| release date: | February 15, 2008 Tuesday May 20, 2008 (dvd) |
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| genre: | Horror |
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| running time: | 95 min. |
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| director: | George A. Romero, George A. Romero |
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| studio: | Alliance Films |
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| producer(s): | Peter Grunwald, Art Spigel, Sam Englebardt, Ara Katz |
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| screenplay: | George A. Romero |
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| cast: | Michelle Morgan, Joshua Close, Shawn Roberts, Amy Lalonde, Joe Dinicol, Scott Wentworth |
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George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead Movie Synopsis
Jason Creed and a small crew of college filmmakers are in the Pennsylvania woods making a no-budget horror film when they hear the terrifying news that the dead have started returning to life.
Led by Jason's girlfriend, Debra, the frightened young filmmakers set off in a friend's old Winnebago to try to get back to the only safety and security they know: their homes.
But there is no escape from the crisis, nor any real home for them anymore. Everything they depend upon, all that they hold dear, is fractured as the plague of the living dead begins to spread.
Jason documents the true-life horrors in a tense, first-person style that heightens the reality of each encounter. Even as his friends die, even as they are attacked by ravenous walking corpses at every stop along the way, Jason keeps filming, an obsessive, unflinching eye in the midst of chaos.
The government first denies, then promises to quell the crisis, but can't. Technology fails. Communication with the rest of the world becomes impossible. Jason and what remains of his crew end up on their own, a handful of lucky survivors, reliant on no one but themselves to stay alive.
They take final refuge in a fortress of a mansion, but their sanctuary turns out to be a trap from which there is no escape. Throughout it all, the cameras keep rolling, recording every detail for future generations... if any survive.
It doesn't seem like a Romero film at all. It was terrible and way to preachy at the end. "We are them and they are us." We have heard that several times in his other movies why make that point again. Talk about beating a dead horse, no pun intended. I honestly wished I had not seen it I love Romero movies but I really have no idea what he was trying to do with this one.
Another great film from George Romero! This could probably be his more heartfelt entry into the "dead" series. The firt person persepctive makes it the most jump zombie flick ever and is at times almost unnerving. I understand the comparisons to Cloverfield but most people don't seem to understand that this was filmed before it.
did not like this movie at all.