Anno di produzione: 1978

USA

Stato del film: Catalogo
Genere: HORROR

Sinopsi:
Un'invasione di zombi sta dilagando a dismisura, e nessuno sembra essere in grado di arrestare il contagio. Quattro superstiti si rifugiano in un centro commerciale, ma dovranno vedersela con un'orda di morti viventi affamati e con una band di teppisti…

Paese d'origine: Italy USA
Location del set: Monroeville Mall, Monroeville, Pennsylvania, USA Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Versioni alternative: - Italian version (121 min., editing supervised by Dario Argento) and US-version (126 min., editing supervised by George Romero) have a different soundtrack and a different overall tone: Romero's version has some humour in it and is more horror-oriented, Argento deleted all funny scenes and made the film more action-oriented. - There is a 137 min. version which was originally available only on 16mm film. and has later been released on Laser-disc (which actually quotes it as 142 minutes). The disc also includes the original cinema trailer. - A two videotape set is also available in the USA. It includes the full director's cut and, on the second tape, most of the promotional trailers for every country where the movie was released. - Old (banned) German version ("Zombie") is 102 minutes long, has most of the violence in, but a lot of dialogue cut. - The new German version ("Zombie - Das Original") 110 (video pal) minutes long, missing nearly all of the violence. - An "uncut" german version (117 min.) has been re-released as rental video. - British version is 120 minutes long and is Romero's US-cut, and misses most of the violence (despite an "18" cert.) because of censorship cuts. - A director's cut of Dawn of the Dead has now been released on video in the UK with a running time of 137 minutes. There is considerably more gore than the version previously available of video in the UK as well as the addition of several minor sequences that were previously not included. The UK-version of the Directors Cut is cut in three places: in the beginning where Wooley shoots a Project 107-resident so the head explodes; the scene where the woman gets the skin of her arm bitten off by her dead husband; and finally the scene where Peter shoots the "zombie"-children is a few seconds shorter than the Us-Directors cut. - The remastered 137-minute "Director's Cut" released recently by Elite on laserdisc, and other companies on VHS, is actually not Romero's preferred version. This "Director's cut" is instead the version rushed into shape for a showing at Cannes. The shorter version shown theatrically has tighter editing and almost all Goblin's music. So technically, the theatrical version is the "Final Director's Cut" and the Cannes version is a "1st director's cut". - A heavily edited "R-rated" version of "Dawn of the Dead" (with more than 50 cuts) was released in 1982 to be put in a drive-in double-bill with George Romero's Creepshow (1982). After widespread protests by fans, United Film Distribution (the original distributors of Dawn of the Dead) publically surrendered the MPAA-sanctioned rating and vowed only to release "Dawn of the Dead" in it's unedited, unrated state. - The Japanese Theatrical Version was a censored version of Dario Argento's cut. The Argento version in its original form couldn't pass the strict Japanese censor board. What does make this version interestingis how the censors dealt with the film's graphic content When the moment a gore scene occurred, the film stopped on the frame prior the violence and froze, with the sound playing through. Then, a second or two later, when the 'offending' moment had passed, the film jumped back into motion. - What sets the Japanese Theatrical Version apart from all the other versions is the inclusion in the beginning of an explanation. Herald Films, the Japanese distributor of DOTD, felt that the Japanese audience would not be able to accept the ambiguous setting of zombies on Earth that Romero had so skillfully left unanswered. Instead, they felt the Japanese audience must have an answer or else they wouldn't be able to get the story. They accomplished this by sticking some white words on to a black background that typed across the screen while a heavy clicking came from the soundtrack. - The BBC showed the Director's Cut of Dawn of the Dead on UK television recently, but even though most of the violence was cut out, there was one scene that was shown on TV, that doesn't appear on the UK DVD. The BBC version had a scene, where a man with a spiked ball and chain, hits a zombie's head so hard that his head comes off. In the UK DVD version (about 2Hrs and 46 seconds into the movie), you see the man hit the zombie but you don't see the zombie's head come off. - An 'ultimate final cut' has been released in Germany. It features all known scenes from the director's cut and the cuts of Romero and Argento. It runs 156 minutes.
Genere: Horror
Lingue: English
Plot: Sequel to "Night Of The Living Dead". It's a couple of days after the dead have started to rise and attack the shocked living and civilisation has started to crumble. In the city of Pittsburgh, USA, TV station workers Stephen and Francine decide to run as the situation worsens and, after meeting Roger and Peter (two special policemen ordered to move any people into rescue stations) who have also choose to run, steal the station's helicopter, and fly away in an attempt to find a safe place. After several attempts they find a deserted mega-mall and decide to wait there until the crisis is over. They clear the mall of the undead and board the entrances up with lorries and then sit down and wait. Can they hold out, not only against the growing, moaning, and hungry masses of the undead outside, against murderous looters, but most importantly of all, can they hold out and not lose their sanity??... This sequel to Night of the Living Dead is filled with splattered blood and brains in living color. The dead have come back to life to eat the living. This is the story of four people's escape from an urban nightmare to a suburban one. They barricade themselves in a shopping mall and try to start new lives. Much of this movie was filmed outside Pittsburgh. In this first sequel to Night of the Living Dead, a group of four people take up residence in a deserted mall while trying to stay alive amidst the armies of the dead and a vicious gang of militant bikers.
Visti censura internazionale: Denmark:16 Finland:K-18 France:-16 UK:18 Italy:VM14 Norway:(Banned) Germany:(Banned) USA:Unrated Germany:18 Netherlands:16 Australia:R
Date di uscita internazionali: Dati tecnici: Suono: Durata: Movielink - film simili: la città verrà distrutta all'alba zombi 2 assalto dallo spazio the earth dies screaming la notte dei morti viventi
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