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Zombie movies have literally been done to death, no pun intended. Nowadays the expectation is for something slightly less unoriginal, with a huge budget, and the usual shocks and scares. Sadly this one fails on both counts, there is absolutely nothing original, and the budget was evidently fairly low, as at times it looks a little cheap. The start was pretty decent, and the Zombie stalker thing was perhaps a little different. The acting was sadly a little below par too.

4/10

Why is it with a budget of 8 million you cant make a better version than the original which cost a mere $3,000,000; its not rocket science but I guess you need a Romero at the helm.

Not very scary or claustrophobic like the original was, woeful acting, illogical situations. cheddar cheesy dialogue and blood shooting out like a hose made it comical - The Walking Dead has it spot on so why not just copy if you dont have a clue what you are doing. I wont mention the ending which had the entire audience laughing - Oh my what were they thinking? And to add insult to injury the thrash metal "nettle-rash" music as my old dad used to call it at the end credits really did aggravate an already aggravated viewing sesh!

Its not awful - the people who give 1 star are as bad as the shills who give 10/10 to every movie they review and havent a clue what the ratings systems means - 1 star means its the worst movie you have ever seen; watch "THE BAD BATCH" with Keanu Reeves then come back and tell me you would still give this a 1 star.

To be fair Johnathon Schaech did a pretty good attempt at the original Bubba-zombie (he was the best actor in the whole thing) and the effects were not bad. The Dawn Of The Dead remake has been one of the best Zombo remakes but sadly this one is not. How very disappointing I must say! We can only hope Peter Jackson gets his Zombie movie that he has been talking about for over a decade off the ground, until then I guess us die hard zombo fans will have to make do with The Walking Dead!

A fair 3/10 from me!

I gave this movie a chance on Netflix after discovering it on DVD at Wal-Mart. I listened to my wife and streamed it. I am a lifelong zombie horror fan. I own any and every imaginable zombie movie you can think of that is worth owning and have given a chance to quite a few that I have not bought.

I am praising the gods today for my wife being with me at Wal-Mart that day and telling me to hold off on buying this. If there is a rating less than B-rated, this movie is not on that scale. It is without words the biggest crock of garbage I ever watched.

First of all, let's talk about the acting. How dare you put the holy name of "Day of thr Dead" on this and sully the name of George A. Romero! This is a travesty and an insult to his legacy. The acting is terrible, even by zombie film standards.

Now, do not get me wrong, but on paper the story was interesting, but come on man! "Miguel" was a trainwreck from his first appearance. These jackoffs basically attempted to combine the cowardly Miguel Salazar with the jerk Captain Rhodes. It didn't work. Oh, and we gave him a brother! Hot damn, a zombie apocalypse is fun for the whole damn family!

I am fairly certain that the studio responsible is shitting themselves now as they realize they wasted $8 million on a budget for this shit heep. For $8 million, I could write, direct and produce a zombie movie that would make the almighty George smile and approve. And I can find better actors AND hire a special effects team that knows how the human anatomy works!

Recommendation(s): DO NOT WATCH IF YOU'RE A TRUE ZOMBIE HORROR FAN!

I built this account just to warn people how bad this film is. save yourselves and dont watch it, its the worst low budget everything under the sun including acting. a film by fans for fans,of themselves...

it should be a crime to use "day of the dead" for garbage like this

Romero is rolling in his grave right now

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.

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.

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.

The way people's blood exploded is worth 10 stars haha

Lots of gore. The plot I thought was quite original for a zombie flick. Simple but original. It's just a not-to-be-taken-too-seriously zombie flick to make you and your mates laugh. Good times.

When another remake of Day of the Dead was announced, the horror community was already up in arms. And for good reason. The last two attempts at "reinventing" Romero's nihilistically grim third installment in his "Dead" series were total unmitigated disasters. And from the sounds of it, this one was going to be no different...

Low and behold, the film is released to scathing reviews left and right. And I won't sit here and pretend I don't get it, because I do, but I will say this...for whatever the hell it's worth, I personally thought it was very fun. It's trashy, cartoonishly violent (literal EXPLOSIONS of blood whenever someone gets bitten) and just plain silly at times. But I think that's why it works. It reminded me a bit of the Italian zombie flicks that were made in the wake of Dawn of the Dead and it seemed more focused on being an entertaining movie than trying to top the original.

