Day Of The Dead: Bloodline

This review is for the Blu-Ray edition of 'Day of the Dead: Bloodline' released by Lionsgate in 2018.*****IMPORTANT***** For anybody looking at this for the first time, this is a remake of the original 'Day of the Dead' movie made by George Romero in the 80's.Despite what you read in some of the reviews here about this not really being a remake. Don't believe it. It is a remake. It's not an exact remake like the way 'Psycho' was remade but it is a remake plain and simple. When most movies get remade they change some things. That is the case here. It might stray from the original but the basic plot is the same. A good example would be any of the two 'King Kong' remakes of the 1933 original. There are lots of things changed in both of those remakes, but they are still remakes.There are quite a few problems, especially with the plot which I go into below but the movie itself is still fairly entertaining. It's not terrible.EXTRA'S: The extra's are minimal when compared to some of the editions that have come out lately. Just take a look at the 'Dawn of the Dead' remake collector's edition. What you get:- 'Day of the Dead Bloodline: Reviving Horror' - This is about a 15 minute documentary on the making of this movie.-Previews of a bunch of other movies-Subtitles*****LOTS OF SPOILERS BELOW THIS POINT*****PLOT/SUMMARY: Zoe, is a medical student. While working, she has a patient with unusual blood named Max. Max has become obsessed with her and has carved her name into his skin. One night at a party, Zoe goes into the morgue at her medical school to get a keg and is abducted by Max who tries to rape her. While this is happening, a corpse turns into a zombie and attacks Max. Zoe runs away to warn everyone but is too late. Everyone is being attacked and she is last seen running down a street.Five years later, Zoe is working at a bunker run by Miguel Salazar. The camp has recently lost contact with the other bunkers. Zoe is the camp doctor and head of research. Her research involves looking for a vaccine against the zombie outbreak. Miguel is skeptical and doesn't think it's possible to find a cure.Zoe convinces Miguel to let her travel to her old school to get supplies that she needs to save the life of a little girl and to prevent her disease from spreading. While at the school she is attacked by Max, now a zombie. He does not try to eat her and instead shows signs of intelligence. She gets away but not before one of Miguel's men is killed. Max manages to sneak onto the bottom of one of their vehicles and finds his way into camp.Max attacks Zoe once inside the camp but does not harm her. When her friends come to the rescue she tells them to capture him and not kill him. She believes he can be the key to finding a cure for the virus. Miguel is extremely skeptical and is not cooperative. He wants Max destroyed.Ultimately, Zoe must find a cure before Miguel decides to destroy Max.PRODUCTION/COMMENTS: The movie is 91 minutes long and was made in 2017 but released in 2018. Look below for my comments and opinions.HOW DOES THIS VERSION COMPARE TO THE ORIGINAL?:-The location is different. The original takes place in the Florida Everglades while this one takes place somewhere in a mountainous range. I'm not sure where.-In both movies we get a female doctor(scientist) searching for a cure to the zombie outbreak. However in the original there is a lead doctor named Dr. Logan who is in charge of the research.-Both movies have an intelligent zombie that is captured and is kept chained in hopes that it can help lead to a cure. In the original it's name is Bub and in the remake it is Max. In the remake, Max was previously a stalker of Zoe. Bub is a docile zombie.-Both movies have a leader that is not fit for the job of being leader. They both have anger management issues.-Both movies have a Miguel Salazar. In the remake, Miguel is the leader. In the original, Miguel is a soldier under the command of the leader.-Both movies have a person that is suicidal. However, they behave vastly different. Baca, in the remake, only wants to kill himself after he has become infected. Miguel, in the original, opens the gates to the compound and let the zombies kill him.-The zombies get into the compound in different ways in each movie. The zombies , in the remake, get in by accident after a poor decision. In the original, Miguel Salazar lets them in on purpose.-The endings are quite different. One ends in a dream and the other ends with the world essentially being saved.WHAT I LIKE:-The helicopter you see that crash landed outside the gates is a shout out to the original movie. I like these nods to other movies.-I liked the setting a bit better than the original. The original was drab and not very pleasant to look at.-The original had social commentary that was supposed to speak about government and control. Even though this movie follows the same formula, it never seems like there is any social commentary. In today's day and age, I consider that a good thing.WHAT I DON'T LIKE:-I didn't love the acting. It was questionable. Some of the acting was weak and Miguel just doesn't come across as believable. He is too much of a (fill in the blank) to be a leader of an entire community, especially a military leader. He has no discipline at all.-I did not like the scenes with Zoe and Max. I thought it was just too unbelievable. I think the movie goes way 'over the top' when Zoe holds out her arm to Max's mouth. It also goes way 'over the top' when Zoe let's Max lick her with all the slime coming out of his mouth. That's just there for a fan reaction. There is no realism at all.-I have the same problem with the living dead (zombies) in this movie as I do in most of these types of movies. It's so easy to keep these things at bay and yet somehow they always manage to screw it up. I won't bother to point out examples. I think most people know what I'm talking about. There would be nothing dangerous about keeping a few of these zombies on base if you kept them in chains. These things are like lemmings. There should be none left outside of their gates. They could be target practice or you can just light them all on fire. Just stand near the gate and torch them. There are a million ways to kill these things with no danger.-What was Miguel's big rush for a cure. He acted like it was such a big waste of time. What else did they have to do? Where were they going to go? They had lost communication with everyone else at this point. What difference does it make if she was wasting time? It's not like he was going to ever leave the base. He didn't even want them to go a few miles extra to get medical supplies.-Once they were at the hospital, they should have taken their time and cleaned that place out. You'd think that would have high priority. If they didn't have the manpower, then they should just come back and get everything. Lock the damn doors and clean the place out! What's so difficult about that. What can be more important than all the medical equipment, drugs and supplies at that place?-What the hell was Zoe doing going back for pictures and leaving everyone? Then she gets somebody killed as a result.-How about that girl who sees blood pouring out of the vent and instead of getting help she goes and opens the vent! Then the idiot who she runs to doesn't even bother to look to see what she is so hysterical about in the first place. He puts his gun away?!?-Do I really have to explain that whole gate opening thing that caused the compound to be overrun. Does it get anymore dumb than that? I mean why not just shoot all the zombies except two before you open the gate? I guess that would take brains.-Uh, I think it would be a bad idea to get in Max's face like that stupid female soldier who does exactly that. This led to Max's escape. What exactly was she doing? How is it that in every zombie movie only the dumbest people on earth survive the zombie apocalypse?-Another issue I have with these virus movies is how quickly they come up with a vaccine. I mean really, one nurse, who doesn't even have her degree yet, can figure out how to make a vaccine for the zombie apocalypse by herself in just a few days? Every other vaccine took teams of scientists years to come up with. Yes, I get it, you need to take liberties for the sake of moving the plot along.-Zoe, as a millennial, is just about perfect. Self-centered, arrogant and never does anything wrong.RECOMMENDATIONS:I've read some of the reviews here and some call the movie garbage and others say it is good. I think I can be objective about this one. I am not a huge fan of the 'Night of the Living Dead' movie and it's sequel but I do like the movies, especially the first two. I'm not one to bash a movie because it is a remake of a movie I love and nothing can be as good as the original. In this case, this is a decent movie. I thought the original 'Day of the Dead' was just OK. It was nothing special but it wasn't bad either. I pretty much feel the same way about this one. There were some good things about it and a few not so good things. Overall I think it is just average. It is certainly not as terrible as the reviews on this site and others would leave you to believe.Remember this is not a big budget production. This movie has been harshly criticized, I believe overly so. I've seen far worse movies from the SyFy channel and other independent producers. Just go and look at a movie like 'Snowpiercer'. Tell me that the logic in that movie wasn't far worse than this movie and look how much that one cost.RATINGS/CONCLUSION:I think this movie rates a little of 3 stars. I'd give it a 6.5 to 7 out of 10 but it's not good enough of a release to be rated 4 stars. So I'm rounding down instead of up.Recommended for fans of 'The Night of the Living Dead' series of movies.

