The Date: January
17
The Movie: Dawn of the Dead (1979)
What Is It?: 11
years after Night of the Living Dead,
George Romero returns to make the dead walk again, and the shopping mall setting
makes room for some truly brilliant satire about our consumerist culture.
Why Today?: On
this day in 1983, the world’s tallest
department store, Hudson’s flagship store in Detroit, closes for business. I’m
not sure if it was closed due to zombies.
