Wednesday, 23 April 2008

Diary of the Dead


George. A. Romero, director of The Night of the Living Dead, brings us yet another zombie movie with the release of Diary of the Dead.

The film takes us with a group of film students as they film a horror movie and capture more than they bargained for as they run into some ‘real-life’ zombies.

Hand held camera techniques are used a lot throughout the film, which is fine if you want to add realism but, this is a zombie movie we’re talking about so the effect doesn’t really work.

The plot is rather silly and the zombie attacks are quite ridiculous, which would be fine for a 1960’s horror but, as a modern audience we expect more from our zombie movies.

There is only so much you can do with a cast of zombies and Romero has taken it to the limits.

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