History YMMV / DawnOfTheDead1978

** Also, Francine can be seen drinking and smoking numerous times after the reveal that she's pregnant, well after the harmful effects of doing so became widely known. but simply weren't taken serious yet. This is further contrasted with how protective she is to her own pregnancy, yet appears so cavalier about it in the same time.

** Also, Francine can be seen drinking and smoking numerous times after the reveal that she's pregnant, well after the harmful effects of doing so became widely known. This is further contrasted with how protective she is to her own pregnancy, yet appears so cavalier about it in the same time.

** Also, Francine can be seen drinking and smoking numerous times after the reveal that she's pregnant, well before the harmful effects of doing so were widely known.

** For that matter, the way Roger and Peter suddenly have VERY pale skin upon reanimation.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: While the film's overall message of rampant materialism is as relevant as ever, using a shopping mall as the ur-example of everything wrong with consumer culture doesn't really work anymore. After all, the kind of suburban malls featured in the film have been slowly dying out for decades, thanks to the rise of online shopping, the vanishing middle class, and multiple recessions. The "mall drone" culture that the film so heavily criticizes doesn't really exist any more. If the movie took place today, the survivors would have found the mall nearly ''empty,'' because it's just not a central part of people's lives as it was in the late '70s/ early '80s.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: While the film's overall message of rampant materialism is as relevant as ever, using a shopping mall as the ur-example of everything wrong with consumer culture doesn't really work anymore. After all, the kind of suburban malls featured in the film have been slowly dying out for decades, thanks to the rise of online shopping, the vanishing middle class, and multiple recessions. The "mall drone" culture that the film so heavily criticizes doesn't really exist any more. If the movie took place today, the survivors would have found the mall nearly ''empty,'' because it's just not a central part of people's lives as it was in the '70s.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: While the film's overall message of rampant materialism is as relevant as ever, using a shopping mall as the ur-example of everything wrong with consumer culture doesn't really work anymore. After all, the kind of suburban malls featured in the film have been slowly dying out for decades, thanks to the rise of Amazon and online shopping. The "mall drone" culture that the film so heavily criticizes doesn't really exist any more. If the movie took place today, the survivors would have found the mall nearly ''empty,'' because it's just not a central part of people's lives as it was in the '70s.

* UnententionalPeriodPiece: While the film's overall message of rampant materialism is as relevant as ever, using a shopping mall as the ur-example of everything wrong with consumer culture doesn't really work anymore. After all, the kind of suburban malls featured in the film have been slowly dying out for decades, thanks to the rise of Amazon and online shopping. The "mall drone" culture that the film so heavily criticizes doesn't really exist any more. If the movie took place today, the survivors would have found the mall nearly ''empty,'' because it's just not a central part of people's lives as it was in the '70s.

* NauseaFuel: Both versions have this potential.

** The zombie that gets the top of its head chopped off by helicopter blades is a double whammy. Not only are the two inches added to the top of its head''real'' obvious, you can see the blood tubing coming out of his pant leg when he falls off the boxes.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: When Peter and Fran fly the chopper to escape, the zombies still stay on the roof even though they just lost their prey. Were they just shambling about or in a rare case of Romero-Style ItCanThink, were they seeing the two off and saying goodbye in their own way?

* HarsherInHindsight: The film first premiered in Italy just three and a half weeks after [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOVE_(Philadelphia_organization) MOVE,]] an [[LuddWasRight anarcho-primitivist]] [[MalcolmXerox black liberation]] group based out of UsefulNotes/{{Philadelphia}}, got into a violent confrontation with the police that ended with one officer dead and sixteen officers and firefighters wounded, giving a dark subtext to the opening scenes in Philadelphia of [[RabidCop racist, trigger-happy cops]] storming a housing complex whose Black and Puerto Rican residents won't [[StakingTheLovedOne turn over their infected loved ones]]. Seven years later, that subtext got even darker after the Philadelphia police pulled what can only be described as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_MOVE_bombing an urban version of the Waco siege]] against MOVE's headquarters, killing eleven people and burning down the whole street and part of the next one over.

* HarsherInHindsight: The film first premiered in Italy just three and a half weeks after [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOVE_(Philadelphia_organization) MOVE,]] an [[LuddWasRight anarcho-primitivist]] [[MalcolmXerox black liberation]] group based out of UsefulNotes/{{Philadelphia}}, got into a violent confrontation with the police that ended with one officer dead and sixteen officers and firefighters wounded, giving a dark subtext to the opening scenes in Philadelphia of [[RabidCop racist, trigger-happy cops]] storming a housing complex whose black and Puerto Rican residents won't [[StakingTheLovedOne turn over their infected loved ones]]. Seven years later, that subtext got even darker after the Philadelphia police pulled what can only be described as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_MOVE_bombing an urban version of the Waco siege]] against MOVE's headquarters, killing eleven people and burning down the whole street and part of the next one over.

* HarsherInHindsight: The film premiered just weeks after [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOVE_(Philadelphia_organization) MOVE,]] an [[LuddWasRight anarcho-primitivist]] [[MalcolmXerox black liberation]] group based out of UsefulNotes/{{Philadelphia}}, got into a violent confrontation with the police that ended with one officer dead and sixteen officers and firefighters wounded, giving a dark subtext to the film's opening scenes in Philadelphia of [[RabidCop racist, trigger-happy cops]] storming a housing complex whose black and Puerto Rican residents won't [[StakingTheLovedOne turn over their infected loved ones]]. Seven years later, that subtext got even darker after the Philadelphia police pulled what can only be described as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_MOVE_bombing an urban version of the Waco siege]] against MOVE's headquarters, killing eleven people and burning down the whole street and part of the next one over.

** The zombie that gets the top of its head chopped off by helicopter blades; the two inches added to the top of its head are ''real'' obvious...

** For that matter, the organs of the bikers when the zombies eviscerate them look more like rubbery clay. Ironically, they were made with [[RealityIsUnrealistic actual pig intestines]], but one of the extras (Taso Stavrakis, the mustachioed biker) had it thoroughly washed so it would be bearable when pressed against his stomach for the effect.

** For that matter, the organs of the bikers when the zombies eviscerate them look more like rubbery clay. Ironically, they were made with [[RealityIsUnrealistic actual cow intestines]], but one of the extras had it thoroughly washed so it would be bearable when pressed against his stomach for the effect.