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- 2008
- R
- Third Rail Releasing
- 1 h 35 m
- 2008
- R
- Third Rail Releasing
- 1 h 35 m
Summary Jason Creed and a small crew of college filmmakers are in the Pennsylvania woods making a no-budget horror film when they hear the terrifying news that the dead have started returning to life. Led by Jason's girlfriend, Debra, the frightened young filmmakers set off in a friend's old Winnebago to try to get back to the only safety and se...
Directed By: George A. Romero
Written By: George A. Romero
- 2008
- R
- Third Rail Releasing
- 1 h 35 m
- 2008
- R
- Third Rail Releasing
- 1 h 35 m
Diary of the Dead
66
5.4
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Summary Jason Creed and a small crew of college filmmakers are in the Pennsylvania woods making a no-budget horror film when they hear the terrifying news that the dead have started returning to life. Led by Jason's girlfriend, Debra, the frightened young filmmakers set off in a friend's old Winnebago to try to get back to the only safety and se...
Directed By: George A. Romero
Written By: George A. Romero
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 29 Critic Reviews
66
62% Positive
18 Reviews
18 Reviews
38% Mixed
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 29 Critic Reviews
66
62% Positive
18 Reviews
18 Reviews
38% Mixed
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
A giddy kick-out-the-jams entertainment. Diary takes a tack that's not exactly new, but is new to Romero, and as one might expect, the director brings a sharp and uncompromising new perspective to it.
A raw, vivid despatch from the frontline, this melds content with frights in classic Romero style. An outstanding exercise in showing the kids how to do it.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 53 User Ratings
5.4
28% Positive
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
53% Mixed
28 Ratings
28 Ratings
19% Negative
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 53 User Ratings
5.4
28% Positive
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
53% Mixed
28 Ratings
28 Ratings
19% Negative
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
Another fantastic Romero made zombie movie, I like how it shows you about the survivors adapting and trying to cope with there new life with the dead, something that is rarely explored in zombie movies, and while it starts off making you think it's going to **** do to it being over dramatic, it quickly picks up the pace and becomes enjoyable, but there are still a few cheesy moments here and there, but this is still a fantastic movie, a must see for Romero fans.
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The film's take on media and personal responsibility recalls Brian De Palma's faux Iraq documentary, "Redacted," here dropped into a homefront turned guerrilla war zone.
I love zombie movies. I love George Romero even more. It is easy to say that every movie he comes out with is an event for me, so it brings me great sadness to say that I felt let down by his latest effort, Diary of the Dead.
With Diary of the Dead, Romero goes back to the beginning, only this time the amateurish look is calculated and the resulting film far less effective - if only because a handful of filmmakers have beaten him to the punch.
Moderately scary, moderately amusing, intermittently dull and obvious, Diary of the Dead is not groundbreaking, nor even ground-quaking.
A limp and dreary experience, at least after you get past its intriguing premise. It's poorly written and woodenly acted, completely formulaic and hopelessly imprisoned by both its genre and finally its form.
El Diario de los Muertos (2007)
Sinopsis:
Un grupo de estudiantes de cine descubren a unos zombies reales mientras filman una cinta de terror.
Opinión:
Ahora recordé que esta la vi hace como 10 años sin saber que era parte de una saga, me gustó mucho en su momento y actualmente me sigue gustando, no sigue la línea de tiempo de las películas de Zombies anteriormente publicadas, sino que es un reinicio de la historia original ambientada en los tiempos modernos haciendo hincapié en el hecho de que las personas están dispuestas a todo con tal de que obtengan algo interesante con sus aparatos multimedia.
Presentada como un falso documental de bajo presupuesto, lo cual es un aspecto innovador dentro de la saga y pese a que el director es el mismo, no se siente así.
Los personajes son los típicos estereotipados dentro de este subgénero de películas, como el imbécil que le da igual que todo a su alrededor sea tragedia con tal de tenerlo grabado en cámara.
Como pelicula independiente no le veo lo malo, a mucha gente no le gustó por irse por un nuevo camino y por reducir los estándares que tenían las películas anteriores, para mi estuvo entretenida para pasar el rato.
Valoración:
3.5 de 5
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I don't remember thinking this was especially novel when it came out, although I did have cheap fun with it. Watching it now I had almost the complete opposite experience. Romero was clearly on to something here, and somehow even ahead of the time (to think the iPhone wasn't even out yet and Facebook nowhere near popular) but instead of the subtle social satire lying under the surface a great zombie movie, Diary is a one-note in your face social commentary movie with fine zombie action, basic plotting and mostly boring characters and dialogue.
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If George Romero had made this three or four years sooner, it may have still been relevant, but DIARY OF THE DEAD comes in way too late in the long line of "found footage" films that became popular in the 2000's. DIARY follows a group of college students as they document their first-hand account of the zombie apocalypse using a hand-held video camera. Unfortunately, Romero gets the format entirely wrong in every conceivable way. Instead of producing an ultra-realistic nightmare as we had seen in [REC] from the same year, he gives us a poorly-staged and utterly contrived zombie bore lead by unbelievable characters and lackluster special effects.
In the first of many offenses, Romero allows his characters to edit their footage, which entails adding slow-motion effects, scene transitions, and even narration. The editor has even chosen to emphasize the scares using blaring sound effects! Romero's characters are given painfully unnatural dialog, which makes them come off as being bad actors rather than genuine people. The zombies are killed in a variety of glamorized ways that simply would not happen in a real-world survivor setting. Worst of all, the cartoon gore is comprised almost entirely by computerized effects! How does this, in any way, reflect reality? Why choose this format only to then go back and fictionalize the events? The only answer seems to lie in the editor's commentary, itself. Debra repeatedly stresses how it was impossible to discern fact from fiction with 400,000 spins on the truth available for download online. Perhaps this, too, is some elaborate prank being played by the filmmakers, calling back to the Wellesian War of the Worlds radio drama that Romero references as well? Even in that remote possibility, DIARY OF THE DEAD never displays enough intelligence to credit it as being a satire.
DIARY OF THE DEAD shows an extreme disconnect between concept and execution. Romero may have entered this project with good intentions, but the result is truly horrifying.
-Carl Manes
I Like Horror Movies
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Don’t waste your time. Characters aren't worth caring about. Theres nothing subtle about the message of stop recording, take action. It hits you in the face like a sledgehammer. The lack of detail in costuming, practical effects, and incompetent screen play screams that they dont care about or trust the audience enough
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Production Company
Artfire Films,
Romero-Grunwald Productions
Release Date Feb 15, 2008
Duration 1 h 35 m
Rating R
Tagline Shoot the dead.
Awards
Gérardmer Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards
• 1 Nomination
