George A. Romero is the authority on zombie flicks; he invented the genre with the classic Night of the Living Dead. Diary of the Dead is the fifth installment of his Dead series, and 40 years since the original he hasn't lost his touch. Diary in a word is genius. It takes the same Cloverfield style of filmmaking (which is starting to become very popular) and puts a zombie twist on it. Some film students are shooting their thesis project when a zombie outbreak happens; the director of the thesis project decides to keep the camera rolling to document this terrifying event. Like Cloverfield the first person camera view puts you right into the action. Unlike Cloverfield the editing is more of a traditional style film because eventually the students find another camera so the editing goes back and forth between the two cameras giving you two different perspectives of the same scene without breaking the first person style, and it is well done. George A. Romero is one of the greatest horror directors of all time, he knows how to make you jump out of your seat, and he keeps reinventing his own genre raising the bar for everyone else. Another thing I really liked about this movie was how creatively the zombies were killed, buy now everyone knows puncture the brain they go down, so what this film did was come up with some of the most creative ways to make this happen, each kill more creative then the next, it was a nice break from the standard shoot em' in the head thing. This movie was so impressive and this new style of filmmaking is so fresh and exciting that I cant wait to see what other great directors come up with to take advantage of it. No one does zombie better than Mr. Romero and Diary of the Dead is another one of his classics.
4 out of 5
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