Day of the Dead |  | Director: Steve Miner
Actors: Ving Rhames, Mena Suvari, Michael Welch, Pat Kilbane, Nick Cannon
Studio: First Look Pictures
Category: DVD
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Rating:  126 reviews
Sales Rank: 51346
Format: Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 87 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: FLP-12254
UPC: 687797122544
EAN: 0687797122544
ASIN: B00116GEFW
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: April 8, 2008
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| • | Nick Cannon, Mena Suvari, and Ving Rhames star in this horror film based on the George A. Romeroic 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 p |
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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: 687797122544 Manufacturer No: FLP-12254
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 126
 I thought it was a solid zombie flick January 22, 2010
Jack (North Carolina)
Die hards who loved the original(which was definately just fanastic) will probably hate this movie. Its pretty good imo, I had no problems with it. Want fast moving zombies? This is the one, I mean they are climbing walls and junk. Try it out, its pretty good.
Oh and Mena Suvari is in this one...man o man. SMOKING! I am seriously considering becoming a stalker with that chick, love her.
 Based off of the George Romero classic? Says who?!? January 20, 2010
Jason A. Greene (California)
Okay, so let me get this straight, just because they took the title of the original George Romero film it gets to be based on it? I have seen the worst of the worst when it comes to Zombie flicks as I am a huge fan. Just as an idea, House of the Dead is, in my opinion, the absolute worst Zombie film ever. Why? Heavy duty budget and not even a small bit of the film looks like it was spent on the movie itself. Plain and simeple. Now, taking that logic, let's look at this train wreck of a film.
First of all, the characters in this film have the names of the characters from the original, and that is about where the similarities between the films stop. I so wanted this to be a good film. The "Remake" of Dawn of the Dead, while not really a remake, was at least okay to call Dawn of the Dead as it at least had the idea of the film taking place in a mall surrounded by Zombies and a group of people trying to survive a Hellish Zombie outbreak. As for this piece of crap, the only part of the film that takes place underground, supposedly, is the very end. Sarah is now an Army recruit, Dr. Logan, nicknamed "Frankenstein" in the original, is now a serious bad guy, Bub is also a member of the army who becomes a Zombie but will listen to Sarah because he is in love with her(?), and lastly, let's get to Rhodes. In the original film, you hated him. Joseph Pilato made himself a cult icon in horror for his portrayal of Captain Rhodes. His sharp tonged lashings and over the top paranoia made him the real bad guy in the film. His insanity was scarier than the Zombies this group of Scientists and Army outfit were trying to survive. Ving Rhames as Rhodes is horrid. I am sure it has nothing to do with him as an actor as he has been damn good in everything else he has been in, but this script so waters down this character, you really don't know what a jerk he was in the original.
The great things about the George Romero Zombie films is that the Zombies are not the center of the story, the people in the situation they are in are. I do have respect for Steve Miner in some regards as I am a huge fan of his film "House" but he really should have done something else with this film. The story is weak and ill conceived along with the dialogue, the acting is just bad, the special effects are not the greatest, and the zombies themselves are just rotten, and not in a good Zombie flick kind of way either. Really, if you want to see "Day of the Dead" go get the original and enjoy an excellently done Zombie film that is worth watching. Stay away from this garbage,, it really is that damn bad.
 This Movie is Hardcore and Full of Gore January 16, 2010
A.P. Fuchs / Canister X
A strange flu outbreak.
Nose bleeds.
Death.
Rebirth . . . in rage.
No one knows how anyone got sick . . . at least, no one is telling us. The US Army is all over it, quarantining Leadville, Colorado. Sarah Bowman (Mena Suvari) is serving her country and is part of the troops bordering the town.
Except they can't contain the rage-filled maniacs that have returned from the dead after being killed by the flu.
Going back for her mother (Linda Marlowe), she runs into her brother, Trevor (Michael Welch), and tries and save their mother's life. Unfortunately, the mom falls victim to the virus and Sarah and her brother--along with his girlfriend/female interest, Nina (AnnaLynne McCord), and a couple of Army Joes--try and flee from the ever-escalating attack of flesh-hungry zombies that stop at nothing to satisfy their gut-munching desires.
Adding a strange twist to things, one of the army chaps, Bud Crain (Stark Sands), gets infected and later transforms into an angry zombie as well, but Sarah keeps him along for the ride, feeling sorry for him. Besides, he seems harmless enough and hasn't attacked them.
When their hope of escape falls through, Sarah and the others must make their last stand against the undead before they are ripped to pieces.
Can they survive this Day of the Dead?
The first thing that comes to mind about this movie is that it's hardcore. The zombies in this flick aren't just your average gray-skinned, baggy-eyed monsters. The person infected dies then are suddenly transformed into pale-skinned, decayed-fleshed, white-eyed beasties loaded with so much rage that hate and hunger emanates from them before they even move in for the kill. Speaking of which, they move so fast that you'd think they're part vampire or something. Crazy speed with these guys and, for me, those quick, jerky movements of the undead creep me out every time.
The story's simple: an outbreak, people turn to zombies, folks run for their lives. Hey, standard zombie fare, and that's part of the fun. I also liked have a female in the lead and it was neat to see Mena Suvari--who usually plays the fun, get-along girl--take charge and blast the heads off these creatures.
