Diary of the Dead
The master of horror returns to the kind of filmmaking he pioneered and the genre he invented. In his first independent zombie film in over twenty years, George A. Romero takes us back to ground zero in the history of the living dead.
Jason Creed and a small crew of college filmmakers are in the Pennsylvania woods making a no-budget horror film when they hear the terrifying news that the dead have started returning to life.
Led by Jason's girlfriend, Debra, the frightened young filmmakers set off in a friend's old Winnebago to try to get back to the only safety and security they know: their homes.
But there is no escape from the crisis, nor any real home for them anymore. Everything they depend upon, all that they hold dear, is fractured as the plague of the living dead begins to spread.
Jason documents the true-life horrors in a tense, first-person style that heightens the reality of each encounter. Even as his friends die, even as they are attacked by ravenous walking corpses at every stop along the way, Jason keeps filming, an obsessive, unflinching eye in the midst of chaos.
The government first denies, then promises to quell the crisis, but can't. Technology fails. Communication with the rest of the world becomes impossible. Jason and what remains of his crew end up on their own, a handful of lucky survivors, reliant on no one but themselves to stay alive.
They take final refuge in a fortress of a mansion, but their sanctuary turns out to be a trap from which there is no escape. Throughout it all, the cameras keep rolling, recording every detail for future generations…if any survive.
Directed by
George A. Romero
Cast
Shawn Roberts - Tony Ravello
Joshua Close - Jason Creed
Scott Wentworth - Maxwell
Michelle Morgan - Debra
Joe Dinicol - Eliot
George Buza - Biker
Amy Ciupak - Lalonde Tracy
Tatiana Maslany - Mary
Tino Monte - News Anchor
Megan Park - Francine Shane
Philip Riccio - Ridley
Alan Van Sprang - Colonel
Chris Violette - Gordo
Todd William - Schroeder Brody
Daniel Kash - Police Officer
Laura DeCarteret - Bree
Martin Roach - Stranger
Production Co.
Romero-Grunwald Productions
Artfire Films
Produced by
Paula Devonshire
Michael Doherty
Peter Grunwald
Dan Fireman
Sam Englebardt
John Harrison
Studio
Third Rail Releasing
Writer
George A. Romero
Music
Norman Orenstein
