Sensibly dumped on DVD by its distributor, this Day follows neither 2004s Dawn Of The Dead (which also starred Ving Rhames) nor 2006s Night Of The Living Dead 3D, its just another stand-alone rip-off hiding behind a famous title. And what a rip-off. Gone is the briskness of George Romeros 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 Americas 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, its enough to make you nostalgic for Flight of the Living Dead.
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.'
