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However, I'm more fascinated by the four living survivors played by Ken Foree, Gaylen Ross, David Emge and Scott Reiniger. Of course, and most obviously, this is represented by the swarm of zombies slowly amassing in the parking lot of the shopping mall, which also builds conjointly with Romero gradually intensifying the sense of dread and urgency before suddenly erupting into complete anarchy. The ideology of material wealth signifying a happy, valued life and related to one's physical, mental well-being is so deeply ingrained that it has radically altered people's natural instincts and fundamentally replaced instinctual appetites for survival. It's a horror masterpiece that uses the horde of mindless walking dead as a stark, poignant satire on modern consumerism, but what continues to interest me most of the film four decades later is society's insatiable hunger for purchased goods.

Romero's cult zombie classic Dawn of the Dead. Little else can be said of the social commentary on modernity in George A.