Dawning of the Dead (originally titled Apocalypse) is a 2017 British zombie horror film directed by Tony Jopia.
Katya Nevin (Ruth Galliers) is an Intrepid Reporter working for a British news station who's always willing to risk her life for real hard-hitting stories. One day, one of her contacts, one Professor Greg Laborde (Ian Saynor) comes into the building demanding to see Katya.
While all this is happening, a virus is spreading across the world, and anyone who gets infected becomes undeathly white and gains a craving for human flesh. Soon enough, the whole world is swimming in zombies.
Now, Katya and her co-workers need to figure out how to survive against the zombie hordes while her boyfriend Alex Petit (Kristofer Dayne) and his brother Christian (Fabien Muller) try to find a way to get to her.
Dawning of the Dead contains examples of:
- Batter Up!: In one scene, a guy clocks a zombie in the head with a baseball bat.
- Bloody Handprint: A couple are in this movie. One is on a zombie's shoulder, and another is on a wall in the news building.
- Boom, Headshot!: In one scene, a zombie is shot in the head, causing it to burst into chunks.
- Bungled Suicide: When Katya sees she alerted a horde of zombies to her location, she puts the gun under her chin. Click!
- Character Tics: Katya tends to draw squares (which she only does twice in the movie). She says it helps regulate her breathing.
- Danger Takes A Back Seat: When Alex and Christian take the old store owner's car, while driving through the streets in it, they're jumped by a zombie in the back seat.
- Devoured by the Horde: The fate of a lot of characters in the movie, both background and main, like Christian and Lewis.
- Driven to Suicide: In the intro, one of the terrorists who releases the virus puts a gun under his chin and blows his brains out.
- Prof. Laborde shoots himself after showing off his bandaged arm.
- Eye Scream: On the roof, Katya stabs a zombie in the eye with a screwdriver, which kills it.
- Fainting: The male anchorman does this when he sees video footage of the zombie outbreaks in other major cities.
- Grievous Bottley Harm: In one scene, a guy breaks a bottle over a zombie's head.
- MacGyvering: When Alex and Christian end up trapped in a supply closet in the news building, they use a floor waxer, some wood, and nails to make a device that they use to mulch the zombies into mince meat.
- Off with His Head!: One zombie's head is knocked off with a fire extinguisher.
- Some zombies can be seen eating severed heads.
- Police Are Useless: In one scene, some police officers armed with machineguns try to help survivors evacuate by setting up a barrier and gunning down incoming zombies. They're overwhelmed by the undead as soon as one of them starts shooting.
- Title of the Dead: Dawning Of The Dead.
- Undeathly Pallor: The zombies tend to have pale white skin.
- The Virus: A millenia-old virus discovered frozen in Siberian permafrost that the government had Prof. Laborde work on to extend the lives of soldiers. It was stolen by terrorists and released in 40 heavily populated areas around the world.
- Your Head A-Splode: In one scene, a guy shoots a zombie in the head, causing it to burst into head chunks.
- Zombie Apocalypse: Naturally, caused by a virus.
