DIARY of the DEAD: Romero's FORGOTTEN/FAILED Reboot

[@WowSuchGaming]

Sorry the music is a bit loud here, got it uploaded and youtube put me and my editor through hell trying to keep this monetized! Enjoy and have a good weekend, and stay wow!

[@CamperEater]

Surprised you never went over the zombie outbreaks in prototype 1 and 2

[@WildArmsResearchAndDevelopment]

Yeah the music made it hard to watch this episode

[@stewartfennell8926]

Thanks for the review, it reminded me of how grating and disappointing it was on release. I don't know which is worse this or Survival Of The Dead

[@Th8rgoddess]

Must feed the algorithm beast.

[@aaronmcclellan12345]

So you're not going to do anymore everything that's wrong videos, because this movie would've been a good video of everything that's wrong with video.

[@tasha7726]

Tracy getting into that RV and driving away from all those pretentious yahoos was the smartest decision anyone made in that entire film.

[@JustToSaveYou]

Many Amish people do work with heavy equipment, they aren't permitted to own it but they can use it if someone else owns it.

[@tsoliot5913]

Why are they driving around on those "tractor" buggies nowadays?

[@mikewatts9562]

It really all depends on the sect. Some allow things like vehicles as long as they do not use it to corrupt the views and rules of the church. I have an Amish community bear me that will use trucks and even have a power generating windmill. No radio or TV but it powers lights

[@BubbaJTP]

I love all of Romero's work, simply because he loves it all, even the cheesiest c-listiest crap. Plus, pioneering the zombie genre is a gift to all.

[@TooRudeProductions]

Well, pioneering something doesn't always mean you're right, George Lucas pioneered the modern day sci-fi, and then brought us Jar Jar Binks

[@jackmakila3776]

@@TooRudeProductions Darth jar jar was and is peak

[@GameTimeWhy]

​@@jackmakila3776 This

[@gregbors8364]

He didn’t pioneer the zombie genre - he pioneered the *flesh-eating* zombie genre.

[@fluffymyato3334]

@@gregbors8364 there's a different zombie genre?

[@tarotreadingsbysteven8545]

Omg all the characters really just saw their friends getting attacked by zombies and were like "we have to let nature take it's course

[@SunshineMael115]

Hell yeah! You actually covered this film! This is like a fever dream to me, I remember watching it as a kid, still a decent watch years later though! Romero took a gamble and I would argue it paid off on some aspects.

[@lifeafteryou8179]

I know right I love this movie honestly

[@actional2943]

Its awful, Land Of The Dead onwards prove that Romero was actually a pretty mediocre film maker.

[@KashFlow24G]

@@actional2943well damn 😂

[@dukenukem69]

​@@actional2943rose tinted glasses. He was under average in pretty much every aspect, he's just lucky he had such a good supporting cast around him.

[@Peter-jv2sb]

I'm a big Romero fan, have been since 1982, Diary of the Dead is my guilty pleasure. I know that it takes a lot of grief over the cinematography, script, and acting, but it is a film I watch every Halloween. I agree with your complaint of the special effects though, I would have preferred Tom Savini and his movie magic over the CGI they used.

[@WowSuchGaming]

Yeah. The whole thing for Romero movies for me is the gimmick of the survivors, the zombies and how they act and the top notch gore. I didn't feel like that was there for any of it

[@glasswhisperer]

I remember land of the Dead coming out and i loved it. Then i found out about diary of the Dead and was so excited, then i was more disappointed than i could have imagined.

[@lysytoszef]

Same. Remember being really hyped by the new Romero coming out. And then watching this and just feeling... empty.

[@def-po8tu]

It was good a b movie but very underwhelming

[@LexiconDevilOne]

Don’t watch Survival of the Dead. It’s horrible!

[@NewEnglandOtaku]

The only thing about Diary of the Dead and Survival of the Dead that I actually liked was it had very minor roles played by actors I seen in The Red Green Shows.. for example, the man at the start of Diary who breaks into a college dorm to steal a TV was one of the Marina owners from the Canadian TV show The Red Green Show.. in Survival of the Dead, there's Wayne Robson, the guy who played Mike Hammar in The Red Green Show.. I think this movie was his last role before he died. What I really hated about it was that the main character would NOT put the camera down or try to distract the zombies. And the only thing about Survival I liked was the flare being shot into a zombie's head and then the guy using the flame to light a cigarette then kicking it over the side of the ship

[@dukenukem69]

Who gaf

[@claressalucas8922]

Thank you!! I thought I recognized that guy from the dorm but could not place him at all. If you can't be handsome, be handy, baby!!

