Zombie Diaries is ballsy, back to basics film-making and shows that you don't need a huge budget to make a damn effective horror movie. I recently saw Diary of the Dead, REC and Cloverfield but none contained the realism of this movie. The others are far more theatrical in their acting for a start. The people in Zombie Diaries react the way a normal person would to a zombie apocalypse - and its all the better for it. The film contains 3 threads of different groups of people in different situations (not too far removed from Max Brooks's excellent 'World War Z') and shows the real human struggle for survival in this new world. The usual zombie set pieces are there for the purists. There's gut munching, intestine pulling and brains flying out of the back of zombies heads, but this film makes zombie films scary again and contains one of the best scenes in zombie history in the jump stakes! Turn the lights off, grab yourself a beer and settle down to enjoy this excellent indie movie from the UK.
Review of Zombie Diaries
