Realrockerhalloween Taking place the same night as the first film where a group of kids are shooting a short film for class when the dead rise and now search for their families as they document the events unfolding around them.Already a plot hole occurs where the time line doesn't match the technology and style if it were taking place during the sixties unless its a floating time line?While traveling they make one stupid decision after another that it makes you wonder how they survived so long. The narrator never puts his camera down, they hit a zombie on the road yet want to stop to see if he's alright and even get taken for a ride by rogue military officials who rob them.It leads to unintentionally humorful scenes even when its trying to be serious this robbing the script of any tension or menace a horror film should have.Just like I pointed out in land the music is overplayed to the point you want to pull your hair out of annoyance. Every few minutes it plays ominously only to cut to a conversation or a new location instead of a spooky surprise making it meaningless overall.The found footage was a fresh idea for the series, but the way it's shot doesn't work losing camera angles, the director holds the camera all day without breaks or developing carpal tunnel, who will be left to see it and shows his dead family.Romero gives it all his signature styles, but none so far have grasp the horror brilliance since day. It seems he hasn't lost his touch and gives it his all yet it feels incomplete.

SaberRider85 The Zombies which rated this movie after DOTD remake or other "action" zombie movie/TV series viewpoints just don't get the point. Romero isn't after entertainment in this movie. This is a very metaphysical movie. Why filming this in handcam style? Because it is said in the movie several times that nothing happens if it hasn't been filmed. This is a philosophical discourse at least since Jean Baudrilard (spiritual father of the Matrix movies). Who in the new internet-television civilization believes anything if it hasn't been filmed and is been watched on youtube or television? This movie is compressed themes which Romero handled over his previous films in 95min runtime. Romero fans who actually have put a thought on Romeros films will very much appreciate it. It feels like his previous filmthemes put all together with a new theme which I described above and actually asks an uncomfortable question. If you grew up with Walking Dead, World War Z or Dawn of the Dead remake don't waste your time...

Adam Foidart There's been a plague of bad found footage horror films ever since "Diary of the Dead" was released in 2007 and in this instance, it's not only a bad zombie movie, it's a bad movie period. A team of film students witness the beginning of the zombie apocalypse. The media tries to cover it up so it's up to the YouTube generation to document the truth! Jason (Joshua Close), his girlfriend Debra (Michelle Morgan), their friends and their teacher Professor Maxwell (Scott Wentworth) go on the road looking for their families, while Jason documents the whole thing for the world to see.As a found footage movie, this drops the ball. The film opens with Jason's girlfriend telling us that she has finished the movie (I wonder why Jason didn't do it himself... could it be that something happens to him?). She informs the audience that she has edited together footage to create a documentary. She then proceeds to inform us that she's added dramatic music to set the mood and to hopefully, scare us. Are you asking me to buy that while watching the footage of your friends being eaten alive by the walking dead, you were so removed from the situation that you thought "you know what, if I put a musical sting right there, that would make this REALLY scary"? I know for the people watching the DVD it's effective, but the film doesn't make sense in its own universe. The found footage/documentary angle isn't even consistent. I thought the idea was to have a single perspective to have us step into the characters' shoes and have things off camera be unseen until they jump right in front of him/her, but the movie cut to other cameras, such as cell phones, web cams and security cameras all the time. It breaks the illusion and the mood, something that is further hindered by the constant narration and the music.Maybe the point of this movie is that people who document things should focus more on the footage and less on what they want the audience to feel, but I really don't think so. It just feels like the rants of an angry, incoherent old man. We are repeatedly reminded that our protagonist is infuriating his friends because he refuses to put down the camera. He films them when they are mourning the dead AND while they are being attacked. No wonder he is pissing them off. I never bought that the material he is seeing is so compelling that he is never willing to turn off the camera or put it down, even when people's lives are at stake.George A. Romero can't even get this message of "you people should be ashamed of documenting the world instead of living it" right. In the film we are told explicitly that the news people are covering up the zombie apocalypse (don't explain how, it makes no sense). Not fifteen minutes later however, we get a message that then tells us that without the news, we're actually worse off because we now have thousands of people giving thousands of different reports on the internet and that the facts are being completely muddied up. Your guess is as good as mine as to what we're supposed to take away from this.Alright, never mind all that. This is a zombie movie from the guy who created the genre. How does it hold up? Well, not very well. I can buy that the people in this world have never seen a zombie movie before, but do we have to assume that the director has never seen one either? This is the same plot as every other generic zombie movie. We get the people who are unable to accept that the dead are coming back to life, even though they witness it themselves. We get characters that struggle with the idea of "shoot them in the head" even when told explicitly to do so. We see the parents unwilling to accept that their children are now ghouls even though they are going around devouring the living and look like they're been rotting for days. Throw in the couple, where one of the members will get bitten and become infected so that the remaining person will have to insist "No, this time they won't change!" Don't forget the asshole military guys, because if you sign up for the army, all you care about when the stuff hits the fan is stealing supplies and pushing people around. The protagonists, unlike the audience, are unable to detect people who act strangely and have surely been bitten by zombies and never think of doing things they would do normally like locking bathroom doors. Surprise surprise, this film also contains characters that are too stupid to take advantage of any situation in which a zombie has been temporarily been knocked down to finish them off, meaning that if a zombie is left with his brain intact at the end of a scene, it'll be back later to attack someone else. The movie goes out of its way to fit into this found footage format because without this shiny new gimmick "Diary of the Dead" would have been dismissed as total trash.Let me just conclude with this: there is a scene where Jason is filming and a zombie walks past him in order to bite his friend that is inside the shot. Apparently holding a camera makes you invisible to zombies. I don't buy it . Most insulting of all, the movie ends with a note of "look at what humanity has become, they are shooting zombies that used to be people and not feeling bad about it. Do we even deserve to be saved?" That, on top of all the finger wagging, the lame clichés and the messy story makes this a total disappointment for fans of the genre. (On DVD, January 27, 2014)

Mike Hunt How anyone could possibly like this movie is beyond me. It's the same repetitive crap over and over. Take the blair witch project and beat it to death like a dead horse, and you have this movie. George Romero seems to have no problem whoring out his movie franchise over and over, and this movie is nothing more than another pile of crap. Night of the living dead meets found footage and this is what happens. There are no words to describe how terrible this movie is. Just another sad attempt to cash in on the current zombie craze. Crap. Crap. Crap. Waste of time. That's the only way to describe this movie. Don't waste your time.