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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kai Lord" data-source="post: 1435442" data-attributes="member: 3570">It held my interest, but the best parts were definitely in the opening 20 minutes.  The Andy character was great, and the ending was kind of a nice rush (even if it was an almost scene by scene Aliens rip-off), but it certainly isn't devoid of "Stupid Character in a Horror Movie" syndrome.  The film all but jumped the shark when the girl made that stupid move to go get the dog.  Ugh.Elements of the closing credits were just *horribly* executed, but all in all I wasn't disappointed I saw the movie.  The Texas Chainsaw remake was much better, much more intense and relentless but as far as zombie movies go the new Dawn of the Dead is one of the best (for whatever that's worth.)  Not that I've seen that many.Would make for an awesome role-playing adventure though.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" />EDIT: Even though its the type of scene you'd kind of expect in a movie like this, I found the "chainsaw accident" to be incredibly brutal and unsettling.  When I think about the film my thoughts inevitably come back to that and it takes away from the "thrills as entertainment" aspect and just makes the whole experience kind of a downer.</blockquote>