#DAWN OF WAR LIVING SAINT SERIES#

Principal photography on Dawn of the Dead took place between November 1977 and February 1978 on location in Monroeville and Pittsburgh the special make-up effects were created by Tom Savini, whose work on the film led to an extensive career creating similar effects for other horror films. The project came to the attention of Italian filmmaker Dario Argento who, along with his brother Claudio and producer Alfredo Cuomo, agreed to co-finance the film in exchange for its international distribution rights Argento also consulted with Romero during the scriptwriting phase.

Upon visiting Monroeville Mall in Monroeville, Pennsylvania with a friend whose company managed the complex, he decided to use the location as the basis for the film's story. Romero deliberately held off making a sequel to Night of the Living Dead for several years to avoid being stereotyped as a horror director. David Emge, Ken Foree, Scott Reiniger, and Gaylen Ross star as survivors of the outbreak who barricade themselves inside a suburban shopping mall amid mass hysteria. In the film, a phenomenon of unidentified origin has caused the reanimation of the dead, who prey on human flesh.

#DAWN OF WAR LIVING SAINT SERIES#

An American-Italian international co-production, it is the second film in Romero's series of zombie films, and though it contains no characters or settings from the preceding film Night of the Living Dead (1968), it shows the larger-scale effects of a zombie apocalypse on society. Dawn of the Dead is a 1978 zombie horror film written, directed, and edited by George A.

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