Dawn Of The Dead Image Analysis

In this particular image we have a long shot that’s tilted up; this represents the zombies being weak and mindless as they look small from where the angle is being filmed. We also can see their arms are parted away and they’re walking very slowly, this shows they’re quite incoherent because they’re lost souls. Furthermore, behind the red clock it is very well lit to focus on the main subject matter (the clock), because the clock’s time is 4:35am showing its dawn and there is the living dead on the bottom floor (Dawn Of The Dead). The clock is also red to symbolize danger of the flesh eating slow monsters.

Altogether this film make look less scary to us now, as we see a lot worse on the news with people getting murdered, war and crime and there’s really no censorship, so we are getting tougher over the years, like Janet Staiger’s theory  about how audiences respond to films. When this was shown in 1978 the audience would have been shocked and terrified because of the zombie children getting shot (people killing in schools), the Vietnam War had just finished, and the body horror in the film, the director puts hidden messages in.