2008 · action · horror · sci-fi
Day of the Dead
Directed by Steve Miner1h 26m2008
When a small Colorado town is overrun by the flesh hungry dead, a small group of survivors try to escape in a last ditch effort to stay alive.
Our read: Day of the Dead (2008) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive action · horror · sci-fi entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme action / horror, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- cold
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“You want B-movie zombie chaos and don't mind a cheesy Romero remake.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if you expect Romero's original bite or hate cheap zombie gore.
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