Seizing the "Day of the Dead:Bloodline"

  Since the late sixties with the classic "Night of the Living Dead", the idea of a virus or plague that can bring the dead back to life to feast on our flesh has both haunted us and fascinated us as more and more films portray these rotting cannibalistic corpses, each trying to outdo the previous one with zombie animals, zombies that talk, even zombies giving birth to zombie babies. Yet each one has one thing in common, the drive to survive.

Zoe Parker (Sophie Skelton) a former med student lives in a military bunker along with other survivors of a virus that has turned most of the world's population into the undead or "Rotters" as they refer to them as. Zoe tells her story of how five years prior while attending med school of how the outbreak began with a cadaver that had been brought in to the morgue and the events that transpired involving a psychotic man named Max (Johnathon Schaech) who becomes obsessed with Zoe and attacks her in the morgue during a party going on in the building. The cadaver springs to life and attacks Max saving Zoe, but results in the outbreak.
Five years later, the survivors of the bunker venture back to the campus where it all began for medical supplies and unbeknownst to them return with a stowaway Max who while infected has somehow stayed alive instead of rotting away or forgetting his obsession with Zoe. While Zoe sees his blood as the answer to the cure, others such as the leader Miguel Salazar (Jeff Gum) who sees him as a risk to them all and wants to put all Rotters down and his brother and Zoe's boyfriend Baca Salazar (Marcus Vanco) who is caught in the middle of it all. With the risk of infection and rebellion growing, Zoe must find the cure to ensure a future for humanity, or risk humanity's extinction.

With the ever growing popularity of zombies being featured in series like "The Walking Dead" and "Z Nation" as well as the countless films being churned out, most tend to fall through the cracks and end up tanking. While this film will never have the following as "Night of the Living Dead" or the original 1985 "Day of the Dead", the aspects of this film's inner conflict amongst the characters, the plot focusing on more than just fighting zombie after zombie in gruesome action scenes and the sense of humanity's inner strength tend to make it stand out from other straight to video zombie films. Overall, it's worth of the "Day of the Dead" series cult following and worthy enough to rate four G.M.Stars.

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