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how is this rated higher than Night of the Living Dead (1968) ??


Makes no sense to me.

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For me Night is at the top as a legit horror classic, film classic and masterpiece, followed by a large gap, then Day, which is a solidly entertaining fun movie with a few interesting ideas, then Dawn.

Every once in a while I rewatch them all to try to figure out why I have the order "wrong" but it never changes. Night is such a more focused, atmospheric, effectively disturbing film than the other two. The statement and impact is so universal and timeless and nothing feels out of place or unintentional.

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it makes no sense to me.

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I wonder though how many fans of the trilogy actually put this above Night vs. the rating moreso reflecting the demographics of who is voting/not, with Night being black and white and of a further distant era, which many will find merely quaint or respect as a specimen of the past rather than feeling a personal connection to, while Dawn has higher production value, color, gore, and looks closer to the world we live in now etc... Would be curious to hear from people who prefer Dawn > Night...

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What's been spooking you, Billy? You ain't afraid of no man!

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There's something out there waiting for us and it aint no man

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EASILY...DAWN IS A BETTER FILM.NIGHT WAS A DISCOUNT FIRST TRY THAT WORKED WELL AND IS A CLASSIC BUT DAWN IS THE GEM OF THE SERIES.DAY IS A STEP DOWN,AND A SEVERLY ALTERED VERSION OF ROMERO'S INTENDED FILM.

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they had sound effects in Dawn

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For me it depends on what you want from a horror movie. NOTLD is intense, bleak & genuinely scary. Not to mention groundbreaking. I personally prefer DOTD because it's like a live-action comic book. It's big, bombastic and fun. NOTLD is definitely a better crafted horror movie, but DOTD provides escapism and a great 'what would you do in that situation' aspect. Don't get me wrong, I love both movies, but I personally prefer DOTD for it's roller-coaster ride feel. NOTLD still genuinely scares me, so it's not something I watch for pleasure as much as DOTD. But that's just me!

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Imdb votes don't exactly represent votes by all kinds of people, which is quite obvious. Just like everything in life, it is reduced to a specific mindset of people, the energy that propels people to vote, the reason to be on that webpage, dozens of factors come into it, it mostly picks up a certain kind of people whose mindset very very much resembles the mindset of professional critics, which is not surprising, it attracts this. If you did polls somewhere on the street some people here would be probably utterly shocked. There is a reason why cultural landmark franchises like Twilight make millions while it is voted so low on here, why so few women vote in general, let alone go on this page. It all comes down to the demographics, the type of people, not all kinds of people, it will never be diverse enough to get a balanced view of reality. To get that one has to unplug and go out there and start asking people in all kinds of contrasting places, cultures and communities on our own, no authoritarian system can beat the power of subjective experience to get an objective insight.

I feel like I've been gifted with great senses to feel into things, including movies and the dimensions they attract into reality, which is why some films can be beneficial and some very dangerous without our own protection, in that way, I can watch Night from 1968 and feel the time it came out as if I am there, and it is more powerful as an experience than Dawn in 78 when the public has been less innocent, so in terms of power itself, the first is stronger, in terms of capturing the late 70's atmosphere the 78 film is stronger. The Night is more allegorical, The Dawn is more documentary-like capturing the pop culture more openly, considering the tastes of todays public, Dawn seems to have more appeal to a rather lower vibrational section of society today, there's less artistic surrealism for the audience to bend their senses. The Night goes to higher notes, the same like the music, it demands to get deeper into psychedelic overtone of the late 60's that seeped into it. Night feels like a knife into the belly preceded with a kiss and a lovely smile, The Dawn like a slaughterhouse during a christmas dinner. What is more striking?

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People like the update in gore effects, the setting, character's resourcefulness, and story concept. Night was a tight movie with excellent subtext. Dawn is more of an entertaining film with levity.

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I believe it’s the overall fun factor it has.

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Night is the ultimate horror film. Case closed

Dawn was a more ambitious film that bordered on an adventure film which entertained. I feel most us imagined ourselves in the situations of Dawn over Night so it appealed to a larger mass in that sense. Imagine having a mall all to yourself

Night is the better film especially when you factor in the budget and lack of experience they had

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I think both are equally great. Night invented the zombie genre as we know it today, while Dawn codified it.

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Bingo!

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