I long put off seeing Diary of the Dead; George Romero's fifth entry in his '...of the dead' series. The first three were fantastic, and still are. The fourth one Land of the Dead however was utterly terrible and over produced.
Diary of the Dead is shot in a The Blair Witch Project style (or I guess The Last Broadcast as that came first). I mean that it's shot entirely from hand held cameras and security cameras. This came out around the same time as The Zombie Diaries. The zombie diaries also is shot via hand held cameras, unfortunately it had no budget, and suffered with some very boring sections. I managed to buy two copies of The Zombie Diaries as got confused with the title of that and this one!
I found this quite cheap in Tesco, so I picked it up (along with Planet Terror). This film is really good! Having a budget really helps, the film has a storyline, the cameras don't suffer from the usual shaky movements these films have, and the zombies look like zombies.
A group of film students find themselves in the middle of a zombie apocalypse. At first they are disbelieving, and think all the news reports are hoaxes, but it soon becomes apparent that it is really happening. One of the students records their adventure as he wants to preserve their journey, and is mostly shot from his perspective. He comes across as a real douche, filming his friends being attacked rather than help them. His escape from the terrors is by hiding behind the camera is how I see it.
Anyway I am blabbering. Diary of the Dead is entertaining and is intercut with news reports from around the globe which give greater depth to the apocalypse. A return to the series roots, a re-imagining of Night of the Living Dead set in modern day, recommended!
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