Rather than make a list of my favorite new films of the year, I’ve made a list of my favorite repertory screenings of 2022.

Film critic Roger Ebert called George Romero's zombie classic Dawn of the Dead "an ultimate horror film!" and "a savagely Satanic vision of America." While I generally find Ebert to be fairly insightful, I can't help but feel he missed the boat here.

Dawn pummels the viewer with a series of ever-more-grisly events - decapitations, shootings, knifings, flesh tearings - that make Romero's special effects man, Tom Savini, the real 'star' of the film - the actors are as woodenly uninteresting as the characters they play. Romero's script is banal when not incoherent - those who haven't seen Night of the Living Dead may have some difficulty deciphering exactly what's going on at the outset of Dawn.

One of the best horror films ever made.

Not just a great zombie film, but an exciting blend of tension, humour, action, and utter terror.

The original Dawn of the Dead (1978) was a colourful mix of social commentary, black humour and gory effects work. Romero's cannibalistic zombie hordes, instinc

Clipping found in The Journal News published in White Plains, New York on 7/22/1979. Alien

The most unsettling aspect of 'Dawn of the Dead' is how it shows us how little we’ve changed as a culture.