Day of the Dead (2008)

Nick Cannon Mena Suvari and Ving Rhames star in this horror film based on the George A. Romero classic zombie film. A mysterious virus has infected the small town of Leadville Colorado and the military is brought in to enforce a quarantine and stop the spread of the disease. As people perish survivors realize that the virus is creating the walking dead who crave human flesh. Only a small number of people are immune to the virus and those few survivors must battle to fend off the infected zombies while trying to make it out of town alive.System Requirements:Running Time: 87 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR/DEMONS Rating: R UPC: 687797122599 Manufacturer No: FLP-12259 Product Description

Why was it called Day of the Dead?

Really didn't like this. I thought that with Romero's name attached to it, that it would be of higher quality, but it had nothing to do with the original. Hopefully it will be forgotten about.

The only reason that I gave this movie 2 stars is because there was a couple of brief scenes that I really liked. A couple of shots in the beginning of the hospital scene were cool. They lasted maybe a couple of second, but I really thought they showed some great zombie carnage. Note that these parts didn't have any zombies crawling on walls or jumping like the raptors in Jurassic Park. Too bad these were the only things noteworthy in this movie. August 29, 2008

Wasn't as bad as i was i expecting it to be.

Budget, acting, and make-up was decent. The only thing i didn't like was too much cgi. Just have a different plot and title, then it would've been great. August 24, 2008

Waste of Time...Even for Video.

I'm not going to waste time decribing the plot. I'll ask you a question. Have you watched the Romero films? Then don't waste the effort to watch this garbage. There's a reason it went straight to video-It's BAD. It's VERY LOOSELY based on the 1985 film. But the zombies are fast movers who exist to exhibit gore. The team behind this film should be forced to watch Romero's original three films over and over for several weeks. Then take a stab at it.

This is a B movie, no make that a C movie, that takes the basic concept, and goes wild with it, just to try to create a "thrill ride."

Slightly better than "Return of the Dead 3" which had nothing to do with the first two.




August 12, 2008

Not so bad as most say... but still far from memorable.

I'm giving this three stars because I like the director. Steve Miner is no rookie. He has decades of experience in producing and/or directing horror movies like Friday the 13th, Part 2, Friday the 13th, Part 3, House, Halloween H20 and countless other films and TV series.

This film is wonderfully directed with lots stamina, energy and fast pace. Nice actors also help and the whole cast seems to work. Being a kind of reworking of George A. Romero's sadly underrated classic Day of the Dead (Divimax Special Edition) it was a delight to see that the writers also reworked the character Bud, the trained Zombie. It was a nice nod to the classic 1985 film.

Now the bad things about this film.
The film introduces a ridiculous new element: the people are sick and in a matter of two seconds, they become rotten zombies. Snap! Just like that. And some of them are so ferocious they even climb through ceilings. And something else: zombies are flammable! LOL These are such dumb ideas.

The makeup is not bad, but we've seen a lot better. I just saw Return of the Living Dead 4: Necropolis the other day and found its makeup work superior at some moments. But obviously far from Dawn of the Dead (Widescreen Unrated Director's Cut) which still puts up the best show.

This is another American horror film shot in eastern Europe and we can clearly see how such option (no matter how much money it saves) is limited when it comes to locations. Too limited in my opinion. This is a trend in today's horror films. But it is true: you try to make Romania or Bulgaria to look like the United States... and you are restricted to the woods, one street and some shabby old military buildings.

And something else: after a nice first half where the small Colorado city where the action takes place gets devoured, the last quarter of the film is spent inside a military secret compound (a cheap set built in a soundstage). In other words, instead of delivering a great ending, the film decides to save money in its last quarter.

All these elements probably brought the film down from receiving a wide release. It looks too cheap even with all the good points I already explained. It's simply an underachiever.

And how did they come up with that idea for the DVD cover? A zombie throwing up? What does that have to do with anything?

I'd still would like to see Mr. Miner directing something better produced and written. August 4, 2008

don't know dvd was defective...twice

I like stupid zombie movies but the dvd was defective,sent it back,got a new one same thing.So maybe good
maybe not don't know. July 25, 2008

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