Romero’s on a roll – DOWNHILL! Night of the Living Dead 3D, Day of the Dead (remake) and now Diary of the Dead
Diary of the Dead chronicles the initial zombie outbreak through the indifferent eyes (camera lens) of film student Jason Creed, who just can’t seem to put down the camera down (even when his girlfriend’s being chased by the undead). It’s like Cloverfield with zombies!
Diary of the Dead can be summed up in 1 word: predictable. It opens with Jason and his friends in the middle of making their own campy movie (as if one wasn’t enough) in which a very fast moving mummy is reprimanded by the director for being unrealistic as “dead things don’t move fast”. Of course Mr. Know-it-all ends up being right, and later on when a zombified mummy shambles its way after his girlfriend, Jason exclaims “I told you so!” Throughout the movie Jason shows little concern for his girlfriend and yet by the end Debra embraces Jason’s obsession, which is not at all surprising since she narrates the entire movie even before she makes he first on-screen appearance. :sarcasm: Gee I wonder why she’s narrating Jason’s movie. :sarcasm:
To paraphrase Asian girl #1, Don’t watch Diary of the Dead, first shoot in head.
Night of the Living Dead 3D, Day of the Dead (remake) (not Romero Movies)
Im really shocked you blasted this movie. In the realm of Zombie movies its got to be in the top 10-15. The zombies look good the story is decent. Even the hand held shots aren’t nearly as shaky as Cloverfield was.As for the guy not putting the camera down, I think she established through the whole movie that he was acting odd by filming everything. So, you can suspend reality that the dead walk the earth but you cant accept that if the dead walk the earth some guy might loose his marbles a bit and want to film everything.
You made it sound like this is worse than all of the zombie Indy films. (where a little makeup is smeared on the face,shot with a camcorder and no script.) I sooooo disagree with you.
Hey Jason,
I never said it’s the worst zombie movie just predictable and not worth your time. Currently it’s got a rating of 6.1 on imdb so I’m hardly the only one who thinks so.
Of course everyone’s got different tastes (zombies for example).