Dawn of the Dead - 1978 Filming Locations & Secrets
http://www.AdamTheWoo.com - PLEASE SUBSCRIBE - I took a trip to the Pittsburgh and Monroeville area to hunt down all the locations from my favorite zombie film of all time , the George Romero 1978 classic Dawn of the Dead. To make things even better I had Matt Blazi along for the trek to help out with facts, tidbits and just straight up nerdary companionship. We did our best to hit every location from the film from start to finish. Hope you enjoy !
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Transcript
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welcome everyone I'm in Pennsylvania
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today and I'm going to show you the
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filming locations of the
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origin George A Romero Dawn of the
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Dead this was
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Matt I
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think join us shall
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you one of the roof scenes was actually
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filmed right on top of George Romero's
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old office building unfortunately can't
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get up there but through the beauty of
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the lens we're going to zoom in and
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you're going to be able to see that door
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swing open come on
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Martin let's go let's go all the
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shooting
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happens move in move in a th FS
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this was actually the spot where the
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police boat dock
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was hey you guy you better get a move on
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there's a report out the doc's been
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knocked out
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you can see downtown Pittsburgh off in
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the background notice that Ford sign
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back in the background there's actually
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a shot with a lit up Ford sign with a
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helicopter would have landed right in
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this area and over here are some
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remnants of what could have been the gas
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pumps is where the office was the police
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office right in here Fly Boy found the
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dead body pushed him back in the chair
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operator
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dead post abandoned
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in case this might look familiar to you
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this is where the National Guard was
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yeah yeah we had the National Guard all
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parked along the roads here uh it wasn't
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a busy road at the time the houses back
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there were not here but they had the
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cannon fire truck from broville
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Volunteer Fire Company all lined up
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tending to the guy getting the bandage
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on his
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head the guys were cracking open their
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iron cities
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so that was somewhere around this area
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in front of us if you look at this house
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there's actually an aerial view shot and
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you can see this house in the far right
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corner there were some buses parked
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right
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here and there was a barn up there on
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the left which is now gone where they
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had the beer drinking party
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scene right right up at the top of that
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hill on the left which is now a golf
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course ah
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I guess they all hit the pumps and they
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took off yeah to where
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over here on the helipad was a boxes or
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crates the camera pans over and we see
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Jim crud as the air as the helicopter
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zombie walking
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up he knocks over a crate and he stands
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up on it and he's
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like as he's standing up
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you can see these bunkers over here
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there used to be an actual another
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bunker down in this little Ravine area
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which has now been torn out this is
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where the spot where Fly Boy would have
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had his running with the zombie right in
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here the little scuffle because of her
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vantage
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point would be like right about here
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because you can kind of see
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just the top of the building yeah you
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could see the roof in the background
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there yeah so she's she's
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looking he's over here fighting and
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she's looking at this one coming and
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he's telling her to
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run of course she's not saying and that
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was a big thing for her cuz gayen
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apparently said she did not want to be
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running and
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screaming she'll know if she should
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fight or run or what she should do
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Run Fly Boy would have picked up the
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Mallet her hammer and did the most
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awkward swing of all time run
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the first appearance of the mall in the
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movie is when the helicopter is flying
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over and they're looking
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down Cinemark used to actually be JC
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Penny's they've actually revamped it
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looks like a shopping center one of
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those big indoor malls
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oh
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hit them all might as well have power
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and everything we might need
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it and you can look out into the boiler
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room and you would see Warner shook as
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the zombie
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walk bro
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what do you think bag it or try it you
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game I Need video footage you got it
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right behind me is a cinema AR but it
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used to be JC Penny's a lot of scenes
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happened right in here including where
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they originally tried to get into JC pen
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the doors would have been right here
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exactly where the tile meets the new
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tile they're going to push the door
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back they were protecting themselves
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this way there was a lot of knocking
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going on from this angle a lot of
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zombies sing like this trying to get in
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you can also o see some scenes where
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they were running towards the glass and
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then hitting the glass
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here taunting the zombies come on
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zombies this way
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zombies right about here in the former
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JC Pennies would have been where the
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escalators were and of course one of the
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most famous scenes is shot from the
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first floor up and you look down as
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Ken's running down you see Scott
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running's character rri run from the
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steps say hey Peter
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woohoo woohoo yeah and he slides right
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down W
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yeah right here is where the escalator
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was is what you're telling me that's
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right here not anymore now you can only
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slide on the tile but who in their right
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mind would slide on tile hey
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Peter this is the main doorway that our
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heroes come out
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of if you look behind us it actually
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goes out to the street that's because in
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the film they build a same W
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here come on all
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right and they feed only on warm human
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flesh
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intelligence seemingly little or no
