
While filming a horror movie of mummy in a forest, the students and their professor of the University of Pittsburgh hear on the TV the news that the dead are awaking and walking. Ridley and Francine decide to leave the group, while Jason heads to the dormitory of his girlfriend Debra Monahan. She does not succeed in contacting her family and they travel in Mary's van to the house of Debra's parents in Scranton, Pennsylvania. While driving her van, Mary sees a car accident and... (Full plot summary below)
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While filming a horror movie of mummy in a forest, the students and their professor of the University of Pittsburgh hear on the TV the news that the dead are awaking and walking. Ridley and Francine decide to leave the group, while Jason heads to the dormitory of his girlfriend Debra Monahan. She does not succeed in contacting her family and they travel in Mary's van to the house of Debra's parents in Scranton, Pennsylvania. While driving her van, Mary sees a car accident and runs over a highway patrolman and three other zombies trying to escape from them. Later the religious Mary is depressed, questioning whether the victims where really dead, and tries to commit suicide, shooting herself with a pistol. Her friends take her to a hospital where they realize that the dead are indeed awaking and walking and they need to fight to survive while traveling to Debra's parents house.
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| eFilmCritic.comPeter SobczynskiAs formally dazzling, thematically resonant and darkly funny as anything that Romero has ever done before and yes, there are even plenty of satisfyingly icky moments to behold as well. |
| PremiereGlenn KennyA giddy kick-out-the-jams entertainment. Diary takes a tack that's not exactly new, but is new to Romero, and as one might expect, the director brings a sharp and uncompromising new perspective to it. |
| Reeling ReviewsLaura CliffordOne might think that another zombie movie from writer/director George A. Romero would be superfluous, a rehash of the many he has made since 1968's seminal Night of the Living Dead, but one would be wrong. |
| HollywoodChicago.comAdam FendelmanThis is serious stuff that's done with serious élan from a young cast. There is sensational exhibition in Romero's filming technique, and in pushing the zombie envelope, the director makes a poignant statement on our selfish, fear-based society. |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonHere, the zombies are less a threat than the information age itself. |
| ReelTalk Movie ReviewsDonald J. LevitPlayful but more thoughtful -- too obviously so -- than most other stalker slashers, 'Diary of the Dead' ratchets up its own punditry. |
| Projected FiguresAnton Bitelsees the writer/director well and truly back from the dead and returning to his independent roots, with a small, character-based production that is intelligent, bleak, and at times jarringly funny. |
| New York TimesManohla DargisThe body has its needs, and one of the problems with Diary of the Dead is that it doesn’t get into your body; it doesn’t shake you up, jolt you, make you shiver and squeak. It’s clever, or at least clever enough to keep you going and interested from start to finish. It just isn’t scary. |
| ESplatterSteve BiodrowskiIf you didn't know that Romero himself directed this film, you would think it had been fashioned by some brilliant young wunderkind director, reared on Romero's work and eager to stake out his own claim to the territory. |
| Flipside Movie EmporiumRob Vaux[Its] joys stand alone and isolated amid a well-intentioned film that never quite connects the dots. |