The Scariest Scene in Dawn of the Dead Doesn’t Have a Single Zombie

[@PeeWeeHermitGames]

Dude, that background music is WAY too loud and distracting.

[@steph3172]

Ikr it feels like him talking is the movie itself 😭

[@diegojames8678]

A men

[@Beatnu3000]

I can’t help but think of that Family Guy cutaway gag “Distracting Trumpet” lol

[@ryanxy30]

I really wish there were more zombie movies that focused on the beginning of the event and the collapse of society. I find the idea of that chaos more terrifying and fascinating then survivors living in the aftermath.

[@ssbib]

100% agree.

[@ethanphilpot7643]

You're gonna love I am A Hero then. It's a manga that has some of the all time best build up and initial apocalypse chaos in any zombie story

[@MFCMUFC]

Same

[@starpaladinnelaj]

Absolutely. That's what I've been saying for years now. Really wish more zombie movies did it

[@MrPaulcoster94]

Absolutely agree I alWays think that

[@esperthebard]

Man that background music is way too loud.

[@elmud]

And that's one of the reasons why George Romero was a genius.

[@livingbeing1113]

Agreed. The opening sequence in the news studio is incredible. Sets the tone instantly and perfectly, you can feel all the chaos, dread and tension roaming around, with all these people unequipped to handle what's happening around them. You can feel the end of days. The zombies are quickly taking over and these people don't know what places, cities and such may still be safe or are completely gone.

[@gterrymed]

"3 Weeks." Listen to Dr. Foster in the beginning . "You have not listened. . . For three weeks . . ." True on the scariest sequence

[@barryjohnson409]

We are living our version of Dawn of the Dead through Covid 19. Well, on a smaller scale, no reanimation involved.

[@datmeme4687]

@@barryjohnson409 Please

[@utoh2102]

@@barryjohnson409 we cant handle zombies

[@barryjohnson409]

@@utoh2102 - you are probably right. 😉

[@barryjohnson409]

@MrBenjy1991 - meanwhile the west coast is burning...it's sad. People are fleeing California for a number of reasons, some staying.. May the Lord keep them safe.

[@HappyHumanist369]

MUCH better intro to setup an apocalyptic story than the poppycock remake in 2004. All we got was a girl roller skating backwards and a truck crashing into a gas station.

[@viktorvaughndoomthevillain3747]

The scariest scene to me is when Stephen is in the boiler room.

[@damienthorsson1500]

Oh gosh, yes that toi

[@MLawrence-z9k]

Most definitely along with the monk zombie climbing up the stairs to get Francene

[@skottcoucill8343]

When this scene is happening, I've always liked to imagine what's going on just outside - literally, just outside the TV studio... How safe were they all inside there?

[@FerrariCarr]

The city was placed under Martial Law, so relatively safe…for the time being. That’s why so many people were leaving out of frustration and stress.

[@livingbeing1113]

Seeing what happened during the police raid and when they escaped, it seems that the city was still standing and the zombies were container in danger zones. So relatively safe if you were careful, but on the brink of an apocalypse. Everyone was ready to escape and leave, as we see in the creepy shot of a tall building with apartaments lights going off.

[@geoffshaw346]

Safe only until they left their work bubble and started to go home.

[@johnnymidnight2982]

@@livingbeing1113 Ya, a buddy of mine pointed that part out. Those lights going out were a really subtle but effective detail.

[@seanwebb605]

That was a private commercial TV station. Not the emergency broadcasting system. They actually have a scene where they fight about keeping keys up for evacuations centres. A man argues that they have to provide updates (even if they aren't current) to keep people watching. As if ratings were the priority. That's when our antagonist realizes there isn't any value in remaining at her post. A colleague tells her that they are nearly done anyway and that the emergency broadcasting system will be taking over the job.

[@jamesm3471]

Yes exactly, and it’s not supposed to be a Pittsburgh station, it’s supposed to be Philadelphia, home of an actual zombie apocalypse, and by that I mean fentanyl + tranq …

[@coreyk2079]

It's mentioned in the first few minutes of Dawn, in the TV studio, that it's been "3 weeks" since the beginning of the zombie apocalypse. ✌️

[@charlesjohnson7634]

The first 5 min. of DOTD was powerful.

