Monthly Archives: August 2006

Anyone who was excited about my last Diary of the Dead post should be ecstatic about this one.

Another tidbit from Bloody Disgusting points us to Flixens, where they have a Diary of the Dead script review. I think the spoiler quotient is surprisingly low- if you didn’t already know that this movie had zombies, people, and a Blair Witch-esque point of view, and if knowing those things bothers you, then you’ve probably already been bothered. Reading the review may bother you more, but probably not too much more.

Probably the happiest news to come from this for me is confirmation of the first-person viewpoint throughout, which is one of the things that so enamores me with the possibilities of this film. The thing that most offends me on the other hand, is ‘Leather Lass’s assertation that Romero always casts terrible actors. I honestly can’t see it, but it’s possible she’s part of the camp that believes that being higher payed actually implies being more highly skilled (for instance, she seems to not object to the casting of Land of the Dead, despite the inclusion of John Leguizamo).

From Bloody Disgusting comes word that Romero-san is making another Dead film. It sounds like this one will be rather interesting, too:

With a story mixing elements of “The Blair Witch Project” and the long-running “Dead” series, the film will follow a group of college students shooting a horror movie in the woods who stumble upon a real zombie uprising. When the onslaught begins, they seize the moment as any good film students would, capturing the undead in a “cinema verite” style that causes more than the usual production headaches.

Personally, I really hope that they keep the first-person camera angles from the Blair Witch Project, as that could make for a truly scary zombie movie (a rare thing these days, or maybe I’ve just become desensitized). Of course, chances are that no one will ever be able to use that particularly innovative camera technique again without being accused of unoriginality and sadism (on account of the vomit that theater goers with hypersensitive inner-ear fluids tend to leak). Pity.

I can’t tell from the newsbyte whether this movie will actually be an indy flick or Romero just wants it to be, but I suppose time will tell.

This, plus the recent confirmation of 28 Weeks Later (28 Days Later was not a zombie film, but it was similar, and it was wonderful) is making me start to look forward to new horror movies again, for the first time since remake-plague has struck.