Dawn of the Dead

Edition and Packaging Notes

• Second Sight’s “Limited Edition” 4K and Blu-ray editions include a 160-page booklet (“Dawn of the Dead: Dissecting the Dead”) with writing by Chris Alexander (“‘Dawn of the Dead’: Over and Over”), Daniel Bird (“A Form of Punk: The Production and Distribution of ‘Dawn of the Dead’”), Jim Cirronella (“Needle-Drop Nightmares and Muzak of the Dead: Production Music Liner Notes”), Martyn Conterio (“Combat Shock: Reflections on Vietnam and the War Movie Genre in ‘Dawn of the Dead’”), Roberto Curti (“Io Zombo, Tu Zombi, Lei Zomba: Italian Variations on ‘Dawn of the Dead’”), Kat Ellinger (“Romero’s New American Gothic”), Alexandra Heller-Nicholas (“Lying Down Standing Up”), Lorna Jowett (“Things About Francine”), Manuela Lazic (“Dawn Man: Challenged Masculinity in ‘Dawn of the Dead’”), Craig Ian Mann (“Fingers to the Bone: Class Conflict in Zombie Cinema”), Neil Mitchell (“Attention All Shoppers: ‘Dawn of the Dead’ and the Monroeville Mall”), Tim Murray (“Dawn of the Nasties”), Justine Smith (“A Bleaker Ending”), Allison Taylor (“They’re Us, That’s All: The Undead and the Unliving in ‘Dawn of the Dead’”), Matthew Thrift (“Tales from the Darkside: An Interview with George A. Romero”), Jon Towlson (“Superschlock!”), Tony Williams (“A Real-Life Nightmare”) and Michal Zgorzalek (“George A Romero’s Dystopias: The Representation of Dystopia in the Universe of His Zombie Trilogy”); a 140-page movie novelization (“‘Dawn of the Dead’: The Novelisation”, 2012) by George A. Romero and Susanna Sparrow; and 3 soundtrack CDs. Reissued as standard editions without booklets and CDs (2021/03/22).
• Arrow’s Blu-ray includes a 16-page booklet, a double-sided foldout poster and four sleeve designs. Trailers included: Macabre (1980), The House by the Cemetery (1981) and Sleepless (2001).