Day of the Dead: Bloodline (2018)

You won't be disappointed!

the audience applauded

Surprisingly incoherent and boring

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

The acting, special effects and story was awesomely horrific. Couldn't stop watching though. Nothing better to do lol

Day Of The Dead (1985) has held its ground as one of the greatest zombie movies ever made and one of the jewels on the crown of the true king of zombie movies George Romero.When it was remade back in 2008 starring Mena Suvari it understandably flopped, it had big boots to fill and failed spectacularly. For whatever reason 10 years later in what is already shaping up to be one of the worst years in movie history they decided to remake it again.Bloodline is exactly that, it's not just a cashgrab attempting to live off the originals name it is in fact an attempt at a remake. Sadly however they decided to change a great deal and that doesn't sit right with me.It follows our heroine as she lives in the military bunker alongside civilians and soldiers alike. The soldiers vs scientists dynamic that made the original so memorable has been removed altogether.They have a Bub like character, but he is an abusive stalker of our leading lady and is smarter than the rest of the zombies. Relentlessly pursuing her which is interesting but simply not Day Of The Dead.Though I don't think this is bad it certainly isn't good either. It's an offensively inferior remake of a movie that needs to be left the hell alone. All the changes to the plot have done it no favours, the pacing is dreadful, the characters are interchangeable and the "Bloodline" thing is pointlessly tacked on.The Good:Couple of nice nods to the originalLooks better than you'd expectThe Bad:Instantly forgettable charactersAwful pacingSimply shouldn't existThings I Learnt From This Movie:Being bitten by a zombie will cause a mini explosion which sprays blood upwards of ten feetDuring the zombie apocalypse while seeing people being ripped apart and while surrounded by zombies it's best to take a leisurely walk through the middle of it all and have a telephone conversation

The first few minutes are okay. Maincharacter introduced, a little backroundinformation about said character, Typical Zombie Outbreak, okay for me.And then... A landslide of a movie. The characters are stupid and there is no evolution. I mean.. they are stucked in this apocalypse for years and still have no no chance to fight these zombies? What the heck did they do the whole time? And this asshat of a major (or captain or whatever, I stopped paying attention)... He remains an ass till his end.I don't mind the bloodeffects. Over the top, yes, but I know worse.The zombies: Rotters? Really? the first one, the big bald, is great. This stalker zombie... Okay. It ist sonething new. But why is there only one? They try to explain it, but the whole story is more than stupid. Two stars for trying something new with the Stalker Zombie, and if they did not called it DAY OF THE DEAD it could have been a good movie with really bad acting...

I went into this movie with certain expectations. I really, really liked the original, so I didn't expect it to match that in any way. The previous remake was pretty bad, so I figured that this would be better than that one at least. That's... not how it worked out, unfortunately.For starters, the acting is astonishingly awful. I watch a lot of B-Movies, I'm used to bad acting, but nothing that was said in the movie felt right in the slightest; it was stilted and wooden like they were trying to channel too much intensity into every conversation. It wasn't even amusing like some movies acting, instead being painfully dull. I must admit, I skipped about five minutes halfway through because I realised that it was just going to be five minutes of unlikable characters talking angrily at each other. I didn't miss much.The special effects are sometimes decent, but most of the time it's high-pressure sprays that just look goofy. There was one bit where someone got dragged behind a counter and then the bloodspray shoots up from the opposite side of where it should. With characters like this, the least you could hope for is them satisfyingly getting munched on, and we didn't really get that. The makeup on the zombies is pretty decent, at least.The story itself is basically similar to the original, but without the intelligence, wit, or social commentary. Instead we get more characters doing stupid things because, well, that's how they keep the plot moving! They wander off, don't lock doors behind them, assume flimsy materials will hold back hundreds of zombies... I wouldn't expect them to survive a romantic comedy, much less a horror movie. I am astonished that they somehow survived five years between the opening and the main film.I saw a review that described it as "More Fulci than Romero." In fact, it was that comparison that intrigued me. The thing is, Fulci movies don't have great characters, or deep stories, but what they do have is satisfying gore and grue, an unsettling atmosphere, and music that's eerie and fitting. The only music from this that comes to mind is the end credits metal, which is already fading from my memory. None of it is notable in any way.Day of the Dead: Bloodline is no Romero. It isn't even Fulci, or Bava (I'm thinking Lamberto, but either works), or even Lenzi. It is a failure on just about every level that somehow, astonishingly, makes me wish I was watching the 2008 remake instead.And that's incredibly sad.