Synopsis
A terrified group of college film students record the pandemic rise of flesh-eating zombies while struggling for their own survival.
Your Movie Library
Cast
- Michelle MorganDebra Moynihan
- Joshua CloseJason Creed
- Shawn RobertsTony Ravello
- Amy LalondeTracy Thurman
- Joe DinicolEliot Stone
- Scott WentworthAndrew Maxwell
- Philip RiccioRidley Wilmott
- Chris VioletteGordo Thorsen
- Tatiana MaslanyMary Dexter
- Todd SchroederBrody
Recommendations
- 100
Premiere
A giddy kick-out-the-jams entertainment. Diary takes a tack that's not exactly new, but is new to Romero, and as one might expect, the director brings a sharp and uncompromising new perspective to it. - 90
Variety
Gripping, intimate genre triumph. - 90
L.A. Weekly
In most horror movies, it's a given that we should root for the heroes to make it out alive, but Diary of the Dead isn't nearly so certain, and so it terrifies us all the more. - 88
Rolling Stone
This one belongs with the leaders of the scare pack. Isn't it time that we give Romero his due? It's hardly an accident that Stephen King, Quentin Tarantino, Guillermo del Toro, Simon Pegg and Wes Craven recognize Romero as a master. He is. - 70
New York Magazine (Vulture)
Compared with other first-person motion-sickness horror pictures like "The Blair Witch Project" and "Cloverfield," George A. Romero’s Diary of the Dead is weak tea, yet there’s enough social commentary (and innovative splatter) to acidulate the brew--to remind you that Romero, even behind the curve, makes other genre filmmakers look like fraidy-cats. - 70
Village Voice
Visually, Romero's ersatz-DIY experiment isn't as suave as Brian De Palma's similar effort in the recent and risible "Redacted," nor as exactingly engineered as the video convulsions of "Cloverfield," but its scrappy, ultra-low-budget edges are part of its charm. - 67
Entertainment Weekly
Diary of the Dead isn't bad; it's a kicky B movie hiding inside a draggy, self-conscious-work-of-auteurist-horror one. - 58
The A.V. Club
As in the more successful "Land Of The Dead," Romero makes an admirable attempt to update his beloved franchise for contemporary audiences. But this time out, his heavy-handed intellectual concerns get in the way of a perfectly good fright flick.
