This image shows Ana (the final girl) killing a zombie through the eye using a golf club. It shows how unlike Fran from the original Dawn of the dead, Ana is not afraid to kill zombies her way. The fact Ana has blonde hair shows us that she goes against the horror stereotype, through most of the film she wears a t-shirts and jeans with her hair in a semi pony tail. As well as this the zombie she is killing is one of the refugees which died from a bite- it shows she is not sentimental or even sympathetic towards her; however she follows the rule of “Kill or be killed”.
The low key lighting and the props within the mise-en-scene all show it’s almost like a home environment where they all feel comfortable. The brightness of the zombie as well as the white top she is wearing connotes she is an innocent victim in all of this, but also to scare us. The gore effects or body horror are very good with the pole going through her eye. It seems believable and would scare us more than the original DOTD (1979) with blue face paint and red paint for the blood- it shows how far we have come to scaring people and how relaxed we are now about seeing gore and violence.
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