Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

UnowPriceless hyped garbage

ChicRawIdol A brilliant film that helped define a genre

Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

GL84 With the world ravaged by a deadly virus, a group of filmmakers out in the British countryside doing a story on the events finds a small group of survivors and join up in order to stay alive but soon find a far more dangerous threat than the zombies may be among them.Overall this one wasn't that great of an effort but does have some positives. One of the film's main issues is the fact that there's just so few zombie attacks throughout here that it really drags and lets itself go into spells of extremely bland and dull moments for way too much of the running time. The fact that this one takes a while to get to the village for the first attack is a real shame, and with the seemingly endless wandering around in the car or getting instructions for their trip that it really tends to go from extremes bouncing around in the plot. Likewise, that gets enhanced later on with the constant jumping around in terms of the timeline that this supposedly covers with it never really making any kind of sense what's going on with the film going on through weeks or months at a time before there's anything of note involving them encountering the creatures as the preference on defense and avoidance gives this one the feeling of pure aimlessness as it doesn't really follow through any kind of set patterns in what's going on as it just goes from one piece to another without really doing much of any kind of connection around these events. That also goes hand-in-in-hand with the film's biggest flaw which is the utterly deplorable and inexcusably bad found-footage angle here which just looks completely amateurish and just dreadful here with this one filling in just about every single negative factor hurled at the genre in one place. The jerkiness of the camera is non-stop making this one such a struggle to even make out what's happening in the regular scenes but the action scenes are truly a lost cause in here not only being so haphazardly jerking around in the way they're shot as to be headache-inducing but are oftentimes out-of-focus so nothing is effectively captured or shown, the tracking on the camera makes the picture blurry or not even comprehensible at times and there's nothing more infuriating about this one than being in the middle of a zombie attack that's been edited into indecipherability by the inabilities placed into the finished film by its chosen method of production. As well, the concepts' other underlying flaw in this one being filled with scenes that shouldn't be filmed as trying to preserve a camera at that time instead of themselves really undermines a lot of what's happening here, and these here are what really hold this one down considerably. The fact that the zombies are considered threats and have plenty of continuous action scenes here requiring lots of action to put them down is a big deal of compensation, as there's a lot to like that way with the lumbering creatures closing in on them in some decent action scenes. The quantity is enough to raise it, but not enough to overcome the flaws.Rated R: Extreme Graphic Language and Graphic Violence.

RevRonster Since Romero first gave us zombies, they have been a big part of pop culture and have become bigger every year. In 2006, two men decided to take zombies and add them to a subgenre of film that has, thanks to the "Paranormal Activity" series, became all the rage in the movie world.I honestly thought "The Zombie Diaries" could have been a good movie…if some time and care was placed behind it. Even though I hate "found footage" films, I love zombie movies but can also admit that even though "ff" films are cheap and easy and have a reputation of being made just to maximize returns at the Box Office and DVD sales, there is still a major breeding ground of creativity that can come from them. It's rare but it happens. However, "The Zombie Diaries" isn't one of those rare cases.Thanks to a production that boasted barely passable acting, truly awful make-up effects that make you wonder if the person put in charge of it found out ahead of time they were about to be fired and an overall production value that screamed of laziness (I'm not even entirely convinced a script was actually written), the film just ends up a weak film that was clearly made in order to just get some zombie fans to pay blindly for their movie.Hi! My name is Rev. Ron and I love movies! So much so that I write a blog where I review whatever film I am currently watching (Old or new!). You can read a more in-depth review of this film (and others) at revronmovies.blogspot.com.

Krome This is a movie so irredeemably lousy, the only reason I feel inspired to put up a review is to try and save somebody else the time and cash which could be better spent on something more worthy.Feeble acting, weak "plot" and scene after scene of watching unsympathetic characters doing things which make you shout, "you just wouldn't do that"! at the screen - it's an endless, joyless piece of junk.As a student film done by teenagers, this would be fine. As something made by adults, it is an insult to its audience. I won't repeat all the points made by the other reviews - but simply add another voice to the chorus saying:DON'T BOTHER WATCHING THIS RUBBISH

trashgang So much negativity about this zombie flick. I was even afraid to watch it until part 2 popped up a few weeks ago. From the start you could easily see that it was a low budget flick. The way to hide that is the use of the documentary style of editing and storytelling. Naturally that falls into a part that many hate due the shaky camera's. Just looked at the hyped Cloverfield and the things it caused and why it failed at the box offices. But I must be honest, I don't have any problem with this kind of flicks.It was made before the blockbusters of documentary films REC (2007) and Paranormal Activity (2007)and is weird that Zombie Diaries never got the attention required to become a famous flick. So many hate the zombies in this flick because they just wander around with nothing to do. Well, face it, the zombies in the much acclaimed The Walking Dead aren't doing anything too, they just stray everywhere. And there are no complaints about The Walking Dead, but the difference is that the story in The Walking Dead is sublime. Here the story is a bit confusing due the shaky shots and some parts being filmed in the dark with the now famous "night vision". It starts off all pretty well and you get to know the crew making a documentary before they see that things are wrong. The appearance of the first zombie is even in the REC style, so it's really weird that this flick is hated by so many. But I guess at the end of the day that so many zombie geeks are used nowadays at the fast running zombies. The effects used and make-up for the zombies was okay. What can I say, maybe an underrated flick and made a few years too early to pick in on the hype of REC and Paranormal Activity.Gore 2/5 Nudity 2/5 Effects 3/5 Story 3/5 Comedy 0/5