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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: Blu-ray
EAN: 0796019816106
Format: Subtitled, Widescreen
Label: Weinstein Company
Manufacturer: Weinstein Company
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Weinstein Company
Release Date: October 21, 2008
Running Time: 96 minutes
Sales Rank: 2346
Studio: Weinstein Company
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Editorial Review:
Description:
From legendary frightmaster George A. Romero comes 'one of the most daring, hypnotic and absolutely vital horror films of the past decade' (fangoria.com). Romero continues his influential 'Dead' series, this time focusing on a terrified group of college film students who record the pandemic rise of flesh-eating zombies while struggling for their own survival. Intensely gruesome and relentlessly grisly - fueled by the director's signature realistic special effects - Diary of the Dead is must-see horror that 'is Romero at his finest' (bloody-disgusting.com).
Amazon.com:
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - It's better than you think
First, I love George A. Romero's zombies. New-school zombies can suck it (literally, what the F*** is up with them. They are more like people on angel dust than zombies). 28 Whatevers Later blew. I thought the remake of Dawn of the Dead sucked. I love zombie movies but have honestly only seen about 8 that were good. And I liked this one. I was very amused at Romero's digs on the new-age zombie. "See, I told you dead things move slow!" I think his take on the first person point of view horror ... Read More
Rating: - a great addition to the series
i dont care what most neo-zombie fans think about this movie to be honest. i've sat through some great ones and some less than watchable ones throughout my life since the wee age of five and i must say that george romero has always been on the top of the list in my opinion. even max brooks should give him credit for the influences of the neo zombie bible-the zsg because he obviously based the techniques in it off the so called "romero zombie" anyways onto the movie.
this was a low budget ... Read More
Rating: - Uhhhhh what's going on here?!?!?!
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.
Rating: - "Diary" Has Its Moments; Should Have Been Made Much Earlier, Though
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. ... Read More
Rating:  - The worst 'Dead' film, and one of the worst films ever.
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 ... Read More
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