Christy's pick: "Dawn of the Dead"

OK. It's time for a horror movie.

My film critic co-worker hounded me, a horror film fan, for almost a year to watch this film, and it was well-worth my time. "Dawn of the Dead" is the second in George Romero's "Dead" trilogy but can be watched on its own. Though the same premise -- the dead are walking the earth and hungry for a taste of the living -- carries throughout the trilogy, the characters and storylines stand alone in each film.

There are a lot of interesting subtexts about gender, race and suburbia in this 1978 original. (I hear the 2004 remake is good, but that's not the one to watch.)

Enjoy!