When a small Colorado town is overrun by the flesh hungry dead a small group of survivors try to escape in a last ditch effort to stay alive.
Day of the Dead (2008) Online
- Original Title :
- Day of the Dead
- Genre :
- Creative Work / Action / Horror / Thriller
- Year :
- 2008
- Directror :
- Steve Miner
- Cast :
- Mena Suvari,Nick Cannon,Michael Welch
- Writer :
- Jeffrey Reddick,George A. Romero
- Budget :
- $18,000,000
- Type :
- Creative Work
- Time :
- 1h 26min
- Rating :
- 4.5/10
In Leadville, Colorado, Captain Rhodes and his army seals off the town to contain an influenza-type epidemic. The locals are not allowed to leave the town and the Pine Valley Medical Center is crowded with sick people. Corporal Sarah Bowman was born and raised in Leadville and goes to her home with Private Bud Crain to visit her mother. Sarah finds that her mother is ill and takes her to the local hospital. However, the sick people suddenly transform in flesh eating, fast moving zombies which attack the non-infected humans. Sarah, Bud and Private Salazar get a jeep and head to the town exit to escape from the dead. But Sarah hears the voice of her brother, Trevor, on the radio and is compelled to go to the radio station where Trevor is hidden with his girlfriend Nina. The group of survivors drives to the isolated Nike missile site seeking shelter, where they discover an underground army base.
Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Mena Suvari | - | Sarah Bowman | |
Nick Cannon | - | Salazar | |
Michael Welch | - | Trevor Bowman | |
AnnaLynne McCord | - | Nina (as AnnaLyne McCord) | |
Stark Sands | - | Bud Crain | |
Matt Rippy | - | Doctor Logan | |
Pat Kilbane | - | Scientist | |
Taylor Saracho | - | Local Girl (as Taylor Hoover) | |
Christa Campbell | - | Mrs. Leitner | |
Ian McNeice | - | Paul - DJ | |
Ving Rhames | - | Captain Rhodes | |
Robert Rais | - | Mr. Leitner | |
Michael McCoy | - | Mr. Noble | |
Laura Giosh | - | Mrs. Noble | |
Vanessa Johansson | - | Receptionist |
The computer screen and readout in the bunker near the end refer to 'Project Wildfire'. This was the code name used in The Andromeda Strain which deals with a crashed satellite that infects a community with a deadly organism. The zombie virus in The Night of the Living Dead was blamed on a crashed space probe.
Song playing in the background, about 7 minutes into the movie is the theme tune to iZombie, a TV show where the lead character is a zombie.
Although the film's plot shares little with the original, many of the scenes and situations from the original are duplicated, such as debating on whether or not a fellow member should be killed even though there's a chance he won't become a zombie and a zombie firing a gun.
Ving Rhames plays Captain Rhodes, the role that Joseph Pilato played in the original film. Rhames and Pilato both appeared in Pulp Fiction.
Despite the title most of the movie takes place at night.
Christa Campbell played Mrs. Leitner in День мертвецов (2008) and was a producer of the later remake День мертвецов: Злая кровь (2018).
The Radio Station is on the Elm Street. This is a reference to Кошмар на улице Вязов (1984).
This remake of the third installment of George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead franchise makes it perhaps the only entire trilogy that has been remade, though none of the remakes are related to one another.
Rhames also starred in Dawn of the Dead.
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