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Diary of the Dead
2008
When a group of film students making a horror movie in the woods discovers that the dead have begun to revive, they turn their cameras on the real-life horrors that suddenly confront them, creating a first person diary of their bloody encounters and the disintegration of everything they hold dear. Read more
| Starring | Nick Alachiotis, Matt Birman, Joshua Close, Laura DeCarteret |
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| Director | George A. Romero |
| Genres | Horror |
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Diary of the Dead
When a group of film students making a horror movie in the woods discovers that the dead have begun to revive, they turn their cameras on the real-life horrors that suddenly confront them, creating a first person diary of their bloody encounters and the disintegration of everything they hold dear.
| Starring | Nick Alachiotis, Matt Birman, Joshua Close, Laura DeCarteret, Joe Dinicol, Wes Craven, Stephen King |
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| Director | George A. Romero |
| Studio | OPTIMUM RELEASING |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 35 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 35 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Horror |
| Language | DVD: English Blu-ray: English |
| Released | DVD: 30 Jun 2008 Blu-ray: 30 Jun 2008 Production year: 2008 |
| Format | DVD |
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Rebooting his Dead series right back to moment zero, George Romero delivers the first chapter of a new era: When... read more on Time Out
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83 out of 85 people found this review helpful
[Highly rated reviewer]
SO SO SO SO BAD!!!!!
PLEASE DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME AND MONEY ON THIS GARBAGE! ! !
WORST FILM I HAVE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE........
ITS CRAZY HOW FILMS THIS BAD CAN BE MADE!!!!!!!!!!!!! -
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29 out of 30 people found this review helpful
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the worst dead
Diary of the dead is george romero's 5th zombie film and the 2nd one he's done in the last 3 yrs. This installment takes us back to the day it all started and is told from the perspective of a group of college students who are filming as the zombie outbreak occurs..think cloverfield with zombies and you'd be on the right track.
Things start promisingly enough with some tension and good make up fx..but about 30 mins in the whole things goes seadily downhill. The film is told at a sanils pace..long lingering dialogue scenes occur without anything really happeneing. When the zombies are on screen the whole thing livens up but the rest is so boring. There was long exposition in both dawn and day of the dead but in those films we cared about the characters and their relationships with one a nother. In this you dont give a damn who dies next and everyone is just bland..apart from the only good character,the kids cocky,alcaholic college professor who prefers to kill zombies with a bow and arrow coz its more dignified!
Some other reviewer said this was better than Land of the dead....it isnt....land was far superior to this even though that was the worse installement till this one. Land had some great moments and great zombie kills/fx and even a couple of cool characters but this has litle to offer.
It isnt all bad..romero is incapable of making a completley bad film. The first 30 mins or so is quite well handled and some of the zombie kills are fun and the last scene is very romero and really cool.
If you are new to these films..below is how i'd rate these in order
1. Dawn of the dead (1979) ( the best installement..the citizen kane of zombie films!)
2. Day of the dead (1985) ( the most goriest and over the top and a cool bad guy too)
3 Night of the living dead (1968) ( grounbreaking when released but quite basic now,save for the very powerful end scene)
4. Land of the dead (2005) ( the most high budget and has the most recognisable cast..a decent entry but nowhere near the best)
5. Diary of the dead (2008) ( well the worse enrty to date im afraid,see review above) -
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Diary of the Dead
- 03 Mar 2008
Zombie maestro George A Romero proves us all wrong again: you really can flog a dead horse. Just watch that it doesn't bite you back. This isn't exactly a sequel to the unfolding Night of the Living Dead series (so far 68-year-old Romero has given us Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead and Land of the Dead, and not a dud among them). Rather, it takes us back to square one and the very first night. The diary idea is similar to the first-person point of view in Cloverfield and The Blair Witch... Read more
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Diary of the Dead
When a group of film students making a horror movie in the woods discovers that the dead have begun to revive, they turn their cameras on the real-life horrors that suddenly confront them, creating a first person diary of their bloody encounters and the disintegration of everything they hold dear. ...
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