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Diary of the Dead

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Diary of the Dead

Amy Ciupak Lalonde, Joe Dinicol, Joshua Close, Laura DeCarteret, Megan Park

A group of film students are making an independent horror film when they become trapped in a world being consumed by flesh-eating zombies. With an obsessive, unflinching eye, one filmmaker documents e...( read more  read more... )ach death on camera. As the lucky survivors take final refuge, the film continues to roll, recording every detail for future generations...if any survive.

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  • stopitgoaway
    August 25, 2009
    stopitgoaway
    I have always admired the films of Romero and there can be no doubt that he is the godfather of zombie films. Alas, i think he should have finished his zombie career with day of the dead. Land of the dead certainly wasn't a bad film and this is far from the worst i've ever seen b...( read more)ut the step down is none the less noticeable. The modern cinematic world owes a lot to Romero but it's clear that the modern cinematic world has moved on from him.

    Lets start with the main problems(and ignore the million little ones):-

    1. An idiot who keeps filming even when he or his friends are in danger (at no point does the brilliant idea of putting the camera down occur to him)

    2. A narrator that appears to have edited the film so that it looks polished and yet who chooses to leave in the moments when the camera goes off or turns black

    3. A narrator (and editor) who thinks incidental music should be added for tension (imagine those who filmed 9/11 doing the same and you will arrive at the same tasteless nature of this)

    4. A narrator (and editor) who wishes for us to witness her rotting corpse family attack her (journalists may pretend to put journalistic integrity before emotional involvement but this is perverse)

    5. An allegory for the war in Iraq (we aren't being given the full information etc) that needs to be endlessly repeated.

    6. The notion that they needed to film everything to show the world the truth (like walking zombies wouldn't do it for most people)

    7. Romero getting the opportunity to remind everyone that he thinks zombies should be slow (and reminding us again and again)

    This isn't an absolutely awful film by any stretch but in relation to the history and reputation of Romero, it is alas.....somewhat of an embarrassment
  • phubbs1
    April 7, 2009
    phubbs1
    Yet another boring, unscary and totally unneeded zombie flick hurrah!!

    Yes I admit it is a clever twist to have it done like its really happening ala via a handheld cam and like all zombie flicks by Romero it is eerie and well made, BUT its just ANOTHER zombie flick, it seems to...( read more) be all Romero can do, enough all ready, we get it, you like zombie films jesus.
    He made some crappy zombie flicks along time ago and seems to think thats a license to make even more of the same, nooooooooooo STOP.
    To be honest as I said it is well made and some of the zombie deaths are cool as usual. The whole thing does take time to get going and the end sequences inside a mansion with cams looks very much like the Resident Evil computer game, not bad but not original either.
    The cast are the usual screaming teens who get popped one at a time till only 2/3 remain (one character looking very much like a young version of the Half Life computer game main character) and yes Im afraid its an open ending for yet more of the same, NOOOOOOOO.
    Lets leave this bloody zombie rubbish alone now please, yes the zombies win, yes the world must obviously surcome to the zombies, thats where it all seems to be leading in Romero's films and yes we all know how zombie flicks go now.
    Hopefully the last.
  • MovieGeek13
    March 19, 2009
    MovieGeek13
    Of all the first-person handheld camera movies (Blair Witch, Cloverfield, and Redacted), Romero's Diary of the Dead is easily the best of the lot. He has made a solid horror film that raises concerns about the now. Like his previous films in the "Dead" series, which attacked or...( read more) expressed concerns about the state of the times that each entry was released, Diary concerns itself with the human need to document stories. Think journalists in Iraq, and I'm pretty sure you're along the same lines that Romero is thinking. Romero shows it as both a selfish and a selfless act, showing how it can aid others experience what others have experienced, but also how the documentarian hopes that his/her actions will bring fame and recognition. Using a great post-modern film-within-a-film technique, and embracing the currents You Tube and my space trends, Romero occasionally stumbles in his execution of ideas, but nonetheless succeeds in pulling off what a horror film, namely what a zombie movie should be doing, and that is making a perceptive social comment while scaring the shit out of you at the same time.
  • harrycaul
    February 19, 2009
    harrycaul
    It always amuses me when the potential victims in horror movies seem to inhabit a world of their own, blissfully unaware of even the concept of the particular nasty that is out to get them, until they're running away from it, screaming. "Vampire? What the hell's a vampire? They d...( read more)rink blood!!! You're pulling my leg, right?" After intermittently shouting, "Shoot it in the head, you idiot!" at my TV screen for the first half hour, I can only assume that the characters in Diary of the Dead have collectively never seen a zombie flick, which is doubly amusing since they're supposed to be film students making a horror film.

    Unlike a lot of other documentary-style horror movies, at least Romero's is intelligent enough to address the problem of camera battery life, but his handheld technical glitches look too much like what they are in actuality: cheap, half-assed post-production effects. If his intention was to draw the viewer into the story via the character of Jason - the film-within-a-film's director and chief cameraman, mostly represented by a subjective camera - Romero shoots himself in the foot by making him unsympathetic and unlikeable. Something's got to be wrong when the guy shooting the film-within-a-film you're supposed to be enjoying is the first person you want to see become zombie fodder!

    As the film progresses, Romero allows multiple camera perspectives and attempts at comedy and suspense to creep in, by which time his mockumentary, which ought to be coldly dispassionate, begins to resemble a conventional low budget horror, masquerading as something more important. He even makes excuses for some of his artistic decisions, for example the use of a traditionally manipulative score, via the character Debra's voiceover at the very start of the film. For the first time, Romero presents the dead coming back to life as a global phenomenon; it's a pity that this expansion of his vision didn't coincide with a more generous budget and a resurgence of his talent. Not recommended. Life's too short; wait till you're undead ;)
  • kenstachnik
    February 7, 2009
    kenstachnik
    sigh...
  • mirabella1996
    December 31, 2009
    mirabella1996
    Oh, what a shame to read that you did not really enjoy this latest addition to the great 'Dead' collection.
    I actually LOVED this film, & felt that it was the "dead" film that Romero was actually born to make.....his visionary masterpiece, where he finally had complete artistic c...( read more)ontrol.
  • shawtygirl85
    December 24, 2009
    shawtygirl85
    really liked this one
  • seanattle74
    November 30, 2009
    seanattle74
    I will still add it to my collection, and will watch it again, but I was disappointed. There were scenes which could have been far more better written and acted. My Favorite part is the amish man with the dynamite.
  • ythelastman89
    November 18, 2009
    ythelastman89
    I don't know what Romero was thinking here. It was like a bad version of Cloverfield. It didn't look amateuristic at all, just corny. There were about two interesting characters and way too much cgi effects for zombies that could easily have been done with just make-up. I'm happy...( read more) that it's not really in continuity with the other Of The Dead series because it sticks out like a sore thumb.
  • GreenGoblin92
    November 16, 2009
    GreenGoblin92
    A little bit better than Quarantine, cos this had suspense at least and character development. But God, they should STOP making zombie films. They're so annoying, cliched and overdone.
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