[@NewEnglandOtaku]

@@claressalucas8922 I liked Dwight better than Glen.. Glen was so obsessed with his RV and going places with it.. Dwight was just lazy. I think he was there for maybe a season or 2 before it was back to Glen.. Sad to think that the many who played Hap Shaunasy (Or however it was spelled) Gordon Pinsent died this year..

[@AJadedLizard]

I did like the dude biting the zombie who stuck its hand in his mouth, and the fact that still infected him was a surprisingly intelligent bit of writing from a man who wanted us to believe plastic security barriers would deflect .30 caliber rifle rounds in Dawn of the Dead.

[@NewEnglandOtaku]

@@AJadedLizard I guess it wasn't that bad if I watched it three times.. I think I liked Survival of the Dead most between the two..

[@ntheawesome1]

I've heard that amish folks will do jobs outside of their communities to earn more money, or to expand their skills. Especially on the RV industry. So it could explain on why that amish guy fixing the rv. But I believe it should explain better

[@MondoCool]

imo Romero's first 3 zombie flicks are great. LotD onward.. I'm not a fan. I'll give him this though, his statements in that 2007 interview for DotD couldn't be more ahead of their time. I'm also looking forward to giving his posthumous film "Twilight of the Dead" a fair chance. Only fitting the zombie godfather gets a zombie release.

[@kylepeters8690]

honestly, hearing how the professor pulls the old man cliché of "kids these days don't know how easy they have it" crap honestly just makes me think that you could probably get an interesting old vs young style zombie movie. With a group of the current gen and boomers/X trying to survive but constantly getting at eachother's throats until both gens just decide to hell with the other and go off on their own. And from there follow the two different gens as they try to survive. You could get some interesting concepts and comentary without devolving to the tired "BACK IN MY DAY" garbage. Maybe since so many people now adays are introverts the younger group struggles to actually stick together as their social batteries run out, or they are deafeningly silent due to not talking much to eachother while also finding the silence physically painful. And struggling to start their base or anything since they don't know how to do a lot of more labor based stuff. But pick stuff up quickly and have more out of the box thinking as well as being better with anything tech related. Meanwhile the older gen is more than happy to group up and shoot the shit while shooting shit. Adapting fast to the zombies and using weapons as well as doing physical stuff. But falling short when it comes to stuff more based around cunning or thought and hitting the wall after they've found their base instead of making it better just using it as is. You could get some interesting moments and hit on the generational divide in a clever way.

[@sillygoose4263]

15:58 the zombie acted like the cameraman wasnt there either so it worked!😂😂

[@jinx724]

I actually really liked diary, i forgot about survival tbh and didn't really like land. But diary was one of my favorites and is a big reason i got into zombies at all

[@domanskikid]

That is one HELL of a underwhelming film to get you into zombies 😣

[@ColdStuff-cf7jv]

It seems peoples' tastes are not as sophisticated as others

[@adarus9941]

@@ColdStuff-cf7jvBelieve it or not there are people who don’t like Land.

[@ColdStuff-cf7jv]

@@domanskikid well there people that do not like all, or some of Romero's movies. The irony is to think @jinx724 likes a crappy movie that got him to watch zombie films in general.

[@AJadedLizard]

As someone who's critical of Romero's *entire* body of work (I will forever die on the hill that Night of the Living Dead is a cheap ripoff of I Am Legend without any of the social commentary because Romero was not an especially subtle man, and Dawn of the Dead is only memorable for its gore), Survival and especially Land are some of the worst films ever made. It's a shame Survival of the Dead was Romero's last because as much as I dislike him and his zombie-like followers (again, he did not create zombies, and his own body of work is too inconsistent to really credit him with the matriculation of the modern idea of them), even I think he deserved to go out on a higher note than *that.*

[@scottd1903]

I really liked diary. Found footage was all the rage at the time, and I could do without it, but overall thought it was good.

