Day of the Dead From:Ving Rhames , Mena Suvari , Michael Welch , Pat Kilbane , Nick Cannon , FIRST LOOK HOME ENTERTAINMENT , Steve Miner , First Look Pictures ,
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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: FIRST LOOK HOME ENTERTAINMENT
EAN: 0687797122599
Format: AC-3
Format: Color
Format: Dolby
Format: DVD-Video
Format: Subtitled
Format: Widescreen
Format: NTSC
Weight: 100 hundredths-pounds
Label: First Look Pictures
Manufacturer: First Look Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Packaged Height: 58 hundredths-inches
Packaged Length: 710 hundredths-inches
Packaged Weight: 18 hundredths-pounds
Packaged Width: 542 hundredths-inches
Publisher: First Look Pictures
Release Date: 2008-04-08
Running Time: 87 minutes
Studio: First Look Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Product Description:
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.
Customer Reviews:
 Okay, folks, one last time: IT'S NOT A REMAKE., 2008-10-10
Day of the Dead (Steve Miner, 2008)
Okay, let's get this out of the way first: Steve Miner's brand-spanking-new Day of the Dead is neither a remake of George Romero's 1985 film of the same name-- it borrows a few concepts, but the execution is entirely different-- and, despite the presence of Ving Rhames, it is also not a sequel to Zack Snyder's 2004 not-really-a-remake of Dawn of the Dead. Comparing the two, however, the new Dawn was, in comparison, slavishly faithful. Yeah, I mean, this really isn't a remake. For all that, however, I was very pleasantly surprised at just how enjoyable the movie is when taken on its own merits.
Plot: Sarah Bowman (American Beauty's Mena Suvari) fled her provincial little town by joining the army-- or so she thought. She gets posted right back there when the town is quarantined. Nobody's quite sure why the town's been quarantined, but when Sarah's mother comes down with the same thing everyone else has, Sarah and somewhat lovestruck private Bud Crain (Stark Sands, recently of Flags of Our Fathers) rush her to the hospital along with Sarah's intractable younger brother Trevor (An American Crime's Michael Welch) and his girlfriend Nina (AnnaLynne McCord, now in the new 90210 TV series). While there, they bump into a few other army types, notably her commanding officer (Rhames) and an annoying doctor type, Logan (The Dark Knight's Matt Rippy). Once most of the cast is in place, well, you know what's going to happen. Zombies! Blood! Gore! Ving Rhames chewing scenery!
I think that had they attempted a straight remake-- with Romero's last echoes of the Cold War intact-- the movie probably would have been as much of a failure as, well, most of the horror remakes that have come down the pike in the past five years or so. But Miner (Lake Placid) and screenwriter Jeffrey Reddick (Final Destination) reused the title and reimagined the rest, and came up with something that's actually fun, fast-paced, and moderately interesting. Avoid the temptation to compare it to the original (which is extremely interesting, though neither fun nor fast-paced, both by design) and you'll likely enjoy this a great deal more. ***
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