Theo Robertson Okay chaps what was your feeling when you saw this title ? Don't tell me something along the lines of 800,000 zombies for every surviving human and every surviving human being a pretty female scientist or a sex starved soldier who is curious about raping pretty female scientists . Am I right ? I wasn't claiming to be telepathic but I can understand perfectly what people were expecting from this movie and why they gave it one out of ten when they realised it had nothing to do with George A Romeo zombie films The film wold have worked much better if it was simply called CONTAGIUM thereby nullifying expectations that can't be met because the film intermittently apes the style of Romero but doesn't sustain it . It starts with a pre-title sequence of a zombie outbreak at a military installation in 1968 then quickly jumps forward to the present day set in a psychiatric hospital possibly because the budget demands it rather than creative necessity . That's something that's very noticeable in the opening sequence , soldiers fire guns at the zombies but it's obvious the gunfire effect is done via the actor jerking the gun up and down with the sound effect of gunfire being overlayed on the soundtrack in a not very convincing manner The story then concentrates on character as it quickly jumps o the present day where the former military base of 1968 is now a psychiatric hospital containing angst ridden , emotionally disturbed adolescents . It's somewhat talkative at this point which might frustrate hardcore horror junkies but I found it relatively engaging but the acting and most of all the cinematography could have been better . That's the problem wit the movie in that while everything could have been much worse nothing is terribly good

westerlund-147-949472 This is supposed to be a sequel to George Romeros Day of the Dead, which in turn was the second sequel to the classic Night of the Living Dead. I guess that would make it Night of the living dead 4? Or Dawn of the Dead 3? It is the only entry to the living dead series with a numeral in the title, which makes it pretty confusing. You might think that it would have some special relationship to Day of the Dead, but apparently it is supposed to be a prequel to the entire franchise, telling the story of how it all began. But why connect the title to Day of the dead of all movies? Even more, Romero doesn't seem to have been involved in any way. After watching though, I can say that it does not only have nothing to do with Day of the Dead, but it doesn't seem to have anything to do with the franchise at all.To describe the plot is difficult, because there isn't so much of it. It starts off at a hospital of some sorts, where the virus breaks out for what I guess is the first time. Apparently it came from some sort of a vial that belonged to a Russian bloke. The military shows up to take care of the situation, but one of the vials falls into the brush and disappears. Five years later, it is discovered by a group of patients of a mental institution and their doctor. Of course it gets loose again and starts too zombify everyone, and the quest for survival is on.This movie suffers from many things. The acting isn't great, and the way the characters interacts with each other doesn't feel natural or engaging. The characters themselves are fairly uninteresting, mostly because of the bad acting and because the script does not do a good job of presenting and developing them. The biggest problem however is the story, or what is supposed to pass for a story. Really, I have no idea what this movie was about! The point of the movie was supposedly to explain how the whole thing started, but I know nothing more after watching it than I did before. Why do we even need an explanation anyway? There is no point in explaining where the zombies came from. The Living dead movies have never been about "why?", but rather it has been about how we deal with it, what happens to us people when we face such extreme conditions. The series have also always been full of social commentaries, but here doesn't seem to be anything similar to what we saw in Night or Dawn, at least none that I could see. Were we supposed to worry about the characters losing their humanity due to the release of the virus? Propably, too bad I didn't care. It just becomes a bland mess of characters and insinuations we don't care about. Does it at least have some gory zombie action? Well... some, but it never becomes as chilling as in Night, as over the top and messy as in Dawn or as intense and nail-biting like in Day. It just comes and goes, and when it's over it's hard to even care. The zombies behavior is also weird and inconsistent with the rest of the series. In this movie, the zombies are still conscious of their personalities, and they talk too. Yes, talking, thinking zombies. Have these guys ever seen a zombie movie before? Also, this movie seems to insist that it is the virus that makes the corpses look all bloody, chewed up and decomposed. I thought it was because they, you know, used to be dead and chewed upon before they turned into zombies! It's bad enough when the story doesn't connect with the rest of the series, it doesn't even look or behave like a Romero-movie. It just makes me wonder why they wanted to make a sequel to Day of the Dead if they were not even going work within the same universe. All in all, this movie is pretty pointless.

alistairc_2000 This is less of a review and more of a warning. You might be suckered into thinking that this trash has something to do with Romero's classic it has not.I was really interested to hear that they were going to make a sequel to G Romero's Day of the Dead, then I found out he was not involved. Just as well as this is number 3 on the all time terrible list for zombie movies. This movie has nothing to do with the first movie and has a first when you become a zombie you become telepathic... tele-pathetic more like... avoid this unless you enjoy pain......If they had let it stand on its own merits rather than trying to lay claim to a classic this would have just been pathetic. As it is its not so bad its good its just play bad. I love bad horror movies but this one left me completely cold. It was another one of those movies I suffered at Frought fest. That was when I could be bothered to go.

Michael_Elliott Day of the Dead 2 (2005) BOMB (out of 4) If I could I'd give this sucker a double BOMB rating. The next time I hear a horror fan complain about remakes I'm going to wack them upside the nose with this film. This in-name-only sequel to the George Romero film is without a doubt one of the worst ever made and for the life of me I can't understand the entire point of it. I'm sure they called it what they did to cash in on the Romero film but the movie doesn't try to connect one thing to the previous movie. The film contains some of the worst acting outside a 1st grade play and the story is downright confusing and stupid. There's some nice gore effects but they aren't worth sitting through this thing for.