It's a remake and it rocks. Yes, the amped-up resurrection of George A Romero's dead-cert classic shocked everyone from Total Film to Tarantino, it was so bloody good. Sarah Polley's the first surprise, a quality actress cutting up rough as the nurse who immerses us in the apocalypse. As Johnny Cash croons over the credits' newsreel chaos, you know there's no resident studio evil here: the new Dawn is angry and in your face.

The director's cut includes nine more minutes of blood and character beats. The baldy old fella is gay, Polley puckers up for the impressive Jake Weber, but only the tweaked pistol-chin conclusion has any more impact. Our advice? Stick with the theatrical cut - what it lacks in originality, it makes up for in bite.

DVD Extras:

The DC includes three icky FX featurettes, traded for the slick Making Of on the bog-standard edition. Both discs boast the mildly diverting news mock-up Special Report and The Lost Tape: Andy's Terrifying Last Days Revealed, a video diary of the gun-shop sharpshooter Ving Rhames befriends across the car park.Twelve minutes of deleted scenes prove to be eminently binable, but the director/producer chat-track is occasionally amusing - nowhere more so than when reporting Rhames' reaction to the script (spoiler alert!): "I want to be in this movie because the black guy lives."