Zack Snyder’s Dawn Of The Dead sure was a Zack Snyder movie

Zack Snyder movies sure are contentious. Not only are his fans—shall we say—uniquely vehement, but the films themselves are wildly divisive critically, alternately held up as the worst possible example of overwrought, try-hard pseudo-auteurism and as pointlessly violent, incomprehensible messes. And while the scale of his films has consistently risen over time, such that now he’s knee-deep in the morass of building a cohesive cinematic universe, all of these qualities were perfectly on display in his debut, the 2004 remake of Dawn Of The Dead.