Day of the Dead: Bloodline

First, I'll be entirely honest. I absolutely hate remakes. 99% of them are utter crap, made by no talent pinheads trying to use an existing success to lure chumps in to see their crappy, ill thought out tax break films. This is no different. I didn't think that there could be a worse remake of Day than that horrible 2008 version, but this one is EVEN WORSE. Someone should make a movie where George Romero comes back as a Zombie and KILLS everyone even thinking of making another remake of one of his movies. This has everything bad. Acting. Storyline. Plot. Even the zombies are bad. At 90 minutes long it felt like three times that. Just a horrible waste of time.

Just all around a dreadful occurrence in film history.

The main protagonist checks all the boxes on the "dumb things to do in an apocalypse" checklist. Add to that the massive plot holes and bad acting and you get a recipe for failure.

While the main character is the absolute repository for bad ideas you'd be amazed at how stupid the other characters can be, it's as though they all want to die. For example in one scene zombies flood into the area, this is followed by one of the characters running TOWARD AND PAST the horde of zombies, followed immediately by the protagonist. Naturally these flesh hungry zombies let both individuals pass without harm after all we're watching a terrible movie.

All of this hullabaloo because she needs a zombie alive. Following this massive plot hole what does she do? She kills the one she wanted alive.

This movie is garbage don't bother watching it, I'd watch a 100 hour marathon of The Wiggles before I watched this again.

This is one of those time when I wished I had listened to my gut feeling. It said avoid this trash but I was like how bad can it be? As bad as Day of the dead Contagion (a turkey which had nothing to do with the original movie)? As bad as the Steve Miner one? It is on a par with the Miner movie. It just feels like a generic zombie trash movie. Like zombies of mass destruction or zombie planet to name two from the cannon of so bad they are awful zombie movies. The movie itself is just generic zombie schlock. If they had called in zombies in Mexico then it just would have been a 2 out of ten trash movie. Saying it is based on the George Romero movie is an insult. Watch this at your own peril.

There is absolutely nothing new or interesting to be found in this budget zombie flick.

The story is fine I guess, but the screenplay that tells that story isn't, it's full of poorly written characters in cliched situations full of worn out horror tropes that you've seen 100 times before and done 100 times better.

The acting swings wildly between just OK, awkward, and completely terrible. Some of the actors deliver their lines as if punctuation is a foreign concept to them, there's no pauses or natural flow to the monotone words falling from their mouths. The lead actress does a few voiceovers throughout the film that are delivered so poorly that it sounded like she was reading them for the first time as they recorded her.

When it comes to direction and camera work the action is your typical low budget handheld shaky cam style, it's functional, it does the job and that's about it. There's nothing special or inspired, no shots that make you sit up and take notice. Any young aspiring directors out there aren't going to be rushing out to copy this directors style, if you can call uninspired and forgettable a style. I will say that the practical zombie and gore effects are well done, though variety when it came to how things died would have been nice instead of just zombie death = headshot and human death = bite on neck from zombie.

In the end this is a very mediocre horror film full of poorly written cliched characters portrayed by mostly terrible actors, the various situations they find themselves in have zero tension because the script is so uninspired and predictable that you always know what's coming next. If you're like me you'll be rooting for the zombies after the first 10 minutes.

I give it 3/10

You don't need a lot of money to make a great zombie type flick, all you need is a good script and a passionate director with a vision, for proof of this go watch The Girl With All The Gifts or 28 Days Later that both had similar budgets to this movie.

Why are people intent on wasting money making poor movies. After 2 minutes you can clearly tell that this is going to be an awful movie.

Since when do people explode blood when bitten. What was the zombie wiping the wind screen with blood inside the car all about?

Poor script with even worse acting.