The cast is generally pretty poor with Sophie Skelton making a bland protagonist (a sort of cross between Sarah and Dr. Logan from the original), Jeff Gum being an incredibly lame substitute for Joe Pilato's legendary Captain Rhodes and Marcus Vanco just being plain old boring.

The big exception here would be the top-billed Johnathon Schaech as our main antagonist Max. Max is essentially meant to be this movie's version of Bub, but whereas Bub was a lovable and sympathetic character, Max is a flat-out despicable monster from the get go. He makes a solid villain and the scenes where it's just him interaction with Skelton are genuinely effective. The third act really picks up thanks to shifting its focus mainly onto him.

So at the end of the day, it's not going to blow anyone's minds and if you walk into it wanting something on par with the original, then you're just asking to be disappointed. But if you're craving some old-fashioned splattery direct-to-video zombie action, you'll probably have a fun time with it.

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.

I am getting sick, really sick, of these hacks "remaking" classic horror movies. This is a theft of a name/brand. This is not even a zombie movie. Its a total mess and a joke. Zombies aren't stalkers. Blood does not spray out of a humans body like a fire hose. With the budget they had for this, they could have at least found some people who could act their way out of a wet paper bag. They failed. Even DOTD 2 Contagium was better written and acted, and my dog could crap out a better movie than that turd.

I wanted the main girl to die within 30 seconds of seeing her character on screen. She caused the death of almost every character by her stupidity. But hey, all she had to do was take some blood from her stalker zombie ex-patient, who tracked her down from the smell of her panties, and she saved civilization. Great writing.

DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME ON THIS PIECE OF CRAP! 'nuff said

From what I understood, Day of the Dead Bloodline is supposed to be a remake of Day of the Dead (1985).

Now I must state for the record that I am not a fan of remakes as they usually fall flat, and I can't understand the need for them in the first place, and it shows a lack of originality as well.

With that statement out of the way, Day of the Dead Bloodline was in fact far inferior to the original Day of the Dead, though to be fair it bares very little in common to the original.

The acting was amateurish and the script was poorly written. The effects were actually pretty good, with the only exception being blood constantly expelled with explosive force from people being attacked, which is fine if you are watching a comedy but not so much in a supposed horror movie.

All in all, I wouldn't recommend this movie, though if you have nothing else to do and want to watch it, go ahead, just don't expect something memorable.

The movie started out so so.

What totally made me think this is crap is when they all of a sudden made the zombies clever. The one zombie is now a stalker and only goes after the specific woman. Its like a serial killer/rapist stalker movie but using a zombie do it.

They could not make up their minds if they wanted to make a zombie movie or serial killer thriller.

Zombie carrying a grudge and angry after seeing the woman he is after kissing her boyfriend. I mean come on, really.

Zombies is supposed to be brain dead and only want to eat the living, in older movies zombies were slow as well, now they break records running sprints here. But i can still live with that, just not the genius stalker serial killer zombie.

The rest got spoiled by bad acting and sloppy camera work.

Not a good movie at all. Do not waste your time.

.. that is to say, tastless rubbish.

I love the horror genre, and especially the classics and those movies with fresh new ideas. This one? Sigh. It's formulaic, follows a standard character profile (the army guys, the cranky leader, the gormless younger brother, the driven med student/female love interest...) with predictable plot points throughout, and what must surely be the most stupid characters in the history of horror cinema. I mean, this goes way WAY beyond "heard a noise in the dark basement, goes to investigate" kind of stupid. And don't even get me started on the ultra cheesy ending... this movie really should come with vomit bags. Truly.

When your entire storyline would have been negated by even one sensible/logical choice at some point, there's something very wrong.

This stinker is best avoided; if you can't, then try to find the humour in it like some other reviewers did - that'll help you get through without tearing your hair out!

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.

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

It had original zombie and lots of gore, what's not to like.

The movie is terrible, nothing in it is even decent, the characters suck, there "story" if you can call it that way is just not there, it's so bad it will make you wonder why does this even exist