Diary Of The Dead

Or should I say George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead, as the man has now eclipsed his own films in stature, is Cloverfield with zombies told via camcorders, security footage and phones. It totally captures the zeitgeist of these times with allusions to global fear, terrorism etc and it's packed full of social commentary on the media generation we live in the web, accessible technology and the idea that anyone can be the author of a truth. We follow a group of film students making their own horror film that suddenly becomes a real life documentary horror as the undead are up and looking for living lunch. Again nothing is explained as to the origins of the outbreak, it just arrives and causes chaos, and its now up to the group to document and survive. There are some glaring errors in the film that I cant believe no one involved didn't pick up on but that aside it's a lot better than its predecessor 'Land of the Dead' which felt like the master of the flesh eaters had lost his touch and there are some brilliant moments. As with the afore mentioned Cloverfield the cast are all pretty obnoxious and it's easy to think of them as zombie food and some in particular outstay their welcome but it's the zombies themselves that are the real stars of CCTV. Romero has famously said in an interview that he spends a lot of his free time thinking up bigger and better ways to dispatch his brain dead bad guys and here is no exception, in particular look out for the electric paddle death in the hospital for a real inventive and gruesome second death, amongst others. There is enough here to prove that Romero still has it in him even at his age and the script and concept are strong enough to carry it off, it is flawed in places but fans of zombies should find it quite entertaining, and once again it puts our society under the microscope and shows us via mythical horror what we humans are really like.

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