A new "Dead" movie is coming!!!

I have a confession to make. I love zombies. My favorite episode of my favorite TV series Angel was when "The Beast" killed everyone at the evil law firm Wolfram and Hart and the company's "fail safe security system" brought all the dead employees back as zombies.

I loved the movie The Serpent And The Rainbow which was about how zombies are really created.

And I love anything by George A. Romero, the absolute and undisputed master of the zombie genre. Mr. Romero has given us zombie classics like Land of the Dead and Day of the Dead and the absolute zombie classic Night of the Living Dead.


Romero's movies have inspired many other artists, like the great Pete Abrams:





Now the master has gifted us with another masterpiece called Diary of the Dead. This latest contribution to the "Dead" universe simultaneously takes Mr. Romero back to his roots as an independent film maker and takes the zombie saga back to its very beginning. Details in Mr. Romero's own words are available here on MySpaceTV:

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This film is set to premier at this year’s Toronto Film Festival and is already getting great reviews from the critics. USA Today has this to say:

It sure looked as if the zombie revival was on the brink of expiring. Especially after the flesh-eaters were reduced to a livestock joke in the ill-fated comedy Black Sheep. Tagline: "Get ready for the Violence of the Lambs."

But if anyone could keep the genre on life support, it's the filmmaker who more or less invented it nearly 40 years ago with Night of the Living Dead, George A. Romero.

With Diary of the Dead, which premieres Saturday as part of the Toronto International Film Festival's Midnight Madness program, the 67-year-old guru of gobbling ghouls has done a radical rewind, imagining what a 21st-century zombie outbreak would be like.

The film already is creating a stir: A Toronto Star poll of in-the-know festivalgoers picked Diary of the Dead as one of the most-anticipated titles.

Whereas Night used strangers barricaded in a farmhouse to reflect the nightmares of the Vietnam era, Diary downloads a post-9/11 and Hurricane Katrina image of widespread chaos for the YouTube/MySpace generation.

"I had a version of the story in mind when I was doing Land of the Dead," he says, referring to his return to his zombie roots in 2005. "I thought it would be cool to go back to Day 1, when it all starts, and lay media stuff on top."

The action centers on a group of students filming an old-fashioned horror movie for school. The scares turn real when they see shocking TV footage of corpses feasting on the living. The class assignment evolves into a documentary, obsessively shot by Jason (Joshua Close), who is driven to record every terrifying moment of their frantic escape in a Winnebago.

Go read the rest here.


I'll keep you updated as far as the general release date goes.