Diary of the Dead

I've never really understood why this movie was soo derided, and watching it a decade later, I'm more confused. It has aged nicely, and is even more in line to comment on today's climate of fake news and obsession with social media. It's actually one of Romero's better zombie flicks. Surprised at how much more I liked this from the last time I viewed it.

Just another zombie movie... nothing different then most... it was an oke movie.

This was better than I had expected; it was worse than I had hoped for. I went into it not expecting much at all (the same old _"Let's milk it 'til it's bone-dry"_ routine) but I was pleasantly surprised as the story progressed. It seemed to offer a decent story, with even a bit of a different twist on it, and I began to think I was going to be pleasantly surprised with this one. Unfortunately, it stalled about 2/3 of the way through and when you _thought_ it was going to take a turn for some really good stuff, it just went completely flat. I mean NOTHING. It was like the writers ran out of ideas and the producers ran out of money and everyone said, _"You know what? This all sucks; let's just finish it up and go home."_ And that's kind of what they did. The ending was flat, the acting was sub-par throughout - by EVERYONE - the story started off interesting but lost its direction somewhere in there, and apart from the violence and gore, there is **nothing** to enjoy about this particular film. It just didn't work.

PS: Michelle Morgan needs to learn how to deadpan before she ever does another horror flick. It seemed like every time they did a close-up in one of her scenes (far too many, IMO) she was fighting back hysterical laughter. Hard to take a horror film seriously when one of the main characters can't portray fear. I hope this is the last thing I ever see her in because she simply can't act. Go have kids or something that (maybe) comes naturally because acting certainly doesn't.

George A Romero was the Neil Blomkamp of his generation. He peaked with his first movie and made his entire career off of it.

You know it's sad when even a #foundfootageslut finds the footage dull.

Romero fans will get a slither here and there of the great zombie filmmakers work but it is hidden under a horribly acted and low budget film.

If you didn’t know the name attached, it would be understandable to think this was some sort of fan film.

I can't tell if this was horrifically bad or just regular old bad, whether the acting was truly awful or if it was bad - on purpose - because these are supposed to be film students and amateurs. There was some really bad and cringy writing, that's for sure. I did enjoy the professor's dreary philosophical musings. But it took me several sittings to get through because except for the professor's manic depressive comments, everything else was pretty rotten.

Wow. That wasn't even mediocre.