Overview: A victim of workplace bullying seeks vengeance against his tormentors using ancient and sinister forces, unwittingly triggering the opening of a demonic gateway that unleashes chaos and destruction upon the world. A remake of the infamous film Slaughter Day (1991).

Presented by Wild Eye Releasing, this new edition includes trailer materials and showcases the Cousins Brothers’ evolution from cult SOV pioneers to veteran purveyors of splatter cinema.

Day of the Wicked is a delirious descent into infernal revenge - a demonic rampage where workplace cruelty meets supernatural payback and no one escapes unscathed.

DVD Verdict: Day of the Wicked marks the unholy return of the Cousins Brothers - Brent and Blake Cousins - with a blood-soaked modern reimagining of their notorious 1991 shot-on-video cult favorite Slaughter Day. Blending the raw energy of DIY horror with updated visual effects and atmosphere, this remake resurrects the original’s splatterpunk spirit while opening new gates of demonic mayhem.

When a meek employee pushed to his breaking point decides to strike back at his abusive co-workers, his revenge unleashes something far beyond human control - an ancient and malevolent force that turns vengeance into apocalypse. As the demonic presence spreads, sanity unravels, flesh mutates, and the line between victim and monster vanishes in a frenzy of blood, violence, and dark humor.

True to the Cousins’ underground legacy, Day of the Wicked channels the manic chaos of classic horror like The Evil Dead, Night of the Demons, and Braindead, mixing outrageous practical effects with delirious energy. The film’s handcrafted gore, practical splatter effects, and wild editing harken back to the VHS horror boom - but this time with a sharper, more sinister edge.

OK sure, the storyline is a grab of the brothers’ 1991 film Slaughter Day (was there a need to redo it then, I hear you ask), but as much as that means what we get is pretty straightforward, nothing truly outstanding, this updated version at least steps up the narrative and allows us to stay more adroitly focused on the remake.

Slaughter Day, for those unknowing, was at the time quite the anomaly - a backyard SOV gore-fest rip-off of The Evil Dead made in Hawaii! Even better the main characters were a couple of long-haired, working-class White dudes who wore AC/DC shirts and who lit their cigarettes with other cigarettes!

That’s changed here, for what we now get are three grown workers who are commissioned to rewire and get running an old, creepy house. After playing some subpar electric jokes on the one guy, it turns out that having done so was not a good idea as this is the very same person who has picked up and opened the infamous Book of the Dead (from Evil Dead).

Noticeably with a much higher budget onboard, I may not have been familiar with the cast, but each of their performances were well above fair, some parts portrayed in such a way that you believed they were actually seeing what their scared faces portrayed them to be. Oh, and the score was top notch also.

Bonus Features:
Trailers

Official Trailer