The Zombie Diaries is shot in First-Person view from three different groups of people that cross paths in small ways. All three document a zombie outbreak set in rural England. The first group is a news team going to interview a farmer in a small rural village. Soon after hearing of an outbreak in the city, they lose contact via phone with anyone. When night falls, panic sets in as they begin seeing the dead walking about.  The second group is seen scavenging a small town for supplies and trying to find a place where they can hole up or possibly other people join up with. The third group is living on a farm and routinely defending it from zombies coming in through the fields and trying to search and destroy all zombies in the surrounding area. All three groups find that it’s not just the living dead that threaten their livelihood, but the ignorance, stupidity and insanity of the living too.

While the first-person view gimmick may be getting played out, The Zombie Diaries uses this simple tool as a plausible was to make a low budget movie look like a million bucks. In fact, The Zombie Diaries did such a good job with it that I didn’t even notice that this could even possibly be a low-budget endeavor until it was over.

There’s not a whole lot to the story in The Zombie Diaries, but there’s enough action, suspense and zombies to keep you riveted to the screen. The pacing is decent and the acting very good and natural. There weren’t any times when I stopped to question the reality of the movie.

The special effects make-up in The Zombie Diaries was great. The camera crew worked well with the special effects crew in that the camera didn’t linger on the special effects long enough for you to question there reality.  The zombies exhibited a wide range of decay and several different stages of infection. All of them looked really cool and definitely added to my enjoyment of the film.

What The Zombie Diaries lacked in story, it definitely made up for in action, suspense, special effects and zombies. I enjoyed watching it the first time, I enjoyed it even more watching it the second time. Any zombie fan should enjoy The Zombie Diaries as much as I did.

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It took a while to find a service to host a video this large, but finally, here it is! 45 minutes of the original cast and crew of Night of the Living Dead talking about their experience.

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In Night Of The Creeps, an alien experiment crash lands on earth in 1959. A couple head to the site of the crash. One of them is brutally murdered by an ax-wielding maniac, the other is attacked by a mysterious alien life-form. In 1986 a pair of nerdy college boys lament there lack of love and plot to join the Beta frat to impress a girl. They are charged with the task of stealing a corpse form a local lab and leaving it on a rival frat’s doorstep. During the course of carrying out their prank they unfreeze the cryogenically frozen man from the afore mentioned couple letting him loose, and the alien life form inside him, upon the town. Together with a curmudgeon of a detective they must stop figure out and stop the alien life-forms from infecting the whole town and turning them all into zombies.

Night Of The Creeps has everything you’d expect from an 80’s movie set on a college campus: white elitist jocks, their beautiful, virtuous dates that don’t yet know that they would be better off with nerds and charming nerds that lust after beautiful women that date elitist jocks. Aside from that, it’s also a suspenseful horror film.

The zombie is Night Of The Creeps look pretty cool. They have whitened eyes and prosthetic face pieces to give them that evil sunken eye look. Some of the special effects work leaves something to be desired, but it’s all pretty on par for 1986.

Night Of The Creeps is pretty enjoyable as an eighties college romp and as a zombie movie. It has a certain amount of comedy to it which balances out with the horror aspect and makes a fairly well rounded film. It’s no Gone With The Wind or even Night Of The Living Dead, but a good watch with a bucket of popcorn or a six-pack and friends.

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Where do we draw the line on what is and what is not a zombie movie? We just can’t decide on our own, so every Monday we’ll post a new movie to be debated by, you, our readers and ask the question: Zombie Movie Or Not? Every Sunday we’ll post our findings and possibly strike that movie off our Zombie Movie List. The week should give you enough time to rent the movie if need be or you desire.

What every reader must keep in mind is that there are two basic types of zombie that every zombie movie based off of - the Voodoo Zombie and the Romero Zombie. The Voodoo Zombie, while not always raised by Voodoo necessarily, is basically a person, either undead or entranced, that is controlled by a person or entity for the purpose of completing tasks, often killing. Romero Zombies are basically mindless, flesh-eating undead whose bite will turn victims into zombies. Now, not all movies adhere to all of these rules, but if the basics are there, you got a zombie movie.

