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Dawn of the Dead (1978) KILL COUNT

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Dawn of the Dead (1978) KILL COUNT is the two hundred and seventy-ninth video of The Kill Count.

Overview[]

The United States is devastated by a mysterious phenomenon that reanimates recently-dead human beings as flesh-eating zombies. Three weeks into the crisis, it has been reported that millions of people have died and reanimated; despite the government's best efforts, social order is collapsing. Rural communities and the National Guard have been effective in fighting the zombie hordes in open country, but urban centers are helplessly overrun.

At WGON TV, a television studio in Philadelphia, traffic reporter Stephen Andrews and his pregnant girlfriend, producer Fran Parker, are planning to steal the station's helicopter to escape the city. Across town, police SWAT officer Roger DeMarco and his team raid a low-income housing project, where the mostly black and Latino tenants are defying the martial law of delivering their dead to the National Guard. The raid quickly descends into chaos when armed residents engage in a shootout with the officers. Roger attempts to restrain Wooley, a brutal and racist trooper, after he maniacally kills several unarmed civilians; Wooley is shot dead by an officer from another unit, Peter Washington. As the SWAT team dispatch the reanimated dead that have injured or killed several tenants, Roger forms an alliance with Peter, suggesting that they desert and join up with Stephen, who is his friend. They are informed by an elderly priest about a group of zombies in the basement, which they assist in the grim job of eliminating.

Later that night, Roger and Peter rendezvous with Fran and Stephen at a police dock and then leave Philadelphia in the helicopter. Following some close calls while stopping for fuel, the group comes across a shopping mall, which they make as their sanctuary. They devise an operation to block the mall entrances with trucks to keep the undead from penetrating. Peter and Stephen also cover the access to the stairwell. During the operation, Roger has a near-death experience and becomes reckless as a result. He is soon bitten by the zombies.

After clearing the mall's interior of zombies, the four enjoy a hedonistic lifestyle with all the goods available to them, furnishing their makeshift apartment with the mall's many commodities. Roger eventually succumbs to his wounds and dies; he is shot by Peter upon reanimating. Sometime later, all emergency broadcast transmissions cease, suggesting that the government has collapsed and a large portion of the population has become zombies. Fran, now showing her pregnancy, presses to leave the mall. Supplies are loaded into the helicopter, and Stephen gives her flying lessons.

Having seen the helicopter, a nomadic biker gang arrive to conquer the mall, destroying the barriers and allowing hundreds of zombies back inside. The looting bikers enrage Stephen, and he triggers a gun battle with them. Stephen is shot before being bitten by the undead. As some of the bikers are eaten by zombies, the rest retreat with their stolen goods. Stephen, now reanimated, acts on a remnant of his memories and tears down the wall covering the stairwell and leads the undead to Fran and Peter. Peter kills Stephen while Francine escapes to the roof. Peter locks himself in a room and contemplates suicide, but when the zombies burst in, he has a change of heart and fights his way up to the roof, where he joins Francine. The two then fly away in the helicopter to an uncertain future, leaving the now-abandoned mall to be overrun by the zombie horde.

Deaths[]

Counted Deaths[]

  • Rod/Roy (?) Tucker - Shot in head - 6 mins in
  • Franelo - Shot by police - 7 mins in
  • Mueco - Shot by police - 7 mins in
  • Rico - Shot by police - 8 mins in
  • Martinez - Shot by police - 8 mins in
  • 2 Innocent Guys - Shot by Wooley - 8 mins in
  • Officer Wooley - Shot through the back - 8 mins in
  • 2 Zombies - Shot by cops - 10 mins in
  • Woman - Eaten by Miguel - 10 mins in
  • Zombie Miguel - Shot by cops - 10 mins in
  • Young Cop - Shot himself in head - 11 mins in
  • 12 Zombies - Shot by Peter and Roger - 15-16 mins in
  • Police Dock Radio Operator - Found dead by Stephen - 16 mins in
  • 12 Zombies - Shot or blown up by manly men - 20 mins in
  • Airfield Zombie - Struck in head w/ mallet - 23 mins in
  • Chopper Zombie - Top of head cut off by helicopter blades - 24 mins in
  • 2 Zombie Kids - Shot by Peter - 24 mins in
  • 2 Airfield Zombies (including Plaid Shirt Bald Zombie) - Shot by Roger - 24-25 mins in
  • 3 Mall Bodies - Seen dead in mall - 33-34 mins in (Bodies Seen)
  • 2 Mall Zombies - Shot by Peter and Roger - 35 mins in
  • Mall Zombie - Shot by Roger - 36 mins in
  • Boiler Room Zombie - Shot by Stephen - 42 mins in
  • 2 Mall Zombies - Shot by Peter and Roger - 43 mins in
  • JCPenney Zombie - Stabbed in head w/ screwdriver - 44 mins in
  • Hare Krishna Zombie - Head bashed w/ gun butt - 50 mins in
  • 2 Truckyard Zombies - Shot by Peter and Roger - 1 hr 3-4 mins in
  • 4 Zombies - Run over by Roger - 1 hr 5 mins in
  • 2 Zombies by Trucks - Shot by Roger - 1 hr 6 mins in
  • 9 Mall Zombies - Shot by Roger, Peter and Stephen - 1 hr 11-15 mins in
  • 18 Mall Zombies - Seen dead in mall - 1 hr 18 mins in (Bodies Seen)
  • 27 Mall Zombies - Seen dead in mall - 1 hr 22 mins in (Bodies Seen)
  • Roger DeMarco - Eventually died from a buncha zombie bites - 1 hr 29 mins in (Last Seen Alive)
  • Zombie Roger - Shot by Peter - 1 hr 31 mins in
  • 5 Zombies Outside Mall - Blown up or shot by Bikers - 1 hr 43-44 mins in
  • 5 Mall Zombies - Hacked/decapitated w/ machete/shot in head - 1 hr 49 mins in
  • Unnamed Biker - Shot by Peter - 1 hr 50 mins in
  • Jack - Shot by Peter - 1 hr 51 mins in
  • Zombie - Stabbed w/ Blade - 1 hr 52 mins in
  • Blades - Shot by Peter - 1 hr 53 mins in
  • Sledge - Eaten by zombies - 1 hr 54 mins in
  • Mousey - Eaten by zombies - 1 hr 54 mins in
  • Serape - Eaten by zombies - 1 hr 54 mins in
  • Pedro - Eaten by zombies - 1 hr 54 mins in
  • Charlie Moonbaby - Eaten by zombies - 1 hr 54 mins in
  • 2 Zombies by Elevator - Shot by Stephen - 1 hr 56 mins in
  • Stephen Andrews - Attacked and turned into zombie - 1 hr 58 mins in
  • Zombie Stephen - Shot by Peter - 2 hrs 1 min in
  • Zombie - Shot by Peter - 2 hrs 3 mins in

Non-Counted Deaths[]

Trivia[]

  • This is James's favorite zombie film.
  • This is the first Kill Count Trailer posted on Dead Meat Shorts.
  • This is the first six part pie chart (22 men, 1 woman, 1 unknown, 75 male zombies, 30 female zombies and 14 unknown zombies).
  • The numbers tally has a few editing mistakes: the Police Dock Radio Operator is represented with a "zombie" silhouette instead of a regular male silhouette; two male humans are highlighted with the male zombies; and six male zombies are highlighted with the female zombies.
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