Doomsday - the post-apocalyptic horror/thriller - is coming to DVD and Blu-Ray on July 28. To celebrate, Beer.com is dedicating an entire week to all things end of the world!

That's right, every day this week we'll be taking a look at a movie or a series of movies that showed us a bleak vision of the future - the end of the world!

It's Beer.com's DOOM WEEK!

Dawn Of The Dead

Continuing our look at The End of The World for Doom Week we turn a rotten, lidless eye at possibly one of the greatest and cultiest series of films from acclaimed horror directer George A. Romero - the "Of the Dead" films!

Each of the "Of The Dead" films - that's Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Land of the Dead and Diary of the Dead - deal with the same basic premise; The world has been overrun by a strange plague that returns the dead to life, as rotting walking brain-eating kill-machine ZOMBIES!!

With the looming threat of the walking undead scares all survivors into scavenging safety for themselves, it's the end of the world as this plague/virus turns the dead into killing machines and the living into prey...

In particular I'd like to point out Dawn of the Dead (1978). This, the second installment in the "of the Dead" series, had many social commentaries about materialism and man's greed, as it had the rag-tag group of survivors holed up in a shopping mall (of all places).

When a greedy, marauding group of bikers happen upon the mall they decide to take whatever supplies they can from the survivors inside - and take it by force.

When the greed of the Bikers leads to their downfall at the hands of the zombie hoard, it's up to the last surviving humans to flee the now unsafe refuge they've spent weeks in until this point.

The trademark for Romero's films is the bleak, hopeless endings - the few remaining survivors manage to survive, but for how long is always in question. The viewer can never truly feel hopeful for the protagonists, as he makes it evident that, like most people in the world, hope is dead.

The influences of Romero's "Of the Dead" series can be seen in every zombie film, videogame, and story written after the original. Whether it's seen in Quentin Tarantino's Planet Terror, Capcom's Resident Evil series, or most horror films - the impact of the "Of the Dead" series shambles across modern apocalyptic films to this day.

DOOM WEEK is brought to you by Doomsday, available on DVD and Blue-Ray July 28!