There is no sequel/reboot/remake more unwanted or unneeded
than yet another version of director George A. Romero’s Day of the Dead (1985)
but director Hector Hernandez Vicens has done just that with Day of the Dead:
Bloodline (2017). Zoe Parker (Sophie
Skelton) is a doctor whose obsessive patient Max (Johnathon Schaech) tries to
rape her just as the dead begin to rise.
She happens to escape but not before seeing Max killed.
Jump a little into the future and Zoe is now one of a small
group of survivors holed up on a military compound where she’s trying to find a
cure for the deadly zombie virus. When one of the children at the complex gets
deathly ill and it threatens the rest of the camp Zoe and a bunch of the
soldiers venture into the ruins of the city for medicine. Zoe and the soldiers get a big surprise when
she discovers that Max is still alive…in a way.
Max is part human and part zombie and he may hold the key to the cure to
the zombie virus if she and the soldiers can stay alive long enough as a
vengeful Max will do whatever he can to possess Zoe even if it means turning
all the survivors at the camp into his undead army.
The film pays homage to the Romero classic in terms of
specific plot points but with the larger cast most of them become nothing more
than cannon fodder in a film that’s filled with bad acting and an even worse
script that is predictable with every zombie film way. The film’s only saving grace is the better
than expected production values as the film looks good and the make up effects
are top notch. There is no denying that
Vicens set out to craft a good-looking film.
Schaech is in fine form as seems to be having a lot of fun
as this film’s version of the “Bub” character from the original, only more
sexually active. The action sequences
are also very well done but because the film relies on characters always making
the dub decisions all the built up good will is gone to waste as I’m sure
you’ll feel once you watch it.
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