Diary Of The Dead Page #5

Synopsis: While filming a horror movie of mummy in a forest, the students and their professor of the University of Pittsburgh hear on the TV the news that the dead are awaking and walking. Ridley and Francine decide to leave the group, while Jason heads to the dormitory of his girlfriend Debra Monahan. She does not succeed in contacting her family and they travel in Mary's van to the house of Debra's parents in Scranton, Pennsylvania. While driving her van, Mary sees a car accident and runs over a highway patrolman and three other zombies trying to escape from them. Later the religious Mary is depressed, questioning whether the victims where really dead, and tries to commit suicide, shooting herself with a pistol. Her friends take her to a hospital where they realize that the dead are indeed awaking and walking and they need to fight to survive while traveling to Debra's parents house.
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Director(s): George A. Romero
Production: The Weinstein Company
  1 win.
 
IMDB:
5.7
Metacritic:
66
Rotten Tomatoes:
61%
R
Year:
2007
95 min
$679,335
Website
213 Views


(inaudible)

The only time they were dead

was when the white guy shot him.

They changed it.

They've re-cut it.

The media

was lying to us.

Or the government

was lying to them.

They were trying to make it seem

like everything was going to be alright.

- What are you doing?

- I just want to shoot us...

- while we're editing..

- I want to cover everything.

Now I can understand, why Jason

was so anxious to upload his own footage.

At the time,

I didn't get it.

now look at the angle

from your camera.

Put the gun down!

- Who the hell are you?

- Don't matter who I am.

All that matters

is what I got.

- And after that, we drove here.

- Yeah.

Sure, it'll be nice to have the surveillance

camera and go from where we drove in.

Figured that much,

here!

The recording of the security cameras.

Put the 7/11 in here.

- I got it all queued up for you.

- You're f***in' brilliant man.

Why thank you.

What'd you do. Did you

get up there to record it?

It's a wireless system,

pretty sophisticated.

So sophisticated that I was easily able

to rip it off right out of the air.

Beautiful.

This is Excellent.

So what are

you guys doing?

- Editing.

- Editing what?

The stuff we shot.

When you said you

wanted to get online

I thought, you wanna get in contact

with your dad or something.

No, I just wanted

to upload our shoot.

Look!

In 8 minutes.

Hey Eliot, can we

have a moment please?

Yeah.

Is the camera on?

Yeah.

If we're gonna have a conversation,

I'm sure you'd like to have it on tape.

If its not on camera,

its like it never happened, right?

OK J,

listen to me.

I'm trying to get home

to my family, OK?

I'm out there

trying to get home.

and you're in here,

dicking around on your computer..

It was a pretty

one-sided conversation...

They're coming in,

from all over the world.

They're not getting the

truth from anybody else.

All that sh*t on the news,

is a pack of lies.

that's unbelievable!

- Congratulations, you're famous

- That's not what it's about.

Would you rather have people not

knowing whats going on in the world?

We might even be able to save

somebody's f***in' life here.

In another hour, it will be probably be

a million, by tomorrow, who knows..

All over the world,

people learning how to survive,

by seeing how we've

managed to survive.

You always know how to

make a good argument, J.

Oh my god! Text message

from my little brother.

Well, what's it say?

All this time, I've been imagining

the dead in our house

and they're not even home.

They went camping four days ago.

"Driving home, we're

OK, I hope you are too. "

Sent last night:
"driving home".

That means, they'll probably meet us there.

- I told you they were safe.

- They're on the road, maybe not.

They're not safe,

but they're still alive.

Pack your sh*t,

I'm gonna check on my gas.

Yo! Dude!

Where are you, man?

Ridley, yo back

at ya here.

I'm in the middle of f***in'

nowhere, out here.

How's Deb?

She's OK.

You know, coping.

Look here, if you need anything,

like a place to chill or whatever!

Get your ass

down here man!

We're having

a blast!

Hi J, love you.

- What's up?

- I don't know.

Somethings going on.

One of my men had a

bad heart. He died.

The thing is, we don't

know where he went.

Oh sh*t.

Finish the (?),

and lock the door.

- I'm gonna get Jason.

- Stay, I'll go.

Wait, that thing could

be inside there.

That thing could

be anywhere...

F***!

