The Day

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The Day

R

Released Aug 29, 2012

1h 30m

Horror

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Ten years after the collapse of society, five survivors of the apocalypse battle raging cannibals at an isolated farmhouse.

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Farran Smith Nehme

New York Post

The film feels unbelievably long at 84 minutes, and the color-drained, hand-held cinematography serves only as a reminder of just how good "Night of the Living Dead" really was.

Rated: 1.5/4

Aug 31, 2012

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Joel Arnold

NPR

A savage B-movie thriller with unrealized aspirations to profundity ...

Aug 30, 2012

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Bill Goodykoontz

Arizona Republic

Every day is gloomy in "The Day," Douglas Aarniokoski's film with a creepy, paranoid atmosphere that's more effective than the performances.

Rated: 3/5

Aug 29, 2012

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Jack Fleischer

Battleship Pretension

This Day feels like an MTV spin-off of The Road. With a near monochrome color pallet, and scenes of intense action and violence it never seems to offer substance with it's style.

Mar 22, 2021

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Ed Travis

Hollywood Jesus

The script will keep you engaged in this solitary place. The relationships built among this family of survivors feels real and tested. And the events of the film bring out interesting and violent changes in the family.

Apr 1, 2020

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Felix Vasquez Jr.

Cinema Crazed

Could definitely have benefited from twenty more minutes of story.

Dec 6, 2012

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Jeff B

Started off cool - i like a good apocalypse movie. Then just downhill. Instead of zombies, it's a gang of humans attacking a house where our brave heroes defend them off. It's just like "Night of the Living Dead". But to add to the bad on this, it's so dark, it's hard to see what's going on - a great trick directors use when they realize their shots aren't that good so they just darken everything so you can't really see what's happening. Yes, they attack at night (of course they do) but come on, this gets tired fast. if you want a movie to kinda watch in the background while you're playing a game on your PC, this is good. but, we've seen this formula before. NOT even going to go into the shaky camera work.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/11/25

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Bryan B

Dollar store knockoff of the road.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

12/23/23

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Audience Member

Those kinds of sweet, short watches then forget it.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/03/23

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Audience Member

The day is entertaining enough but overall this isn’t a good film. The acting isn’t that great and the story is simple. It’s a low budget film and with the lack of manylocations except one house it feels like it. More could’ve been explained in the backstory since I could care less that any of these characters. A simple and forgettable film.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

09/17/20

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Audience Member

A bunch of people the writing couldn't make me care about got killed. I only give it 2 stars because I feel bad for the guys who made it.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/01/23

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Ten years after the collapse of society, five survivors (Shawn Ashmore, Ashley Bell) of the apocalypse battle raging cannibals at an isolated farmhouse.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/21/23

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Synopsis

Ten years after the collapse of society, five survivors of the apocalypse battle raging cannibals at an isolated farmhouse.

Director: Douglas Aarniokoski
Screenwriter: Luke Passmore
Distributor: Anchor Bay
Production Co: Guy A. Danella Productions
Rating: R (Strong Bloody Violence|Some Nudity|Pervasive Language)
Genre: Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 29, 2012, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 30, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $20.5K
Runtime: 1h 30m

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