[@Truecrimeresearcher224]

Early to late 2000s phone cameras were HD potatoes and lasted like 15 seconds. Best 15 seconds of the time

[@trevonh4139]

Diary of the Dead is not forgotten, its one of my favorite zombie films from Romero.

[@RoseKoneko]

Dude, same.

[@akshit133]

Diary of dead 2 was not good ,but I only watched it bcoz of military aspect of it. That's what I remember mostly from the movie.

[@trevonh4139]

@@akshit133 Yeah that was trash, it didn't feel like a sequel to me at all

[@Theonetrueerenyeager]

@@trevonh4139dairy was trash as well, it sucked and didn’t fit with Romero quality

[@trevonh4139]

@@Theonetrueerenyeager That's just your opinion guy

[@tarotreadingsbysteven8545]

I miss good horror movies. Now you either get a screen so dark you can't see anything (might as well just read a book), or it's so shaky in found footage style that I can't watch it without my vertigo acting up and causing me to puke

[@jacobwagon3391]

7:58 I'm still semi-convinced that's the guy from, Too-Many-Cooks" video 📹🤯🤔

[@reynederrick9444]

This was my first Romero film and as a teen I loved it

[@patrickmckenna5812]

I actually really like this movie. I think it captures everything that George stood for. It's a shame he never got to finish his second living dead trilogy. He was planning to complete the adventures of the national guard unit, and I even like "Survival". I wasn't so keen until I saw interviews where he explained what he was going for. R.I.P. George...you are sadly missed.

[@TheElMexicano]

I got this movie circa 2008-2011 from a pawnshop for about $2.99 plus tax. I like it mostly for nostalgia reasons but it does have some good ideas

[@tylerskiss]

The moment she says “I’ve added so music to help scare you” or something equally absurd, I knew it was done. It’s a f’king zombie outbreak- people are plenty scared as is! And who the f’k is going to sit down and watch a documentary video of an account of the events to the horror they all currently find themselves in!?

[@miloo367]

Diary was actually not that bad

[@sillygoose4263]

cheesy zombie movies are the best ngl😂

[@robirvine6970]

It was shit. There's a reason it failed and no one liked it

[@Pythoner]

The hospital scene showed that Romero still had his magic when he wanted to use it for creating suspense and horror in a claustrophobic setting. But generally speaking, the whole movie.. it was ruined by Romero emphasizing his 'social commentary' angle too much. It made a lot of the movie dumb and absurd.

[@originalvenom1972]

Diary of the Dead was actually one of my favorites.

[@frigi2286]

I liked diary of the dead. It's alright. Better than survival i think

[@claressalucas8922]

@@frigi2286 Also better than Land, in my opinion.

[@Wrath79]

Yea I agree it's a decent movie ... Survival wasn't bad either

[@Musculartony2n]

Always a pleasure to watch one of your vids man! Good work

[@meaganyoung452]

I always liked this movie and didn’t realize most people didn’t or hadn’t even heard of it lol I’ll always love anything Romero tho

[@ciarajones4970]

I've only seen this movie a couple times quite a few years ago, but i always remember enjoying it.

[@Rick79LUFC]

Day of the dead the original is my favourite 😍 of all of Romero films a master piece 😊

[@DetectiveLance]

I remember being surprised about this movie being on Netflix (when you had to send away for DVDs and they weren't all on streaming yet) and told my dad, who told me to put it in the que. We soon understood why

[@lengwei4864]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Malicious_Malachi]

Romero's final two zombie films definitely aren't great but with that said Diary is still better than a lot of other found footage and zombie films. Also I don't consider this a "reboot" of the timeline it just jumps back to the beginning, the discrepancies between Night and Diary when it comes to the era they're set in can be hand waved away by Night being set in a really rural area.

[@christianthrasher8677]

That doesn't really explain anything

[@Malicious_Malachi]

@@christianthrasher8677 It's kind of a flimsy explanation sure but people in really rural areas don't always have a lot of technology I remember staying at my grandmother's house out in the middle of nowhere and all she had was a T.V, no computer, no portable radio, and only 1 landline phone.

[@cptjockitch]

I have a question nobody has ever answered about zombie movies. Are the zombies eating or just spreading the zombie virus? Do they stop eating the victim once he or she turns into a zombie? How do the zombies never starve when everything they eat just turns into a zombie?

