"Dawn of the Dead" (1978) Film Screening

Until recently, it was out of print on home video, not available on streaming services, and it almost never – and we mean NEVER – screens in theaters. That’s why we’re so excited to bring the gut-chomping, genre-defining masterpiece DAWN OF THE DEAD back to our screens.

DAWN OF THE DEAD isn’t just one of those "important" movies – it’s also a damned entertaining, exhilarating, and terrifying motion picture experience, even more than 40 years after its initial release. Set in the same world as, but not a sequel to, NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, DAWN begins as the world falls to the armies of the dead. A quartet of characters escape the collapse of civilization and hole up in a mall where they temporarily find peace. But when the outside world comes knocking on the mall’s glass doors, all hell breaks loose in a bloody, gutsy climax.

Sly and witty, DAWN never slows down to pound its points into your head, but the depiction of zombies shuffling around a mall has become an iconic image of splattery satire.

Admission: $14.50
Location: Alamo Drafthouse, Seaport District, Boston.