Diary of the Dead
Dir: George A. Romero
2007
**
At first Diary of the Dead seems like a good idea, looking at the role of the media in global events - in this case, a zombie invasion. It raises questions of voyeurism, ethics and the cowardice of the camera man, how putting yourself behind the camera (or a computer screen for that matter) somehow puts you in a position of no responsibility. It raises the good and the bad aspects of social networks and social media. Unfortunately, because it's trying to be so clever all the time and seems to jump on the fashionable 'found footage' genre, it forgets to be good, scary and believable. Non of the actors can act and none of the zombies are scary. It tried to put a modern twist to the zombie/horror genre and even picks fault with certain over used formulas but still reverts to copying from them. A huge disappointment and by far the worst of Romero's Zombie saga I'm afraid.