With Christmas rearing its head at the end of this week, a lot of us will be making our way to the local mall as if we were zombies ourselves looking for a fresh snack. To get into the spirit of endless lines, irritated customers, and enraged babies, Moviefone is providing a link to website called Slashcontrol which embeds a video by Hulu which just happens to be Dawn of the Dead.

Here’s what the Moviefone people have to say:

What unfolds is undeniably faster-paced than the original (even the zombies sprint rather than amble), but the emphasis on action allows Snyder to have a lot fun amid all the horror. There’s no shortage of explosives, impaling, intestine-gobbling and the like. But what’s even more impressive is that in between the action we come to really root for the survivors — as they die one by one (they inevitably do in these movies), we know the characters well enough to actually care. Consummate badass Ving Rhames and everyman Jake Weber co-star, with special effects legend Tom Savini, who worked on the original, even making a brief cameo that acts as an insiders’ Easter egg and a little wink-nudge endorsement.

Even though the original ‘Dawn of the Dead’ was pretty damn near perfect, Snyder’s holds up as a well-rendered exploration of survival and commercialism in contemporary America — with lots and lots of extremely cool zombie killings to boot.

I do like that they consider the original Dawn of the Dead near perfect. As for the embedded movie itself, I’d personally avoid watching it online. I used to love Hulu, but the ads are a little too much for me. For their bigger titles, it’s like there’s an ad between each line of dialogue. And it sucks when an ad craps out loading, forcing you to refresh the page, thus sitting through a couple of more ads to return back to your spot. Which of course, craps out again.

Free Movie of the Day: ‘Dawn of the Dead’ (2004) (insidemovies.moviefone.com <- new window)