Jason and a small crew of film students are making a low-budget horror film. At first the fear is acted, but it is soon clear that the dead are really coming to life. While the government is incompetent in combating the crisis, and communications with the world are cut off, Jason keeps on filming.

39 years after Night of the Living Dead, George A. Romero returned to his independent roots for this fifth entry in his cycle of zombie films. Prescient in its vision of a media landscape dominated by user-generated materials, Diary of the Dead is a hugely undervalued vivisection of the online age.