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
largely against the horror stereotype, through most of the film she wears the
archetypal tom-boyish 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; 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 the blood stains and dirt connote this has been
corrupted by her change. The gore effects or body horror are very effective with the pole going through her eye.
It seems believable and would scare us more than the original DOTD (1979)
which just had 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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