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  All Souls Day: Dia de los Muertos (2005)


 

Day of the Dull.

Review: In recent years, the bar has been raised on zombie flicks. Taking that into consideration, one might think a made-for-TV movie in 2005 could challenge the quality of its big budgeted, big screen cousins. Not so in the case of All Souls Day, which premiered tonight on the Sci Fi channel.

The movie had nice production values and good zombie makeup, but that was it. The story stunk and the film lagged. Rarely have I seen such bad pacing. The young leads were clearly new to acting, particularly the extremely annoying lead actor, who didn't seem to be acting as much as just being his annoying self.

And where were the zombies? For a movie titled "Day of the Dead," I expected a bigger screen presence from the non-living, but nothing happened in this movie. There was a lot of talk and hinting of a foreboding evil, but nothing materialized until the last act.

All Souls Day was boring and stupid; stay away from the reruns. The only bright spot was seeing a near-naked Mircea Monroe.

 


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DVD version viewed: I watched it on Sci Fi, but here's the DVD: All Souls Day (Anchor Bay, UPC 013131298994)