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2008 Certificate 18
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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
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
Director George A. Romero
Studio OPTIMUM RELEASING
Run time DVD: 1 hr 35 mins
Blu-ray: 1 hr 35 mins
Certificate Certificate 18
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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  • 4 stars out of

    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

    Rated - 0 stars [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!!!!!!!!!!!!!

      • emzash from Newcastle upon Tyne
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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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    • 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 ...

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      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. ...