I was totally into this flick. The suspense was building. Every time a zombie jumped out I was jumping on my couch. All good.
Then Bud died, came back--and was nice? This bit took me out of the movie and it's why I'm giving this a 3 out of 5 instead of a 4 like I was going to. It just totally ruined it for me, especially when Sarah and friends were riding with him in the Humvee and, after a short debate about why this zombie was riding with them, they all seemed pretty cool with it.
Bud's bit at the end was also predictable, but, hey, what're you gonna do?
I did like how vulnerable these zombies were to fire and how quickly the flames destroyed them.
The ending Director Steve Miner chose for this flick was the better of the two as the alternate ending on the DVD, though very similar, wasn't as strong and was a bit hokey. Having Salazar (Nick Cannon) die was the best choice.
If you like your zombie flicks raunchy, quick and gory, you'll love this Day of the Dead remake. If you're one of those folks who are sticky about story plausibility--even in the realm of zombie movies--then this probably won't be up your alley.
Your call.
A.P. Fuchs
Canister X
Zombies movies hit a new low....>.< December 30, 2009
JT (Odessa)
I'm surprised I'm the first to review this... well I can't call it a film. I sat down to watch this movie and immediately walked away... well no words can express the anger at what I saw. And I have to keep it clean for Amazon's sake, with respect to the folks who read these.
This film, if you can call it that, belongs somewhere in the Bermuda Triangle. It's just that bad. Ving Rhames' character as the infamous Capt. Rhodes was short-lived and he went down in a crowd of zombies without a fight or awesome last words. He was just dragged off into another room and that was the end.
The zombies are terrible, I mean absolutely horrendous in the makeup department. They looked like someone threw up acrylic paint and dumped it on 300 extras, then added some latex for effect. What really took the cake was how the zombies could do an acrobatic leap off a ten story building and not splatter, or crawl on a roof like some human-cheetah-spider-gecko hybrid make it totally lame.
The dialogue is trite and hackneyed, the typical teenagers making out in the woods and killed marks the beginning and the rest looks like a bad made for Sci-Fi movie. More than anything, the film insults the viewers at every corner. Sadly, it's just an excuse for Nick Cannon to shoot his mouth of every five minutes to the point you cheer when the zombies get him.
The sad excuse for a "trained zombie" here aptly named Bud (they can't use BUB because they'd get sued by Romero), doesn't eat people because he's a vegetarian zombie (?????).
The story makes no sense at all just the same. One of the most ridiculous scares in movie history occurs when the soldiers enter a trailer. The overused disheveled appearance and blood streaks indicate violence of some nature all the way to the bedroom and end at strategically placed comforter on the floor. They turn it over expecting, wait for it..., nothing to jump out. The other soldier still manages to freak and bump some curtains behind, through which two severely mangled bodies are mysteriously standing up straight to fall out on him (?).
Worse, police officers show up randomly and find three bodies(?) this time then, wait for it, the power suddenly goes out to the whole town. Then a zombie mircalously jumps out of the dark and manages to take out four very well armed men without taking a bullet.(?)
Confused yet? Well it gets worse. The moment the power goes out, the worker (who is for some unknown reason still working on the place after dark) see some "shadows" walk out of the dark. The worker begins talking to them and the zombies jump on her, sending her into a strategically placed electrode thingy on the floor. Her blood suddenly shorts it out and all the power to town goes out(?).
To make matters worse, the zombies go from normal to super rotten in just under five seconds. If a body decayed that fast, they would be stumbling not running an Olympic Marathon to kill someone.
Then for some reason the scientist who created the zombie virus is that tall guy from the early seasons of Mad TV, you know that guy that played Stan the Java Man with his eyes bugging out and permanently whipped up on caffeine. Yeah I started laughing when he changed into a zombie... wait I thought was trying to be serious.
Then it ends with that classic all is well endings, and zombie suddenly jumps at the camera to get in that "Oh S---" scare at the end. Yeah, I was ready to put more holes in my wall than the Dawn of the Dead Remake I busted by guitar getting excited over.
With this movie, all bets are off at owning or even viewing it. Next time block the channel it's playing on to keep from destroying your eyes, should you happen across it late in the wee hours of the morning when nothing else is good on. Better yet, when you see it, turn off the TV and go to bed. You're better off saving that hour or so of your time.
in the ballpark of worst zombie movies December 23, 2009
Seth Johnson (Austin, TX)
Sadly, I cannot call this the worst zombie movie made in the last ten years. It's sad because there are even worse movies than this one out there. "Diary of the Dead" and "Dead and Deader" come to mind as examples. Other than these two, I have a difficult time thinking of a single zombie movie that this is better than.
The only thing going for this rendition of "Day of the Dead" is that in contrast to its teen-movie alumni cast, this is not rated PG-13. While it's not a hard-R, there are plentiful applications of the 'F' word and an equal amount of gore. No nudity, however. Perhaps the star of "Day of the Dead" felt she had crossed that hurdle once and for all in "American Beauty."
Ving Rhames took the money and got out off-camera quickly. I recommend you save the money and avoid this "Day of the Dead" altogether.
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