Everything that CLOVERFIELD did right, this does wrong.
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07/22/08
George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead (2008)
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Reviews Counted: 111 Fresh: 67 Rotten:44 Average Rating: 6.1/10
Consensus:
As Diary of the Dead proves, time hasn't subdued George A. Romero's affection for mixing politics with gore, nor has it given him cinematic grace or subtlety.
Runtime: 1 hr 36 mins
Theatrical Release: Feb 15, 2008 Limited
Box Office: $679,335
Synopsis: Director George A. Romero returns to the subject matter that made him famous with this postmodern take on the zombie genre. DIARY OF THE DEAD begins in innocuous fashion as a group of film students head out into the woods to make a low-budget horror film. This film-within-a-film is directed by... [More]
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Starring: Michelle Morgan, Josh Close, Shawn Roberts, Amy Lalonde, Joe Dinicol
Director: George A. Romero
Screenwriter: George A. Romero
Producer: Peter Grunwald, Art Spigel, Sam Englebardt, Ara Katz, Dan Fireman
Composer: Norman Orenstein
Screenwriter: George A. Romero
Producer: Peter Grunwald, Art Spigel, Sam Englebardt, Ara Katz, Dan Fireman
Composer: Norman Orenstein
Reviews
Diary of the Dead, even for zombie diehards like my little group (we watched Shadow: Dead Riot, for pete's sake), was not very good at all. I mourn.
07/17/08
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07/16/08
Top Critic
O pior dos "filmes de zumbis" comandados por Romero, expõe a falta de sintonia do cineaste com a linguagem moderna, empalidecendo especialmente ao ser comparado com esforços similares como Cloverfield e, particularmente, o espanhol [REC].
07/10/08
If you didn't know that Romero himself directed this film, you would think it had been fashioned by some brilliant young wunderkind director, reared on Romero's work and eager to stake out his own claim to the territory.
07/04/08
Diary of the Dead fits quite nicely into the modern zombie film renaissance that's been rocking the horror world for the past few years.
06/03/08
The fifth installment of Romero's zombie series is dark, creepy and funny.
05/22/08
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05/06/08
The combination of horror, humor, and mockumentary works well in this movie.
04/17/08
No review available.
04/14/08
Top Critic
The results are about what you might expect from a student filmmaker operating without a budget or a script - crude and amateurish, with occasional (and possibly unintentional) flashes of brilliance. 'Diary' is no different.
04/09/08
The chilling and relevant film Land tried to be, but never quite was.
03/18/08
George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead proves there's still some life left in the veteran filmmaker's long-running, zombie-movie series.
03/13/08
What saves the film is Romero's peerless command of the language of gore.
03/07/08
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