[@J0MBi]

Those questions are answered in Dawn Of The Dead 1979 and especially Day Of The Dead 1985

[@AJadedLizard]

it's supernatural, that's why the girl who botched her suicide attempt, Mary, came back despite not being bitten. It's also why the car crash victims at the very start reanimated; they never encountered zombies. If you go all the way back to the original continuity, Night of the Living Dead has a zombie wandering around who was clearly in the middle of an autopsy, nary a bite on him (you can tell because he's naked, thank you for that George).

[@leonvalenzuela8089]

all those who die become undead because of radiation in a probe from venus. you dont get infected by bites, but you get sick and die, and then you live again

[@GBugden]

Forgotten? Not in this head! Always been one of my top found footage movies/zombie movies. This and the Outpost trilogy are so underrated. You should do a video on those too; get more eyes on them. At least the first 2. Spetsnaz is.... not as loved.

[@thekingofharts8637]

I even bought it on KZbin because my dvd version got scratches, one of my favourites

[@anthonymaslow798]

This movie is terrible. It's about as properly rated as it gets. Both fans and critics saw it for what it is. Clumsy writing, cheap and terrible FX, and badly acted. There's nothing good or underrated about this movie.

[@slasher3428]

*Ignore this comment, its algorithm food*

[@B-zk9bt]

Tasty.

[@crypto1223]

Crunchy!

[@ISOCATO]

FEED THE ALGORITHM SACRIFICE THE YOUNG! !!!!

[@badbreakingbadvideos]

Oh hey its... the warbucks main

[@stanislavkoshkin6224]

I will ignore this comment!

[@RoganBits]

The entire movie felt like a student film project; that got permission to use George Romero's name on it. When I was a kid and rented it; I thought they gave me the wrong movie.

[@Haru-qh2qz]

This was the first ever George Romero film I ever watched. What a wave of nostalgia

[@AJadedLizard]

I'm pretty sure either this or Land of the Dead was where I started. It was likely Land, because I also played the equally terrible game at the same time.

[@gastermax6950]

I always enjoyed this one as a kid,even as a adult i still have a love for the found footage style movies.

[@SurrealNirvana]

I have always felt Diary was much better then Land. Something about Land of the dead just didn't feel like a Romero film

[@AJadedLizard]

Land feels very much like a late-stage Stephen King novel, where he's just too popular for anyone to be willing to criticize him, so it feels like a first draft and is crammed full of the author's politics. Land of the Dead is a *very* bad film and I just don't understand the love it gets; it's not cool and slick like the Dawn of the Dead remake, it's not tense and gritty like 28 Days Later, it's not even iconic in the same ways Night or Dawn of the Dead are. It's just...there, painfully average and childishly simple.

[@reanimationeas342]

In a lot of zombie movies I never understood why the police, SWAT teams, National Guard and world militaries couldn't stop the zombies. Bullets, blades, bombs and heavy machinery can kill them. Many US citizens have guns and can use them. The United States has a well trained military. The Chinese have a large military. The British have a well trained military. The nation of Greece could easily set up safe zones on its plethora of islands. Why couldn't human civilization survive? I wouldn't be surprised if a few million people would die but civilization wouldn't collapse

[@LordWyatt]

