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George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead | 
 enlarge | Actor: George A. Romero
Studio: The Weinstein Company
Category: DVD
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Rating:  134 reviews
Sales Rank: 4335
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Ntsc, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 96 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: WEID81173D
UPC: 796019811736
EAN: 0796019811736
ASIN: B0013D8LA4
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: May 20, 2008
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Studio: Genius Products Inc Release Date: 05/20/2008 Rating: R
Amazon.com
George Romero has always come up with new ways of treating his zombies, and Diary of the Dead is no exception: Romero keeps his dead fresh, with an original approach to the undying subject. This one purports to be the video record of a group of young people who are shooting a low-budget horror movie when the terror strikes: corpses begin re-animating, intent on chewing the living. Our heroes trek across Pennsylvania, encountering the staggering zombies as they go. Other pieces of video are incorporated, which gives Romero a chance at some great set-pieces, including the brilliant opening sequence, a live local-TV feed that goes horribly, horribly wrong, and a home-video tape from a family birthday party, where the party clown turns out to be a dead ringer. All of Romero's Dead films are political, and this one's no exception, with a stark view of the way things are today; it doesn't offer the Hawksian heroics of the survivors in Dawn of the Dead or Land of the Dead for comfort, just a group of bickering, shocked youths. There's too much talk about the detachment of watching things through a lens, but in general this is a bracing, intelligent movie. Plus, there's some excellent splatter. --Robert Horton
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 Not the best of the bunch. November 3, 2008
K. Potts (Bloomfield Township, MI United States)
I liked Night of the Living Dead. I Liked Day of the Dead and Dawn of the Dead. I even liked Land of the Dead.
This movie fell face-first into the mud.
To be honest, the first-person camcorder style is officially overdone. I'm tire of the same excuses being used in EVERY frickin' movie like this one as to why the guy with the camcorder can't put down the frickin' camera, even to go to the bathroom. Blair Witch was good. Cloverfield was Ok. By the time I get to Diary of the Dead, it becomes old.
Too much introspection. Too much philosophical crap, and virtually no plot. There was nothing new added to the series by this offering. I found myself fast-forwarding through portions of the movie.
Romero should have just stopped with Land of the Dead.
It wasn't a wretched piece of film, but when I find myself bored watching a horror flick, it tells me that the movie wasn't worth making in the first place.
The acting is good, the writing is just Ok, and as I said before: the camcorder perspective is just plain not worth seeing again.
 WOW!!!! November 2, 2008
Ivy Ramirez (Fresno,Ca USA)
Thee greatest film I've ever seen.Wow where do I start.Has to to be one of thee greatest film Romero has ever made.Don't let these other chumps think it is not a great film.BUY! BUY! BUY!
The Weakest of the Romero Zombie Flicks October 24, 2008
Trinity M. Martin (Indiana)
This is not a terrible film, but i will admit it is by far the weakest of the Romero Zombie movies. It's problems are (unfortunately) numerous:
1. The acting for the most part is HORRIBLE. We are talking sub-porno movie level here. Only occasionally does a character actually act like a normal person, the rest of the time they behave like a bunch of college kids that are trying to act.
2. The character development is bad. Character development is usually a big part of Romero's zombie flicks. You actually care about the characters and what happens to them, and you begin to understand them on a certain level. not in this movie. You dont learn much about the characters and you dont care if they live or die. Well, that's not entirely true. Towards the end of the movie I was hoping they would all be horribly killed, but i dont think that is the effect Romero was going for.
3. No sountrack to speak of. There are short bursts of music occasionally, but not NEARLY enough. Most of the time it is silent and all you hear are the forced and crappy dialog from the characters. Not good. Also, the lack of a definable soundtrack takes away much of the impact from the zombie attacks.
4. It is too preachy. There is an underlying moral message in the movie, which is good, but the characters pound it into your head by saying the same points over and over and over again. There is not a trace of subtlety, which is surprising, because that has always been a Romero strong point.
5. There is no story to speak of. Zombies attack a film crew so the film crew runs, and the story just follows them as they drive through the countryside. That's it. No revelations, no plot twists, nothing. Just following these dorks around.
Here are things I DID like:
1. It is Romero, which means that even if it isnt that great, it will still be better than 99% of the zombie flicks out there.
2. I am not a fan of the first-person camera style, but it is used well here, and doesn't get all shaky constantly like it is b eing held by Michael J. Fox. The use of surveillance video and news broadcasts was a cool touch too.
3. The zombie deaths are imaginative and look good. No one can kill a zombie like Romero.
4. Despite being shot independantly with a small budget, the film looks very good and does not have that "cheap" look a lot of indy films have.
5. The special features are cool, especially the commentary track by Romero himself.
Diary of the Dead - Blu-ray Info October 22, 2008
LGANS316 (Tokyo Japan)
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Version: U.S.A / Region A, B(?), C(?)
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
VC-1 BD-50 / Advanced Profile 3
Running time: 1:35:23
Movie size: 27,29 GB
Disc size: 34,69 GB
Average video bit rate: 30.52 Mbps
Number of chapters: 24
Subtitles: English SDH / Spanish
Dolby TrueHD Audio English 2841 kbps 5.1 / 48kHz / 24-bit / 2841kbps (AC3 Core: 5.1 / 48kHz / 640kbps)
Dolby Digital Audio English 640 kbps 5.1 / 48kHz / 640kbps
Dolby Digital Audio French 448 kbps 5.1 / 48kHz / 448kbps
Dolby Digital Audio English 192 kbps 2.0 / 48kHz / 192kbps
#Commentary by Writer/Director, Director of Photography and Editor
#Documentary: For the Record: The Making of - in 5 parts (78 minutes)
#Featurettes
--The Roots: The inspiration for the film (2:06)
--The First Week: A visit to the set (4:23)
--Familiar Voices: Cameo outtakes (5:14)
--Character Confessionals (19:47)
Excellent Zombie Movie October 13, 2008
Zachary D. Finn (Chicago IL)
I was planning on seeing this movie in the theaters but I never had the chance to catch it. I have been a fan of Zombie films since I could ever remember. I just bought this movie and wow....its amazing. The movie itself is very good and I like the first person feel of the movie. The acting is actually very well and you never feel as if the actors are over acting. The special features on the dvd are also pretty good. They have a lot of mini documentries on there and they are fairly entertaining. The only downside that I could see is that the ending just leaves it open. It's kinda like how the remake of Dawn Of The Dead was. I hope that they continue this story soon and I will be sure not to miss this one again.
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