Diary of the Dead (2007)
Average Rating: 6.1/10
Reviews Counted: 128
Fresh: 79 | Rotten: 49
As Diary of the Dead proves, time hasn't subdued George A. Romero's affection for mixing politics with gore, nor has it given him cinematic grace or subtlety.
Average Rating: 6.3/10
Critic Reviews: 31
Fresh: 21 | Rotten: 10
As Diary of the Dead proves, time hasn't subdued George A. Romero's affection for mixing politics with gore, nor has it given him cinematic grace or subtlety.
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Horror icon George A. Romero effectively hits the "reset" button on his hugely influential Dead series with this scaled-back look at the zombie apocalypse as told from the perspective of a student filmmaker who sets out to shoot a low-budget fright film, but instead captures the breakdown of modern society at the decaying hands of flesh-eating ghouls. Jason Creed (Joshua Close) and his crew are shooting a mummy movie in the Pennsylvania woods when media reports begin pouring in about the dead
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All Critics (132) | Top Critics (31) | Fresh (83) | Rotten (49) | DVD (12)
We want to high-five Romero for finding new ways to off his lifeless marauders.
Not only the most satisfying motion picture Romero has made in a long while, but one of the best of his career.
It's clever, or at least clever enough to keep you going and interested from start to finish. It just isn't scary.
Like the recent 'Cloverfield', Romero uses the kinetic immediacy of digital video shot on-the-run, but in a more sophisticated and disturbing way.
Top CriticIt's a shame to speak ill of the dead, but Romero leaves us no alternative.
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.
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.
In Romero's apocalypse, the brutish and soulless hold sway, and that's just the humans.
Trenchantly implicates the media into the ongoing apocalypse that in previous Dead chapters already included family, capitalism, the military, class divides
A sly but low-level zombie movie for the YouTube crowd.
It's rough around the edges, dirty in the middle, and stained through with a sort of nihilistic humanism that ultimately unsettles more than the lurching undead themselves.
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.
Once again the master of the independent genre film manages to bring something fresh and worthy to the table.
I hate to say this -- partly because I don't want it to be true and partly because it's such a terrible pun -- but could the zombie movie finally be dead?
Gory zombie movie raises questions about media.
Everything that CLOVERFIELD did right, this does wrong.
Diary of the Dead, even for zombie diehards like my little group (we watched Shadow: Dead Riot, for pete's sake), was not very good at all. I mourn.
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