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Diary of the Dead (2007)

★★★½ — Diary of the Dead (2007)

George A. Romero returned to his own zombie mythology with Diary of the Dead, the fifth entry in his Dead series and the first to fully abandon the continuity of the earlier films in favour of a found-footage reboot set at the very beginning of an outbreak. Shot in Canada on a modest $2 million budget, it arrived in 2007 at a moment when YouTube was barely two years old and the idea of ordinary people narrating catastrophe through handheld cameras felt genuinely prescient rather than familiar. Romero had spent the years since Dawn of the Dead (1978) periodically revisiting the genre he created, most recently with Land of the Dead (2005), and Diary represented a conscious attempt to strip things back and engage directly with emerging anxieties around citizen journalism and online media.

Better now than when it released. The social commentary of social media, home video recordings, misinformation etc... are so well predicted and more prevalent now than when it was released. I love George Romero films, but this one doesn't hold a candle to Night, Dawn, Day or even Land. The premise is great, going back to the start of the outbreak. The recording style is great, very reminiscent of 28 days later with the home recording style. The acting and writing is awful, from everyone involved.

Rating: ★★★½ | Year: 2007 | Watched: 2025-04-18

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