George a romero may have practically started the zombie genre, but look what he's done to it. From an engaging opening minute, the film plummets steadily downhill, becoming often laughable and occasionally embarrassing. Romero has jumped on the bandwagon of other recent first person action/horror films such as rec, cloverfield and the not so recent blair witch project. However with these films, there was always a reason for the protagonists to be filming. Rec uses a tv crew filming the events of their quarantine to use as evidence of their mistreatment, cloverfield uses a camera being used to document a surprise party/ a historical disaster, and the characters of the blair witch project are themselves filming a documentary of their search for the notorious witch. Diary of the dead however, seems to operate on a first person basis purely because it wants to, cutting between several cameras, the footage of which the characters of the film would not be able to acquire in real life, such… more »

George a romero may have practically started the zombie genre, but look what he's done to it. From an engaging opening minute, the film plummets steadily downhill, becoming often laughable and occasionally embarrassing. Romero has jumped on the bandwagon of other recent first person action/horror films such as rec, cloverfield and the not so recent blair witch project. However with these films, there was always a reason for the protagonists to be filming. Rec uses a tv crew filming the events of their quarantine to use as evidence of their mistreatment, cloverfield uses a camera being used to document a surprise party/ a historical disaster, and the characters of the blair witch project are themselves filming a documentary of their search for the notorious witch. Diary of the dead however, seems to operate on a first person basis purely because it wants to, cutting between several cameras, the footage of which the characters of the film would not be able to acquire in real life, such as cctv.
The film really isn't any good for anything other than unintentional comedic value, buy any of those other three first person films and save yourself the hours you'll lose by watching this. Sorry george.