I just got back from seeing George Romero's Diary of the Dead.
Wow! No. Double Wow! If you liked Cloverfield....well, you're just going to definitely have to see Diary of the Dead.
OK. Basic premise: You are all familiar with Night of the Living Dead and all of its sequels. Same thing. Dead come back to live and feed on the living. Nothing new there.
What's different?
The main characters in this one are film students. (Cub will like that.) At the beginning, they are making a horror movie, but all when all heck breaks out (zombie attack) they do what any dedicated film students would do. They decide to document what is really happening - not happy with TV reports.
So, much like Cloverfield, the group keeps the camera rolling and they try to record everything in cinema verite-style (hand-held, unscripted.) Some of it very intimate, some of it pretty gruesome. But a major difference from Cloverfield is that the film is not 'found' and presented 'as is'. In this case, one of the surviving film makers edits the footage, provides some narration and music, for effect. (Gary will like that.) So, to a certain extent, it is a lot of things that Cloverfield was not. You might like that better. You might like that less.
Anyway, George Romero knows what he's doing when it comes to zombie movies and this one was quite a ride. Check it out.
Wow! No. Double Wow! If you liked Cloverfield....well, you're just going to definitely have to see Diary of the Dead.
OK. Basic premise: You are all familiar with Night of the Living Dead and all of its sequels. Same thing. Dead come back to live and feed on the living. Nothing new there.
What's different?
The main characters in this one are film students. (Cub will like that.) At the beginning, they are making a horror movie, but all when all heck breaks out (zombie attack) they do what any dedicated film students would do. They decide to document what is really happening - not happy with TV reports.
So, much like Cloverfield, the group keeps the camera rolling and they try to record everything in cinema verite-style (hand-held, unscripted.) Some of it very intimate, some of it pretty gruesome. But a major difference from Cloverfield is that the film is not 'found' and presented 'as is'. In this case, one of the surviving film makers edits the footage, provides some narration and music, for effect. (Gary will like that.) So, to a certain extent, it is a lot of things that Cloverfield was not. You might like that better. You might like that less.
Anyway, George Romero knows what he's doing when it comes to zombie movies and this one was quite a ride. Check it out.