George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead (1 Viewer)

[DavidPla]

Trailer

George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead Trailer Crawls from the Grave!

 

[Andres Munoz]

Jesus, that looks soooo good!

 

[DavidPla]

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[Matt Butler]

I think I just wet my pants. That poster is so kewl!!

 

[Inspector Hammer!]

I don't know how I feel about events going backwards, I actually always had my heart set on a film that would eventually show the end of the zombie outbreak. But, I suppose that's for another filmmaker, Romero would never kill off his undead darlings lol.

Looks like a Cloverfield approach to things this time around with one character recording and documenting the outbreak.

 

[SD_Brian]

I had the same thought. I wonder how the perception of Diary of the Dead will be effected by coming out so soon after Cloverfield and essentially using the same gimmick?

Then again, the camcorder-captured horror experience is almost 10 years past its sell-by date. We're now seeing multimillion-dollar versions of something The Blair Witch Project did for $60,000.

 

[Inspector Hammer!]

I have a feeling it's going to be a beat-you-to-the-punch situation, even though this film has been completed for awhile Cloverfield has beaten it to theaters thus potentially robbing Diary of the Dead of it's novelty.

 

[TravisR]

That's probably true for the general public but they were probably never going to see Diary Of The Dead anyway.

 

[Garrett Lundy]

Blog of the Dead!

 

[Inspector Hammer!]

I'm a little confused by the way he's doing this film because essentially he's doing a remake of his own movie only from a different perspective and set during a different time.

We saw the zombie outbreak begin in Night of the Living Dead and now we're going to see it begin again.

 

[Matt Butler]

Theaters have been announced!

'Diary of the Dead' Theaters Listings! - BLOODY-DISGUSTING.COM


I guess its getting a limited release. No news if its going major yet. I guess im driving 2hrs to San Fran to see it.

 

[Michael Elliott]

Oh, that's just great. I need to only drive 7 hours for the closest showing. Too bad it didn't go direct to DVD.

 

[Dennis Castro]

Saw this Friday night in Boston. I liked it. How much I liked and were it stands compared to his others I'm not sure yet.

I think I need a second viewing. With a second viewing I can watch it fresh without any of the preconceived expectations that can get "amped up" by anticipation.

 

[Joe Karlosi]

Precisely why I am finished with Romero's zombie films. It's also why I didn't enjoy LAND OF THE DEAD. Rather than continue some type of linear story which began in 1968 with the classic NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, this guy is now just making any zombie scenario, in any decade, with anything goes. He pioneered the genre in 1968, now he just follows what he himself started, looking like a copycat himself... and relying on the "Blair Witch" vidcam thing again, to boot.

 

[Dennis Castro]

Have you seen the film?

It's not at all like Blair Witch.

 

[Joe Karlosi]

I only saw a trailer... do they have people documenting what happens ?

 

[Dennis Castro]

Yes they do. That's were the similarities pretty much end between DOD and BW.

DOD has a completely different story and a message. I can see were people might say that the message was heavy handed though.

 

[Joe Karlosi]

OK - all I meant was that the idea of the camcording angle was done in BLAIR WITCH, and recently CLOVERFIELD.

 

[BrettGallman]

Romero actually came up with the idea of Diary of the Dead before Cloverfield was ever announced.

 

[DavidPla]

To be fair, Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead didn't follow the linear story set in Night of the Living Dead either. Each film takes place in their own decade. The only actual "continuation" is that in each four films, the outbreak is farther down the line and gets worse and worse. So in that respect, Land of the Dead followed what the other two sequels did in that it advanced the zombie outbreak.