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George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead | 
 enlarge | Actor: George A. Romero
Studio: The Weinstein Company
Category: DVD
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Rating:  138 reviews
Sales Rank: 5668
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Ntsc, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 96
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: WEID81173D
UPC: 796019811736
EAN: 0796019811736
ASIN: B0013D8LA4
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: May 20, 2008
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Studio: Genius Products Inc Release Date: 05/20/2008 Rating: R
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George Romero has always come up with new ways of treating his zombies, and Diary of the Dead is no exception: Romero keeps his dead fresh, with an original approach to the undying subject. This one purports to be the video record of a group of young people who are shooting a low-budget horror movie when the terror strikes: corpses begin re-animating, intent on chewing the living. Our heroes trek across Pennsylvania, encountering the staggering zombies as they go. Other pieces of video are incorporated, which gives Romero a chance at some great set-pieces, including the brilliant opening sequence, a live local-TV feed that goes horribly, horribly wrong, and a home-video tape from a family birthday party, where the party clown turns out to be a dead ringer. All of Romero's Dead films are political, and this one's no exception, with a stark view of the way things are today; it doesn't offer the Hawksian heroics of the survivors in Dawn of the Dead or Land of the Dead for comfort, just a group of bickering, shocked youths. There's too much talk about the detachment of watching things through a lens, but in general this is a bracing, intelligent movie. Plus, there's some excellent splatter. --Robert Horton
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 Uhhhhh what's going on here?!?!?! December 1, 2008
I don't think i could find more useless reviews... this is a review of THE BLU-RAY people! I couldn't care less what you "think" of the film, if i wanted that i'd read the regular DVD review. Absolutely no info on the Blu-ray quality at all here.
"Diary" Has Its Moments; Should Have Been Made Much Earlier, Though November 30, 2008
In "Diary of the Dead" George A Romero returns to his roots. That is what some people say, and they are right in more than one sense. Unlike his previous "Land of the Dead" "Diary" is made with a lower budget and largely unknown cast, more like an independent film. "Diary" also takes us back to the earlier days when the dead started walking and eating the flesh of the living. For all the merits of the film, however, I was slightly disappointed with his latest entry.
The story is not bad. It is about a group of film students and one professor in Pennsylvania, witnessing the world slowly ending around them, with people turning into flesh-eating zombies. Clearly the 68-year-old veteran hasn't lost his touch. Some scenes are scary and some gory (what happens if you use an AED on a zombie?) Some scenes are really funny in a twisted way.
All those events are told through the camera-eye. The film-within-film that follows the terrifying events are actually, according to the narrator, edited (using "footage" downloaded from the net), and sound effects are added to the final cut. In this way "Diary" tries to make its oft-used hand-held camera device more accessible.
I don't disagree with the narrative method itself. Still what we see is essentially the same as before. People get bitten and they become undead. "Diary of the Dead" has great opening, and the fast-paced storytelling and Romero's skill as director keep us interested, but we know where the film is going, and it does.
Perhaps the film should have been made at least seven years earlier when we were not still perfectly aware of the impact of the "live" images of the media, or the potential of YouTube. I agree with most of Romero's social messages, but with all respect to him his social commentaries are obvious to most of us now.
George A Romero's "Diary of the Dead" has its moments. But let's face it. We have seen so many zombie films recently, haven't we?
 The worst 'Dead' film, and one of the worst films ever. November 26, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Simply put, this movie is atrocious. The acting is pitifully poor, the CGI effects are laughably bad, and the story is trite and boring. It basically looks like Cloverfield without a budget or script. All of the actors are conceited morons and the narration (no doubt added for simpletons) eschews subtlety and hits you over the head with the film's "message". I'm a long-time Romero fan, and it was almost unbearable sitting through this film. I nearly fell asleep several times and the dialogue was cringe-inducing. All of the media and Romero fanboys will say "it's not so bad" and make excuses as you would expect. It's embarrassing that Romero put his name on something this abysmal. Avoid like the plague...
This was awful November 25, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Let me say ..I was a huge fan of Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Day..But this is utter garbage,,Why?? Terrible story and terrible acting..the "Blair Witch" thing is very old..I was hoping the characters would all be eaten by Zombies, because they were so annoying..Some of the special effects were ok..It looks like there were on a strict budget in places..Don't even bother renting it..
 Not the best of the bunch. November 3, 2008
I liked Night of the Living Dead. I Liked Day of the Dead and Dawn of the Dead. I even liked Land of the Dead.
This movie fell face-first into the mud.
To be honest, the first-person camcorder style is officially overdone. I'm tire of the same excuses being used in EVERY frickin' movie like this one as to why the guy with the camcorder can't put down the frickin' camera, even to go to the bathroom. Blair Witch was good. Cloverfield was Ok. By the time I get to Diary of the Dead, it becomes old.
Too much introspection. Too much philosophical crap, and virtually no plot. There was nothing new added to the series by this offering. I found myself fast-forwarding through portions of the movie.
Romero should have just stopped with Land of the Dead.
It wasn't a wretched piece of film, but when I find myself bored watching a horror flick, it tells me that the movie wasn't worth making in the first place.
The acting is good, the writing is just Ok, and as I said before: the camcorder perspective is just plain not worth seeing again.
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