Diary of the Dead (2007)

Director:

George A. Romero

Guionista (WGA):

George A. Romero (written by)

Release Date:

7 marzo 2008 (UK)

Genre:

Fantasy | Horror | Thriller

Frase comercial:

Shoot the dead.

Plot:

A group of young film students run into real-life zombies while filming a horror movie of their own. |

Plot Keywords:

Apocalypse | Fake Documentary | First Person View | First Person | Subjective Camera

Awards:

1 win

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Fair

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Cast

Joshua Close	...	Jason Creed
Scott Wentworth	...	Andrew Maxwell
Michelle Morgan	...	Debra Moynihan
Joe Dinicol	...	Eliot Stone
Shawn Roberts	...	Tony Ravello
Amy Ciupak Lalonde	...	Tracy Thurman (as Amy Lalonde)
Philip Riccio	...	Ridley Wilmott
Megan Park	...	Francine Shane
Chris Violette	...	Gordo Thorsen
Tatiana Maslany	...	Mary Dexter
Martin Roach	...	Stranger
Boyd Banks	...	White Man
George Buza	...	Tattooed Biker
Janet Lo	...	Asian Woman
Laura DeCarteret	...	Brie

También conocida como:

George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead (USA) (complete title)
Diario de los muertos, El (Argentina) [es]

MPAA:

Rated R for strong horror violence and gore, and pervasive language.

Duración:

95 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

DTS | Dolby Digital

Clasificación:

Ireland:16 | Portugal:M/18 | Canada:14A | UK:18 | USA:R | Argentina:16

Filming Locations:

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Company:

Artfire Films

Trivialidades:

The documentary-within-the-film is called "The Death of Death." This is also the name of George Romero's four-part miniseries for the DC Comics zombie title "Toe Tags."

Goofs:

Errors in geography: Scranton is 122 miles northeast of Harrisburg; it does not make sense traveling from Pittsburgh (in the western most part of Pennsylvania) to drop a character off in Scranton before swinging down to take another to Harrisburg.

Quotes:

Debra: Are we really worth saving? You tell me.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: (2008-02-23)" (2008)

Soundtrack:

Any Other Way

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Diary of the Dead (2008)

** 1/2 (out of 4)

The fifth film in Romero's living dead series borrows The Blair Witch Project's idea of hand held cameras. The film centers on a group of college students who are in the woods making a horror movie when they hear over the television that something is bringing the dead back to life. Fearing the world might be coming to an end, the students decide to document the events they're about to face. I'm a little split on what to think about this movie so a second viewing is going to be needed but my first thoughts walking out the theater was that I was disappointed. The film manages to have some classic scenes but overall I think Romero missed the boat. As to be expected, there's a lot of social commentary running throughout the film with most of it aimed at the media. Romero's preaching this time out is that the media is ruining the world with lies and the only ones to believe are the students who post online. Apparently online is where the truth is and this is something I agree with. The film spends most of the time looking at the students and not the zombies, which could have worked but I thought Romero's screenplay was rather disappointing here. The performances are decent at best but their characters really aren't ones we care about so this is another minus. What does work are the actual zombie attacks, which range from good to excellent. There's one sequence with an Amish man in his bar, which is classic Romero all the way. Romero also adds a nice touch of black humor in this sequence. The gore level is down but what's on display is very well done including one homage to a previous film in the series. I also liked the actual look of the zombies, which were more like the original Night of the Living Dead and not the ones seen in Land of the Dead. I know there's already a sequel in the works, which is suppose to either pick up where this one left off or tell the story from a different point of view. WIth that in mind, I see this film as a warm up to something bigger and perhaps, like the Kill Bill movies, this will work better with the next film. I'd still rank this one higher than Day of the Dead but it's still a disappointment.