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Diary of the Dead

Year:

2008

Duration:

95 min

Genres:

Horror

IMDB rate:

5.7

Director:

George A. Romero

Awards:

1 win

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 2008-03-07

Filming Locations: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Earnings

Budget: $2,000,000

Opening Weekend: $275,061 (USA) (17 February 2008)

Gross: $952,620 (USA) (27 April 2008)

Cast

Actor

Character

Guillermo del Toro

Diary of the Dead

Michelle Morgan

Debra Moynihan

Joshua Close

Jason Creed

Shawn Roberts

Tony Ravello

Amy Lalonde

Tracy Thurman

Joe Dinicol

Eliot Stone

Scott Wentworth

Andrew Maxwell

Philip Riccio

Ridley Wilmott

Chris Violette

Gordo Thorsen

Tatiana Maslany

Mary Dexter

Todd Schroeder

Brody

Daniel Kash

Police Officer

Laura de Carteret

Bree

Martin Roach

Stranger

Megan Park

Francine Shane

George Buza

Tattooed Biker

Tino Monte

News Anchor

Matt Birman

Zombie Trooper

Greg Nicotero

Zombie Surgeon

Donna Croce

Zombie Nurse

Nick Alachiotis

I.V. Zombie

R.D. Reid

Farmer

Scott Gibson

Birthday Party Father

Jamie Bloch

Birthday Girl

Kyle Glencross

Bupkes the Clown

Boyd Banks

White Man

Janet Lo

Cell Phone Woman

Jack Birman

Billy

Trish Adams

Dead Mrs. Moynahan

Alan Van Sprang

Colonel

Ron Payne

Elderly Man

Shelley Cook

Elderly Woman

James Binkley

Trooper

Anthony Cancelliere

Zombie (uncredited)

Wes Craven

Newsreader

Alexandria DeFabiis

Zombie (uncredited)

Ara Katz

Shopping Cart Zombie (uncredited)

Stephen King

Newsreader

Mani Nasry

Zombie (uncredited)

Simon Pegg

Newsreader

George A. Romero

Police Chief Arthur Katz

Tom Savini

Man Shouting on Radio 'shoot in the Head' (voice) (uncredited)

Quentin Tarantino

Newsreader

Did you know?

Trivia

Shot over a period of only 23 days.

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Wes Craven: Director of films such as A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), Scream (1996) The Last House on the Left (1972), and The Hills Have Eyes (1977) cameos in a voiceover role as a newsreader.

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Simon Pegg: Actor from Shaun of the Dead (2004) and Hot Fuzz (2007) cameos in a voiceover role as a newsreader.

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Goofs

At several points in the movie digital videos are shown to break up as an analogue signal would. This is inconsistent with the way digital video breaks up as it tends to go blocky.

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When the boy zombie is hit by the arrow he's thrown back and pinned up to a wall. HIgh speed projectiles like bullets and arrows tend to quickly penetrate the body. There is not nearly enough mass in such a projectile to transfer the amount of momentum required to jerk a body several feet back and up against a wall. Secondly, the connection of the arrow to the wood in the wall is not strong enough to support the weight a body. The arrow would snap off or pull out of the wall.

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Scranton is 122 miles northeast of Harrisburg; it does not make sense traveling from Pittsburgh (in the western most part of Pennsylvania) to drop a character off in Scranton before swinging down to take another to Harrisburg.

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Quotes

Debra: Technology is terrific, Eliot, except when it doesn't work.

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Jason: All over the world, people learning how to survive by seeing how we've managed to survive.

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Samuel: [writing on blackboard after blowing up zombies] I'm Samuel. Hello. Is this interesting? Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Newsreader: They are monsters, monsters who prey on the flesh of the living.

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Faq

How does reanimation work?

Anyone who dies comes back as a zombie, unless his brain is destroyed. It doesn't matter if the dead person had suffered a gunshot wound, a car accident, a paper cut: anyone who dies with an intact brain will reanimate a short while later. The 'Dead' movies never explain why this is so--although the characters in the movies have their theories.. Theories from fans include: radiation from a crashed satellite, alien bacteria from a crashed satellite, a chemical spill, an airborne virus, and the judgment of God.

What remakes and unofficial sequels have sprung from the "Dead" movies?

Read the answer here.

Is this a sequel to George Romero's 'Dead' films?

That depends on your definition of sequel. The events of this film take place alongside the events in Night of the Living Dead (1968) (even though the new film is set in 2008). What's certain is that Diary of the Dead is the fifth film in George Romero's series.

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