Released January 5th, 2018, Day of the Dead: Bloodline is about the zombie apocalypse and the lengths a woman will go to help her friends.
This was the director, Hector Hernandez Vicens', first real attempt at a feature film, if that's what you'd call this. He also did a movie called The Corpse of Anna Fritz which I had never even heard of. Stick to writing Vicens, you've already proven yourself there. He wrote a movie called Phoenix 11-23.
Zoe Parker, played by Sophie Skelton, is a medical student who's stuck having to draw the blood of someone she has already reported to have been creeped out by. The choices bosses make in movies are odd, but then again this is a B-zombie-movie. On a side note, she's pretty. On an even sider note, if that's even a phrase, look at the name of the actress and the character. Sophie Skelton looks like the made-up name while Zoe Parker seems the more normal. Get it together UK.
When watching the beginning I was thrilled to see Johnathon Schaech. I literally said, hey that's Jimmy. Jimmy being the character he played on That Thing You Do!. His ability to act hasn't improved over the years and it seems that he's stuck in the limbo of getting work but never really shining. I know a lot of people are fans of the TV show Legends of Tomorrow, he plays Jonah Hex for those few episodes.
The movie is a remake of my favorite George A Ramero movie, Day of the Dead. The sets are cheap, the writing is forgettable, the direction is all over the place with things like tone and scene development, the actors aren't given much to work with.
Result: D- (I wasted my time watching, why would you?)
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