Dreary State

Rating: Null/10 (26 September 2004)

I was grossly (no pun) disappointed with this remake. Everybody connected with the making and releasing of DOTD-2004 should have known better! At least the zombies in this one didn't look blue or green like the ones in the original 1978 Romero film. But still, I was not happy with '2004.'
I guess I'm one of few horror-movie fans still left on this planet that still likes their movie-zombies shown lumbering slowly about, and ambushing their human quarry.
I oppose the modern trend in making the 'walking dead' move about like some hyperactive dancer in an MTV music video. Too many video-directors lose sight of the fact that zombies are supposed to move about scary-like and slow like some blind creature who nevertheless has acute senses for sniffing-out human-blood (their danger is in the sudden ambush, and the fact that, in horror films anyway, there are so many of them).
I hope we get more Zombie movies where the monsters walk slowly up a suburban driveway, one of them shown dragging its foot or partially detached limb, and another shown eating a man's arm like a giant drumstick, while the creatures eyeball their next human-victim trying vainly to start his car and make his getaway. ...you get the general idea.