I first saw DawnOTD when I was around 11 or 12 years old, on a rented VHS tape in the middle of the day. There were about seven of us in a lad's house down the road, who was 'rich' enough to own a video (Ferguson Videostar) at the time. No sooner had the film ended than we ran around the streets pretending we were armed to the teeth and surrounded by zombies. That memory has never left me, and my love for being terrified was further compounded by watching a pirate copy of Alien soon after that..
...roll on claustraphobia and a fear of crowds
Even watching Dawn today, you get a sense of just how advanced American society was in comparison to the rest of us, I mean shopping malls in the 70's when we only saw them here in the last 10 odd years? You can see why George Romero felt so vigilant about retaining his own sense of identity while the rest of us became mindless consumers (zombies).
