I have been wearing the new specs around the house, trying to get used to them and get used to looking through the right bit of them for different distances.  It is a bit trial-and-error but when I get it right there is a great improvement.  This evening I watched a DVD and it was as if I had got an HD set or something – so much clearer.

A shame then, that the film I chose to watch was Day of the Dead.I think I would have preferred not to be seeing so clearly during the bit where a zombie has an eyeball dangling from his socket, plucks it off and pops it in his mouth.  I’m a bit squemish about eyes so I was doing some world-class squirming at that point.

The film is not great – but its a zombie film so there was no way I wasn’t  going to watch it.   It shares a title with the third film in George A. Romero’s trilogy, but it is not a re-make like Dawn of the dead was.   There are one or two similar plot points, most noticeably having part of the film set in a tunnel complex, but otherwise its a completely new film.

Worst of all, the film features ‘fast zombies’.   That is just not right: zombies are supposed to shuffle, and I am not the only person to think that.  It ends up like a cros between 28 Days Later and Outbreak, but not as good as either.

The description on the back of the box was incorrect as well.  It mentioned an elite military unit, but the military involved are just normal National Guards, and to make it worse there was a prominent spelling mistake in the blurb.

Possibly the worst zombie film I have seen – but I still enjoyed it because… well its a zombie film isn’t it?