Review of Diary of the Dead (2007) by Timothy B — 16 Apr 2012
What would it really be like? We've always wondered...our friends? Our lovers? What would happen if the dead came for us?
We've wondered for years. We've imagined, fantasized, laughed at the possibility.
But here it is. The man who originated the horror has brought it home to us in an horrifically realistic tale of several film students and their professor who endure the end of the world as we know it by embracing their video cameras and DV tapes. These characters are utterly realistic, acted exactly as well or as poorly as a film student can be expected to perform when placed in front of the camera, and scripted with utter realism.
For the third time (and the first since "Dawn of the Dead"), George A. Romero has placed us in the midst of a horror so believable, so immediate, so intimate, that we are rendered helpless viewers as the end of our world unfolds before us once again.
Romero makes the unthinkable plausible. He makes the horrific realistic.
And the results?
The results are an all-too-real look at who we are, and what makes us tick, in the YouTube era. Blair Witch? Scary. Diary of the Dead? Utterly terrifying.
This review of Diary of the Dead (2007) was written by Timothy B on 16 Apr 2012.
Diary of the Dead has generally received mixed reviews.
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