The book World War Z did a good job covering the fall of society. Walking dead season 1 video game explained it. Fear the walking dead showed it poorly. Dawn of the Dead (1978) showed the perfect intro regarding the breakdown (they’ve been dealing with this for three weeks). First off regarding Romero zombies: an outbreak would surely not be a world ender if it was solely reliant on bites to spread. Something that could have been explored in season 2 of the walking dead (until it was scrapped and replaced with the Farm plot) was how the chaos of the early days of the outbreak led to more walkers than the bites: every single death would mean another walker unless the brain is destroyed. Thousands die daily from natural causes so add a breakdown of society and the chaos of people reacting to it. This would be a new world, a new reality many would struggle with accepting; all the while more dead are rising while more people are infected/turned. The chaos would get far more people killed and society would fall quickly despite a slow disease (but eventually would be rebuilt in a new world/reality). Second the government and military is still composed of people who would have difficulty deciding how to react to the infection, chaos of the people, and who to shoot or not. The US military is sworn to protect and never attack citizens so at least the question of whether the dead are considered citizens or not is raised (as ridiculous as it sounds). Point being it wouldn’t be as simple as Sean of the Dead’s military mop up like everyone thinks it would go (granted if this happened in 2023 with legitimate antizombie plans made by the government maybe it would). In WWZ the governments temporarily abandon the mainland but then reinvade their own territories with updated tactics and eventually retake their homes. Far more likely than a total collapse just a massive setback and population decline. Also not all zombies are the same. Fast zombies with a faster infection rate make sense how it would spread so quickly (except over an ocean unless a selfish pilot lands/crashes with a load of infected on board). Return of the living dead has zombies that are both quick and clever, but worst of all are extremely unkillable. The only way to destroy them without spreading the toxin is massive amounts of electricity but an outbreak of those could end the world easily. Edit: also the dead don’t feel pain (except in return of the living dead) so modern technology and tactics wouldn’t work (look up WWZ’s battle of New York) except standard shots of two in the chest and one in the forehead. Standard doctrine would quickly shift to semiautomatic fire headshots only so in our world or one without zombies would quickly adjust in 2023

[@Hrothgar87]

This movie is my personal gem.. it also had some fan made short videos that aged better then the movie. :)

[@Rick79LUFC]

Day of the dead was a cinematic master piece a film work of art and my favourite Zombie movie must of watched it a 100 times and it never gets old 😅

[@julesvox]

I watched this movie at a DIY zombie film festival that played all night in an art campus, and I was drunk and high af throughout the whole thing. I liked Diary alright

[@BrewsAndReviews1776]

My 4 favorite Georgo Romero zombie movies are Dawn of the dead(original an the Zack snyder remake from 2004) land of the dead & day of the dead.

[@emperortrevornorton3119]

My high school years were spent collecting all of Romero's Dead series good or bad I had fun and liked the people I met along the way to getting everyone of them

[@ogcipher4967]

Funilly enough this is one of my fav zombie movie and I think the second I've seen after Return

[@mrod6840]

The Amish guy fixing their vehicle is very believable. The thing that was unbelievable was the Amish guy committing suicide.

[@ernestogastelum9123]

the Amish guy wasnt the one who fixed the vehicle, it was Tracy. he only showed them where to put their RV

[@Boingy420]

I liked this movie. I would guess it had cheap special effects because it was going for that Cloverfield look - shaky cameras make special effects mostly unnoticable. But man, that ending. They didn't close the gates, the doors, just left everything open and lost complete ground. But that's zombie genres for ya - tend to be Lovecraftian with no happy endings.

[@jonisalmela2399]

in my head cannon; the main characters are suffering from a curse that forces one of them to film everything against their will.

[@anthonyjordanmoviesandmore2470]

The only way realistically zombies like this would overrun the world is of a huge portion of the world's population dropped dead at once and resurrected at once

[@AJadedLizard]

Or people are just *really* dumb, which, to be fair, is a general requirement for any of Romero's plots to work (nothing will ever top Blood Pressure Guy in Dawn of the Dead getting eaten alive because he stopped to play with a blood pressure cuff while surrounded by zombies).

[@mtdewramen]

Project Zomboids lore makes way more sense. An airborne virus wipes out over 95% of the population, the ones immune to the virus come to a world falling apart, and have to contend with the now replaced humans with zeds.

[@Pythoner]

How many people die around the world each day even in the best of times? There you go.

[@ernestogastelum9123]

@@AJadedLizard who are you talking about?

[@AJadedLizard]

@@ernestogastelum9123 The biker in _Dawn_ who stops running from zombies at the mall to check his blood pressure and gets eaten.

[@occamsrayzor7999]

All I know is when I was a kid I made the mistake of waking up at 2AM with the TV still on and this movie playing on Cinemax, and it scared the crap out of me for days. My first exposure to found-footage style movies.

[@whatsthatnow8613]

I legit love this movie. I know it's bad, but I'm a sucker for found footage. I can't defend it, it's just how my brain works.

[@Vandelberger]

No problem liking it, but man, the original or the Tom Savini remake to Night of the Living Dead is soooooo much better.

[@dragonslayre1]

Liked this better than Army of the Dead and the other insulting and failed attempts at those who made sloppy remakes to make a quick buck. Sometimes leaving a franchise dead is better than slapping “of the dead” title on a film that is worse than a fan made on an IPhone.