[@bamboozler3302]

Only too be sadly ruined in the Argento cut

[@uomodonore245]

Facts vs feelings and media more concerned with ratings than informing people. A perfect reflection of what’s happening right now in 2019.

[@stlouisrocker100]

2020: Hold my beer

[@The80sWolf_]

When will both sjw left liberals and neoliberal cons etc cheer on a war on China/Iran/North Korea?

[@brians1793]

@@stlouisrocker100 9 days into 2021 and it's clearly only going to get worse. IDK why people don't tune out of the mainstream media and realize for the most part KZbin isn't much better aside from small channels that aren't being controlled by shills, basically making it mainstream media.

[@ashyslashy5349]

Damn 2021

[@cornball0072]

@@The80sWolf_ Liberals and Liberalism are Right-Wing not left, you ironically gave that fact away by calling conservatives “neo-liberals”. What do you think neo means.

[@davidhammond3033]

The escalating tension and panic in the early scenes make for uneasy viewing, and that's before you see any of the undead. A world so arrogant and confident of its own abilities, slowly descending into chaos and confusion.....uncomfortable parallels with 2020 are evident. Dawn of the Dead remains a powerful and unnerving film.

[@ebwarwick6061]

Consequence of the sound in this video is me turning it off. I could barely hear the narration.

[@ErikWithakay]

Was about to comment the same thing. I got about a minute and a half in and had to turn it off. It's too loud

[@NagasakiBladers]

@@ErikWithakay Same, I thought I had accidentally put on a penderecki video really loudly at the same time, odd choice.

[@chetzar]

@@ErikWithakay Me too

[@doloresesparza6474]

I thought it was just me !!

[@shaolinwisdom]

Well when I was shown this movie originally it was actually the opening that set me so on edge that selling the old special effects with blue-tinged zombies and bright red paint for blood was easy because it was that opening that made me unable to sleep.

[@lectornox]

I think it's a beautiful mistake that the zombies turned out blue everybody's like blue dead bodies when it makes sense that they would be blue people who suffocate turn blue!

[@habadasheryjones]

This scene is alot like my favorite scene in Day of the Dead where the crew is having a super intense argument at a meeting where the officer in charge almost has someone shot for leaving.

[@damienthorsson1500]

That guy was terrifying. Bub got revenge on him tho haha

[@LUCKO2022]

The movie DOES tell you how long between each movie RIGHT IN THE FIRST 5 minutes of the film. Dr Foster says "You have not listened, you have not listened to the situation for 3 weeks, what does it take? What does it take to make people see?"

[@thegingerbreadman5149]

He has not listened.

[@The_OneManCrowd]

This isn't the Republicans versus the Democrats, where we're in a hole economically or... or we're in another war. This is more crucial than that. This is down to the line, folks, this is down to the line. There can be no more divisions among the living!

[@paulbirkbeck1790]

@@The_OneManCrowd maybe its the brains that are dead and the idiots that are still alive and im going to show you how to stay alive dummies

[@ANProductionsOfficialChannel]

night and dawn are two completely differemt films. they are not connected in any way pther than zombies. there is no continuity.

[@LUCKO2022]

@@ANProductionsOfficialChannel YES they are connected. Dawn is the sequel to Night. It's even in the trailers for the film since it came out. Romero himself said it was a sequel in many interviews. Just like Day of the Dead is a sequel to Dawn of the Dead. Each one tackles different eras as they are loosely connected but they ARE connected.

[@Jeff_11B]

Dawn was the best zombie movie ever made

[@Robhamilton197357]

Watched it under-age after a friend hired it for me. That was over 30 years ago. Been hooked on zombies ever since.

[@nehukybis]

The string chord in the background is so annoying that it makes the video essentially unwatchable, at least with the sound on.

[@davidhammond3033]

Very true. I know it's to crank up the tension, but it's just too loud and distracting.

