Diary of the Dead
United States
2007
95 Min
Color
1.85:1
English
Synopsis
While filming a horror movie of mummy in a forest, the students and their professor of the University of Pittsburgh hear on the TV the news that the dead are awaking and walking. Ridley and Francine decide to leave the group, while Jason heads to the dormitory of his girlfriend Debra Monahan. She does not succeed in contacting her family and they travel in Mary’s van to the house of Debra’s parents in Scranton, Pennsylvania. While driving her van, Mary sees a car accident and runs over a highway patrolman and three other zombies trying to escape from them. Later the religious Mary is depressed, questioning whether the victims where really dead, and tries to commit suicide, shooting herself with a pistol. Her friends takeg her to a hospital where they realize that the dead are indeed awaking and walking and they need to fight to survive while traveling to Debra’s parents house. –IMDb
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George A. Romero
Born George Andrew Romero on February 4, 1940 in New York City. Romero was passionate about filmmaking from an early age. After attending Carnegie-Mellon University, he worked in the industrial film business making commercials and shorts. In 1968, he released his first full-length feature, a horror film called Night of the Living Dead. Shot in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, the low-budget film soon reached cult status. Romero subsequently turned it into a trilogy with 1978’s Dawn of the Living Dead and 1985’s Day of the Dead.
Known for mobilizing tiny budgets to create unforgettable scare flicks, Romero also directed Creepshow (1980), Martin (1978) and the TV show Tales From the Darkside (1984-1986). Though the success of his Dead trilogy afforded him bigger budgets and higher profile actors, Romero failed to attain the same level of success later in his career.
Romero is married to actress Christine Forrest. They have three children. —bio.
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film_lies101
27Aug11
Not at all good, though not as horrible as some people would have you believe. Some interesting ideas in this film that unfortunately, got botched in the execution.
Dr. Strangelove
29Jan11
An underrated film of epic proportions, people seem to love to take down Romero's later work as campy schlock with little to no value. Diary of the Dead contains some of the most striking commentary that the director has ever put to film; none of his films since Dawn of the Dead was so strikingly intriguing in its points it was trying to convey to the audience.
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TIFF Report: DIARY OF THE DEAD Review
By Twitchfilm.com on May 17, 2011
Diary of the Dead is George A. Romero’s reboot of his own series of ‘…the Dead’ films after the less-than-classic Land of the Dead. Studio budget and expectations are replaced with a back-to-basics philosophy
TIFF Report: DIARY OF THE DEAD Review
By Twitchfilm.net on July 16, 2010
Diary of the Dead is George A. Romero’s reboot of his own series of ‘…the Dead’ films after the less-than-classic Land of the Dead. Studio budget and expectations are replaced with a back-to-basics philosophy
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