Diary Of The Dead is the umpteenth installment of noted horror film director George A. Romero's "dead" franchise that, of course, started with his classic Night Of The Living Dead back in 1968. Anyone who's read some of my previous reviews knows that I'm not the biggest zombie film fan as they all seem to follow the same basic plot: a zombie apocalypse occurs for one reason or another and a small band of survivors fight their way through said apocalypse by killing a bunch of said zombies and some make it and some don't and, well, you get the idea. That's pretty much the basic plot of this particular zombie flick, though there is one thing that makes it at least somewhat different from other zombie flicks I've seen in that one of the characters films everything himself with his own video camera ala Cloverfield. There's also some subtext involving media voyeurism or whatever as some of the others in the zombie-surviving group take offense to his filming everything for some odd reason. Anyway, I feel the best zombie flick of all-time is indeed Night Of The Living Dead. All other zombie flicks are more or less imitators, including this one, though this zombie flick, like I said, is better than some of the others I've seen, especially if you're a zombie aficionado (or even if you aren't).
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