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Diary of the Dead (2007) Movie Release Dates / Movie Details

Updated: August 29, 2024

Diary of the Dead Plot 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.

Synopsis / Plot Summary: A group of young film students run into real-life zombies while filming a horror movie of their own.

Tagline: Shoot the dead.

"George A. Romero’s Diary of the Dead, the fifth installment in Romero’s Night of the Living Dead series of zombie films, arrives on Steelbook on July 2 from Lionsgate. A group of college film students record the pandemic rise of flesh-eating zombies while struggling for their own survival in this gruesome fright flick only available at Walmart on BD Steelbook for the suggested retail price of $24.99.

OFFICIAL SYNOPSIS
From legendary frightmaster George A. Romero comes “one of the most daring, hypnotic and absolutely vital horror films of the past decade” (Fangoria). Romero continues his influential “Dead” series, this time focusing on a terrified group of college film students who record the pandemic rise of flesh-eating zombies while struggling for their own survival. Intensely gruesome and relentlessly grisly – fueled by the director’s signature realistic special effects – Diary of the Dead is must-see horror that “is Romero at his finest” (Bloody Disgusting)."

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