-There is an indescribable feeling you get by viewing a movie in the theater. Sharing an experience with 200 like-minded people who all are there to watch a movie is great.

This feeling always is heightened when the movie is a thriller. With every twist and turn, the audience not only feels connected to the characters on-screen but to their peers in the theater as well.

“Dawn of the Dead” evokes such a feeling. This movie breaks the drought of great thriller movies since last summer’s “28 Days Later.”

This review could bore into the differences between the 1978 version and the present one, but it all seems unnecessary because the remake has legs of its own.

It ran the audience into a frenzy with a beautiful mix of tension, horror, comedy and what always seems lacking in today’s remakes — fully fleshed-out characters with actual back stories and development.

Notable among the cast was a larger-than-life Ving Rhames, Sarah Polley, best known for her performance in “Go,” and “Max Headroom” himself, Matt Frewer.

A few actors who played zombies in the original came back to reprise their roles in this remake.

Perhaps the finest aspect of this film was the visual delivery.

It had perfect crisp imagery and groundbreaking wide shots with an unbelievable attention to color. Despite the amount of gore on-screen, it was hard to look away because everything was delivered so professionally.

This movie has an easy mark to be hated by many factions of people, especially by those who feel remakes spit on the original and those who hate excessive gore.

But this movie was presented in such a professional package that everyone would be doing themselves a disservice by not running out and seeing it immediately on the big screen in the middle of a packed theater.