Warning SPOILERS!!! I wish someone would give me a reasonable answer to this question: Why do people think they have to remake a film that is already a horror classic? DAY OF THE DEAD (1985) is my favorite George A. Romero zombie film and it still stands up today. This was already remade as an abysmal film in 2007 and, while this one isn't as bad as that remake, it is missing something that the original had in spades: '80s blood and gore, free of CGI and all practical, back when people used their imagination and ingenuity to pull off bloody effects that were more original than they are today. Back then, audiences could believe that zombies were real, but computer effects, which don't take the law of physics into consideration, make audiences feel that this could not possibly happen. That is one reason where this film fails. Besides the flashback opening, this film actually follows the original's plot. Zoe (Sophie Skelton) is a medical student at a teaching hospital. When the body of an obese man who died of influenza is brought into the morgue, he turns into a zombie (no explanation on why this has happened). He bites Max (Johnathon Schaech; ARSENAL - 2016), a pervert with a rare blood type, who tries to rape Zoe (He carved her name into his wrist and shows it to Zoe, who is repulsed). Within four hours, the town is crawling with zombies. Right away, we know that these zombies are fast-moving and not mindless, as one zombie breaks the window of a car with a rock to get to his prey (Unlike zombie films of yore, when you were safe in a locked car). This film also takes zombieism to new heights, as when you are bitten, you don't just bleed. The initial bite causes the blood to erupt out of the body like a volcano. Five years later, Zoe is working in an underground military bunker, trying to find a cure for the zombie virus. When Zoe and some military personnel leave the bunker to find some meds Zoe needs for the cure, they are attacked by zombies and unknowingly bring back a zombie who has the smarts to hide under a military vehicle. That zombie is Max (this film's "Bub") who, because of his rare blood type, has become half-human/half-zombie. Max is intelligent enough to avoid detection and makes his way through the bunker's air ducts to get to his intended goal: Zoe. Unfortunately, the rest of the film is basic Horror 101, as Max picks off people one-by-one before he is captured by Zoe (he wanted her to capture him). Zoe uses him as a guinea pig, thinking he is the answer to reversing the zombie plague. Zoe must also deal with the temperamental head of the bunker, Lt. Miguel Salazar (Jeff Gum), who zigs when everyone else zags (He is this film's "Rhodes", who was played by Joseph Pilato in the original). Max still has the hots for Zoe, refusing to bite her and letting her draw his blood without fear. Zoe needs some zombies to experiment on, so some military men (without Miguel's permission) let some zombies in through the fence that surrounds the bunker. It gets out of hand and the zombies break the perimeter, surrounding the bunker, trying to find a way in. Sadly, this film fails to generate the suspense of the original, especially the ending where a horde of zombies invade the bunker and Max breaks free (Unlike the original, Max doesn't even give Miguel the fate he so richly deserves. Another zombie we never have seen before does.). While "modern" audiences may find Romero's film slow-going, this film glosses-over many of the sequences that made the original so memorable, especially the scene where military men capture zombies by putting a choke harness around their necks. There is also an over-reliance on using CGI bullet squibs, especially for head shots. As a matter of fact, this film is so quickly paced that the audience has no time to feel sympathy or hatred for many of the characters, especially when they die or turn. And, therefore, that is where this film fails. Unlike the nihilistic ending of the original, Zoe finds a cure and saves the world. In the canon of Romero remakes, this one falls behind DAWN OF THE DEAD (2004) and THE CRAZIES (2010) and slightly above the 2007 remake. The fact is this film is not very good, especially by making Max such an unsympathetic character (he come across as a half-zombie rapist and he talks!). Bub, in the original, got a standing ovation when he saluted Rhodes as zombies tore him in half. There's none of that to be found here. Directed by Hèctor Hernández Vicens (THE CORPSE OF ANNA FRITZ - 2015). Also starring Marcus Vanco, Lillian Blankenship, Ulyana Chan and Mark Rhino Smith. A Lionsgate Blu-Ray Release. Rated R.

