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For a while, the group wallows in the mall's materialism, and Ana and Michael edge into a romance, but due both to general stupidity (thanks Andre!) and the collapse of the power grid, the situation finally deteriorates to the point where the group decides to reinforce a pair of parking shuttles, drive to the local marina and escape out to an island on Lake Michigan. An attempt to get some food to starving Andy ends in general disaster (thanks Nicole and Steve!), and when the zombies finally break into the mall, it forces the survivors into a premature evacuation. [[spoiler:The only ones to survive the chaotic trip to the marina are Ana, Kenneth, one of the guards, and Nicole. Setting sail, they manage to reach an island, only to be immediately attacked by a new zombie swarm; their ultimate fate is unknown.]]
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* TheFundamentalist: The televangelist, who blames the zombie apocalypse on America's sinfulness (read: tolerating pre-martial sex, abortion, homosexuality and homosexual marriage). [[RemakeCameo He's played by Ken Foree]], and gets to utter his famous line from the original.
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* JustEatGilligan: Within ten seconds of meeting him, the audience knows that Steve is going to end up screwing ''everyone'' over and wonder why none of the characters save themselves some hassle by just kicking him off the damn roof?
** Although it's clear by her tone that Ana ''definitely'' is tempted.
** Although it's clear by her tone that Ana ''definitely'' is tempted.
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* WhileRomeBurns: The time-passing montage, just like in the original.
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* InfantImmortality: Majorly {{averted}}. The very first zombie we see it a little girl, and there's a zombie baby later in the movie.
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* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: Both films avoid this, with bloody zombie-action smashing onto the screen within ten minutes. (A police raid on a zombie-infested tenement in the original, and the remake having zombies come right into the heroine's bedroom.)
* DistressedDamsel: Subverted in both films by the female lead.
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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: The use of Johnny Cash's "The Man Comes Around" over the title credits and Jim Carroll's "People Who Died" over the end credits.
** Richard Cheese's version of "[[Music/{{Disturbed}} Down With The Sickness]]" too.
* DamselScrappy: Nicole. [[spoiler: And she survives right to the end.]]
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* FridgeBrilliance: See [[spoiler: C.J.'s]] HeroicSacrifice below. Not only does [[spoiler: he take out a whole mess of zombies by blowing up the bus,]] but the [[spoiler: flaming wreckage effectively barricades the marina, allowing the others to cast off unimpeded.]]
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'''Summary'''
Ana, a Milwaukee nurse, finishes a long shift at her hospital where -- along with other bits of {{Foreshadowing}} -- she discusses [[ZombieInfectee a patient who was bitten in a bar fight]]. After work, she chats briefly with a cute neighbor child, then returns to her suburban home and her waiting husband. The next morning, she wakes up to find her zombified young neighbor in her house; the girl kills her husband, who then rises a zombie and comes after Ana. Ana escapes in her car, only to learn that, overnight, the town has fallen into [[ZombieApocalypse chaos]]. A living human attempts to carjack her vehicle, causing her to panic, drive off the road, crash into a tree, and knock herself unconscious. When she awakens, she meets up with a police officer by the name of Kenneth, and then a small group of survivors more-or-less led by jack-of-all-trades Michael. They all break into a nearby shopping mall, where they are confronted by a trio of mall security guards, led by the surly C.J. Via binoculars and dry-erase boards, they also "meet" gun-store owner Andy, who is stranded alone in his shop across the mall's zombie-infested parking lot. The guards are eventually disarmed, and some more survivors are let into the mall, among them teenaged Nicole.
For a while, the group wallows in the mall's materialism, and Ana and Michael edge into a romance, but due both to general stupidity (thanks Andre!) and the collapse of the power grid, the situation finally deteriorates to the point where the group decides to reinforce a pair of parking shuttles, drive to the local marina and escape out to an island on Lake Michigan. An attempt to get some food to starving Andy ends in general disaster (thanks Nicole and Steve!), and when the zombies finally break into the mall, it forces the survivors into a premature evacuation. [[spoiler:The only ones to survive the chaotic trip to the marina are Ana, Kenneth, one of the guards, and Nicole. Setting sail, they manage to reach an island, only to be immediately attacked by a new zombie swarm; their ultimate fate is unknown.]]
