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George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead
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Jason Creed and a small crew of college filmmakers are in the Pennsylvania woods making a no-budget horror film when they hear the terrifying news that the dead have started returning to life. Led by Jason's girlfriend, Debra, the frightened young filmmakers set off in a friend's old Winnebago to try to get back to the only safety and security they know: their homes. But, there is no escape from the crisis, nor any real home for them anymore. Everything they depend upon is fractured as the plague of the living dead begins to spread. Jason documents the true-life horrors in a tense, first-person style that heightens the reality of each encounter. Even as his friends die, even as they are attacked by ravenous walking corpses at every stop along the way, Jason keeps filming, an obsessive, unflinching eye in the midst of chaos. The government first denies, then promises to quell the crisis, but can't. Technology fails. Communication with the rest of the world becomes impossible. Jason and what remains of his crew end up on their own, a handful of lucky survivors, reliant on no one but themselves to stay alive. They take final refuge in a fortress of a mansion, but their sanctuary turns out to be a trap from which there is no escape. Throughout it all, the cameras keep rolling, recording every detail for future generations--if any survive.
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Diary of the Dead
By Steven Rea, Inquirer Movie Critic
Posted 02/14/2008
George A. Romero's impact on zombie cinema is seismic: Night of the Living Dead, his shoestring '68 debut, is a flesh-eating frightfest of the first order, and one that has loomed large over subsequent decades of the ambulatory-cadaver genre, good, bad and horrific. » Read more
MPAA rating:
R
for strong horror violence and gore, and pervasive language
Cast:
Stephen King; Laura DeCarteret; Nick Alachiotis; Matt Birman; Wes Craven; Alexandria DeFabiis; Joe Dinicol; Joshua Close; Amy Ciupak Lalonde; George Buza
Directed by:
George A. Romero
On the web:
 
George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead Official Site
Genre:
Horror; Suspense, Thriller
Running time:
01:35
Release date:
2008
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