David O'Connell
Day of the Dead remake
November 2nd 2006 18:45
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Yep, it's coming. Inevitable, really.
After the Dawn of the Dead remake surprised people by being a decent movie - taking the classic Romero vision and twisting it to make it biting and blood-thirsty, horror remakes starting springing up like the undead.
The Day of the Dead remake is catching a ride on that fad, trying to update the known zombie conventions and make it palatable for a modern audience.
However, zombie fans are purists and don't like their bread and butter tainted with ichor.
There's a potential movie trailer on Nu Image, if you're really curious. In my professional opinion, it stinks like goat cheese in a sheep's lower intestine.
You can watch it here:
Oooooh, fast zombies. Oooh, mad scientists. We know, it's been bludgeoned to death by a severed arm.
Give us more... do like Romero and make a damn comment about how humans are really more barbaric, more intolerable that flesh-eating monsters. That's what grabs us.
Hell, anyone can make a movie where things jump out the windows and around corners. Who writes that garbage? Do Hollywood execs have horror formulas written into Excel spreadsheets?
Even mainstream audiences are clamouring for more... which explains the forbidden pleasure of watching psychotic Japanese horror flicks, or the strange popularity of the Saw franchise.
So, I'm not looking forward to this Day of the Dead remake, though I'll probably still rent it.
They've cast Ving Rhames - good - as one of the military hombres.
They've cast Mena Suvari as the strong, zombie-ass-kicking female role. Bra-a-ains?
Who is Mena Suvari? She's the pseudo-skank from American Beauty:
Sorry, honey, but I think you're going to be over your head in this one.
My money's on you making it till the 3/4 mark, getting eaten by a couple of ironic zombies (zombie priest, zombie police office, zombie judge), then rising to become a zombie, then getting shot in the head.
You're no Ellen Ripley, I'm sorry to say.
You're no Jamie Lee Curtis, either.
*this image is from the Wikipedia page on Day of the Dead.
After the Dawn of the Dead remake surprised people by being a decent movie - taking the classic Romero vision and twisting it to make it biting and blood-thirsty, horror remakes starting springing up like the undead.
The Day of the Dead remake is catching a ride on that fad, trying to update the known zombie conventions and make it palatable for a modern audience.
However, zombie fans are purists and don't like their bread and butter tainted with ichor.
There's a potential movie trailer on Nu Image, if you're really curious. In my professional opinion, it stinks like goat cheese in a sheep's lower intestine.
You can watch it here:
Oooooh, fast zombies. Oooh, mad scientists. We know, it's been bludgeoned to death by a severed arm.
Give us more... do like Romero and make a damn comment about how humans are really more barbaric, more intolerable that flesh-eating monsters. That's what grabs us.
Hell, anyone can make a movie where things jump out the windows and around corners. Who writes that garbage? Do Hollywood execs have horror formulas written into Excel spreadsheets?
Even mainstream audiences are clamouring for more... which explains the forbidden pleasure of watching psychotic Japanese horror flicks, or the strange popularity of the Saw franchise.
So, I'm not looking forward to this Day of the Dead remake, though I'll probably still rent it.
They've cast Ving Rhames - good - as one of the military hombres.
They've cast Mena Suvari as the strong, zombie-ass-kicking female role. Bra-a-ains?
Who is Mena Suvari? She's the pseudo-skank from American Beauty:
My money's on you making it till the 3/4 mark, getting eaten by a couple of ironic zombies (zombie priest, zombie police office, zombie judge), then rising to become a zombie, then getting shot in the head.
You're no Ellen Ripley, I'm sorry to say.
You're no Jamie Lee Curtis, either.
*this image is from the Wikipedia page on Day of the Dead.
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Comment by Shani
a) Why would you bother remaking dawn of the dead (underground scientists?) since its still a great movie?
b) I thought Day of the Dead (trapped in a shopping centre?) remake was a bit lame with the characters doing the usually annoying dumb stuff.
c) The latest remake (on an island/ rich ppl in a big apartment?) was great, there's even that opressed black zombie fighting the man.
d) 28 Days Later has a cool modern spin to it. Also has a more memorable title.
Comment by Bryn
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Day of the Dead is, along with John Carpenter's The Thing and Ridley Scott's Alien, my fave modern horror. And before we know it both these other seminal classics will be re-made too ...
I am crying.
Comment by Cibbuano
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I liked Day, too, despite the fact that it didn't turn out as grand as Romero would have liked. I thought the music was horrible, though.
Comment by Bryn
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And yeah, I prefer Day over Dawn. I feel it has dated less.
I do like the remake of Dawn though.
Romero's original "Green Beret" zombie flick would've been awesome!!
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I really enjoyed Dawn, though it's pretty long. I thought it was hilarious!
The Dawn remake was gripping, I thought. It actually made me worried about zombies.
Comment by Bryn
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Zombies, as we both agreed earlier on, are a nightmare to be wary of!
And, yes, Romero's original scrpti for Day of the Dead had the military training zombies into an elite killer force to battle against normal zombies ...
Comment by Bryn
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I hate Hollywood soooo much sometimes!!! It's only slightly reassuring that Steve Miner (who made My Bloody Valentine - one of the best of the 80s slasher flicks, even if it was cut to ribbons) is directing.
Next up is Rob Zombie's "remake" of Halloween, which apparently is more of a prequel ... Crumbs, can't they find any original screenplays out there ...? Damn it, I'm gonna plug ahead with my own, although it's one uber-dark little bugger, so I'm not holding hopes of New Line Cinema distributing it ...
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Is nothing scary anymore?
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