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Joe Francis reviews Day of the Dead (2008)
1.5 of 5 stars

Joe Francis reviews Day of the Dead (2008)

Written on 13/2/08 by Joe Francis

Plot Outline

A mutated experiment escapes the clutches of the government and turns the townsfolk of Colorado into 'zombies'.

Review Summary

More Resident Evil than Romero remake.

The Review


I'm already in the minority in saying that the original Day of the Dead is my favorite of the Dead movies, I just likes it. Too bad that this 'remake' doesn't hold a candle to the original, which is what it was hoping after the success of the Dawn remake.

The missing ingredients? Oh, maybe a halfway decent script, actors who gave a shit about being there, a competent special effects team...to name a few. From what was given on screen, the dialog sucked plain and simple. It's the same nonsensical filler that you get out of ever goddamn motherfucking diarrhea filled direct to dvd zombie romp. The difference? This one was supposed to go to theaters. EIGHTEEN MILLION was spent on it. It looked, felt, and looked again like a 100k poop fest. Shame on you, re makers of Day of the Dead, you suck.

It's a sad sad day when computer generated gore effects are relied on that so much as a single real effect isn't used. Seriously. It looks like really good Mortal Kombat fatalities every time Nick "He's hilarious, daddy!" Cannon cuts off some undead fuckos head. It looks even worse every time someone shoots a 'zombie' in the head.

Note the use of quotes in the word zombie through out. I use them because I don't believe these were zombies in the traditional sense. They were people with a really bad cold. There were no dead waking from the grave to feast on human flesh here, NO! They were infected, got a friggin' nose bleed, fell into a quick coma, then felt like eating people..really fast. Most of them run like retards, too. No offense to retarded people, since they should be pissed at the representation these assholes are giving them in this movie.

Oh, dude for serious, there's spider zombies. No, not insect spiders that have little spider nose bleeds and go into little spider comas..no, there are actually 'zombies' that scale walls. One even crawls across the ceiling.

What the fuck?

Okay, the only thing I dug in this entire poopsicle of dookiness was the stunts. When someone got hit by a car, flung out of a windshield, or simply thrown out a window..it looked good.

But that's it. Otherwise, this movie is a poor mans Resident Evil (the movie, not the game) rip off and shouldn't even share the same name as the Romero classic.

If you're a hardcore infected type zombie lover, you may want to check it out. Go for it. Rent it, netflix it, whatever. If you're a hardcore zombie genre fan, skip it. If you fall into any other category...avoid it like it's a ceiling fan that someone vomited on then put on the highest setting after locking you in the room.

FUN FACT! The virus in the movie is called PROJECT: WILDFIRE, which was also the name of another show director Steve Minor helmed. WHOOPITY DOO.

Day of the Dead (2008)

Directed By

Steve Miner

Starring

Mena Suvari, Nick Cannon, Stark Sands

Opening Date

Tue, Feb 12th 2008

DVD date

Tue, Feb 12th 2008