[@moonbeamscream]

@@davidhammond3033 yeah they did not need to have that going the entire damn time lmao. Ruined the effect completely

[@romanverdugo7468]

seriously

[@nickyjames1985]

I don't know i kinda liked It, it was un nerving and added to the desperation and dread

[@JuanRodriguez-fj1nk]

One of the most deeply disturbing films I've ever watched. Saw it in 1982 at a small movie theater in Queens as half of a double-feature with "An American Werewolf in London." I was 12 years old. Never been the same since.😀

[@lajuaniarice2105]

I saw it back then too and I feel the Same Exact way!! lolol Messed me up Bad!! 😮

[@wvmountaineer69]

This movie was even better than the original in my opinion and the original is a masterpiece!

[@marcelomotta8302]

That's why The Last of Us (series) opening sequence was so brilliant. There were no monsters, but the notion that the scenario the scientist described was a possibility and that in that scenario "we'd lose", it made the opening way more chilling.

[@martinrabellrodriguez4551]

Really great analysis of the situation please make more of these videos.. Thank You..

[@whtxombi4955]

I agree 100%! The first segment is the best IMO. I think you overdid it on the music through.

[@humbertojimmy]

It's scary how Romero goes from "fiction panic" to "reality panic" with his precog-analogy of a plane crash destroying a piece of Manhattan.

[@nickyjames1985]

The psychological horror in this movie far outweighs the obvious gore

[@jasonwindebank5455]

I first watched this in video when i was a boy back in 1980 and sat there with my parents absolutely terrified i was sent to bed and lay there listening to the action under the sheets its one of my favourite films now

[@justadood3679]

if night is directly followed by Dawn then Dr. Foster said in the beginning of the film that it had been about a month since the whole thing began. truly horrifying to see how quickly it took society down

[@LUCKO2022]

No he says it's been 3 weeks. There are 4 weeks in a month. Night began 3 days after the dead started to rise, you hear it on the radio when Ben finds the rifle in the house.

[@harborjsg]

This movie came out two years before I was born and I first saw it sometime in the late eighties as a young kid and it shook my world. I was already into horror movies such as nightmare on elm street and Halloween etc...but this one really got my attention. It seemed like the movie was portraying something that could actually happen. If you're not my age or older you probably won't appreciate this movie as younger folks are so desensitized by what is now shown on TV and movies. But there was a time of real innocence and people were not used to such a gory, action packed and foul language film. But it was awesome. And like so many others like me, I'm proud to have been a zombie fan LONG before zombies were cool!

[@PeetiePeete]

The first scene of this video, in "Night of the Living Dead", where the cops shoot the guy who survived in the house, is the part of this entire franchise that stuck in my psyche the most.

[@acerimmer1023]

I totally agree....this scene sets the tone of the movie! In the same way that Frank Doubleday's character in 'Escape from New York'

[@barryjohnson409]

" A plane crash that took out a small piece of Manhattan " is that scary enough for you..? Almost prophecy like.... Wow!

[@edwickham3633]

Damn

[@spectreagent]

Having worked at a public TV station and public access as a PA, i’m a witness to what chaos can do to the people behind the scenes at such institutions. I was visiting a friend, still working at a NBC affiliate station, on January 6, when the capital insurrection occurred. And, it was pandemonium time.

[@JediRouge]

Me thinking about this clip is under six minutes. Halfway through I’m don’t stop talking Keep diving in and telling the story. This has always been my favorite zombie movie... well, this and the first Return of the Living Dead. Those two never gets old.

[@atheist4life305]

It was 3weeks after night of the living dead It said it on the uncut version

[@kawythowy867]

atheist 4life what was 3 weeks after the night of the living dead? I don’t understand.

[@tonyAJ420]

Yes there are. You clearly havent seen Diary or Survival they are in the same universe.

[@atheist4life305]

Yes 3 weeks after night

[@ScientistHL]

@Santa's Got An Axe They're all connected. They're all set in the same universe, each movie set a certain amount of time after the previous.

[@rifleshooterchannel208]

Kawy Thowy The events of Dawn of the Dead.

