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List Price: $19.98 | | Label: First Look Pictures
Salesrank: 6183
Released: April 8, 2008 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
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
Day of the Dead Reviews:
Wasn't as bad as i was i expecting it to be. 
2008-08-24 - 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.
Waste of Time...Even for Video. 
2008-08-12 - 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.
Not so bad as most say... but still far from memorable. 
2008-08-04 - 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.
don't know dvd was defective...twice 
2008-07-25 - 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.
Zombies on Speed
2008-07-24 - Well, the only big mistake of that movie was to pretend to be the remake of a classic, when it was not. That must have dissapointed and angered a lot of people.
Actually "Day of the Dead" is a highly entertaining Zombie-Flick that deliveres everything one expects: good trash, gore, humour and well-known main-actors who act, well, lets say "okay"...
The story is not really important, as we saw it dozens of times (Virus, Transformation, Out of Control, group trying to escape,....and so on) and there were elements of "Resident Evil" and "28 Days/Weeks later" as the "life to death transformed" corpses behave the same hysterical way as the sickos from London, only that americans must be way much hungrier as these zombies are feeding on flesh. And how....
Anyway: "Day of the Dead" was fun, a little thrilling, entertaining and better than a lot of other genre-movies BUT somebody in the marketing-departement blew it up by having the idea to sell it as a "Romero Remake".
Some Zombie should bite this person....
