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Diary Of The Dead

[2008, Movie]

Diary Of The Dead: Review

Generation MySpace meets the cannibal dead in George Romero's faux-verite reboot of his seminal zombie series, a polarizing meditation on life and death in the infinitely mediated world of blogs, file sharing and incessant virtual connection. The film within the film, University of Pittsburgh student Jason Creed's (Joshua Close) "The Death of Death," begins with a bootleg news clip: A local reporter doing bored stand up, cops hanging, EMTs removing the sheeted bodies of an... read more

Diary Of The Dead: TV Guide News

DVD Tuesday: They're Baaaaack! Diary of the Dead | Ask FlickChick | 5/12/2008 New
DVD Tuesday: And the corpse came back, the very next day... George Romero's Diary of the Dead puts a nasty new spin on old living dead cliches.Zombies have always given me nightmares, and Night of the Living Dead terrified me before I'd even seen it -- Roger Ebert's piece about seeing it at a kiddie matinee in a neighborhood theater gave my imagination plenty to work with. I've seen a lot of zombie movies since then and I'm pretty inured to them, which is why I was pleasantly suprised by George Romero's new Diary of the Dead, if pleasantly is the word. I was afraid that the conceit -- essentially rebooting the Dead franchise by going back to the beginning and telling the story on digital video, as though it had been made by student filmmakers (a la Blair Witch Project) -- would seem hokey and tired, like the efforts of an aging filmmaker to appeal to the young folks. TV Spot 2 - Where Will You Be?But I was wrong: It actually get Romero back to the raw immediacy of Night of the... read more

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