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Diary of the Dead
Directed by
George A. Romero
2008
1h 36m
R
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5.5
61%
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A group of young film students run into real-life zombies while filming a horror movie of their own.
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Cast of Diary of the Dead
Michelle Morgan
Debra Moynihan
Joshua Close
Jason Creed
Shawn Roberts
Tony Ravello
Amy Lalonde
Tracy Thurman
Joe Dinicol
Eliot Stone
Scott Wentworth
Andrew Maxwell
Philip Riccio
Ridley Wilmott
Chris Violette
Gordo Thorsen
Tatiana Maslany
Mary Dexter
Todd Schroeder
Brody
Laura de Carteret
Bree
Martin Roach
Stranger
Daniel Kash
Police Officer
Megan Park
Francine Shane
George Buza
Tattooed Biker
Tino Monte
News Anchor
Matt Birman
Zombie Trooper
Greg Nicotero
Zombie Surgeon
R.D. Reid
Samuel
Donna Croce
Zombie Nurse
Nick Alachiotis
I.V. Zombie
Scott Gibson
Birthday Party Father
Jamie Bloch
Birthday Girl
Kyle Glencross
Bupkes the Clown
Boyd Banks
White Man
Janet Lo
Cell Phone Woman
Jack Birman
Billy
Trish Adams
Dead Mrs. Moynahan
Alan van Sprang
Colonel
Ron Payne
Elderly Man
James Binkley
Trooper
Antoinette Cancelliere
Zombie (uncredited)
Wes Craven
Newsreader (voice) (uncredited)
Alexandria DeFabiis
Zombie (uncredited)
Guillermo del Toro
Newsreader (voice) (uncredited)
Ara Katz
Shopping Cart Zombie (uncredited)
Stephen King
Newsreader (voice) (uncredited)
Mani Nasry
Zombie (uncredited)
Simon Pegg
Newsreader (voice) (uncredited)
George A. Romero
Police Chief Arthur Katz (uncredited)
Tom Savini
Man Shouting on Radio 'Shoot in the Head' (voice) (uncredited)
Quentin Tarantino
Newsreader (voice) (uncredited)
Diary of the Dead Reviews
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
It's clever, or at least clever enough to keep you going and interested from start to finish. It just isn't scary.
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Hartlaub
It's one of the least scary films that [Romero's] made -- but still entertaining, and very, very gory.
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
Not only the most satisfying motion picture Romero has made in a long while, but one of the best of his career.
Orlando Sentinel
Roger Moore
Even a legend's got to make a living, sure. But Diary, for all its core audience appeal, feels like a filmmaker lurching slowly down a path he's already worn out.
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
It seems sacrilegious to dismiss a zombie movie by Romero, who's been blending horror and satire since 1968's Night of the Living Dead. But his latest approach feels uncomfortably behind the curve.
AV Club
Nathan Rabin
This time out, [Romero's] heavy-handed intellectual concerns get in the way of a perfectly good fright flick.
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
Shot on a low budget with mostly unknown actors, Diary of the Dead isn't exactly involving on a dramatic level: You really never care who lives or dies, a fatal flaw for any horror film.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
A movie in which victims wander as aimlessly as their undead stalkers.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
It's rough around the edges, dirty in the middle, and stained through with a sort of nihilistic humanism that ultimately unsettles more than the lurching undead themselves.
Los Angeles Times
Carina Chocano
The movie suffers from the same malaise Romero diagnoses in society. It's just too mediated to be scary, despite its zeal for gore. You can't feel the characters' fear, and they don't seem to feel it either.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
We want to high-five Romero for finding new ways to off his lifeless marauders.
Slate
Dana Stevens
Hardly top-drawer Romero. In fact, it may be his worst zombie film yet. But even bad Romero is a far sight more interesting than the coolly sadistic guts-porn that currently passes for mainstream horror.
New York Press
Eric Kohn
The times have changed, but [Romero's] unflinching portrait of humanityâ(TM)s innately self-destructive tendencies hasnâ(TM)t frayed a bit.
Arizona Republic
Bill Goodykoontz
Diary of the Dead works much better as a horror film than as social commentary. Which is no shortcoming - a good scare is a good scare, no matter what the medium in which it's delivered.
Chicago Sun-Times
Jim Emerson
You may not believe in zombies, but the unnamed dread in the air of Diary of the Dead is recognizably believable, because we live with it now.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
Romero may have something to say, but if he's going to be saying it like this the only zombies he's going to find are the ones past out in the theater from disappointed disgust.
Detroit News
Tom Long
Full zombie satisfaction.
Associated Press
Christy Lemire
The message is muddled, but the zombie master still knows how to make a gripping, graphic, grossly funny horror flick.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
The way Diary of the Dead chooses to deliver its gore, you know you're in the hands of a grown-up uninterested in the excesses of the Saw or Hostel pictures.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Moderately scary, moderately amusing, intermittently dull and obvious, Diary of the Dead is not groundbreaking, nor even ground-quaking.
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