The theme of this film is consumerism and we can see from this that the zombies are in a shopping mall. This is because they come to the place they love the most. They give off the feeling of being trapped and feeling quite lonely because one by one they are dying. The mall becomes a prison. This is expressed when Fran says: “Can’t you see this is a prison” and the survivors are stuck in what they have made their bedroom because the rest of the shopping mall becomes overrun by zombies. This reflects the historical context of 1970’s because shopping malls were only starting to open during this period and Romero was trying to reflect on how much he doesn’t like them. The zombies themselves aren’t actually scary they are slow moving, ineffective and quite confused with what is going on. They become rather likeable because they are just so unaware to what is going on around them. Like the zombie that’s in the water he really has no clue what’s going on around him and everyone laughs at him. This made me feel quite sorry for him. This scene uses contrapuntal music- this goes against the mood of the scene. Cheesy “musak” which gets played around the mall gives the scene both eeriness and a black comedy. The camera angle is an expressionist high angle; looking down on the zombies this shows that the humans are better than the zombies and gives off the impression of who will be the survivors and that they are going to be able to beat the zombies.
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