The Zombie Diaries (2006)

Fantastic!

Excellent, a Must See

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

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.

i have seen too many rubbish zombie movies lately the worst two bieng 'armageddon of the dead' and 'night of the living dead 3d:reanimation', those two movies were so bad, this movie was a breathe of fresh air, very well made, and with a great realism and atmospheric look, and is in my opinion one of the better 'found footage' films, and i kid you not some of the most realistic zombie action you'll ever see, the make and sfx are top notch, and the acting is above average for a found footage movie, and a zombie movie, i cant believe all the negative reviews for this movie, its a living joke, its a good zombie movie, and the low budget works in its favour, i recommend this movie to fans of zombie movies, especially uk horror cinema

Totally amateurish movie, and it shows in every aspect. I won't give spoilers but simply discuss the cinematic merit.1. Soundtrack - no such thing. Most often people are just talking without any soundtrack. Soundtracks are important in horror films. Sometimes there are sounds but they don't qualify as music.2. Acting - weak.3. Lighting - Terrible. Sometimes the face of the actor looks totally white and shiny due to lighting being aimed right into their faces.4. Makeup effects - weak, low budget.5. Camera work - unskilled, probably hand held.6. Extras - no use of extras. Just a few actors (budget again).7. Zombies - again to the low budget effects couldn't be done so when zombies attack you will see almost only darkness.8. Plot - another zombie movie...Its not even "cult bad", its just bad due to poor execution and a waste of time.

Let me just save you some time if you picked this movie up thinking that the pictures and praises littering the case made it look like it was worth watching. Not only was it not anywhere near a, "Powerhouse of a movie." It also didn't contain any of the scenes depicted on the front. I LOVE zombie movies. And I've seen a few that were worse than this one, but honestly, this is a snooze-fest with the slowest, dumbest zombies on the planet that still somehow managing to infect people. If you wanna see a documentary style zombie film that's at least partially worth your time, go check out Quarantine. I found it to be MUCH better.