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Diary Of The Dead - Limited Edition 2 Disc Steelbook Metal Packaging [2007]

Director: George A. Romero
Actors: Joshua Close, Michelle Morgan, Shawn Roberts, Simon Pegg
Studio: Optimum Home Entertainment
Category: DVD

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Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars

13 reviews
Sales Rank: 161

Format: Limited Edition, Pal
Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Number Of Items: 2
Running Time: 91
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6

EAN: 5055201801609
ASIN: B001563I0M

Release Date: June 30, 2008 (New: This Week)
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Editorial Reviews:

Amazon.co.uk Review
George A Romero continues his revival of his iconic zombie franchise with Diary Of The Dead, the fifth film in a series that kicked off back in 1968 with Night Of The Living Dead. And while his latest doesn't manage to match the heights of the earlier films, there's still something refreshing about watching a genuine master of the genre at work.

This time around then, Diary Of The Dead heads a little back to basics, with a film that follows a group of amateur filmmakers who find themselves under siege from zombies, allowing the legendary director to take some less-than-subtle swipes at the YouTube generation. Sadly, his cast don't help him very much, ringing in primarily forgettable performances, and this certainly nullifies some of the points that Romero tries to make.

Yet when it comes to the zombie action, there's no number you'd call faster than Romero's, and here's where the great man delivers. Diary Of The Dead does work along the law of diminishing returns, and is the weakest of the series, but it's not without a general collection of skilful moments that fans of the genre won't want to miss.

Diary Of The Dead isn't a film that you need to have seen the others before it to appreciate, but it is a primarily quite ordinary film from an often-extraordinary director. That said, it still easily eclipses the army of imitators of recent times (the splendid zombie romantic comedy Shaun Of The Dead excepted, of course), and has more than enough horror to fill an empty night. --Jon Foster

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1 out of 5 stars

died of death June 29, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

what a shame it didn't work. However loyal you are to Romero, either as a gore fan or because the political or social topics encountered in all his zombie series intrigue you, they were sorely executed.
I was led to believe after watching the film that this was more of a rant at the new wave zombie movies and ethics even modern horror with the disposable actors, this is partly the case (zombies don't run) (the camcorder style films) but the rest is down to being simply a bad film.
rationality has gone completely out the window, watching your friends being attacked and rather film it that drop it, not looking at the bigger picture and just abandoning filming and focus on our basic survival, zombie piggy backs, hoping someone has a play-station, negligence. Romero is having another go with a bigger budget so don't disband-on all hope...yet

1 out of 5 stars

Give it up George June 26, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful

Lifeless.
Boring.
Unexciting.
Gore-lite.
Badly made.
Laughable script.
Ham-fisted, simplistic 'social commentary'.
God awful acting.
Dreadful, ludicrous, basic idea and set-up and more aching tedium on top of all that!

Perhaps Romero's worst film and certainly a far cry from the truly classic original trilogy.
Even "Land of the Dead" was better.
Simply awful garbage from a once great horror director who, along with Carpenter, has utterly lost it!

2 out of 5 stars

not up to his usual standards June 11, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

George A Romero needs to buck his ideas up and make something decent.
Not a patch on his previous films

4 out of 5 stars

good zombie horror June 6, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

solid , gory zombie horror that ticks all the boxes this is better than land of the dead but still dosent quite recreate the brillience of romeros first three dead films

3 out of 5 stars

I can't hate the man at least he tried May 29, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful

I thought the film was okay but I know to myself it will never be my favorite out of the bunch. Though it was a documentary I didn't quite catch it as one or for the majority of the film. In here we have a film crew that made up of different characters: The director Jason (Joshua Close) who acts though he believes that if it didn't happen on camera, then it never happened at all. There's his girlfriend Debra (Michelle Morgan) who gets increasingly annoyed with his filming everybody, Tony (Shawn Roberts) who looks like he is prepared to beat Jason to death, and there's even the drunken film professor Maxwell (Scott Wentworth) who looks upon everything with a bemused attachment. What George Romero succeeds in doing as a writer is give us characters who aren't simple types and break those cliches to become increasingly unpredictable in their actions.

Which is one of Romero's strong attributes is that he gives us strong characters with females and minorities. He started doing this a long time ago with "Night Of The Living Dead," and it continues on with this one. The female character that comes across as the strongest here is Debra, played by Michelle Morgan. She is driven to get back to her family who are back at home, and she is not about to get sucked into watching things through a camera lens. Michelle gives the strongest performance in the movie, and she also narrates the movie within the movie, so you have a pretty good idea of what happens to her character. The group does run into a squad of African Americans who have taken over a small town and all its supplies, and who refuse to leave the town. This is because for once, they have power over something that they have never had before, and you could see it as a sort of revenge against the white man for all they have put their people through.

The movie does have its share of good scares, and has that same morbid humor that has been present in all of Romero's "Dead" movies. This does make this film relevant in a way even after four decades after the very first one. The last scene in the movie questions the audience directly as to if we as a race are really worth saving or not. That scene will stay with you long after the movie has ended because the characters have only started to learn how to exist in a post-zombie world (shades of 9/11 do abound here and there).

The suspense was there along with the blood and gore, it was giving to us in a fair dose though not quite on the same level as "Dawn" or "Day." Still, there are some good kills throughout, and the characters make good use of a scythe and a bow and arrow. Romero, after all these years, doesn't skimp on the good stuff. However, it still takes these characters way too long to figure out that the best way to defeat a zombie is to shoot it in the head. Aside from that I was slightly disappointed with this film or documentary. I'm thinking there may be room for another one Romero zombie yet, and there is hope to be had in that even if the world is still falling apart. I wouldn't mind seeing him do one more, but I hope it comes out before the apocalypse hits us.