Diary of the dead

Well, now That I have seen diary of the dead I figured it would be decent to live up to my promise so I'm here to say what I thought.

Diary of the dead or as it is called by the students who supposodly made this film "The death of death", the movie is essentially about a group of film students who are making a horror film in the woods when they hear the news that the dead are returning to life, they then turn their cameras to the real life horrors that they see before them.

Unlike "The blair witch project" or "Cloverfeild" the cameras in this movie are not very shaky, being that they are students the cameras most of the time stay still, and also it is treated more like a film rather than just old home video footage by the way that it is edited, like a student film, and whilst your watching in many places you begin to think it's real, or at last I did, Until I reminded myself that it's fake especially in some places when CGI is used.

Romero obviously was taking a look at the media and about how every different news channel or blogger on the internet has different veiws to the truth and that with every blogger and News channel there is potential lies and there is really no good veiw of the truth, which if anything is the message that this film might be trying to put out, but all I say is, beleive what the fuck you want.

So all in all this movie is a big leap from the Big budget celebrity packed Land of the dead and back to good old fasioned indy film making, it's very well written, very well acted and well........ very good every thing to be honest with you and to what I have seen of the documentary style filming so far this is by far the best.

****/*****

This film Kicks you ass until shit comes out your ears.

And as an added bonus here is my personal top 5 of the Romero Zombie movies.

5. Land of the dead.

4. Day of the dead

3. Diary of the dead

2. Night of the living dead

1. Dawn of the dead

These movie all kick some major ass, go watch these right now, Happy Zombie killing.

The george A. Romero dead series.

After being away for over 2 months I have decided to do reveiws on all of the dead movies from the great George A. Romero starting with ...........

Night of the living dead.

What can I say about this classic horror movie other than it's just great, I will say the plot is pretty simple, a women runs into an old farm house after her brother is killed by a Zombie, once she is there she meets up with a group of other people but being in complete shock she is unable to comunicate with others, and together hey must make it through the night of the living dead.

To what there is of it today it is still rather disturbing and I can't imagine how terifying it must have been for people back in the 60's when this was released like the bit where a zombie child kills her mother wiht a gardening tool, and the lack of music in many places just enhances the mood and the whole movie together seems to work very well so I say watch this movie wheather you are a horror fan or a zombie movie fan I say see this.

*****/*****

Dawn of the dead

The original dawn of the dead in my opinion is my favourite zombie movie of all time, the plot is essentially a group of people take refuge in a shopping mall away from the zombie where they will have plenty of supplies and other things. Now one thing I would have to say is that this movie definatly does not lack in humour, there are many funny moments in it like the bit where they were going around the mall picking up bodys while some weird mall music is playing and theres also a fucking pie fight scene, can you beleive that, when first saw that I just went insane with laughter, I mean this is a zombie horror not a fucking circus, but it made so much better with the humour that it has, infact many people judge the remake of this on the grounds that it lacked the humour that made the first one so great, now let me just say the this the remake is also very good so I say watch that and this.

*****/******

Day of the dead.

Oh my god!!!!!!!!!!


This movie is so gory, we've got people have there guts pooring out, we've got zombies getting there heads choped in half with shovels, people getting their throats ripped out and the list goes on and on and on. To what I have seen of zombie movies so far in my opinion this is by far the most disturbing yet. This one takes place many months after the first outbreak and now a group of scientist are working underground to find a way of controling or destroying the growing number of zombies on the above ground before they are taken. This In George Romeros opinion is his favourite of his dead series now in my opinion in it is the third best, with Night of the living dead being second. My only small, tiny complaint is that there are some moments in the movie which I either don't see the point in or just don't get what is going on, but most of the time it is easy to understand whats going on, so all in all it is a very good movie iand is definatly worth seeing especially if you are into strong gory effects, thank you Tom savini (Special effects and make up maestro).





****/*****





Land of the dead









Now that the world has been over run by zombies, the survivors now live in walled off cities in which the the rich live in high, secure buildings where as the poorer class are confined to the slums, Romero comes back with more of his black humour in this rather big budget celebrity packed zombie epic, allthough the actors are very good and the script is well written I will say this was a bit of s dissapointment after seeing all of his other works but in the long run this was still a pretty good movie with some cool gory moments although just to say there are some scenes which in all honestly see rather pointless and really just should be there but those scenes are still very entertaining what are the scenes you might ask well I have 2 things to say to that....

1. I can't remember any in particular.

2. Watch the movie and you will see.

But just to say there is no need for those scenes doesn't mean they don't rock.

****/***** ?

It was tough to come up with a rating for this one, definatly not 5 stars either 4 or 3, so just for the hell of because it is still very entertaining I gave it 4, so there you go.

I haven't seen Diary of the dead yet but when I do I will be sure to post a reveiw of it.