Day Of The Dead Steve Miner

2008 American motion picture

Mean solar day of the Expressionless
Theatrical release poster
Directed past	Steve Miner
Screenplay past	Jeffrey Reddick
Based on	Solar day of the Dead past George Romero
Produced by	James Glenn Dudelson Robert Franklin Dudelson Randall Emmett George Furla
Starring	Mena Suvari Nick Cannon Ving Rhames
Cinematography	Patrick Cady
Edited by	Nathan Easterling
Music by	Tyler Bates
Production companies	Millennium Films Emmett/Furla Films
Distributed by	First Expect Studios
Release engagement	April eight, 2008 (2008-04-08)
Running time	86 minutes
Country	U.s.a.
Language	English
Budget	$xviii million^[i]
Box office	$301,771^[ii]

Twenty-four hour period of the Expressionless is a 2008 American horror motion picture about a virus outbreak that causes people to turn into violent zombie-similar creatures. Information technology is a loose remake of George A. Romero'southward 1985 film of the same name, the third in Romero's Dead series,^[iii] and it is the first of two remakes of the original 1985 movie; the other is Day of the Dead: Bloodline (2018). The 2008 film was directed by Steve Miner and written by Jeffrey Reddick. 24-hour interval of the Expressionless (2008) was principally shot in Bulgaria, with limited shooting in Los Angeles, California. Tyler Bates provided the soundtrack, and screenwriter Jeffrey Reddick has a cameo advent as an ill-fated police officer.

Plot [edit]

Miners Trevor Bowman and Nina meet in an abandoned warehouse in Colorado. At the same time, armed forces roadblocks seal the city off for a 24-hour quarantine exercise. Corporal Sarah Bowman leaves her barricade and drives with Individual Bud Crain to visit her sick female parent. At that place, Trevor and Nina reveal that the local populace got infected by an influenza-like virus and that their friend Kyle gushed blood from the nose that morning time. Sarah and Bud head to Kyle's house to investigate and uncover his parents' mauled corpses. She radios Captain Rhodes about the state of affairs and heads homeward to bring her family and Nina to the Medical Center.

As the CDC'due south Dr. Logan questions Sara in the crowded hospital, the infected become catatonic and reanimate equally zombies. As carnage ensues, Nina and Trevor seek refuge at the local radio station, and Captain Rhodes is mauled. Dr. Logan, Sarah and Bud rush to a storage room, but Bud inadvertently drops the auto keys before entering. Sarah and Bud resolve to accomplish the room Captain Rhodes was mauled in through the air ducts to recall his Humvee keys. When they country on the flooring, Private Salazar appears. During their render to the storeroom, Rhodes rises to pursue them and bites Bud's hand every bit he replaces the ceiling grille. The group jumps from the window into the undead-infested parking lot. Dr. Logan deliberately pushes a woman toward a zombie and departs in a vehicle.

The remaining members set up off in the Humvee. They cease at a gun shop and restrain Bud with plastic wrist-ties within the vehicle. Upon reentering, Bud has transformed. Sarah insists that he is harmless and should not get shot. Meanwhile, they hear Trevor over the radio and nuance to his location. They collect the couple and attempt to get out the city but collide near the abased warehouse. They admission an underground bunker and come across Dr. Logan, who divulges his involvement in the authorities project under Dr. Engel. Engel intended to produce a bioweapon to paralyze enemy combatants by temporarily affecting their nervous system, merely the virus mutated, zombifying the scientists. As the group traverses the bunker, Dr. Engel stealthily kills Logan. Zombies encircle Salazar and he sacrifices himself to enable Sarah to escape and reunite with Trevor and Nina. They find a bundle of gas cylinders and change them into flamethrowers. While Sarah lures the zombie crowd, Dr. Engel descends from the ceiling and grabs her. When Bud shoots at him, Engel decapitates him. Sarah directs the undead to the cylinders, and they incinerate them. The group sets out in Dr. Logan's car, and as they proceed towards the distance, a zombie screams at the photographic camera.

