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The original blob is an interesting film to dissect. On the one hand, it’s a classic. On the other, it’s not any good.

The lead character, Steve Andrews, is played by Steve McQueen. It’s safe to say that he does “okay,” but it’s clear that he’s only going through the proverbial motions, just as many of today’s big name actors do when they’re cast in a big budget picture, with a questionable script but a large paycheck to make up for it.

And man, is this script questionable.

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Here’s a film which truly got lost in the shuffle of horror movies past. Some may contend that it didn’t, actually—what, with a remake of the classic picture having just come out in 2005. But trust me, it has, and I’ll tell you why.

First, it’s kind of a poorly put together picture. There are several different storylines, none of which we care about. When I try to remember “what happens” in this film, for the benefit of telling people who haven’t seen it, I can hardly remember anything about Jamie Lee Curtis’ character, who is purportedly the lead. And I can just barely remember the storyline of the priest and his turn-of-the-century pirate booty.

But do you know what I can remember? I can remember the excellent, masterful, intriguing, wonderful storyline of Stevie Wayne, the seductive and solitary female disc jockey who stays up to all hours of the night while all this weird shit happens in her town.

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Though Night of the Living Dead came first, Dawn of the Dead is the movie that forever established exactly what a zombie movie needed to be. Even now, thirty years later, it is the standard by which all other “the dead have risen and are munching my flesh” movies are judged. From start to finish, Dawn of the Dead is two hours of non-stop decaying society, armed resistance and balls-to-the-wall undead awesome.

In every way, it’s an over the top comic book of a movie, but that helps rather than hinders it.

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