Day of the Dead is a 2008 American horror film directed by Steve Miner and written by Jeffrey Reddick.

[3] The film sees a virus outbreak that causes people to turn into violent zombie-like creatures, and stars Mena Suvari, Nick Cannon, Michael Welch, AnnaLynne McCord, Stark Sands, Matt Rippy, Pat Kilbane, Taylor Hoover, Christa Campbell, and Ving Rhames.

Corporal Sarah Bowman leaves her barricade and drives with Private Bud Crain to visit her sick mother.

There, Trevor and Nina reveal that the local populace were infected by an influenza-like virus and that their friend Kyle gushed blood from the nose that morning.

As carnage ensues, Nina and Trevor seek refuge at the local radio station, and Captain Rhodes is mauled.

Sarah and Bud resolve to reach the room Captain Rhodes was mauled in through the air ducts to retrieve his Humvee keys.

Engel intended to produce a bioweapon to paralyze enemy combatants by temporarily affecting their nervous system, but the virus mutated, zombifying the scientists.

[12] Heather Seebach of Shock Till You Drop called it "cheap horror for indiscriminate genre fans" that "tiptoes on so-bad-it-is-funny territory".

[13] Brian Orndorf of DVD Talk rated it 0/5 stars and called it "a vile, pathetic, slapdash motion picture".