10 Movie Remakes That Ripped Off Audiences
4. Day Of The Dead (2008)
Remaking Day Of The Dead offered the opportunity to honour George Romero's original vision for the Gone With The Wind of zombie movies which he was forced to revise after his budget was slashed in half, but the forces at work here are having none of that. They just wanted a fast and cheap zombie film, some product with a famous title they could fool the great unwashed into renting.
The film has a truly chilling scenario, though: the dead have returned to life and as they proceed to snack upon the brains of your loved ones, the world's last line of defence includes Nick Cannon, who later became a judge on America's Got Talent. It's this kind of contempt for audiences that caused the distributor to bypass cinemas and dump the movie on DVD.
The director is Steve Miner, who also helmed Friday The 13th Part 2 & 3, House and Halloween H20, so he knows how to squeeze thrills out of limited budgets (and ideas), but Day looks and plays like a TV movie. Rushed and poorly staged, with indifferent make-up effects, its enough to make you nostalgic for Flight of the Living Dead.