10 Worst Zombie Films Of All Time

2. Day Of The Dead (2008)

Sensibly dumped on DVD by its distributor, this Day follows neither 2004€™s Dawn Of The Dead (which also starred Ving Rhames) nor 2006€™s Night Of The Living Dead 3D, it€™s just another stand-alone rip-off hiding behind a famous title. And what a rip-off. Gone is the briskness of George Romero€™s original set-up and in, courtesy of screenwriter JeffreyReddick (Final Destination), comes lots of running around as a bunch of boring, interchangeable nobodies behave in stupid ways. If our last line of defence against the living dead consists of Mena Suvari, AnnaLynne McCord and Nick Cannon (later a judge on America€™s Got Talent), we really are in trouble. 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, it€™s enough to make you nostalgic for Flight of the Living Dead.
 
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Ian Watson is the author of 'Midnight Movie Madness', a 600+ page guide to "bad" movies from 'Reefer Madness' to 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.'