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George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead

George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead SynopsisThe master of horror returns to the kind of filmmaking he pioneered and the genre he invented. In his first independent zombie film in over twenty years. George A. Romero takes us back to ground zero in the history of the living dead. Jason Creed and a small crew of college filmmakers are in the Pennsylvania woods making a no-budget horror film when they hear the terrifying news that the dead have started returning to life. Led by Jason's girlfriend, Debra, the frightened young filmmakers set off in a friend's old Winnebago to try to get back to the only safety and security they know: their homes. But there is no escape from the crisis, nor any real home for them anymore. Everything they depend upon, all that they hold dear, is fractured as the plague of the living dead begins to spread. Jason documents the true-life horrors in a tense, first-person style that heightens the reality of each encounter. Even as his friends die, even as they are attacked by ravenous walking corpses at every stop along the way, Jason keeps filming, an obsessive, unflinching eye in the midst of chaos. The government first denies, then promises to quell the crisis, but can't. Technology fails. Communication with the rest of the world becomes impossible. Jason and what remains of his crew end up on their own, a handful of lucky survivors, reliant on no one but themselves to stay alive. They take final refuge in a fortress of a mansion, but their sanctuary turns out to be a trap from which there is no escape. Throughout it all, the cameras keep rolling, recording every detail for future generations...if any survive.

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Release Date: February 15, 2008
Genre: Suspense and Horror
Running Time: 95 min.
Distributor(s): The Weinstein Company
Tagline: Where will you be when the end begins?
MPAA Rating: R for strong horror violence and gore, and pervasive language.

Director(s):
George Romero

Writer(s):
George Romero - Screenplay

Producer(s):
Dan Fireman - Executive Producer
John Harrison - Executive Producer
Steve Barnett - Executive Producer
Peter Grunwald - Producer
Sam Englebardt - Producer
Ara Katz - Producer
Paula Devonshire - Co-Producer

Movie Casts:
Nick Alachiotis - Fred
Matt Birman - Zombie Trooper
George Buza - Biker
Joshua Close - Jason
Christopher Cordell - Double Header Zombie (as Chris Cordell)
Wes Craven - Newsreader (voice)
Laura DeCarteret - Bree
Alexandria DeFabiis - Zombie
Joe Dinicol - Eliot
Stephen King - Newsreader (voice)
Amy Ciupak Lalonde - Tracy
Janet Lo - Asian Woman
Tatiana Maslany - Mary
Tino Monte - Newscaster
Michelle Morgan - Debra
Simon Northwood - Trooper 1
Megan Park - Francine Shane
Simon Pegg - Newsreader (voice)
Philip Riccio
Martin Roach - Stranger
Shawn Roberts - Tony Ravello
Todd Schroeder - Brody (as Todd William Schroeder)
Quentin Tarantino - Newsreader (voice)
Guillermo del Toro - Newsreader (voice)
Alan Van Sprang - Colonel
Chris Violette - Gordo
Scott Wentworth - Maxwell

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