* ActionGirl: Ana
* ApocalypticLog: Andy's video diary in the remake's DVD extras.
* AssholeVictim: Steve
* ATeamMontage: The reinforcement of the shuttle buses.
* {{Badass}}
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Averted with the black leads in both movies; [[spoiler: Andre dies about 2/3rd of the way through the remake.]]
* BolivianArmyEnding
* BoomHeadshot: Both feature impressive shotgun-blast-to-the-head scenes.
* BreakTheCutie: Nicole.
* CasanovaWannabe: Bart the security guard is a light example.
* ChainsawGood: Brutally subverted in the remake.
* CosyCatastrophe
* CrazySurvivalist
* DeadpanSnarker: Steve, on top of being a {{Jerkass}}.
-->'''Kenneth''': ''*referring to Fort Pastor*'' Is everyone there dead?
-->'''Steve''': Well, dead-ish.
* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler: C.J. says about midway through the film, "I'll kill each and every one of you to stay alive." Guess who ends up committing a HeroicSacrifice?]]
** Also, [[spoiler: Michael]] was pretty dead set on [[spoiler: killing the infected Frank before he turned.]] It's simultaneously ironic, impressive and heartbreaking when [[spoiler: he reveals his own infection, says goodbye to Anna, and sets the others off in the boat before shooting himself in the head.]]
** Also, [[spoiler: Andre's]] death eerily mirrors the conversation where [[spoiler: he tells Kenneth that his purpose was to bring his child into the world.]] Err... mission accomplished?
* DeathByPragmatism: C.J. is a jerk, but his original plan to stay firmly buttoned up inside the mall ''was'' much safer. He finally executes a HeelFaceTurn and goes along with a escape plan. Good idea, since the lack of power and increasing number of zombies was getting a bit big.
* DeathBySex: At least two characters.
* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: Both films avoid this, with bloody zombie-action smashing onto the screen within ten minutes. (A police raid on a zombie-infested tenement in the original, and the remake having zombies come right into the heroine's bedroom.)
* DistressedDamsel: Subverted in both films by the female lead.
* TheElevatorFromIpanema: "I like this song!"
* EmergencyPresidentialAddress: In the news report-style DVDBonusContent, the ongoing media coverage temporarily switches to an announcement from the White House press office, wherein the press secretary confirms that an unknown virus is causing people to rise from the dead, the President has been moved to a secure facility, and then turns the podium over to a general who declares that martial law is in effect for the United States.
* EscapeConvenientBoat
* FaceRevealingTurn
* [[spoiler:FetusTerrible: A baby is born already zombified.]]
{{Foreshadowing}}: Quite a few:
** Tucker was noted as having a gimped foot, which nips him in the bud when he falls through a manhole and breaks his leg.
** Steve taunted Ana by giving her the go-ahead to shoot him if he ever turned. She gladly obliges when he does.
** The destruction of Fort Pastor is hinted at early on, when news footage from the base clearly shows several infectees (victims sporting [[TheVirus bite wounds and other mutilations]]) being brought in via truck.
* FridgeBrilliance: See [[spoiler: C.J.'s]] HeroicSacrifice below. Not only does [[spoiler: he take out a whole mess of zombies by blowing up the bus,]] but the [[spoiler: flaming wreckage effectively barricades the marina, allowing the others to cast off unimpeded.]]
* FriendlySniper: In the film, though we only see him personally in his video log, included as a DVD extra.
* TheFundamentalist: The televangelist, who blames the zombie apocalypse on America's sinfulness. [[RemakeCameo He's played by Ken Foree]], and gets to utter his famous line from the original.
* TheGenericGuy: Terry the security guard.
* {{Gorn}}
* GunsAkimbo: Tucker, after he breaks his leg in the sewer. Not like he has much of a choice, and [[spoiler:he gets leaped upon when he has to reload.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:C.J. stays behind to draw away the zombies and detonate the buses to kill a good number of them].]]
* IgnoredVitalNewsReports: Ana does this with her car radio on the way home from work. Later she and her husband miss a TV report while taking a ShowerOfLove.
* ImprobableAimingSkills:
** Even the untrained civilians are able to headshot running targets with amazing accuracy, often while running themselves, wounded, in the dark.
* InfernalRetaliation: Fire/explosives used against zombies several times in the movie; in one case it works because the people burning them are safely behind a fence, attacked by surprise, etc.