$100,000 education, and I can't find

my way out of a f***in' warehouse!

Exit.

What was that?

F***!

F***!

Where the hell

have you been?

There's a dead guy

walking around. Let's go.

Wait! Say it that again?

I didn't get it.

There is a dead guy walking around.

Now, let's go.

It's all clear.

Turn that TV off!

Alright.

Everyone with a heartbeat,

Freeze and shut up!

Son of a b*tch!

Where are we?

F***.

F*** me!

OK, never again.

That's the door.

Let's go!

Let's go,

careful, OK?

Shut the f*** up!

I see him!

I see him over there!

Over here!

Over here!

Come on, we've got him!

- We've got him!

- Over here!

- Oh sh*t!

- It's not him.

Son of a b*tch!

F*** off!

Don't shoot!

Those barrels are full of gas!

What the hell

is that stuff?

That's enough.

I need to fill the tank.

Stranton is only

- We need to bring in some weapons.

- Food, canned goods, water.

- And lip gloss?

- The lip gloss, you can have.

- The rest of the sh*t is ours.

- All of it?

Every last can of peas.

But, what if we say we're not

leaving till we get what we need?

What would you do?

Kill us?

I'd think about it.

But I don't think

you'd do it though.

It's easiest just to give us

what we need, isn't it?

Cause otherwise, guess what?

You'll gonna have to kill us.

- Deb.

- Shut up, J.

You've gonna have

to kill us, because

we're not leaving until

we get what we need!

OK.

Fill her up.

Give them

what they want.

Come and get 'em.

- Is that enough for you?

- Come and get 'em!

That will do.

Gotta defend yourselves,

you've got to.

Because if this

keeps up...

people start to running

out of food, water, gas,

they're gonna start

shooting at each other.

No, think I've had enough

of this kind of thing.

This I'll like.

Now, this I prefer.

seems..

friendlier,

somehow.

Hey!

I think you're a lot like me.

Good luck.

Good luck to

you too.

What is that?

Where's it

coming from?

I found her on a message

board on YouTube.

Someone listen,

We Tokyo.

Very bad here.

Very bad Tokyo.

Tokyo. Can you

believe it?

There's hundreds of posts like this

all over the world.

It's got technology.

Don't bury dead,

better shoot in head!

Don't bury dead,

better shoot in head!

- Damn it!

- Well, plug it in!

I just charged it!

It's not the phone,

it's the service

The f***in' service,

is going out!

Nothing?

How can there be nothing?

The towers, the relay towers

must be out. Jesus, all of them?

Technology is terrific, Eliot.

Except, when it doesn't work!

Great.

It won't be long before nothing

works, starting nothing at all.

The mainstream has vanished,

with all its power and money.

Now it was just us,

bloggers, hackers, kids.

The more voices there are,

the more spin there is.

The truth becomes that

much harder to find.

In the end,

it's all just... noise.

We're in Stranton.

This is Deb's house.

- Thought they'd be here by now.

- They're what? Camping, right?

And they what?

They used to go to

some place in Virginia.

West-Virginia.

You probably beat them here.

Maybe they hit traffic, or something.

We didn't hit any traffic,

there is no traffic.

West-Virginia is only

- Yeah, if thats where they went.

- Yeah.

I'm gonna

wait inside.

You guys should head

back on the road.

What?... and just

leave you here?

This where I grew up,

this is where I want to be.

You guys all got homes too.

You should get going, get out of here.

Thanks for

bringing me here.

Thanks for

everything.

- I guess I'll try to call you.

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George A. Romero

George Andrew Romero (February 4, 1940 – July 16, 2017) was an American-Canadian filmmaker, writer and editor, best known for his series of gruesome and satirical horror films about an imagined zombie apocalypse, beginning with Night of the Living Dead (1968), which is often considered a progenitor of the fictional zombie of modern culture. Other films in the series include Dawn of the Dead (1978) and Day of the Dead (1985). Aside from this series, his works include The Crazies (1973), Martin (1978), Creepshow (1982), Monkey Shines (1988), The Dark Half (1993) and Bruiser (2000). He also created and executive-produced the 1983–88 television series Tales from the Darkside. Romero is often noted as an influential pioneer of the horror-film genre, and has been called an "icon" and the "Father of the Zombie Film". more…

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