[@user-ig9vo1pq4d]

WHAT? YOU’LL HAVE TO SPEAK UP! I CAN’T HEAR YOU! Did you just drop that audio track in and then post the video right away without watching it? How did you think it was okay to post this way. Take some freakin pride in your work, man.

[@Jacobtburger]

The scariest part of 2020 didn't involve a zombie.

[@jakealter5504]

2020 was more like the crazies

[@danielgrimes8312]

oh yes...this scene felt so real....

[@francisbottoni6470]

This commentary is spot on...would love to hear and see more!!

[@talesfromthetoiletseat8295]

That first few minutes is awesome. Vibes are dark, hopeless and chaotic. Romero is and will always be Awesome. I wish NOTLD had more of this type of thing but obvious budgets were not great. I enjoy the news in that one though. It’s great.

[@sdovas]

Very cogent summation. Credit ought to be going to Romero's editor, who so masterfully cut that opening sequence. What's his name again? Running footage reel-to reel on a moviola or a flatbed? Oh, that's right. The editor's name is ... George A. Romero.

[@jjc6evil]

In this movie it's stated that the "Zombie Apocalypse " has been going on or three weeks.

[@paulgreen6824]

This feel like watching the news Durning Coronavirus

[@mr.zondide2746]

More timely now than it was in 2018

[@SeverEnergia]

its all I think about when I watch the news now

[@tabeccaletford408]

This video scared me more than the actual film

[@mikecruz5246]

We"ve had old information on the air for the last twelve hours . Frightening .

[@brokebutfunctioninggarage]

very true... the panic that was showcased in these scenes gave the entire movie credit in my opinion. That being said in the zach snyder remake of dawn I think the same thing can be said when the group is in the mall watching the many news channels covering the "fall" of man... the size, the enormity of the situation is the scariest part of the situation...

[@TheDalinkwent]

Yea, I remember that one guy saying..."Ive been told, we are going off the air" that really stuck with me.

[@nickcruz6736]

@@TheDalinkwent and the scene after the broadcasts go out in the morning when the power comes on and the TVs are all static really made that line more powerful

[@generationwhyentertainment2455]

i like what you have to say but you gotta lower the volume of the ambient music it sounds like you're trying to yell over it and the music is winning

[@squiremuldoon5462]

Well this video, like this film itself, has aged like a fine wine.

[@Matthewsaurusrex]

This video would have been awesome but the horrid soundtrack made it almost unwatchable

[@Jacobtburger]

Agreed, but made it feel very eerie feeling.

[@MFCMUFC]

Agreed, way too loud

[@leonardosa_a]

The opening scene doesn't seem real, it is real. It represents perfectly the Brazil during COVID times

[@amazingkris]

Excellent commentary, but the music should be dimmed a little. What you said was indeed what made the movie scary for me, but I strained to hear it. EDIT: I'd really like for you to repost this video with fixes made to the audio.

[@steviesteele]

It's JOHNSTOWN (PA), not Jonestown (another placed filled with mindless cult-worshippers, it's true). And yes, Johnstown is still like that, 42 years later.

[@nickyjames1985]

Jonestown and the many serial killers that year actually stalled Dawns release in America in 1978 due to uprated censorship criterias

[@steviesteele]

@@nickyjames1985 That's really only part of the story and a little misleading, and nothing to do with this clip. The Jonestown massacre occurred in November 1978, this film was released in Italy under a different title and cut in September of 1978. It had been filmed November 1977 through February 1978. Eventually the films was released in April 1979 "Unrated" because Romero did not want the X rating that MPAA wanted to give it. My point is that Jonestown (Guyana) is not the city referred to in the film itself by Stephen in the helicopter when he says, "We're still pretty close to Johnstown." He is referring to Johnstown Pennsylvania, a small city in Cambria county, Western PA, maybe 90 minutes outside of Pittsburgh, where the helicopter seems to be flying to, and they end up at the Monroeville Mall in a suburban area of Pittsburgh. As they pass "pretty close to Johnstown," Fran looks down and sees the "rednecks" who are "probably loving this whole thing," and these shots were indeed taken in neighboring communities in rural Western Pennsylvania. The Jonestown massacre I believe had little to do with the rating of this film, and I'm not sure there were "many serial killers" in 1978 as opposed to any previous year. Jonestown also was a massacre of a religious cult, not a serial killer. The notorious Son of Sam serial killings was between 1976 and 1977, Berkowitz was arrested in 1977 and confessed. So I'm not sure that had anything to do with holding up the release of the film directly either. Whether the MPAA standards had become more stringent was one of great contention between Romero and the MPAA board, and debatable when one considers other films of the era, and how arbitrary some of those decisions and ratings awarded really seemed to be. The main point was, as is, this film makes no reference to Jonestown or any other serial killer, unless you consider Wooley's rampage in the apartment complex toward the beginning of the film "serial killings."