* {{Jerkass}}:
** Steve maintains this right up to the moment he [[spoiler:gets zombified and has a bullet planted in his brain]].
** Also C.J., until he learns trust is the foundation to any successful relationship.
* [[spoiler:KillEmAll]]
* LetMeGetThisStraight: C.J.'s classic summing-up of the shuttle-bus "escape" plan.
* TheLoad: Nicole
* LyricalDissonance: Richard Cheese's cover of Disturbed's "Down With The Sickness".
* ILoveTheDead: Part of the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YySQxptHlk&feature=related emergency broadcast]] shown on the DVD showed a bunch of teenagers who had kidnapped a recently zombified hot girl from their school and tied her to a bed [[TooDumbToLive so they could have sex with her]]. Even if they weren't bitten in the process, chances are still likely they'd be infected anyway.
* TheMall
* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: Whatever's on the TV.
* NobodyOverFiftyIsGay: Averted with Glen.
* NotUsingTheZWord: The word "zombie" is never said.
* NotWithTheSafetyOnYouWont:
--> '''Kenneth:''' You ever use one of those things?
--> '''Michael:''' ''[holding a shotgun]'' This is the dangerous end, right?
--> ''[Kenneth reaches over, *click*]''
--> '''Kenneth:''' Now it is.
* OneSceneWonder: Matt Frewer and his character's early death scene.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: The 2004 version compared to the 70's version. The zombies in that one are capable of running and jumping, with no sign of exhaustion and very persistent. Making them a much more severe threat. The 70's version was mostly scary due to numbers. They were slow and shambling but could easily overcome the humans if they managed to corner them.
* PowerOfTrust: C.J. is more compelled to cooperate with the other survivors after reading some magazine articles while locked up.
-->"Trust. The primary ingredient in any relationship."
* RegretEatingMe
* RemakeCameo: Ken Foree (Peter from the original), Scott Reiniger (Roger) and Tom Savini (Blades) all have cameos in the remake, playing, respectively, a televangelist, a general and a sheriff who appear on the TV. Gaylen Ross (Francine) doesn't appear in the remake, but she gets one of the department stores named after her.
* RuleOfScary
* [[RussianGuySuffersMost Russian Woman Suffers Most]]: Luda is infected, but Andre hides it from the others, denying her the chance for a mercy kill. After she dies and turns, she gives birth to a [[IncrediblyLamePun Zombaby]].
* SequelHook: Featured, though a sequel now seems unlikely. The remake of DayOfTheDead is '''not''' a sequel despite the return of Ving Rhames and it being the case for the Romero movies.
* ShoutOut: The remake contains numerous nods to the original versions of both ''Night'' and ''Dawn''.
* TheStinger: Footage was belatedly added to the closing credits.
* StraightGay: Glen. In the theatrical version, the only hint that he is gay is him trying on shoes during the montage of time passing in the mall, although the directors cut includes a scene where it's outright stated.
* SuspiciouslyAproposMusic: There are multiple instances involving the Mall's muzak.
** The first is "Don't Worry, Be Happy", which plays when the survivors enter the mall just barely escaping the undead.
** The second is "You Light Up My Life", which is played when the mall's timers power up in the morning.
** The third is "What The World Needs Now Is Love", playing when all the survivors are at the dinner table discussing their romances.
'''Summary'''
Ana, a Milwaukee nurse, finishes a long shift at her hospital where -- along with other bits of {{Foreshadowing}} -- she discusses [[ZombieInfectee a patient who was bitten in a bar fight]]. After work, she chats briefly with a cute neighbor child, then returns to her suburban home and her waiting husband. The next morning, she wakes up to find her zombified young neighbor in her house; the girl kills her husband, who then rises a zombie and comes after Ana. Ana escapes in her car, only to learn that, overnight, the town has fallen into [[ZombieApocalypse chaos]]. A living human attempts to carjack her vehicle, causing her to panic, drive off the road, crash into a tree, and knock herself unconscious. When she awakens, she meets up with a police officer by the name of Kenneth, and then a small group of survivors more-or-less led by jack-of-all-trades Michael. They all break into a nearby shopping mall, where they are confronted by a trio of mall security guards, led by the surly C.J. Via binoculars and dry-erase boards, they also "meet" gun-store owner Andy, who is stranded alone in his shop across the mall's zombie-infested parking lot. The guards are eventually disarmed, and some more survivors are let into the mall, among them teenaged Nicole.
