The movie is set in a small town in Colorado that becomes infected by an unknown virus that turns people into zombies. As the virus takes its toll on the townspeople, a group of soldiers and towns folks must survive until dawn. Characters include Corporal Sarah Cross (Mena Suvari), Private Salazar (Nick Cannon), and Private Bud Crain (Stark Sands). Ving Rhames (who was in the 2004 remake of Dawn of the Dead) plays a short part as well.

The zombie creation method in this version of Day of the Dead totally differs from Romero’s version. Instead of some unknown cause turning people into zombies, the movie explicitly shows that its some type of engineered virus. Interestingly enough, they never really explain why some townspeople are infected and some are not. Anyways, the zombies do retain some part of their former life. Like the original, one of the zombies (Pvt. Bud) ends up helping the survivors. Also like the original, the movie does involve a missile silo.

The movie has “B-movie” written all over it. The acting was not that bad (I’ve seen worst acting). Plus the special effects was pretty good.

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It doesn’t take long for the hilarity of Fido’s central idea to kick in: the world is reeling from the Zombie War, and the undead are being contained in two different ways. Some of them are roaming loose in fenced-off wilderness zones. The rest are, thanks to the good people at the ZomCom corporation, docile and domesticated–indeed, available as house servants for the upwardly-mobile. Such is the case with the Robinson family, a suburban clan who seem to have stepped straight out of an old episode of Lassie. Little Timmy is happy about the new manservant, whom he promptly dubs “Fido,” and Fido himself is fine as long as the mechanical collar around his neck doesn’t malfunction (in which case he will revert to being a cannibalistic brain-eating zombie). Fido is played, in a stroke of inspiration, by the Scots comedian Billy Connolly, although you wouldn’t be able to recognize him without already knowing he’s in the movie. Dylan Baker and especially Carrie-Anne Moss are just right as Timmy’s parents, who have accidentally wandered out of a John Cheever novel and into a George Romero world. Director Andrew Currie skillfully gets the 1950s satire and the zombie action right, although there’s no way to disguise that this premise is too thin to spread out over feature length. For a while, though, Fido hits a stride–a staggering, vacant-eyed stride.

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Zombie Nightmare is a 1986 zombie movie directed by Jack Bravman and filmed in the suburbs of Montreal, Canada starring Jon Mikl Thor. The plot, in brief: A musclebound teenage baseball player gets run over by a car driven by a bunch of teenagers. The boy’s mother contacts one of her neighbors, a voodoo priestess, who resurrects the lad as a zombie. The zombie goes on a killing spree, hunting down and killing the teenagers responsible for his own death.

Not only does Thor play the part of the zombie, he wrote much of the incidental music, with some heavy metal riffs played by his band, and some synthesizer music played by “Thorkestra.” Several other heavy metal bands contribute to the soundtrack, led by Motörhead with their hit “Ace of Spades” playing during the opening credits. Other bands heard in the soundtrack include Virgin Steele, Girlschool, Fist, and Death Mask.

Adam West plays the local police captain; Tia Carrere makes her feature film debut here as one of the teenagers. Shawn Levy also played one of the teenagers.

The movie was also featured in an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000.

Soundtrack

• Girlschool – “Future Flash”
• Girlschool – “C’mon Let’s Go”
• Motörhead – “Ace of Spades”
• Fist – “Danger Zone”
• Virgin Steele – “We Rule the Night”
• Thor – “Rebirth”
• Death Mask – “I’m Dangerous”
• Battalion – “Out for the Kill”
• Pantera – “Midnite Man”
• Knighthawk – “Zombie Life”
• The Things – “Dead Things”

Dead Air is an upcoming 2008 horror/sci-fi film. Currently filming, Dead Air focuses on a radio station that warns its listeners after an explosion unleashes “zombies” into Los Angeles. Writer Kenny Yakkel explains that the zombies are not actual zombies, “It’s like a PCP zombie movie, that’s my take on it ’cause they’re not really dead.”

Production

Dead Air began filming in March, 2007 on location in Los Angeles and production wrapped on the film in late April 2007.It has been described as 28 Days Later meets Talk Radio, “but this is less about the flesheating-zombie thing and more about the paranoia following 9/11.” It will bring together Bill Moseley and Patricia Tallman as Lucy, Moseley’s character’s wife; the two had previously worked together on Tom Savini’s remake of Night of the Living Dead. The film also marks Tallman’s return to the genre, which the actress claims is her first work of substance since the end of her run on TV’s Babylon 5. Though originally slated for a Winter 2007 theatrical release, Dead Air, according to IMDB, will be a winter 2008 release.

Dance of the Dead is a 2008 American independent zombie comedy, directed by Gregg Bishop and written by Joe Ballarini. The film featured Jared Kusnitz, Greyson Chadwick, Chandler Darby, and Carissa Capobianco. The plot revolves around the mysterious reanimation of the dead and the efforts of Jimmy, Lindsey, Stephen, and Kyle to save their local high school prom from attack.

The film had a limited theatrical release at Mann’s Chinese 6 Theatres on 13 October 2008, one day before being released on DVD. Originally finished in 2007, the film premiered at a number of film festivals throughout 2008 to mostly positive reviews. Notable premieres include the South by Southwest Film Festival and the Atlanta Film Festival.

Production

The low-budget independent feature film was based on a script written in the late 1990s. It was filmed in Rome and North Georgia.

Casting

The cast of Dance of the Dead marked the debut of relatively unknown Georgian natives—including Greyson Chadwick, Chandler Darby, and Carissa Capobianco—and the return of sophomore actors Jared Kusnitz (Doll Graveyard) and Randy McDowell (Good Intentions).According to director-producer Greg Bishop, they “searched for months for the right kids, ones who were good at improv, and ended up casting more kids in Georgia…They were more natural. [The] casting director would throw them curveballs and the ones who could hang and go along ended up in the movie.”

Distribution

Dance of the Dead will be distributed in October 2008 by Lions Gate Entertainment in a deal with Sam Raimi’s new partnership Ghost House Underground. The film is expected to be part of Ghost House’s inaugural slate of offerings dubbed “October Horror”.

Following the Cannes Film Festival, German distributor Splendid Film bought the rights to the high school zombie film for German release.

Reception

Dance of the Dead premiered at the 15th annual South by Southwest Film Conference and Festival in Austin, Texas, March 7-15 2008 along side a lineup of 113 feature films, including 64 world premieres, high school-themed features and rock documentaries. It was a ‘Round Midnight selection.

The film was screened at the 32nd annual Atlanta Film Festival in April 2008, and considered a “must see.” Three separate showings of the film were sellouts at the Atlanta Film Festival. Bleiberg Entertainment marketed the film at the 61st Cannes Film Festival in May 2008. Subsequent screenings included the International Fantastic Film Festival at Neuchâtel, Switzerland, on 3 July 2008, the Fantasy Film Fest in Germany on 15 August 2008, the ninth Film4 FrightFest in London, UK, on 23 August 2008, and the Rome International Film Festival in North Georgia, USA, on 7 September 2008.