Diary of the Dead
A group of young film students who travel across Pennsylvania in hopes of finding refuge at their friend's secluded mansion run into real-life zombies while filming a horror movie of their own.
17 January 1999, Canada
27 March 1963, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
7 January 1949, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
15 March 1963, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
9 October 1964, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
October 18, 2008
For Romero, someone who still retains respect and admiration for previous work, Diary of the Dead points to the realization that it is time to close the door on zombie movies and move to other horror subjects.
March 06, 2008
It's a shame to speak ill of the dead, but Romero leaves us no alternative.
July 16, 2008
We want to high-five Romero for finding new ways to off his lifeless marauders.
April 28, 2011
Not the best but certainly far from the worst of Romero's series of accounts of an epidemic of dead people coming to life to eat the living.
April 14, 2008
It's clever, or at least clever enough to keep you going and interested from start to finish. It just isn't scary.
May 08, 2010
In Romero's apocalypse, the brutish and soulless hold sway, and that's just the humans.
February 17, 2008
Hardly top-drawer Romero. In fact, it may be his worst zombie film yet. But even bad Romero is a far sight more interesting than the coolly sadistic guts-porn that currently passes for mainstream horror.
August 27, 2009
Trenchantly implicates the media into the ongoing apocalypse that in previous Dead chapters already included family, capitalism, the military, class divides
March 07, 2008
Like the recent 'Cloverfield', Romero uses the kinetic immediacy of digital video shot on-the-run, but in a more sophisticated and disturbing way.
July 17, 2009
A sly but low-level zombie movie for the YouTube crowd.
September 30, 2014
One needn't be a splatter junkie to miss Romero's marshalling of action across multiple theaters. But the maestro finds a way to slay intellectual and aesthetic antsiness with the same bullet.
June 10, 2008
Not only the most satisfying motion picture Romero has made in a long while, but one of the best of his career.
