The remake of Day of the Dead starring Mena Suvari and Vingh Rhames didn’t impress me.Watching the movie you could tell that all they we thinking about was “Let’s turbocharge those zombies”.Failing yet again to grasp what is so effective about authentic zombies in the first place: they’re slow,yeah, but they add up fast and soon you are overwhelmed and cornered.Then they git you.
In 2008’s effort the zombies are so revved up by their infection that they crawl on the ceilings,digitalized of course. Another grave mistake(ha ha) of the big brains behind this project. You don’t digitalize zombies!!
Please stop using animation to replace real things: deer,ghouls, zombies- I don’t care, just stop it.
Did they use fakery in 28 Days Later? Did that movie still scare the pants off of me? Yes, it did. And that is all that horror is supposed to do. These days big movie makers just want to impress you with how much $$$ they’ve paid the animators.
Whatever.
The biggest mess up was that I had already rented this flick off OnDemand (Video OnDemand) via cable.
I was under the wrong impression that there had been yet another remake of a zombie film, saw it listed in NetFlix, ignored the actor list and put it in my queue. Got it, whacked it into the dvd player, caught on that I’d already seen it and kicked myself.
In order to get Day of the Dead to even be in my queue I had had to return The Diving Bell and the Butterfly unwatched.A movie which by all accounts must be 1,000 times better. But I have a tender spot in my heart for the zombie genre and so there you go.
Some NetFlix Specific Whining
Why does it take them so long to get new flicks? I’m waiting on 4 months 3weeks and 2 Days for ages now but it has come and gone from Video OnDemand…! What are they, like last in line for new releases? The BlockBuster 14 blocks away is beginning to seem worth the haul again.