Anyway, thanks for the review. I'm going to be steering well clear of this remake.

However even I had to draw the line when I watched this DTV 'movie' called Swamp Zombies, which qualifies as a movie on a technicality only - it does feature moving images. But honestly I could have done a more professional job with a bottle of ketchup and the camera on my phone, with editing done by Edward Scissorhands.

I reviewed it on my blog and the director responded, saying it screened at Cannes!

There I was, bored, flipping through someone else's DVD collection, and I see this thing that is possibly connected to Romero's films on account of the name and the presence of Tom Savini, so of course I pop it into the DVD player to check it out. What happened next was a kind of rape of my eyes and ears, maybe even my nose. I swear that film actually gave off an odour.

And I include the complete works of the Wayans Brothers in that.

I like the look of that new found footage Haunting style one but this sounds worse than dross!

Anybody ever see Zombie Nosh? Might have been called Flesh Eater in the states.

What an amazing, endearing performance, easily on a par with Hoffman's "Rain Man" or Geoffrey Rush in "Shine".

But wait, they don't do acting awards for splattery horror movies, of course, do they? Oh well...

(I will now add that I didn't know who the fuck Nick Cannon was when Dave Chapelle namedropped him, and I still don't really. Thank you IMDB & Google & teh interweb, for making me appear more knowledgeable on pointless topics than I really am.)

I'm fucking tired of douchebags who acquire licensing to existing titles, rather than just have the requisite testicular fortitude to release their own original property. It needs to stop. I pretty much thought that Sack Znyder should have changed the setting from a mall to some other fucking location AND JUST MADE HIS OWN MOVIE, rather than exploit concepts like brand-recognition and craft a "remake" that bears little if any relation to the original.

As far as the original DAY OF THE DEAD, I've been in contention with everybody I know forever because I love this movie MORE than DAWN in many ways. Vern's dead-on about Savini's zombies ... I dare anyone to find better looking mobile corpses anywhere. The acting IS quite often hammy, but the sense of immersion in a world bereft of humanity seems to me to be pretty solid. And yeah, the blue zombies of the original DAWN just don't do it for me, somehow.

Oh yeah, Vern - your favorite FRIDAY THE 13's are 2 & 3? I'm not going to dispute that they should or shouldn't be, I've actually never even heard anyone claim them before.

The original Day of the Dead is pretty much the ONLY zombie movie ever that really does properly convey a sense of the world being gone to shit on a huge scale.

It's basically a case of name-squatting. They've fucking squatted on the title "Day of the Dead", and made a cheap piece of predictable shit that has nothing to do with the original movie in any single way.

Now that they've used the title, it's less likely that someone will come along and do a proper re-make (i.e. Romero's story/setting/characters but on a larger scale with a larger budget)

Of course, it's easy to throw stones ... maybe I'd feel differently if it were me & all that, but damn. I'd so much rather read about some motherfucker who said "FUCK THAT" and went indie, than see another crapass retread or "re-imagining".

At least then your Artistic Principles would be intact.

Man, my glass house sure stays nice & warm during the winter!

You ever watch many "genre" movies?

I've long since given up on trying to convince people that these are "truly great" movies. They are what they are. Some are better than others. Whatever. Go watch something "important", I guess.

The scientist on the island were looking for a why to destroy the zombies and ran test on them...bringing to mind Joesph Mengela's lab, until they find that the only way to destroy the zombies is a certain chemical weapon that is stocked at fort pastor. Ken and crew have to convoy there to ge the chemical and try to save what is left of the earth.

but I would rather that they didn't remake day, but if you have to do it....do it right.

We're sick of seeing horror movies where heroic characters keep their cool and make wisecracks after beheading some walking dead person, or witnessing some horrific scene. It's total bullshit and contributes to the desensitization of the audience. Nobody finds movies disturbing anymore, because cinema has gone down the route of Will Smith or Bruce willis, the un-fazeable hero who dispatches monsters with a sarcastic punchline. It's a fucking cartoon nowadays, and completely unrealistic.

Anyone in a (hypothetically) bleak situation like those proposed in 'zombie' movies, would be COMPLETELY LOSING THEIR FUCKING MINDS. It would be worse than being in the middle of Vietnam or World War 2 or the streets of Rwanda. You would be screaming, raging, crying. It would be literally the apocalypse. But yet hardly any movies get this right. They always want to portray their heroes as bullet-proof wiseacres. It's a bullshit scenario that convinces nobody, because we all know that most war vets who have experienced extreme violence end up with some form of trauma.

At least the characters in Romero's "Day of the Dead" are realistically freaking out, instead of just going, "oh look a dead guy walking, let's shoot his ass". Anyone who doesn't understand why it is a masterpiece is probably someone who loves stupid moronic action movies.

Love it!

Land of the Dead took the thinking Zombie thing too far I reckon and tried to recapture the magic that Romero nailed so well with Bub in Day and failed in general as the characters felt a bit less real in my opinion but there are folks out there who love it the best so It's clear Romeros zombie films speak to different generations. I like Dawn almost as much but Day was always darker and more disturbing because even the military were fucked! I hope Diary of the Dead can re-capture some Romeros magic because I think that the reason his zombie films are a cut above is because they aren't just monsters and blood, they have deeper social meaning and drama as well as the best gore. Romero and Savinni were a perfect match! I love Night too but Day came at me at the right time in my life with all gore blazing and remains my favourite Zombie film.

Vegetarian zombies are, under any circumstances, the stupidest, most pointless fucking thing ever.

AAARGH run in terror, carrot, run.

Worst "zombie" movie I've ever seen? Either Bruno Mattei's HELL OF THE LIVING DEAD (VIRUS) from '80, or Fred Olen Ray's THE ALIEN DEAD, also from 1980 ... wow, bad year. Actually, TAD wins some kind of award for Best Worst Dialogue (Buster Crabbe as Sheriff Kowalski: "They're deader than mother's day in an orphanage!").

Also, just read in Variety that A.) Platinum Dunes is set to buttfuck A Nightmare On Elm Street, and B.) Mark Romanek dropped out of Wolfman ... thoughts, anyone?

Romero wasn't trying to only portray the military as insane, he was portraying EVERYBODY as insane, in their own ways reacting to the fucked-up world. It's not so much a piss-take of the military as it is an affirmation of the sole heroine's sanity.