Posted by Civello at 68.76.166.173 on March 22, 2004 at 23:55:05:
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Phone calls are pouring in to Britain's Advertising Standards Authority (search) that posters for the flick are just too frightening, says England's Lincolnshire Echo.
Complainers cite one billboard, showing the enormous face of a zombie child who has just risen from the dead, as especially nightmarish.
"It is absolutely horrendous and really disturbing," said Angela Kelly, of Cherry Willingham, Lincolnshire. "Children will be really scared by it. It is such a frightening image, the girl has piercing eyes. We try to avoid driving past it now."
In the movie's opening sequence, a little girl zombie breaks into a couple's house and attacks them, killing the husband and turning him into a zombie as well.
"We are looking into the complaints and will be assessing the poster," said Donna Mitchell of the Advertising Standards Authority. "A decision will be taken by the ASA council on any action."
"Dawn of the Dead," a remake of George Romero's 1978 film, topped the U.S. box office this past weekend, racking up $27 million in its first weekend of release. It opens in Britain on March 26.