[@PrincessOfTheNight01]

Please do a video on I Am A Hero; it’s probably my favorite zombie movie with Train to Busan coming in at a close second.

[@Ruofin]

You should cover the British zombie movie ‘Doghouse’

[@KK-my6hw]

Amish ironically know more about mechanical repairs and things like electrical wiring than the average person. They are perfectly allowed to work on and repair them for money. Some communities can even use them themselves if they don't own them. A few will even wire phones and electrical lines outside their house into a small disconnected office to run their businesses.

[@LynchMedia]

It's not forgotten, it's sitting right there on my movie shelf. Right next to the sequel Survival of the Dead.

[@LynchMedia]

I said this before starting the video. It's now funny because you mentioned both in the video.

[@lengwei4864]

You only bought it because your a geroge fan not because it's good because it's so shockingly bad I still haven't seen survival to this day

[@Goodroosters]

So I know this isn't the main point of the video: But the amish view on technology isn't universal opposition and vilification. While very uncommon for Amish to own or drive automobiles, they may hire others to drive them in one depending on their community's rules. It's not even uncommon for an Amish person to use a cellphone in certain areas even.

[@enigma3383]

Honestly if there is ever a found footage zombie movie about the outbreak of a zombie apocalypse it should just be like that Dawn of the Dead 2004 Reboot news cast special where it was a news reporter reporting on and showing different pieces of footage from people as the outbreak got worse, but longer.

[@wajmgirl]

Look up SavageLand

[@philipmateo3816]

I think what might have been nice is an embedded reporter kind of movie. With the army trying to combat the zambambo menace and realizing they’re almost invincible except for a very accurate shot. That’s what’s scary about Romero zombies anyway. 4 or 5 of them isn’t a problem but a whole mob becomes untenable. Could even be like the Yonkers scene from World War Z

[@germanprodigy33]

You should check "House of the Dead"(2004) version with Emanuelle Voughier

[@TheStonedBearGaming]

I Actually Enjoyed this Movie, but it wasn't better than Land of The Dead my Personal Favorite

[@dravenrogers7040]

I honestly kind of like this one it's not my favorite but it's definitely interesting and honestly I think it would have been more interesting than if we went for more of a VHS Anthology format where it would be more like the Diaries of the Dead I think it would have been more interesting but that's just my personal opinion😊

[@Kitteh.B]

I've always loved all the more modern "of the dead" films (and Zombie Diaries! Similar to Diary of the Dead) but now that everything's been pointed out... Yeah, not his best work lol. Still an enjoyable film if you just take it at face value and suspend disbelief.

[@CarolynDestruction]

I enjoy found footage, fav genre, and this movie was the reason for it

[@jamesjimbob71]

i really liked this one, because unlike other found footage films the camea on this was not shaky

[@robertjones1502]

Love is work this is just his I'm a grandpa Now movie darn you young people

[@chadthedad03]

15:59 Zombie made sure to guide his drip bag pole as he attacked his victim. Those poles will go drift over the place if you dont hold them.😂

[@TheFoshaMan]

10:16 Once you Kodak... 10:33 LMAO 11:05 For real, every goddam hospital is hella empty once it appears in a zombie movie! 11:50 Now that's (kinda) cool 12:10 (kinda) brutal, but meh 13:59 Well... she's kinda right, but wrong at the same time. 15:12 lol 15:56 The zombie also tought the cameraman was just a floating camera 17:57 Themes of the Movies 19:00 To be fair, that's kinda new 19:28 Best character of the movie 20:16 As I said, best character, and METAL dead! 20:59 XD 22:17 That's a good point 22:42 Black pawa! (? 23:17 So... covering and lying or showing and overexagerating the pandemic? 24:14 EDIT MAN! 25:50 The truth is the truth 27:19 I gotta say, it's a cool idea, but it was made so effortlessly 28:03 Philosophical dickhead mode activated! 28:52 NINJA! 30:22 MORE NINJAS!!! 31:20 Now that's brutal 32:07 What a dick 32:25 Real monsters being fake monsters while being real monsters! 33:01 TEXAS!!! 33:53 Perhaps the cameraman was poliamorous (? 35:08 Crispy 36:07 True amateur Journalism xD 36:50 True amateurs KZbinRS!!! 37:50 Fr, pretty contradictory fr

[@sakurakitsunestar]

Actually Amish could understand fuel lines cuz they do use tractors in some of their communities 😅 so that's actually not as crazy as you think

[@webfactorysolutions]

This is one of those movies that i know they arent good but for some reason i really love it, this one is probably the one that i rewatch the most

[@Made_In_Heaven88]

Shaun from Shaun of the Dead sees every dumbass in this movie holding a camera during a zombie attack "FEEL FREE TO STEP IN ANYTIME!"

