Day of the Dead (2008) 4.5
When a small Colorado town is overrun by the flesh hungry dead a small group of survivors try to escape in a last ditch effort to stay alive. Director:Steve Miner |
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Day of the Dead (2008) 4.5
When a small Colorado town is overrun by the flesh hungry dead a small group of survivors try to escape in a last ditch effort to stay alive. Director:Steve Miner |
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| Mena Suvari | ... | ||
| Nick Cannon | ... | ||
| Michael Welch | ... |
Trevor Bowman
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| AnnaLynne McCord | ... |
Nina
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| Stark Sands | ... |
Bud Crain
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| Matt Rippy | ... |
Doctor Logan
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| Pat Kilbane | ... |
Scientist
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Taylor Hoover | ... |
Local Girl
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| Christa Campbell | ... |
Mrs. Leitner
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| Ian McNeice | ... |
Paul - DJ
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| Ving Rhames | ... | ||
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Robert Rais | ... |
Mr. Leitner
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Michael McCoy | ... |
Mr. Noble
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Laura Giosh | ... |
Mrs. Noble
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| Vanessa Johansson | ... |
Receptionist
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In Leadville, Colorado, Captain Rhodes and his army seals off the town to contain an influenza-type epidemic. The locals are not allowed to leave the town and the Pine Valley Medical Center is crowded with sick people. Corporal Sarah Bowman was born and raised in Leadville and goes to her home with Private Bud Crain to visit her mother. Sarah finds that her mother is ill and takes her to the local hospital. However, the sick people suddenly transform in flesh eating, fast moving zombies which attack the non-infected humans. Sarah, Bud and Private Salazar get a jeep and head to the town exit to escape from the dead. But Sarah hears the voice of her brother, Trevor, on the radio and is compelled to go to the radio station where Trevor is hidden with his girlfriend Nina. The group of survivors drives to the isolated Nike missile site seeking shelter, where they discover an underground army base. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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 disappointed and angered a lot of people.
Actually "Day of the Dead" is a highly entertaining Zombie-Flick that delivers everything one expects: good trash, gore, humor 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-department blew it up by having the idea to sell it as a "Romero Remake".
Some Zombie should bite this person....