Im big into the zombie genre but this film was very weak .

Very good

Zoe is a former medical student surviving the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse with a group of military personnel and civilians in a military shelter. Zoe is trying to keep the group healthy while attempting to find a vaccine for the zombie plague virus.Although purporting to be inspired by the George Romero classic, there's not much here that bears any resemblance to his films. Highly unoriginal, the film starts out well enough with an explanation of the lead-up events but then hangs its hat on a half-human/half zombie creature that is obsessed with Zoe and there isn't much else really going on. This idea was carried out much better in The Asylum TV presentation 'Z Nation'. Instead, this film just seems to be an exercise in joining the dots and is very predictable, with characters inserted mainly to be decimated by zombies at the appropriate moment.The Blu-ray disk offers good video with a very clear (if somewhat blue at times) presentation and an impressive dts HD-MA 5.1 audio soundtrack.

Esta edición tiene SUBTITULOS EN ESPAÑOL, pero cuidado que es de región A y nosotros somos región B.Si no tienes un reproductor bluray multi región no podrás verla.

This garbage film tries to get away with calling itself a reimagination of the George A Romero classic. Don't buy it. I couldn't get through 2o minutes. Romero prided himself on slow zombies. These are the unbelievable adrenaline fueled zombies which are never scary. Terrible acting all around. Bad CGI. Ridiculous characters. Very disappointed