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reasoning power looks like the
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escalators busted looks like zombies
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have taken over the escalator this whole
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area behind me see the rock wall see the
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parking lot this is where the zombies
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were we must not be lulled by the
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concept that these are our family
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members or our friends they are not they
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will not respond to such
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emotions they must be destroyed on
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sight the two trucks would have headed
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that way straight towards the parking
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lot you can actually see this little
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conductor mechanism in the far left shot
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of the aerial shot this building has
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kind of been redone a little bit but it
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would have been a high up shot in the
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air from the helicopter
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over in the woods you can see some
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telephone poles which are now grown over
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but they are in the movie
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shot and there they are off buried in
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the
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woods right there's the top of a
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telephone
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pole zombie
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love
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perfect don't mind if I do that poted
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plan is that's where the display uh area
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would have been for the Volkswagen Shaka
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that they commandeered and hotwired to
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run through the mall as they're locking
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down the
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doors we'll get it all locked off then
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we're going on a hunt
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probably one of the most iconic scenes
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in the film is when four of them are
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standing here and their fur codes after
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they cleaned out the mall had some fun
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and Ken utters the line when there's no
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more room in Hell the dead Bo to walk
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the earth that was done right here which
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was in front of the former JC
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Pennies look out down here you will see
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that there's no ice rain and down below
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is now where the food Port is so when
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they were standing out here they were
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talking out towards the ice ring but
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right here in the middle looking out was
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where they they uttered that those
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famous line
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you're still
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here when there's no more room in Hell
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the dead will walk the
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earth they go in Barry Roger and they're
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gently patting it this was a larger
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plant areaa but after years and years of
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deforestation in terms of consumerism
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this is all that's left of Roger
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grave rest in peace Roger give me some
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champagne pop it
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open one for my h
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looks like they've been surviving on the
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road all through this
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thing and the bikers the Raiders a lot
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of action happened over
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here but you can actually match up a lot
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of shots against these exact particular
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rocks which is pretty cool if you look
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closely in the movie as the Raiders are
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coming into the entrance waiting they're
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shooting all the zombies look for this
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rock here with this configuration this
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big rock here this yellow rock with this
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white one and in this configuration cuz
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in the film one of the zombies ends up
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getting shot and the blood spider comes
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here and he falls behind this way and
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falls
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down the tracks are still there where
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the door would have slid open
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was able to push the door all the way
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open and then they all flood in this way
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they they bring the motorcycles in
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behind me is the spot where Tom savini
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would have died would have gone right
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over this Edge and down into a fountain
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obviously you can tell there is no
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fountain down there
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as the last Raider uh is in the side car
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with the machine gun he's coming out and
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Ken is taking aim at him and he stands
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up and he's looking and Ken takes the
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shot and he hits him he hits him right
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in the shoulder and he falls over right
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here but if you look right right as he's
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flipping you see um or right before he
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lands there's blood right on the ground
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so it must have been there from a
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previous take or
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something if you look back in to the
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mall from where we're at where Ken
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shoots him he's actually off so it's
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kind of a cheated shot so a little bit
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of movie Magic you know curved bullet
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Ken fry hits his man
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oh oh man Coca-Cola
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this is where the clock tower used to be
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in fact the final shot of the movie at
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the top of the clock tower there was a
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bird there was a little bird on top of
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the Clock Tower and you can see where
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the windows are they still look exactly
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the same the windows still look exact
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exactly the
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same Adam where are
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you right here Trooper
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we filmed it didn't
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we we filmed it didn't we that's right
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Matt didn't
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we didn't we film
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him we sure did buddy we filmed it we
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filmed it
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good we filmed it and we got it
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all he ganked his glasses off do it
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again do it again one more time one more
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time take three and then he crushes them
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down on here and
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awesome checking out the filming
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locations of the
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original George Romero's l
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the dead of course let's land on the
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dead now we filmed them didn't
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we I think my phone went
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off we filmed it and we got it
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all we filmed it and we got it all all
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right go again
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okay here we go
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go we
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F we sure did buddy we filmed it we
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filmed them
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good we filmed it didn't
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time Adam where are you
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you right here
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Trooper we filmed it didn't
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we we filmed it didn't
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we I can't remember that's right mat
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that's right mat
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time Adam where are you right here
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Trooper I'm
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sorry this so funny I can't stop
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laughing didn't
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we didn't we film him we sure did Buddy
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we filmed them we filmed it good we
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filmed it and we got it all