I love zombies, not gonna lie. There's nothing like the recently deceased coming back to life and feasting on the living. They're like the ultimate movie monster. Sure, werewolves, vampires and mutants are cool and fun, but there's nothing like a good zombie film. I watched this film a few years back but haven't gotten to writing a review on it, so I recently re-watched the film and have decided to grace the world with a review on Diary Of The Dead.
Diary of the Dead follows a band of people making a horror film at the time of the first outbreak who decide to record the epidemic incident documentary-style and end up themselves being chased down by zombies. So, let's talk. The film is about a group of film students from the University Of Pittsburgh are in a creepy woods, filming their own horror film with their teacher, when out of no-where there are reports of rioting and mass murder. All us zombie fans can say "Hey, don't all zombie films start like this?". The film is presented to us in POV similar to films such as Pitch Black, and Cloverfield.
Eventually, the guy, Jason (Joshua Close) who's making this horror film decides "Hell, I'm gonna film this and document it. First, I'm gonna save my girlfriend." The group then heads back to the University, grabs Jason's girlfriend, Debra (Michelle Morgan) and head out to bring all the students home safely, but wait..isn't there a zombie outbreak happening?
The students eventually start realizing they need to survive, and that their families have all been killed. So, they group together and start trying to survive the zombie apocalypse and documenting it at the same time. Tensions run high, and people in the group start getting.."odd". So, let's toss this down into a simple finale, and closing if you should check this film out, or if you should avoid it at all costs. Yeah, pretty simple. There have been numerous zombie films released, and some of which are actually really, really good and constantly make me wonder if an outbreak were possible, and how would society adapt to what would happen. So yeah, there's some good zombie films but sadly, Diary Of The Dead doesn't fall under that category. It's silly, the POV thing is over-done and quite honestly annoying, the cast had some good actors in there, where-as some of the actors seemed a little..bland. Their characters didn't seem to react like a normal person would in a high-tense situation. Yeah, let's just scream randomly in this hospital that's crawling with zombies.
Diary Of The Dead had some good things about it, and it was some-what enjoyable but it was plagued with POV annoyances, and mediocre acting. It just seems like yet another cash in from George Romero. So, if you're interested in this film I'll say "Yeah, check it out. But don't expect too much". For me, this film just didn't captivate me any, and didn't draw me in like most zombie films I watch. Sadly, I'll have to say a THUMBS DOWN for Diary Of The Dead. There's just so many better zombie films out there..even Resident Evil films are a little better than this, but not by much.
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