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.
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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