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One of the test screener asked if the zombies could even hesitate and the Director replied with "In real life? No. But in film, We Dramatize." So The reason the zombies hesitate is likely just to give the main characters a chance to escape.

In terms of the film it could be implied that the zombies were starting to gain intelligence (as happened in the Romero Living Dead films) and recognised the guns as a threat.

About a month. This is revealed in Andy's diary, the extra on the DVD. He started filming May 7, discovered the survivors May 9, and attempted to break out June 9

No. Dawn of the Dead (2004) does not follow the continuity of the original Night of the Living Dead, as it is it's own story in it's own separate universe.

The answer is no to both. Technically, the first fast-moving zombie movie was 1985's The Return of the Living Dead.

The short answer is... yes. While the news reports were filmed specifically for the movie, a lot of images and videos of violence and chaos (that DOESN'T feature zombies) was real archival footage that was spliced into the movie's opening credits sequence.

The general census from zombie films is that the zombies are dead. They have no need to actually feed. However, their brains reanimate just enough to activate the most primitive and aggressive instincts, including to attack and to feed. It's likely that as their flesh rots, they eventually reach the level of decay where the brain simply cannot function and therefore the zombie will die. As we never see any zombies that are total skeletons.

When her neighbors, as well as her husband, are turned into murderous zombies, Milwaukee (Wisconsin) nurse Ana (Sarah Polley) takes refuge in a shopping mall where she and several other survivors, including policeman Kenneth (Ving Rhames), TV salesman Michael (Jake Weber), Andre (Mekhi Phifer) and his pregnant wife Luda (Inna Korobkina), mall security guards C.J. (Michael Kelly), Bart (Michael Barry), and Terry (Kevin Zegers), as well as a number of other survivors who make it to the mall, join together to fight off the zombies trying to get to them.

Dawn of the Dead is a remake of the 1978 film Dawn of the Dead (1978), which was written and directed by American-Canadian filmmaker George A. Romero. Romero's screenplay was rewritten by American filmmaker James Gunn.

Simple. He was never bitten. The wound he sustained on his arm was from cutting it on a lighting fixture on the fountain while wrestling with a zombie. This confusion could stem from the difference between the writer of the screenplay, James Gunn, and whoever decided to suggest a reason for the zombies on the DVD case cover. Because the cover claims that it is a virus, some viewers were confused as to why an open wound did not expose Kenneth to the virus when grappling with the wounded zombie or why the water did not allow the virus to carry from the open wounds of the zombie and through Kenneth's open wound into his system. However, Gunn has denied the virus theory and has said that, when he wrote the screenplay, he envisioned it to be just the same as a vampire bite...more supernatural or inexplicable in nature. "Virus" is just a general term for something that can be transmitted into the body and do harm. In John Carpenter's Vampires (1998), Montoya (Daniel Baldwin) says, "Doesn't matter what you call it...virus, kool-aid, whatever. It does the same thing...turns you into a vampire." So it could be considered a "supernatural virus" but the DVD cover just said "virus" so readers wouldn't associate it with ghosts, which is common with the term "supernatural".

It is implied that Monica (Kim Poirier) was indeed a stripper and that she was also sleeping with Steve (Ty Burrell). Whether they were already seeing each other before the outbreak or they hooked up in the mall is left to the viewer to decide.

No, although his name is metioned in the credits as having helped with the screenplay, they are merely referring to him as the writer of the screenplay for the original Dawn of the Dead (1978). He did in fact watch the film after he was done filming Land of the Dead (2005). George A Romero's comment on the remake:

It was better than I expected. ... The first 15, 20 minutes were terrific, but it sort of lost its reason for being. It was more of a video game. I'm not terrified of things running at me; it's like Space Invaders. There was nothing going on underneath.

He further criticises the running zombies in his next Dead film Diary of the Dead (2007) when character Jason claims that dead things don't run.

Although Universal has not made an official announcement, the studio has asked Zack Snyder to direct a sequel to his film. Snyder announced that he has agreed to do it, but given that as of 2024, it still hasn't happened, a sequel seems unlikely.

The song is "It's a Wonderful Life" by Sparklehorse.

The remake of the cult horror film Dawn of the Dead was released on DVD in a longer version. This version shows, additionally to new plot-scenes, also several violence-scenes, which had to be cut for the theatrical release in the USA.

There's a scene early into the movie where a topless woman was censored. While, e.g. in the German version of the Director's Cut you can see her naked breasts, the US version offers an additional pool of blood to cover her up.