2008 Horror Fest: Day Of The Dead: 10 Out Of 100 Stars

Really just about as plain a paint by numbers, no drama, no fun, nothing of a movie as you can get. I only even bothered to watch this because I came upon some pictures of a hot chick named Christa Campbell or something, who is in it. Unfortunately she plays a mother and isn't used for the slightest bit of sex appeal.

We get a cold open with a military blockade on the only road out of town, the infestation has apparently begun but we're never shown the how or why. I think Ving Rhams plays a general or something, pretty sure it's him. The main army girl is about 23 years old and luckily enough is from this very town so she along with the cliche hick soldier who has a puppy dog crush on her, and the hip, wise cracking, black soldier all team up to try and get out of town. Along the way they hook up with her little brother and his girlfriend.

The gore is OK enough but there is literally nothing here that isn't a rehash of every zombie movie ever without even the slightest attempt at originality. Zombies come after people, zombies are shot, zombies chase the leads, the leads run, blah blah blah. Fun sequence where the love struck hick soldier is bitten but army girl can't bring herself to shoot him because "he still seems human", so she handcuffs him and keeps him with her and the group. About 10 seconds later she runs over her zombie mother, gets out of the car and proclaims to her little brother "that wasn't mom any more".

So the group gets out into the woods and hides in a shack in the middle of nowhere which conveniently leads to an underground testing facility where it appears the government was working on viruses and one of them unfortunately mutated and got out.

Some people die, some survive, blah blah blah.

One wonders why you would spend any budget on a film so devoid of originality and effort. They literally start the movie in the middle of every typical zombie story and end it with the same ending of every typical zombie movie, and littered in between are you typical point A's to point B's plot developments. There really isn't a single redeeming thing about this film.