Day of the Dead: Bloodline is a 2017 action horror film directed by Hèctor Hernández Vicens, and written by Mark Tonderai and Lars Jacobson, based on characters created by George A. Romero. The film stars Johnathon Schaech, Sophie Skelton, Jeff Gum, Marcus Vanco, Mark Rhino Smith, Cristina Serafini, Lillian Blankenship, Shari Watson, Atanas Srebrev, Ulyana Chan, Nathan Cooper, Vladimir Mihailov, London Grace and Bashar Rahal. It is one of two remakes of Romero's original 1985 film Day of the Dead: the first, also titled Day of the Dead, was released in 2008, while the film was released on December 29, 2017, in Vietnam and on January 5, 2018, in the United States.