George Romero's Diary of the Dead
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- Synopsis
- Horror icon George A. Romero effectively hits the "reset" button on his hugely influential Dead series with this scaled-back look at the zombie apocalypse as told from the perspective of a student filmmaker who sets out to shoot a low-budget ......
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- Starring
- Michele Morgan, Joshua Close, Shawn Roberts, Amy Lalonde, Joe Dinicol
- Director(s)
- George A. Romero
- Distributor(s)
- Weinstein Company
- MPAA Rating
- R
- Runtime
- 94 min.
Critic Reviews
Gripping, intimate genre triumph.Read the full review
Horror movie Rule #1: The only way to kill a zombie is to shoot it in the brain. George Romero himself laid this maxim down with his first film, the endlessly influential 1968 gutter classic "Night of the Living Dead." Forty years later, with George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead, the venerable filmmaker has done something almost as startling: He has put brains back into the zombie genre.Read the full review
This one belongs with the leaders of the scare pack. Isn't it time that we give Romero his due? It's hardly an accident that Stephen King, Quentin Tarantino, Guillermo del Toro, Simon Pegg and Wes Craven recognize Romero as a master. He is.Read the full review
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