[@ssbib]

I have always loved this scene in Dawn and I always appreciate other films giving us a look at how the wider world is coping with the rise of the undead when depicted in other films (see bonus footage on Dawn 2004 for example, not as good here but just as thrilling).

[@seanwebb605]

She wasn't woken in the studio. She was resting in the audio operator's room just off of the production control room.

[@aussieraver7182]

Why didn't you watch your own video before you uploaded it. I can't hear you clearly over the background music.

[@cascadianrangers728]

The soundtrack really adds a lot to do the films opening too

[@davidokinsky114]

I always thought the opening scene took place in Philadelphia, not Pittsburg.

[@tombisignani9271]

It is Philadelphia though filmed in Pittsburgh.

[@zackcantwell4167]

Yep

[@joemish4540]

I know this an older video,but in the Cannes cut you can hear the dialogue better and Dr. Foster says it's been three weeks, and people are not following the solutions set by the authorities

[@scaredholy]

Vincent Price in Last Man on Earth precedes Night of Living Dead.

[@christopherpurcell490]

Ok I appreciate this but can I request a reupload with the music turned down it makes it hard to hear the narration

[@tubbiele2]

"Appointed by his normalcy Usual Fan Of Romero's films"

[@Rob-dp3vr]

What's with the overly loud annoying music?

[@sdovas]

Very cogent insights, but for a channel with "sound" in its name, ypur mix is for shit. The music's volume almost makes the narration unintelligible. Shame.

[@PinkManGuy]

This was an AWESOME video. The only criticism I have is the background noise is too loud. It's really annoying. I still liked the video so liked and subscribed!

[@kumada84]

The disturbing part of this section of the movie is the fact that the program director is more concerned about ratings (literally) than the fact that he's sending people to their deaths by showing outdated information on the screen. Just another sociopath in charge.

[@primepm8861]

I want a horror movie with this background music playing.

[@timthatshim8037]

Would be a perfect video with the background music wasn't so much louder than the voice track

[@bart0642]

Youre not running a talk show mister Berman You can forget pitching an audience the moral bullshit they want to hear

[@arielmalsireal5453]

Insane, Madness, Chaos Moment

[@nickcruz6736]

What was the soundtrack you used in this? I liked it. Gave me the same vibe as the OST in the newsroom scene

[@FuriousPsyOp]

Wow, you did not include Dr. Millard Rausch?????????????? amazing.

[@Howyaduing]

This is pretty much what’s going on right now in news rooms today with Covid-19. 2020

[@charlesjohnson7634]

Exactly like that.

[@kaylabrownell1268]

This deserves more views.

[@michaelertley9203]

When society finally takes its last breath then the world truly belongs to the dead

[@Moondancemilly]

@consequence of sound Can you PLEASE reupload this video without that annoying background noise overpowering your vocals?

[@xplosivesmoke490]

Yo that background sound needs to go. I stopped half way in because of the annoyingly constant sound.

[@zackcantwell4167]

It was a Philadelphia tv station

[@ZaGoudou]

God damn the background drone "music" rapes this video.

[@Mainframev1976]

Damn that background music. What did you say this whole time??????

