How anyone could possibly like this movie is beyond me. It's the same repetitive crap over and over. Take the blair witch project and beat it to death like a dead horse, and you have this movie. George Romero seems to have no problem whoring out his movie franchise over and over, and this movie is nothing more than another pile of crap. Night of the living dead meets found footage and this is what happens. There are no words to describe how terrible this movie is. Just another sad attempt to cash in on the current zombie craze. Crap. Crap. Crap. Waste of time. That's the only way to describe this movie. Don't waste your time.

I'll keep this short: This is not what you would normally expect form George Romero. The story line is weak, the acting is weak and the screenplay is, guess what, weak.These "actors" in this movie are not qualified to do the only thing they are Required to do - act! The first time i saw this movie, back in '08, it didn't seem as boring and poorly done as it seems now, that's why i decided to re-watch it again. Honest to god i nearly fell asleep, i wanted it to be over as quickly as possible. The only thing scary about this movie was that it sucked so frigging much!If you're looking for a good horror flick watch something else, Romero's early works perhaps. As for me, i want my 95 minutes back.

First of all, let me say that I am a huge George A Romero fan. I loved Night, Dawn and Day of the Dead and could even see quite a few positives in Land of the Dead.I'm writing this review of Diary of the Dead now because I've just watched the film a second time. After the first time I saw it, I wanted desperately to love it like I do with the rest of George's output. I didn't. So I just left it a few years and wondered whether I'd 'get it' the second time round. I didn't.This time George treats us to a 'mockumentary' of a zombie outbreak. The film is set at the same time as Night of the Living Dead was (albeit in a modern age), i.e. when the zombies were first starting to rise. The footage is all shot by some kids filming their own horror movie (which, if they'd got round to finishing it, would probably have been better than the actual film itself!). In short, it's basically 'Blair Witch with zombies.' Unfortunately, there are simply too many bad points to list, so I'll stick to just a few. First of all the movie tries to be clever and mention 'horror movie clichés' and then break them (ala Scream). However, in the next breath we're treated to the most stereotypical Englishman you've ever seen (how I wanted my fellow countryman to die quickly. Has George A Romero ever MET a real live Englishman?!).Then there's the narration. Or should I call it 'story-telling?' Seriously, it's so patronising that you might as well have large subtitles written in crayon, telling you what people are thinking. Actually, that's a lie. You, as the viewer, will have NO IDEA what people are thinking in Diary of the Dead. People do the most ridiculous things all the time. They frequently wander off on their own. They don't lock doors to stop zombies from following them and - worst of all - the people behind the camera NEVER actually help out those in front of it. Seriously, if your mate was getting chewed on by the undead, surely you may just put down the camera and help out?! Well, they don't. Never.The bottom line is that George is well off the mark with this one. Land of the Dead was no classic, but it had its merits and was generally a fun film. This one is just awful (sorry, George). It adds nothing to the genre and comes across as thinking it's way more clever than it actually is. This could well be the 'death of the dead.' It comes to something when the best part of your film features a small contribution from a kamikaze, mute Amish gentleman with a scythe. If it wasn't for that scene, I'd probably only give it the 2/10!http://thewrongtreemoviereviews.blogspot.co.uk/

A group of college students from the University of Pittsburgh are filming a horror movie in the forest when they hear of an actual zombie epidemic on the radio. So, instead of a horror film for class credit, the main cameraman, "Jason Creed" (Joshua Close) decides to record a documentary for human posterity. Granted, this is not the best zombie movie George A. Romero has ever directed. The acting was uneven and the pace was rather slow throughout the movie. Likewise, the ending was also disappointing for a couple of reasons. First, the story was told by "Debra Moynihan" (Michelle Morgan) in the past tense which tended to take away some of the surprise value. Second, the decision to eliminate one of the characters by having her simply drive off could also have been handled better. It almost seemed like they were short on film and had to end the movie as soon as possible. Even so, I will take an average zombie movie like this one by Romero over some of the current low-budget zombie films on the market any day.