Diary Of The Dead (DVD)

In 2005 George A. Romero 'kindly' released his 'Land of the Dead' film upon the world, one of the worst zombie films ever made. His films had always been characterised by the use of a largely unknown cast; something that had always worked well for him and made his early films feel a lot more real and authentic. In 'Land of the Dead' there were celebrities left, right, and centre, it was a who's who of Hollywood; after 20 years without having released a zombie film, everyone wanted to be in George A. Romero's latest offering and indeed they were. With 'Diary of the Dead' George A. Romero takes the series back to its roots in once more using an unknown cast; there's a big ...  Read the complete review

This is the year that we were promised Zombie-movie-master George Romero would return to his roots with the low budget re-imaging of his "dead" series, following mixed reviews of the studio produced, high budget "LAND OF THE DEAD" a couple of years ago. DIARY OF THE DEAD, his new film, was supposed to follow in the trend set this year by CLOVERFIELD, and earlier by films such as THE LAST BROADCAST and THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, by filming everything on hand-held camera. Other films have tried this method and failed (DEEP WATER anyone...?), so many people were wondering could the master horror director who scared us all witless during the late seventies ...  Read the complete review

---The Ramble!--- It has been a long week. Not particularly a bad week, just a long one. Work has been a tad hectic thanks to some brilliant new scheme that has been brought in which boils down to the poor saps at the bottom (that's me) doing a lot more work for the exact same pay and a just a smidgen less self respect. How fabulous. I decided that to cheer myself up, I would have my hair cut and dye it green again (my user picture at the moment is a lie, I am looking vaguely normal for now) but I just found out my supplier is out of stock. At this point I have decided that what I really need is a good old fashioned "lets blow the blood and guts out of ...  Read the complete review

Diary of the Dead is a low-budget 2007 horror film directed by George A Romero. It's the fifth zombie film to be made by Romero but not considered part of his famous 'Dead' series. Instead it's an attempt to do something a bit different - in this case a documentary-style film about the beginning of zombie epidemic seen through the camera of a young film director who wants to chronicle these events for posterity. It has been suggested that Romero was frustrated by studio interference while making 'Land of the Dead' and with 'Diary of the Dead' wanted to go back to his independent roots and make something more homemade that he had complete control over. The film centres ...  Read the complete review

'Diary of the Dead' is George Romero's fifth instalment in his zombie film series and ,much like its predecessor 'Land of The Dead', confirms that he, like the once untouchable John Carpenter, has lost his ability to make intelligent, unsettling horrors and has had to resort to rehashing his own past glories. Though a very poor film, 'Diary..' is actually built around a decent premise; a group of student filmmakers are shooting a horror film in the woods when radio reports start coming in announcing that the dead are returning to life. This prompts them to try and get back to their families, travelling in a mobile home and filming their experiences, whilst ...  Read the complete review