Rating of
3/4
The dead can still entertain us
kcvidkid - wrote on 07/01/08
I'm a sucker for a gimmick. And the "discovered" footage of "The Blair Witch Project" or "Cloverfield" is one of my favorites. "Diary of the Dead" is a riff on the formula by having a survivor of one of George A. Romero's zombie outbreaks post video on the Internet to reveal to the world what was "really" happening.
The movie is extremely clever in its continuity, explaining how a scene was shot from two angles and when the victims would have time amid the bloodletting to put together a film. However, I could not always keep up, sometimes asking myself, "All right, who is filming THAT?"
There's not much more original here, though. We've nearly seen it all during the night, dawn, day and land of the dead. But the creative angle provides yet another fresh social commentary from the potentailly tired subject matter. And it moves along at a quick pace, making it extremely entertaining.
