Ten years on from the peculiar reboot/remake/reimagining comes this Bulgarian-shot cheapie follow-up, set five years after the events of that film version. After a perfunctory set-up establishing of the initiating event, Bloodline plays like a souped-up episode of The Walking Dead, but here Idiot Plot abounds astoundingly as every mistake possible to be made by the secure-bunker-dwelling proto-military crew and survivors unfolds predictably. Nevertheless, the film is proficiently made and efficient, with suitably over-the-top squelch for gore fans, and there are a couple of interesting twists on the Bub character from Romero's 1985 classic, notably when the character first infiltrates the bunker and poses an Alien-esque lone zombie stalking threat, but making him a romantically-fixated semi-sentient creature really does not bear much scrutiny. There are worse films out there riding on the end of this era's zombie wave, but revisit the Romero originals - even today they seem fresher and more imaginative than the relentless 'inspired by' films that have followed.
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