After the runaway success of Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead remake - a largely underrated film with enough style and substance to distance it from the original - hungry Hollywood eyes soon turned to other George Romero classics. At first Day of the Dead caused some confusion in the run-up to its release as to whether it was a straight sequel to Snyder's effort - made more confusing by the fact that Ving Rhames appears in both, under different character names. It was so baffling that the screenwriter had to actually come out and say that the two films bore no connection - not that it helped dwindling fan interest. The appearance of flatliners Nick Cannon and Mena Suvari didn't do anything to help a film that had shoddy writing, worse effects and an unengaging storyline - taking the scientists-and-soldiers concept from the original Day of the Dead and simply turning it into the kind of zombie film where people merely... shoot zombies. There's zero depth to it. If Snyder's Dawn of the Dead exists as a how-to guide to remaking George Romero films, Day of the Dead is a how-not-to.
Cinephile since 1993, aged 4, when he saw his very first film in the cinema - Jurassic Park - which is also evidence of damn fine parenting. World champion at Six Degrees of Separation. Lender of DVDs to cheap mates. Connoisseur of Marvel Comics and its Cinematic Universe.
