Don't bury dead.  First shoot in head.  

So far, all of Romero's zombie movies have been enjoyable but I think I missed the boat on  Diary of the Dead.   I had originally thought this was going to be a sequel to  Land of the Dead of any of the other films.  Instead, it sees more of a reboot of Night of the Living Dead with nobody knowing about the panic that just started.   I am not a fan of the found footage horror movie so this was not the film for me.  Granted, the film style preference is a very subjective idea but even taking that aspect out of the picture, it still was not my favorite of the series.  The amount of intentional cuts in the film within a film really took me out of the movie.  Looks like Romero tried to purposefully slow the pace down of the film which did not work for me. The main characters seem one dimensional and interchangeable.
What I did like about the film was the new unique kills that we see such as the one pictured above.  I do believe this is the first time we see an Amish person in the series and what he does is pretty cool.  I liked that Romero mentioned a couple of social issues this time around such as immigration, racism and classicism.  The last big one at first got lost on me when I saw the protagonist carry his video camera everywhere and filming people being killed.  I thought it was ridiculous that anyone would ever drag a video camera around as they're being chased and risk their lives in general during a zombie apocalypse.  However, that was the point.  This was shot in 2007 and Romero was arguing that people would rather videotape events rather than setting the camera down and helping. Look at us now in 2019 with smaller, easy to carry cameras doing the exact same thing.  It's actually easier now to record and post someone in trouble instead of actually helping.  It's such a bummer but well played Mr. Romero.    Also there is another damn zombie clown in this one, that's 3 in the last 3 movies and that frightens me. 

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