With a great balance of satire, action and horror, it transcends any minor flaws it may have, to more than justify its lofty status in the pantheon of genre movies. His work here maybe isn’t as refined as his later work, but this is purely due to the sheer volume of effects in the film.

At startup, each disc goes straight to a menu screen with full-motion clips, music playing in the background and the usual options along the bottom. From visionary filmmaker Zack Snyder (300, Army Of The Dead, Zack Snyder's Justice League), comes a nightmarish vision where society is endangered by a mysterious virus that turns people into mindless, flesh-eating zombies, and a handful of survivors must wage a desperate, last-stand battle to stay alive . Scream Factory previously released a Collector’s Edition Blu-ray featuring both the theatrical and unrated versions of the film (the latter of which was truly uncensored for the first time on home video in the US). Even Andre is played well, as a gang banger/thief who is willing to team up with the afore mentioned people and survive. Products labelled '*item fulfilled by Exertis on behalf of hmv' will be supplied to you directly by Exertis via their approved couriers.

The 4K Ultra HD limited edition box set comes with a treasure trove of goodies and a region-locked Blu-ray disc containing tons of new bonus content while each UHD disc features separate commentary tracks. Personally, I’ve always been more of a Night man, largely because it’s the one I saw first, a little too young, and it scared the crap out of me. The UHD and Blu-ray discs are housed inside a nice gatefold digipak with plastic trays and artwork inspired by the film. The colour of the blood is far from realistic, something Savini bemoans in an interview here (he said it looked good in reality but not on film) and Romero excuses, saying he wasn’t going for realism, but it fits the stylised mayhem on screen and may have been a little too sickening, had the blood and gore looked totally natural. Romero himself trimmed it down following its Cannes Festival premiere for its US theatrical release.

track is awful, mixed too tight, with dialogue almost muffled and artificial sounding surround ambience.

Secondary hues, likewise, are more full-bodied and varied, particularly the cheerful yellows, warm marigolds, rich oranges and the hearty tan browns. Next are 9 deleted, extended, and alternate scenes with optional commentary by Snyder and Newman; the theatrical trailer; and a S till G allery containing 96 on-set photos, behind-the-scenes photos, posters, lobby cards, and pages from the Japanese pressbook. In either case, fans can better make out the stitching and faded creases in the worn leather jackets of the bike gang, the texture of the fabric in the furniture is more perceptible, and Tom Savini's gory makeup work is gorier and bloodier.

Travis Crawford’s commentary discusses Romero’s career as a whole, covering the Dead films in great detail, as well as examining the differences between the various versions of Dawn. Once they convince suspicious security guards that they are not contaminated, the group bands together to fight the undead hordes. Fellow horror legend Dario Argento helped finance the film in exchange for international distribution rights, leading to his own alternate cut.Night may have sown the seeds of the zombie genre, but Dawn kicked the doors down and helped it become one of horror’s biggest subgenres (aside from the slasher perhaps) and a cultural phenomenon. Things don’t get much better there, as the security guards try to control the group, and it’s not until they overpower and take things over themselves that they have a semblance of freedom. As previously mentioned, the notion of fast-moving zombies has been more or less erased from the zombie lexicon, but there are certain visuals and sequences that hold up. Missing from Synapse’s original Special Edition DVD release of Document of the Dead is an audio commentary by Roy Frumkes on the original version, six minutes of deleted scenes, and unused interview segments from the 1989 version.

Dawn of the Dead on 4K UHD sits in a black amaray case alongside two 1080p Blu-rays containing both the theatrical and unrated versions. Colours are well realised and robust, but the lack of HDR means it loses the intensity and vibrancy of the other edits in the set, likewise the frame depth and sharpness suffer as the black level is nowhere near as strong. Especially when you consider the fact that this was Zack Snyder’s first feature film and he knocked it straight out of the park.

Instead, it dovetails with the wide colour presentation to
really emphasise Romero's diverse palette. It’s likely the definitive presentation of the unrated version of the film, but it’s a shame that the theatrical version wasn’t included in the same quality. When her young daughter is turned into a zombie and attacks her father, Ana just manages to escape, only to realize her entire Milwaukee neighborhood has been overrun by the walking dead.