Grumpy Scot

12th Nov 2004

Dawn of the Dead (2004)

Corrected entry: Our hero, recently bitten, is standing on the dock watching his friends sail off into the sunset. His hands are empty, hanging at his sides. Next a shot of the boat, then back to him with a gun in his right hand which he uses to kill himself.

Phillip Churchfield

Correction: Look closely when Michael unties the boat and when he pushes the boat off the dock. The pistol is in the rear waistband of his pants. We just didn't see him reach around and pull it out.

Grumpy Scot

Corrected entry: In the scene where the pregnant Russian woman dies, watch the left side of her neck. There is a very strong, clear pulse throbbing - even while her boyfriend is closing her eyes because she's dead.

Correction: The zombies don't actually die, dead is dead as evidenced when the brain is destroyed. They must drop into some sort of coma for the few minutes of the final transition into zombie. A pulse would not be out of the question.

Grumpy Scot

Corrected entry: When the zombies storm the mall, everyone is able to use the elevator despite the power being out.

Correction: No, when the guys run from the zombies in the garage and end up next to the gas pump, they are in the generator enclosure. So they refuel it and get the power back on.

Grumpy Scot

19th Apr 2004

Dawn of the Dead (2004)

Corrected entry: When the guys are being chased through the parking garage, they get behind a chain-link fence and shoot the zombies several times through it. However, even though the guys are only about six feet away from the fence, the fence remains undamaged. They were using blanks. It's highly unlikely that all shotgun rounds went through the open parts and none of them hit the metal.

Correction: I've shot a chainlink fence with 00 buck while hunting and it just swayed the fence a little. Lead isn't really hard enough to damage chainlink fence. And the sparks you see in the movies to show ricochets and bullets/shot hitting metal are extremely rare. So this scene is actually realistic.

Grumpy Scot

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