The Zombie Diaries - anyone seen it?

[Zombie Ade]

http://www.play.com/DVD/DVD/4-/3382933/The-Zombie- Diaries/Product.html# (http://www.play.com/DVD/DVD/4-/3382933/The-Zombie-Diaries/Product.html#)

Was going to pre-order this - only £8.99 , I love a good zombie movie.
Is it any good though? Two people on play.com think so, and for under a tenner I thought I`d order it.
(Got `28 Weeks Later` pre-ordered too )

[Asura]

Looks good :D

[KashMunni]

ooh looks cool

lol i was kinda surprised to see the walking "uhhhhhh" zombies again tho

[Zombie Ade]

I was looking for a better quality version of the trailer on play.com and found this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP_NExopmmY&mode=re lated&search= (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP_NExopmmY&mode=related&search=)

God, I hope the one i`ve ordered is better! Takes a while for the zombies to show, and the climatic battle at the end is nail biting.............................













.............. NOT! !

[Soundboy6]

bad ass. I hear Romero's Latest opus, titled "Diary of the Dead" is going to be similar in a few ways o_0

[Crzy8s]

Hmmm...once you see running zombies its hard to go back to walkers, but Ill give it a look.

[Zombie Ade]

Just to say I got the DVD this morning from Play.com. Going to watch it tonight if I can tear myself away from Bioshock!

I`ll post my verdict later on...................

[Zombie Ade]

Oh dear....................

Bit of a letdown really. Characters you dont care much about because the acting is pretty poor, not helped by lousy dialogue.
But the biggest problem is the directors insistance on making us watch it `Blair Witch` style through the eyes of the handy-cam man.
This worked with Blar Witch because it had better actors and there was a genuine reason for them filming it throughout.
In `Zombie Diaries` we cover three groups of people - all who have camcorders and all who insist on filming everything. Because if they didnt you would miss out on major `character development`. I use quotes here because the characters dont really develop.
This overused feature becomes irritating very soon, especially when the cameraman needs to be in shot, and conveniently places the camera in such a way that its still filming everything. The most ridiculous example of this is when the camera is on the car seat while the cameraman is driving.

As far as special effects go they were above average, some good zombie makeup , but below average gunshot effects.
A nicely done torso only shot and some reasonable entrail munching. But this dont save the movie.
If the actors had been better, and the script had been more intelligently written then it makes a good premise for a zombie film . I hope the `Lifeless` TV series succeeds where this has failed.

The funniest thing about the movie was that the 2nd diary was filmed just up the road from where I live. The countryside scenes were in Wilbury Hills near Letchworth and the town centre was Letchworth itself . They even used the shitty PC repair shop that is in the High Street. The actors stormed through the shop and into the guys repair room at the back!

Worth a watch if you want to know what NOT to do during a zombie holocaust.
Save your money for 28 Weeks Later.