Cast [edit]

Mena Suvari as Corporal Sarah Cross-Bowman^*
Nick Cannon as Private Salazar
Michael Welch as Trevor Cross-Bowman^*
AnnaLynne McCord equally Nina
Stark Sands every bit Private Bud Crain
Matt Rippy as Dr. Logan
Ian McNeice as D.J. Paul
Christa Campbell every bit Mrs. Leitner
Ving Rhames every bit Captain Kenneth Rhodes
Hugh Skinner every bit Kyle
Pat Kilbane as Dr. Engel (credited as "Scientist")
Laura Giosh every bit Mrs. Noble
Callum Rory Lawton every bit Boy In Street

^* Sarah is referred to as Cross during the film, merely she and her brother are listed equally Bowman in the credits.

Product [edit]

Reddick, who adjusted the script from Romero'south original concept, has stated that this motion picture does not have any connection to Zack Snyder's 2004 remake of Dawn of the Dead (although Ving Rhames had likewise appeared in that movie, but as a dissimilar character). He told ComingSoon.cyberspace: "Information technology's going to be a separate movie...We wanted to pay homage to the original with the military and the scientists and the socially relevant stuff that George Romero always does, but we wanted to put a fresh spin on information technology."^[four] Variety announced the project in July 2006,^[5] and shooting concluded on September 7, 2006, after vi weeks in Sofia, Republic of bulgaria.^[6] Re-shoots took identify in June 2007.^[seven]

Release [edit]

Commencement Wait Pictures released information technology on DVD in the United States on April eight, 2008.^[8]

Reception [edit]

The pic was poorly received past both fans and critics.^[ix] Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, reports that xiii% of 8 surveyed critics gave the film a positive review; the average rating is 2.66/10.^[x] Steve Barton of Dread Central rated it 2/5 stars and chosen it "dead on inflow". Barton called Cannon's functioning offensively stereotypical.^[11] Buz Wallick, also writing for Dread Primal, rated it 1.5/5 stars and called it "an awful film with awful special features that will hopefully fade from memory in time".^[12] Heather Seebach of Daze Till You Drib called it "inexpensive horror for indiscriminate genre fans" that "tiptoes on and then-bad-information technology-is-funny territory".^[13] Brian Orndorf of DVD Talk rated it 0/v stars and called information technology "a vile, pathetic, slapdash motility picture".^[8]

See too [edit]

List of zombie films

References [edit]

^ Box Office Information for Day of the Dead. The Numbers. Retrieved December 8, 2012.
^ "Mean solar day of the Dead (2008)". Box Office Mojo . Retrieved October 21, 2015.
^ McFarland, Kevin (2013-11-27). "The Day Of The Dead remake picks a director". The A.Five. Guild . Retrieved 2015-03-06 .
^ Douglas, Edward (2006-02-01). "Exclusive: The Makers of Tamara". ComingSoon.net. Archived from the original on 2006-02-09. Retrieved 2015-03-06 .
^ Forster, Pamela (2006-07-17). "Brand new 'Day' for trio". Variety . Retrieved 2015-03-06 .
^ Schwinke, Theodore (2006-09-07). "Nu Paradigm wraps Bulgarian shoot for Day Of The Dead". Screen Daily . Retrieved 2015-03-06 .
^ Siebalt, Joshua (2007-06-nineteen). "Solar day of the Expressionless Re-Shot". Dread Central . Retrieved 2015-03-06 .
^ ^a ^b Orndorf, Brian (2008-04-01). "Twenty-four hours of the Expressionless (2008)". DVD Talk . Retrieved 2015-03-06 .
^ Dendle, Peter (2012). The Zombie Picture Encyclopedia, Volume 2: 2000–2010. McFarland & Visitor. pp. 52–53. ISBN978-0-7864-6163-nine.
^ "24-hour interval of the Dead (2008)". Rotten Tomatoes . Retrieved Dec viii, 2019.
^ Barton, Steve (2008-02-16). "24-hour interval of the Dead (2008)". Dread Central . Retrieved 2015-03-06 .
^ Wallick, Buz (2008-04-07). "Mean solar day of the Dead 2008 (DVD)". Dread Central . Retrieved 2015-03-06 .
^ Seebach, Heather (2008-04-23). "Day of the Dead (2008)". Shock Till You Driblet . Retrieved 2015-03-06 .