Dawn Of The Dead 2004 - Image 1 Analysis

Horror movies predominantly encapsulate elements that scare us in current time. Dawn of the Dead (1979) was historically contextual that focused primarily on consumerism: the rise of shopping malls – Americans being obsessed with money – which was illustrated when Peter and Roger are taking the money from all the tills. It’s extremely bizarre that they’re still fanatical over money even when the world is overrun by zombies and their lives are at risk. Focusing on Dawn of the Dead (2004), the starting credits include a diverse amount of imagery and video-footage referring to terrorism and Muslims. In terms of the Americans they was still in shock and terror over the 09/11 attack that happened in 2001 – three years prior to the release of this remake, which would have extremely terrify the Americas; leave them paranoid of it happening again – this corresponds to Janet Staiger’s theory regarding audiences: to fully understand a film you need to understand the audience.

The starting credits display terrifying imagery in conjunction with “The Man Comes Around” song which is about ‘Judgement Day’, linking to the Old Testament 'Revelations” section about Biblical Armageddon. Subsequently, this links to the quote “when there’s no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth” so the film plays on religious implications that results in the paranoia that the Islamic terrorists will attack again.

Horror movies predominantly encapsulate elements that scare us in current time. Dawn of the Dead (1979) was historically contextual that focused primarily on consumerism: the rise of shopping malls – Americans being obsessed with money – which was illustrated when Peter and Roger are taking the money from all the tills. It’s extremely bizarre that they’re still fanatical over money even when the world is overrun by zombies and their lives are at risk.

Focusing on Dawn of the Dead (2004), the starting credits include a diverse amount of imagery and video-footage referring to terrorism and Muslims. In terms of the Americans they was still in shock and terror over the 09/11 attack that happened in 2001 – three years prior to the release of this remake, which would have extremely terrify the Americas; leave them paranoid of it happening again – this corresponds to Janet Staiger’s theory regarding audiences: to fully understand a film you need to understand the audience.