For a while, the group wallows in the mall's materialism, and Ana and Michael edge into a romance, but due both to general stupidity (thanks Andre!) and the collapse of the power grid, the situation finally deteriorates to the point where the group decides to reinforce a pair of parking shuttles, drive to the local marina and escape out to an island on Lake Michigan. An attempt to get some food to starving Andy ends in general disaster (thanks Nicole and Steve!), and when the zombies finally break into the mall, it forces the survivors into a premature evacuation. [[spoiler:The only ones to survive the chaotic trip to the marina are Ana, Kenneth, one of the guards, and Nicole. Setting sail, they manage to reach an island, only to be immediately attacked by a new zombie swarm; their ultimate fate is unknown.]]
* ActionGirl: Ana
* ApocalypticLog: Andy's video diary in the remake's DVD extras.
* AssholeVictim: Steve
* ATeamMontage: The reinforcement of the shuttle buses.
* {{Badass}}
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Averted with the black leads in both movies; [[spoiler: Andre dies about 2/3rd of the way through the remake.]]
* BolivianArmyEnding
* BoomHeadshot: Both feature impressive shotgun-blast-to-the-head scenes.
* BreakTheCutie: Nicole.
* CasanovaWannabe: Bart the security guard is a light example.
* ChainsawGood: Brutally subverted in the remake.
* CosyCatastrophe
* CrazySurvivalist
* DeadpanSnarker: Steve, on top of being a {{Jerkass}}.
-->'''Kenneth''': ''*referring to Fort Pastor*'' Is everyone there dead?
-->'''Steve''': Well, dead-ish.
* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler: C.J. says about midway through the film, "I'll kill each and every one of you to stay alive." Guess who ends up committing a HeroicSacrifice?]]
** Also, [[spoiler: Michael]] was pretty dead set on [[spoiler: killing the infected Frank before he turned.]] It's simultaneously ironic, impressive and heartbreaking when [[spoiler: he reveals his own infection, says goodbye to Anna, and sets the others off in the boat before shooting himself in the head.]]
** Also, [[spoiler: Andre's]] death eerily mirrors the conversation where [[spoiler: he tells Kenneth that his purpose was to bring his child into the world.]] Err... mission accomplished?
* DeathByPragmatism: C.J. is a jerk, but his original plan to stay firmly buttoned up inside the mall ''was'' much safer. He finally executes a HeelFaceTurn and goes along with a escape plan. Good idea, since the lack of power and increasing number of zombies was getting a bit big.
* DeathBySex: At least two characters.
* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: Both films avoid this, with bloody zombie-action smashing onto the screen within ten minutes. (A police raid on a zombie-infested tenement in the original, and the remake having zombies come right into the heroine's bedroom.)
* DistressedDamsel: Subverted in both films by the female lead.
* TheElevatorFromIpanema: "I like this song!"
* EmergencyPresidentialAddress: In the news report-style DVDBonusContent, the ongoing media coverage temporarily switches to an announcement from the White House press office, wherein the press secretary confirms that an unknown virus is causing people to rise from the dead, the President has been moved to a secure facility, and then turns the podium over to a general who declares that martial law is in effect for the United States.
* EscapeConvenientBoat
* FaceRevealingTurn
* [[spoiler:FetusTerrible: A baby is born already zombified.]]
{{Foreshadowing}}: Quite a few:
** Tucker was noted as having a gimped foot, which nips him in the bud when he falls through a manhole and breaks his leg.
** Steve taunted Ana by giving her the go-ahead to shoot him if he ever turned. She gladly obliges when he does.
** The destruction of Fort Pastor is hinted at early on, when news footage from the base clearly shows several infectees (victims sporting [[TheVirus bite wounds and other mutilations]]) being brought in via truck.
* FridgeBrilliance: See [[spoiler: C.J.'s]] HeroicSacrifice below. Not only does [[spoiler: he take out a whole mess of zombies by blowing up the bus,]] but the [[spoiler: flaming wreckage effectively barricades the marina, allowing the others to cast off unimpeded.]]
* FriendlySniper: In the film, though we only see him personally in his video log, included as a DVD extra.
