Holy shit. I knew this thing was going to be bad, but I had no idea just how bad.
Day of the Dead, an in-name-only remake of George Romero's original, had been put into production after the successs of Zach Snyder's Dawn of the Dead remake. It was completed a few years ago, and has been sitting on a shelf since then, until its uncerimonous dumping onto DVD rental shelves this month. I'm surprised they didn't just set fire to the celluloid for the insurance money.
Sporting CGI effects last seen in the first Resident Evil game for Playstation and a script seemingly hammered out by precocious chimps, Day of the Dead is jawdroppingly awful, and not even in an entertaining way. Just sad. No matter what the title says, this isnt't a remake of Day of the Dead, but a remake of Planet Terror done by special ed middle schoolers.
My favorite bit of supergenius thinking on the part of the "filmmakers" was this nugget: since fast moving zombies were awesome in the Dawn of the Dead remake, then SUPERFAST MOVING zombies should be SUPER awesome! For the record, it is decidedly not super awesome. In order to make the zombies appear to move superfast, they speed up the film Benny Hill-style, which doesn't really add to the scare factor so much as cry out for the addition of Yakety Sax to the soundtrack. Someone must have put that together on youtube by now.
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