[@IsaiahAmos017]

When the Amish guy was on the screen for a second I didn't think it was from the actual movie I thought it was from the KZbin channel making a Monty python joke now it's time for something else and then something explodes

[@marvinnope6050]

I have Big Love for this Movie. I cant tell why but i always Liked it a lot.

[@Juddernaut89]

This movie is actually a guilty pleasure of mine

[@Userunknown0010]

That chick was trying to conjure her impression of resident evil alice 😂

[@langdonledwig3734]

Also the guy who got bit in the hospital he had the blood on his arm before he got bit

[@ThisPhantomPain]

I liked this film, the only thing that got really old was how many times did they need to keep racking the slide to chamber a round on that carry pistol? Lol

[@TheUballe]

I saw this in the theaters and enjoyed it more than Land of the Dead. I loved the low-budget, found-footage vibe.

[@tarotreadingsbysteven8545]

I know it's probably too late for this year but I'd love to see you react to the dumpster fire/cheesy/so bad it's good masterpiece called Anna and the Apocalypse on Shudder. I was not prepared for Christmas musical zombie movie but I'm kind of here for it 😂

[@lengwei4864]

No because thats on the nose purposely maybe tryna be cheap b film,george was trying with diary and it's terribleeee

[@cartoonhistory353]

10:00 the beat behind your voice is hitting different

[@acejoker6129]

People hate this movie? I've watched it like 4 fucking times, its so good

[@Graves-81_69]

Dude! I forgot “Orphan Black” was in Diary! I had to add these two movies to “Bad movie Saturday night watch”. Yeah they suck, but they do give a good watch. The reason why Romero couldn’t do better was because he couldn’t afford the effects due to “The Walking Dead” series becoming a reality. The talent pool was spoken for.

[@xxprototypexx5056]

Why you wouldn't survive infamous's Raysphere, plague, and beast attack.

[@LessSoyThanYou]

I loved this movie when I was a kid. I looked it up deliberately because I was coming off the Dead Rising, Dawn of The Dead (x2) and COD Zombie era of my life. I just realized for the first time that the pilot in Dead Rising was designed after George Romero 🤦‍♂️

[@ll7868]

What If...? Ella the capuchin monkey from Monkey Shines started the zombie outbreak? Ella had experimental brain altering chemicals injected into her and at the end of the movie she peed on Allen's head and he bit her throat out. Now skip ahead 20 years and Allen dies of some random thing like getting electrocuted in a bathtub like his mom (do I sense a theme?) but becomes a zombie because of that chemical mixed with the electrocution (like how Flash got his speed powers) and was patient zero.

[@johnnymidnight2982]

To be honest, I really didn't mind this movie, and I loved the cameo of Romero as a Pittsburgh Police captain, but some of the dialog in it was so cringe. "Is this what you want, huh? Is this what we're becoming?" LOL! And there's like a dozen zombies and the main character needs to lecture Zach (and us) about the perils of social media before making a getaway. "I'd rather be a zombie than be in a parasocial relationship! Gyaaah!"

[@daverobson3084]

An increase of the death rate by " 100%" is multiplying the existing death rate by 2. Increasing the death rate by " 100 fold" is multiplying the existing death rate by 2 , 100 times!!! Big difference. I didn't see the movie so I don't know which was actually stated in it.

[@joerussell9574]

Romero obviously needed Russo's insanity to bounce off his own to make a good modern zombie movie. Not one person in the entire world would act like these "kids" lol. No matter all the other opportunities they had earlier in the film, they should have been constantly stockpiling that backroom and boarding up the house. If later parts of the house got overrun they could probably even barricade the stairs to prevent zombies from coming up. As a former heavy opioid addict(I know how I was) the alky sot professor would have been conserving booze immediately and stopping the others from drinking and wasting it(booze withdrawal can actually cause one to end) and should have taken what was left and weened himself off of it. That is the most unrealistic part that he didn't lmfao!