[@OrbbKlesk]

WHAT! What scene could he possibly be referring to? There's some seriously scary zombie moments! Like tall forehead zombie who gets swished in the propeller blade. Like it's so intense, claustrophobic almost how they can't scream to alert their friend. Luckily it solved itself nicely. Also Dalai Llama zombie is freaky! I mean... Hare Krishna.

[@satskywalker3470]

Dawn or Day: Which has the better opening scene? Tv studio or touching down in abandoned city full of zombies?

[@jennyrose9454]

The scariest thing was the ad for " vegan seafood"...😵

[@thecircleoft.e.d2121]

WHAT?! I CAN'T HEAR YOU! I SAID "I CAN'T HEAR WHAT YOU'RE SAYING!!!" THE MUSIC'S TOO LOUD! DID YOU EVEN SOUND BALANCE THIS?!

[@weylandyutanicorporate]

I would actually love to see Romero's original trilogy remade today with bigger budgets, but it would have to be the right writer/director team to treat the material with respect.

[@elmud]

There's no need for bigger budgets. See what happened with Zack Snyder's remake. Awful movie.

[@stlouisrocker100]

@@elmud Most audiences enjoyed it

[@elmud]

@@stlouisrocker100 As long as the audience like directors like Michael Bay, that's no wonder. Snyder's work is awful, it loses everything that was pivotal in the original: it's just about the shock and the action.

[@stlouisrocker100]

@@elmud Or maybe they just like a movie you don't.

[@elmud]

@@stlouisrocker100 That's the "surface" of the matter we're arguing about and it's about subjectivity. Objectively the remake is about the shock and the action and it doesn't have an ounce of the political and social satire the original has, which was "the thing" that made it special and outstanding. It surprises me you're still talking about personal preferences in a video that explains exactly what Snyder's remake is lacking. The first is a masterpiece the remake is just an horror flick.

[@blakeallen8224]

They do say this situation for 3 weeks

[@kev0lution]

that music, why so loud? Ruined the piece couldnt finish it

[@amazingkris]

The channel's name apparently wasn't just a clever choice, ha ha.

[@jamesm3471]

It’s not a Pittsburgh TV station, it’s Philadelphia. I still think this is some excellent commentary though

[@TheNotverysocial]

I can barely hear you with that loud score overpowering it.

[@antipsychotic451]

Great analysis, but you need to work on your audio mastering. The music is way too loud.

[@lonebeast5497]

The original dawn of the dead was so hard to find back the 1990s. I barely knew of its existence. I always thought it went night of the living dead to return of the living dead. The HBO remake of Night of the living dead was so much better too. Like thank you George A. Romero for the start but man the baton was passed and the others did laps with it. The plotical satire and commentary of Romero's films is what ruined them for me. I think if he did vampires it would be better. Like an Omega man narrative. But its always about learning to live with the zombies...they're not like a different ethnicity or culture. They're undying walking corpses that are cannibals. They eat people. You can't live with that, i'm sorry. Dysentary, smallpox, malaria, odd random infections would set in and the living would die just from the zombies being around. Then we get to the no sense of pain except a drive to rip and munch on people. Its death, just death with zombies. Zack Snyder did a thousand times better with the renake.

[@timp1051]

Johnstown not Jonestown

[@zyber8525]

Great analysis but that music is bloody annoying by the time you get half way through the video.

[@salvadorortega5249]

GREAT MOVIE DAWN OF THE DEAD 1978 GEORGE A, ROMERO'S I HAVE IT ON BLU,RAY DISC. AND DVD MASTER 4K

[@vazak11]

Brilliant insights!

[@JuanRodriguez-fj1nk]

At 2:45 Romero predicts 9/11

[@Victoria_Lundy_Theremin]

Your music is irritating, and actually takes away from the tension of these scenes.

[@silversaxxy4077]

i really wish i could hear this video

[@esarts6744]

Who here watching this in 2020 feeling this scene too real with the virus no end in site... unless it’s 2021 or 2022 with some good news Hi!😁

[@Robhamilton197357]

I wanted a zombie pandemic. Not covid. This virus is horseshit.

[@edrenp21]

And now WHO declares that COVID is no longer a national emergency