Day of the Dead

Outside some of the character names, this bares no resemblance to Romero's classic other than it has zombies.

It does have a lot of cliched, unlikeable characters who act like idiots. It's got bad acting and the lame "zombies breaking out of the cemetery" who somehow were able to break through their sealed caskets and six feet of earth. Some of the cemetery zombies are breaking out of the ground with blood in their mouth. Why? Some have been buried yet have tons of blood gushing out of them.

They're chasing one of the dummies and instead of running from these slow moving zombies, he gets on his lawn mower, which goes as fast as the zombies do. Huh?

That scene explains everything stupid about this awful show. One episode, that was enough for me.

I gave it three rather than one stars because unlike what some of the people here are saying, the zombie make up is good. That's the only positive thing to say about this mess.

The latter won out!

Bad acting, higgledy-piggledy direction and the same old same old with not a lot new to bring to the table is a bit underwhelming.

I will say however that some of the zombie effects and gore are not too shabby for a Scifi Channel production so maybe there is hope?

Such a shame, as a big zombo fan this is rather disappointing!

Maybe it will get better as it goes along but I doubt it so can only give it 4 hatchets on the horror scale at present after the first episode but it is early days, however a pilot should grab the viewer and showcase its best values which this has done weakly -We shall see!

Well what do you expect . B rated tv show with low budget , no name actors . Lacks tension and build up .

Lacks direction it meanders around like a zombie .

Too bad the scyfy network didn't think this through and out a decent show together .

Although the genre has been done to death ( honestly it has) . Putting out B grade shows is pointless and in the end will just hurt their bottom line.

.. We waited 10+ yrs for a decent DOD remake and surprise got another flop..The zombies are terrible, bodies that have been dead and buried for 50 yrs don't have all that blood when the mower ran it over..What happend to kill the brain kill the zombie like most of Romeros films..We have a decapitated zombie with just a jaw still walking and another one that's got flattened with a fire extinguisher still coming at them.... Almost as bad as the dawn remake where the zombies run faster than live people..Obviously someone attaching Romero's name to make a buck...

The producers of the show did not know if they want to make a zombie comedy or something with a "serious" tone - in the end we get a bad mix of both that does not work at all, on both levels. The dialogues are also all cliche in and too many times cringe worthy, same goes for the "humor". The only, a little redeeming feature of Day of the Dead are the masks and some little gore here and there. But that's simply not enough to spend my time on this show. Also, "Day of the Dead" has nothing to do with the story of Romero's Day of the Dead.