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The song is "It's a Wonderful Life" by Sparklehorse.

While there is no definitive answer to this question there are many possibilities. At the end of the film they arrive at the docks of the island and are immediately swarmed by zombies. If you look closely the group is still quite close to the boat and could board quickly enough to escape the undead. However, even if the group did manage to escape the zombies that were quickly nearing the boat they would still have to face the problem of having no more food, water, or gas left. But they could also try other islands as well. Even though both sides of the argument have been debated well; the producers themselves have said on the commentary that they intended for the conclusion of the film to be open-ended. Meaning it is up to the viewer to decide whether the group survives or not.

The boat's gas tank was empty, so the survivors could not go anywhere fast enough. The camera shows the zombies coming at them from only the front direction. They are cornered.However it is still possible the survivors could have jumped in the water or boarded the boat and pattled themselves away.

Although Universal has not made an official announcement, the studio has asked Zack Snyder to direct a sequel to his film. Snyder announced that he has agreed to do it, but that James Gunn will not return to write the script.

Snyder also stated that his sequel will not be a remake of George A. Romero's Day of the Dead, which is the 1985 sequel to the original Dawn of the Dead (1978).

Director Zack Snyder has never specified on whether he will be doing a sequel or not. It is highly unlikely that the film will happen any time soon, because Snyder already has plenty of films lined up for the next two to three years. And, Day of the Dead was already made in the late months of 2008.

This can be answered through the question of whether or not the survivors died. The end was left open for the audience to decide if they live or die. Since this is left to the audience and not part of the script, the possibility of a sequel is just as indefinite as the movie's end.

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Well first off, Vivian wasn't their daughter. She was a neighbour, this is supported when Ana is getting home from work and Vivian is out roller-blading, and Ana says "Say hi to your mom for me." . And they were obviously good friends with their family. They likely left their front door unlocked and Vivian now a zombie wandered in due to her memory of going there. As for Lewis, Ana's husband; Ana was very confused, frightened and most likely in a state of shock: at one minute, everything is fine; the next, her husband is dying; then he's trying to kill her. Her basic instinct of self-preservation kicked in. All that was on her mind was to get away. Once things had calmed down and they were secured in the mall, Ana had time to think and feel and finally broke down and started to cry about her husband.

Simple. He was never bitten. The wound he sustained on his arm was from cutting it on a lighting fixture on the fountain while wrestling with the zombie of Ben Cozine.

This confusion could stem from the difference between the writer of the screenplay, James Gunn, and whoever decided to suggest a reason for the zombies on the DVD case. On the cover, it is claimed that it is a virus...in which case, some viewers would be understandably confused as to why an open wound did not expose Kenneth to the virus when grappling with the wounded zombie, or the water did not allow the virus to carry from the open wounds of the zombie and through Kenneth's open wound into his system. However, the fact that James Gunn has denied the virus theory and has said that when he wrote the screenplay he envisioned it to be just the same as a vampire bite, and so more supernatural or inexplicable in nature, this clearly shows why Kenneth didn't become a zombie, because he wasn't actually bitten. Though "virus" is just a general term for something that can be transmitted into the body and do harm. In John Carpenter's Vampires, Daniel Baldwin's character says "Virus, that's what I call it. Doesn't matter what you call it; virus, kool-aid whatever. It does the same thing; turns you into a vampire."

So it could be considered a "supernatural virus" and just said "virus" on the cover so readers wouldn't associate it with ghosts, which is common with the term "supernatural".

Because her wound was so miniscule. It was a small half inch cut on her forearm. The more severe the wound, the quicker they turn. For instance; when Luis, Ana's husband was bitten on the neck, Vivian was going for the artery where the blood is pumping then they bleed out and die quickly. This explains why Ana was telling herself, "I can't get it, I can't get it!" when she was trying to save him by pinching the artery and preventing any further blood loss. Anyway, a person doesn't turn into a zombie until they die. The virus gradually takes over living cells and replaces them with 'undead' ones. So when someone is bitten on the hand, arm, leg or the like, the virus very slowly takes over the living cells in their body until it eventally kills them, at which point they re-animate. When they are bitten on the neck and bleed to death quickly or are killed in some other way (aside from being shot in the head) they will re-animate immediately after death.

This is the typical "rule" in zombie movies and is sometimes employed in vampire movies as well. This goes with the theory that if one is bitten on a limb, he/she can prevent re-animation by cutting that limb off. This proves another point in the story: if they had known that the bite was the cause of re-animation, and if they had known that Luda was bitten, they would have either killed her, or gotten into a brawl with Andre while trying, or they would have cut off her arm as soon and as clean as possible. However, it would cause a major plot hole in the story if Andre were to cut Luda's arm off himself, as the group would probably have taken closer precautions when letting the group from the church in.

George Romero's original rule for zombies is that once any person dies, be it natural causes, suicide, murder, car accident, etc., the person who died will come back as a zombie, which left some mysterious supernatural reasoning for why zombies came to be in the first place, hence the tagline "when there's no more room in hell: the Dead will walk the earth." This line is repeated in this film but doesn't hold the same meaning as it did in the original film.

We can assume that the 'Romero Rule' wasn't employed, seeing as how the zombies can run. Also this is supported by when Andre and Norma shoot each other, they both die from multiple gunshot wounds but neither were shot in the head and neither come back to life. The surviving characters specifically mention this fact after they find the bodies.

No, although his name is metioned in the credits as having helped with the screenplay, they are merely mentioning his name as the writer of the original screenplay, seeing as how the film has Dawn of the Dead's (1978) same title.

He did watch the film after he was done filming Land of the Dead (2005) and loved the first 15 minutes of the movie, but said that the film felt more like a video game and that there was not much point in it. He also disliked the fast running zombies. He alludes to this in his 2007 movie Diary of the Dead when Jason claims that dead things don't run.

The remake of the cult-horror-film "Dawn of the Dead" was released on DVD in a longer version. This version shows, additionally to new plot-scenes, also several violence-scenes, which had to be cut for the theatrical release in the USA. A detailed comparison between both versions can be found here.