Day of the Dead (2008)

A 1 out of 10? Is Devin the only one allowed to use the Fuck You out of 10. Everything about this movie was just wrong.

So is all the Creature Corner news gonna show only on CHUD now?

Rant, indeed. You are one angry fan here. Did its shittiness really surprise you into an emotional response? I feel like I would stare blankly at this fucking thing for its entire running time.

CC is merging into CHUD.

I saw they had this on the Instant View and I almost watched it. But I figured I was better off just not doing that to myself.

It's amazing to hear that it's actually worse than I thought it would be.

I saw the movie. It was the most craptacular spectacle I've ever seen. As a huge fan of horror movies and zombies I found it offense on just about every level. From the quickness of the reanimated Zombies, to the reason for the Zombies becoming Zombies, to the horrible acting to the under utilization of Ving Rhames. It's just shitty. I mean like, not even B-Level or C-Level shitty.. .Hell I wouldn't even call it Z-Level shitty because I reserve that for movies like Zombie Strippers and Evil Bong. They're so shitty they're awesome. This was just plain horrible.

Alright.

Once I learned this was being made by the same people who did Day of the Dead 2: Contagium, then you add on Nick Cannon and a vegetarian zombie among other things how could anyone not get enraged by this movie.

Just from seeing the trailer I knew that this'd be extremely wet diarrhea, and Alex's rant (review) confirmed my suspicions. Nick Cannon's whole spear speech made me put my hand on my forehead, as did the fast zombies and MTV cuts. The dvd cover only made things worse.

I'll just wait for it to inevitably show up on the Sci-Fi channel. No way does this thing seem like spending money on as a rental.

Yeah, it'll probably play in a marathon consisting of the House of the Dead movies, the Resident Evil movies and Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis & Rave to the Grave.

How...how do you pull off a vegetarian zombie, exactly?

You and Max Brooks, both...brother!

The Army Zombies waved them into the road camp then after about two minutes of dialog the army zombies run after them and with guns and try to eat them... just one of the many scenes that destroys protagonist continuity. Along with the time from when the nose bleed happens until they turn changing from presumably hours \ days to seconds it's just a joke and insulting.

Any "so bad it's good" moments, or is this more like Alone in the Dark, with no redeeming qualities?

You didn't need to write another word.

Thanks man, I'll avoid this one like the plague.

If this were just released under any other generic title it would be easy enough to ignore. But they just have to piss on George Romero over and over again.

Great review. I knew I'd be avoiding this one anyway, but it's nice to know I'm making the right decision.

This is a good thing.

This movie is pretty much PLANET TERROR played straight. Oh, and it sucks ass. Sucks a lot of ass really, really hard.

Shit, forgot to mention my most hated/laughed-at moment: SPIDER-ZOMBIE! He'll clamber along the ceiling like Peter Parker to take a bite out of you! Fuck this movie, indeed.

I'd say it's more like Planet Terror made by people who don't get the genre. It's not exactly played straight. It just falls flat with its comedy attempts.

God Bless Netflix on Demand.

This movie was a giant piece of shit. I'm with you Alex. It actually angered me. Yet I held out until the end.

What a fucking waste.

Unless you've already seen every movie in existence that could potentially be good (or at least bad in an amusing way), I see no reason to spend any time on this one. I mean, what part of the trailer made this not look like a giant piece of shit?

Is it any wonder that the New Day of The Dead, and Diary of the Dead are in Blockbusters used bins for $5.00 or so each. Ugh.

Excuse portion of post:

My TV and DVD player are unhooked for a few days. So I watched this while waiting for a contractor today. </excuse-making>

Jesus Christ.

Ving Rhames: Dayplayer of the Dead. Seriously, they had him two days, tops.

Ving Rhames: Horrible zombie actor.

Zombies have gone from slow to fast to, with this film, having spider-powers.

Mena Suvari's silencer-less gun makes silencer sounds. This is dulled a bit by the fact that Nick Cannon's knife/spear weapon makes the exact same sound as Suvari's gun when he decapitates people.

Suvari kills one zombie by kneeing him in the head.

The cast names are less homage than sort of cribbed from a drowsy perusal of the original's IMDB page. "She's a girl, call her Sarah, that guy's in charge of the unit, call him Rhodes, that doctor can be called Logan, even though he's more the dickhead from the Dawn remake, and what was the friendly zombie's name? Butch, Bub, Bud? Bud. Call him Bud."

I didn't mind some of the kills, and the set-up wasn't the worst. But it plays like Planet Terror without the affection for the genre.

This movie is the biggest case against Netflix's Instant View. In my house, at least.

The best case FOR Netflix Instant View, assuming you have an Xbox 360?

High Definition Eraserhead.

The zombies SCURRY UP WALLS AND CRAWL ACROSS CEILINGS. This can't be overstated.

Exactly. PARKOUR ZOMBIES!

Phil you poor son of a bitch, why the hell would you do that to yourself?

I just watched this, and while I agree with pretty much everything Alex says in his review, I have to admit I was actually entertained by it. Everything about this movie is awful, but I thought it was fun just to see how ridiculously bad it would get.

There are no zombies in the movie since no one dies until after they are infected and have turned into flu monsters, so it is more of a piss poor remake of 28 Days Later.

the only redeeming quality of this movie, outside of getting a laugh out of how bad it is, are the stunts. There are a couple times where the infected jump through or run though windows in a way that could have been very effective if the rest of the story wasn't absolute garbage.

I had extremely low expectations, which were met, but I didn't hate sitting though it.

The cover is as much of this movie as I care to see. What a fucking terrible choice for cover art.

This makes me want to see a zombie movie starring Tony Jaa.