[@TheSpookiestSkeleton]

Wow those "armored" hazmat guys were bad. We've been using neck protectors with armor since at least the Korean war. Like, a PASGT vest from the 80s woulda prevented that bite.

[@viktorvaughndoomthevillain3747]

I loved his subtle tribute in the game Dying Light. Shoutout to Techland

[@Harrypotter-7]

I actually really enjoyed “ Diary of The Dead”

[@allaninaet2835]

It dated itself with that MySpace slap to the face. At least with the radio news report we can say it's AM radio.

[@Nrdyco]

The zombie is the warehouse just appeared outta nowhere bc one of the dudes So I think they shot someone else or another zombie(someone that the original zombie maybe killed but the zombie has no blood in their mouth?)

[@AJadedLizard]

The film literally tells you the guy had a heart attack "and then got back up and wandered off." Everyone who dies in a Romero films comes back as a zombie, it isn't just bites.

[@Nrdyco]

@@AJadedLizard you didn't read my comment huh? I said that the zombie just appeared out of nowhere. Like they were literally looking in the direction of the zombie and all of a sudden... Boom the zed appeared from no where even tho they were just looking at it. I know that the original guy that turned into a zed had a heart attack but if you look at the scene, they're looking around and all of sudden from the same place they were just looking at.. BOOM. Zombie Also I was referring to the dude that was on the floor.... Meaning that the reappearing zombie didn't seem to have been the killer of that other person/ the one that killed em to make em into a zombie thus... WHO MADE THE DUDE ON THE GROUND A ZOMBIE?

[@AJadedLizard]

@@Nrdyco I did *read* your comment, it's just a bit hard to follow because some of your sentences just stop without ending.

[@jessetoler8171]

Wasn't Gordo bitten on the right arm? When he's shot later, his left arm is bleeding....

[@StorieGrubb]

I love this flick. I can see passed the cringe. But I also love found footage flicks sooooo...

[@TheNotverysocial]

In response to your critique of the living dead not making a sound, they were silent in *Night of the Living Dead* until faced with open flames. Then they groaned. Nothing gave them away until they were near enough to see their transfixed glare and grabbing someone within arm's reach. Only a handful showed signs of autopsies.

[@lengwei4864]

George was writing the rulebook still on zombies,I'm not letting anyone defend this piece of crap

[@TheNotverysocial]

@@lengwei4864 Who said I was defending this film? It did nothing with zombies that hadn't already been done. And I consider the Living dead films to be everything from *Night of the Living Dead* to *Land of the Dead,* period.

[@CoffeeCrowgasm]

Kane pixels playing his videos through a VHS player and recording that to get an authentic VHS effect is a perfect example of trying to use the actual device rather than a simple filter 🤘

[@papi-champoo6033]

They do exactly that now, record everything and not help, example was that guy who got stabbed in front of hos daughter and a giy was just recording saying omg i think he's dying. So yeah Romero wasn't off.

[@Vandelberger]

I agree, this movie for me signaled the temporary death of good practical effects. Today, I think it’s off and on for good practical. Modern young audiences are not ready for full good bloody effects. Also, definitely the film was written by an older man trying to understand the new media.

[@AJadedLizard]

Nothing will ever be funnier to me than the kid in Survival of the Dead lecturing someone else about why they can't access the internet in bumfuck Pennsylvania "because you've got a piece of shit PC" before pulling out an original iPod and magically getting on the internet with it. That's...not how the internet works.

[@AJadedLizard]

This and the remake of Night are the only Romero films I own, and it's the only first-party Romero film I actually enjoy, largely because the inherent stupidity of the characters, found in every single Romero film, actually makes sense here given that everyone's a college student. The fact the characters tend to be generally rational (they don't do anything as stupid as turning on the escalators at the Mall, and aren't as powerfully unlikable and antagonistic as Ben and Cooper are in the original film). It does still amuse me on some level Romero insists on running zombie being unbelievable, as if he didn't hand his own zombies assault rifles with infinite ammo in his previous film.