Scott Wentworth

A group of film students are filming in the woods when they hear news about zombies.

SCI FI Wire talks to George Romero, writer-director of "Diary of the Dead."

SCI FI Wire talks to George Romero, writer-director of "Diary of the Dead."

In his first independently produced zombie film in over two decades, George A. Romero returns to ground zero in the history of the living dead. When a group of film students making a horror movie in the woods discovers that the dead have begun to revive, they turn their cameras on the real-life horrors that suddenly confront them, creating a first person diary of their bloody encounters and the disintegration of everything they hold dear. Told with Romero s pitch-black humor and an unflinching eye on our post-Katrina world, GEORGE A. ROMERO S DIARY OF THE DEAD marks the noted filmmaker s return to his roots.