look forward to exploring the other content you have here, thanks again I have all of Savini's books and I used to practice a simple form of make-up fx for Halloween and small student films a lot of my original music I post on YT has a horror/sci-fi vibe inspired by Goblin's score here as well as stuff by John Carpenter, Fabio Frizzi, and music from other classic horror projects

[@alpharomero88]

Oh nice! I will definitely check out your channel! Thanks for the sub!

[@SynthAddict]

@@alpharomero88 Thanks man, that's cool of you - my last few Challenge vids going back to Halloween and before are pretty creepy/spooky, and for all of the other jams you can generally tell the mood by the titles there are experiments and tech demos mixed in as well 🙂

[@DVincentW]

Speaking of Tom Savini, I really enjoy Innocent Blood. If you have not seen it, please do.

[@alpharomero88]

I have not but I will def seek it out. I've heard a few people mention that film here lately.

[@DVincentW]

​@@alpharomero88mafia / vampire plot, Robert Logia Don Tickles. Savini has a bit part in it aside from the gore make up effects.

[@tokyosmash]

This is phenomenal

[@callamastia]

wow nice find

[@paulpoppenfuse7071]

Love ❤️

[@Valkonnen]

Great! Have Savini do a commentary on a print that has the gore edited out? What is this inept crap? talk about missing the point entirely...

[@alpharomero88]

Blame the Brits 😂

[@Valkonnen]

@@alpharomero88 oh, I do! Terrible food and banned videos...

[@gorillacookies3171]

Well he is talking about his experiences making the movie and how the FX was done

[@horrorfanandy4647]

He couldn’t just magic the film into being uncut in the UK. The BBFC were strict bastards until about 15 years ago and even then you can’t get some of the video nasties uncut/at all.

[@Valkonnen]

@@gorillacookies3171 But this isn't the movie! If you cut the main selling points of a film famous for the Gore, AND have THE most famous gore effects artist whocreated ot commenting on the film, having the version with all of the gore cut out, is ridiculous.

[@PELTIER5]

I really enjoyed this

[@alpharomero88]

I’ve always thought this was a really fun commentary

[@jasonlarson9272]

This was great, i love your channel I'm a massive romero fan and i love all the cool stuff I'm finding on your channel i have never seen before. This is the second commentary for dawn of the dead i have never heard that i found on your channel. I'm a total movie geek and have been my whole life, i was born in 1977. I watch dawn of the dead more often then any other movie, i watch it a couple times per month and have been doing it for 35 plus years so it's way cool to get new info. This was a fun commentary, that part about savini and tasso not sure how to spell his name staying in the cabins for friday the 13th with only 2 films to watch was great. Thanks for all the cool romero knowledge and fun entertainment you provide. Your channel is a must for all us romero acolytes, just wanted you to know your hard work is appreciated.

[@alpharomero88]

Thanks a lot man! I'm happy I can share these lost Romero treasures with other fellow fans. I really appreciate the support!

[@jasonlarson9272]

@@alpharomero88 no no thank you man. This is the best part of internet. I live in a tiny town in idaho so i never really had access to some of the cool stuff folks in bigger cities do. But anyone with a phone can enjoy your sweet channel. I love all this cool stuff you have on here.

[@stuntmanmike37]

Lol. Christian has no friggin' idea what he's talking about half the time!

[@mikecoulter9427]

He's a George Romero film historian, yes he knows

[@stuntmanmike37]

@@mikecoulter9427 Yeah, except for all the mistakes he makes while describing the movie. He talks like he was actually there, despite being 6 years old when it was made.

[@Kingofallfunnelheads]

Bahw!!!

[@Stereostupid]

Great movie and thanks !!why would they commentary watching the cut version?lol still awesome 👌

[@alpharomero88]

This commentary was recorded for the UK DVD in 1999. So they were watching the UK version of Dawn.