Day of the Dead (2008)

Summary: Sarah is a military officer in Colorado and asked to help quarantine a town where and outbreak is occurring. Turns out the entire town is about to turn into zombies and she will be one of the very few survivors. Question is, can she make it out of her hometown, alive!           Overall: Well anyone who has read my reviews will know I’m not the biggest Romero fan to begin with. This is a remake of his 3rd zombie film. If you will all remember, I preferred the remake of “Dawn of the Dead” to Romero’s original film. As for the original “Day of the Dead,” I was never a big fan of it anyway. So now we have the 2008 remake.           Let’s start by saying that this is basically a re-imagining of the zombie genre. In many ways, it’s simply a zombie movie which happens to have copied a very popular Zombie film name. Not sure anything about this film can truly be called a remake or even a sequel/prequel of sorts. The original film was basically, everyone in a bunker and dealing with how to solve their zombie problem. This movie has our heroes not even making it into the bunker until well over an hour in. And even with that, there’s no much that can be remotely considered a connection to anything Romero did.           Now, with that said, it’s a good film. Great action scenes…great gore and blood, and I’m such a huge fan of sprinting zombies. Makes it scarier! And this time we have zombies jumping through windows, coordinating their attacks. It’s good stuff.           They also added some new ways to deal with Zombies and zombification. We see early on, the pouring of bleach over a zombie would hoping that can help stave up the process. Doesn’t work but hey, they tried right? Also, the whole thing about fire and disintegrating the zombies, sorta like how vampires do under the sunlight. Some neat stuff here, new ideas. If you’re a die-hard zombie and Romero fan, you prob won’t like the film. For everyone else, it’s totally worth watching.           Comparison: Day of the Dead meets 28 Days Later

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