* TheFundamentalist: The televangelist, who blames the zombie apocalypse on America's sinfulness. [[RemakeCameo He's played by Ken Foree]], and gets to utter his famous line from the original.
* TheGenericGuy: Terry the security guard.
* {{Gorn}}
* GunsAkimbo: Tucker, after he breaks his leg in the sewer. Not like he has much of a choice, and [[spoiler:he gets leaped upon when he has to reload.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:C.J. stays behind to draw away the zombies and detonate the buses to kill a good number of them].]]
* IgnoredVitalNewsReports: Ana does this with her car radio on the way home from work. Later she and her husband miss a TV report while taking a ShowerOfLove.
* ImprobableAimingSkills:
** Even the untrained civilians are able to headshot running targets with amazing accuracy, often while running themselves, wounded, in the dark.
* InfernalRetaliation: Fire/explosives used against zombies several times in the movie; in one case it works because the people burning them are safely behind a fence, attacked by surprise, etc.
* {{Jerkass}}:
** Steve maintains this right up to the moment he [[spoiler:gets zombified and has a bullet planted in his brain]].
** Also C.J., until he learns trust is the foundation to any successful relationship.
* [[spoiler:KillEmAll]]
* LetMeGetThisStraight: C.J.'s classic summing-up of the shuttle-bus "escape" plan.
* TheLoad: Nicole
* LyricalDissonance: Richard Cheese's cover of Disturbed's "Down With The Sickness".
* ILoveTheDead: Part of the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YySQxptHlk&feature=related emergency broadcast]] shown on the DVD showed a bunch of teenagers who had kidnapped a recently zombified hot girl from their school and tied her to a bed [[TooDumbToLive so they could have sex with her]]. Even if they weren't bitten in the process, chances are still likely they'd be infected anyway.
* TheMall
* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: Whatever's on the TV.
* NobodyOverFiftyIsGay: Averted with Glen.
* NotUsingTheZWord: The word "zombie" is never said.
* NotWithTheSafetyOnYouWont:
--> '''Kenneth:''' You ever use one of those things?
--> '''Michael:''' ''[holding a shotgun]'' This is the dangerous end, right?
--> ''[Kenneth reaches over, *click*]''
--> '''Kenneth:''' Now it is.
* OneSceneWonder: Matt Frewer and his character's early death scene.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: The 2004 version compared to the 70's version. The zombies in that one are capable of running and jumping, with no sign of exhaustion and very persistent. Making them a much more severe threat. The 70's version was mostly scary due to numbers. They were slow and shambling but could easily overcome the humans if they managed to corner them.
* PowerOfTrust: C.J. is more compelled to cooperate with the other survivors after reading some magazine articles while locked up.
-->"Trust. The primary ingredient in any relationship."
* RegretEatingMe
* RemakeCameo: Ken Foree (Peter from the original), Scott Reiniger (Roger) and Tom Savini (Blades) all have cameos in the remake, playing, respectively, a televangelist, a general and a sheriff who appear on the TV. Gaylen Ross (Francine) doesn't appear in the remake, but she gets one of the department stores named after her.
* RuleOfScary
* [[RussianGuySuffersMost Russian Woman Suffers Most]]: Luda is infected, but Andre hides it from the others, denying her the chance for a mercy kill. After she dies and turns, she gives birth to a [[IncrediblyLamePun Zombaby]].
* SequelHook: Featured, though a sequel now seems unlikely. The remake of DayOfTheDead is '''not''' a sequel despite the return of Ving Rhames and it being the case for the Romero movies.
* ShoutOut: The remake contains numerous nods to the original versions of both ''Night'' and ''Dawn''.
* TheStinger: Footage was belatedly added to the closing credits.
* StraightGay: Glen. In the theatrical version, the only hint that he is gay is him trying on shoes during the montage of time passing in the mall, although the directors cut includes a scene where it's outright stated.
* SuspiciouslyAproposMusic: There are multiple instances involving the Mall's muzak.
** The first is "Don't Worry, Be Happy", which plays when the survivors enter the mall just barely escaping the undead.
** The second is "You Light Up My Life", which is played when the mall's timers power up in the morning.
** The third is "What The World Needs Now Is Love", playing when all the survivors are at the dinner table discussing their romances.
