Dawn of the Dead featuring RARE Commentary from Tom Savini and Christian Stavrakis 

Oh wow. This channel is a goldmine. George A Romero is one of The greatest film directors of any genre. I am so please to see an entire channel dedicated to this great man. Nice work

Respect to savini..he was a combat photographer in viet nam. My uncle, a paratrooper with the 173rd airborne division, 82nd airborne division, met him and served with dennis franz, a fellow viet nam vet and 82nd airborne trooper.

I love Tom Savini

I've seen this movie a lot including when they re-released it in theaters in 3D. I never watched it with Tom Savini commentary though so this should be great!

The part when Ken Foree character Peter strips off his fancy clothes , jewelry, and money and swaps into his swat gear is symbolic to me. It shows that Peter may value these things as materialistic and pointless compared to his battle gear that serves more of a purpose. Like Fly boy girlfriend said earlier. This place is a neatly wrapped prison that it has all of you blinded by how pretty it looks. Peter, at this point, may see the picture. But Fly Boy himself could not. Due to his spoiled greed of wanting it all for him. He ensues in a gunfight with the bikers only to land himself in danger. Roger also yells we whipped him and GOT IT ALL!" But in a small detail, you see Roger looking around the room to barely nothing but the gun and other useless objects. When they arrived at the mall, It partially stripped them all from being survivalist to spoiled house snobs.

Thank you for sharing this!

Thank you for this❤

Love this commentary!

The commentary is solid gold.

thanks a lot

Green faces all the blood and gore dawn of the dead simply legendary

This is phenomenal

as a huge fan of this and other Romero films, it's great to hear a rare commentary for the first time and see how they chose to edit this for the UK market - at least this wasn't banned as a "video nasty" like Evil Dead and so many others however, I have a rare DOTD French poster that has the X rating on it 🙂 I look forward to exploring the other content you have here, thanks again I have all of Savini's books and I used to practice a simple form of make-up fx for Halloween and small student films a lot of my original music I post on YT has a horror/sci-fi vibe inspired by Goblin's score here as well as stuff by John Carpenter, Fabio Frizzi, and music from other classic horror projects

Awesome!!!!! Best zombie film ever.

Lovely!

I really enjoyed this

Savini talking over the UK cut version.

I wish I had the chance to meet George Romero I heard he was a very nice man RIP George and Thank you for the movies you made .

This was great, i love your channel I'm a massive romero fan and i love all the cool stuff I'm finding on your channel i have never seen before. This is the second commentary for dawn of the dead i have never heard that i found on your channel. I'm a total movie geek and have been my whole life, i was born in 1977. I watch dawn of the dead more often then any other movie, i watch it a couple times per month and have been doing it for 35 plus years so it's way cool to get new info. This was a fun commentary, that part about savini and tasso not sure how to spell his name staying in the cabins for friday the 13th with only 2 films to watch was great. Thanks for all the cool romero knowledge and fun entertainment you provide. Your channel is a must for all us romero acolytes, just wanted you to know your hard work is appreciated.

This is so cool.

wow nice find

I wonder what edit they were watching, where they cut the head explosion. I've never heard of that one.

Love this Commentary it's the best!❤ Love Tom he is the G.O.A.T. the other guy is not so good he tries to upstage and out smart Tom.

RIP David Emge!😢 Flyboy can now fly with the angels!

I had this version from anchor bay on dvd the first rerelease in maybe 99 or early y2k era i actually still have the dvd it skips very badly now though

Something I just noticed after all these years and never really thought about till now, so if "We might as well have power in everything. We might need it." Why then did the escalators in Penneys have none? (Hence Roger sliding down one when he and Peter are 'shopping')

Great movie and thanks !!why would they commentary watching the cut version?lol still awesome 👌

Love ❤️

They barely talked about the behind the scenes...how would the bikers raid of gone if Rodger was still alive.

Speaking of Tom Savini, I really enjoy Innocent Blood. If you have not seen it, please do.

This film is an all-time classic! It's arguably the best zombie movie ever made! The zombies could have looked better, though. I understand this was in the late 70s, but the makeup looked very cheap and fake. Flyboy was by far the best-looking zombie, though!

First thing you do in a zombie apocalypse Round up all the smoke's you can find, Second thing get ALOT of Pepsi and lighter's (can't smoke without a lighter. Third find a nice looking red head big boobies chicky !!!! (Squeeze time) THEN run like all hell till you find a killer vehicle and place to hangout where idiots and zombies can't reach you (UNDERGROUND BUNKER TYPE PLACE) THEN you do your best to survive !!!

Insanity!

What year was this recorded?

This is on a really old dvd I own. A terrible cut version with a terrible transfer lol

i think that if given a bigger budget then the visuals might be better, but it would have become something else, a mainstream blockbuster that would have fit in and then been forgotten. the low budget did it well in finding alternate methods in storytelling

Great! Have Savini do a commentary on a print that has the gore edited out? What is this inept crap? talk about missing the point entirely...

Probably my favorite movie of all time. But man, this commentary is awful. The guys have no chemistry. They don't talk about hardly any of the details i would want from Savini, who's a horror god, by the way, i'm not hating), but it just falls flat. The commentary with the 4 main actors is wayyy better. You can tell they're still friends and Ken Foree, at least, is clearly getting his buzz on. You just get way more of the fun stuff. I was really disappointment in this one. Maybe if Savini was in on the one with the actors, it would have gone better. Anyway, it does have a few goodies. Worth watching.

Lol. Christian has no friggin' idea what he's talking about half the time!

Bahw!!!