This weeks debate is over Mesiah Of Evil (1973) Directed by William Huyck

IS: They’re a flesh hungry horde of white-faced zombies. This screams zombie movie.

IS NOT: They’re not necessarily dead, undead or zombies. Maybe in the sense of being a mob of drones, but there’s never anything said in the movie about them being zombies or undead or anything. They’re just a mob of white-faced jerks.

Now it’s up to you, reader. What do you think? Messiah Of Evil: Zombie Movie Or Not?

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The debate for Friday The 13th VI: Jason Lives, Zombie Movie Or Not?, received 11 comments and 11 non-repeating votes. With 0 votes for and 11 votes against being a Zombie Movie, as far as this site is concerned, Friday The 13th VI: Jason Lives is NOT a Zombie Movie.

Stay tuned for next week’s debate: Messiah Of Evil, Zombie Movie Or Not?

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In Redneck Zombies, a family of moonshiners acquire a barrel of “chemical warfare nuclear waste” and convert it into a moonshine still. One sip of this toxic cocktail turns them into zombies, but not before one of the brothers starts his deliveries to the entire town.  A group of suburbanite campers, with an endless cache of witty T-shirts, happen upon the still (and a few zombies) and quickly assess the situation: toxic moonshine has turned the town into redneck zombies! Who will be left and what will be left of them?

Redneck Zombies is rife with stereotypes to keep the laughs rolling, but instead kept my eyes rolling. All throughout the film there are little scenes where they pay homage to films like Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Deliverance in a really ham-fisted way. It was as if they wanted to give back to the movies that had set up all the redneck stereotypes that they were now exploiting.

The actors in Redneck Zombies were like high school drama students acting out a cartoon. They didn’t quite have the chops to deliver the Kevin Smith-esque “witty” dialogue, but that doesn’t stop them from trying. Luckily they die one by one and spare you the agony.

The zombies were pretty simple from the make-up standpoint. They used gray make-up with black around the eyes and a bit of gelatin to give it texture. The last 30 minutes of the movie was an all out gore fest where the special effects team used every trick in the book to make the bloodiest ending possible.

The quality (or lack thereof) is not surprising considering given this is a Troma Film, but I can’t necessarily recommend this movie for fans of the zombie genre. It’s supposed to be a comedy, but I think it would be easier to laugh at it rather than with it. It might be entertaining with a friends and beer, but other than that, Redneck Zombies is just another bad zombie movie.

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Just a quick reminder that Hell’s Ground (aka Zibahkhana) is out today on DVD! It will be available in the UK on August 4th.

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Where do we draw the line on what is and what is not a zombie movie? We just can’t decide on our own, so every Monday we’ll post a new movie to be debated by, you, our readers and ask the question: Zombie Movie Or Not? Every Sunday we’ll post our findings and possibly strike that movie off our Zombie Movie List. The week should give you enough time to rent the movie if need be or you desire.

What every reader must keep in mind is that there are two basic types of zombie that every zombie movie based off of - the Voodoo Zombie and the Romero Zombie. The Voodoo Zombie, while not always raised by Voodoo necessarily, is basically a person, either undead or entranced, that is controlled by a person or entity for the purpose of completing tasks, often killing. Romero Zombies are basically mindless, flesh-eating undead whose bite will turn victims into zombies. Now, not all movies adhere to all of these rules, but if the basics are there, you got a zombie movie.

This weeks debate is over Friday The 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986) Directed by Tom McLoughlin

IS: Jason Vorhees, though mistaken for dead several times in previous films, is actually reanimated from his grave into undeath to stalk the living as a zombie.

IS NOT: He’s just a reanimated dead person. He’s not mindless or infectious or flesh-craving, he’s just a reanimated dead guy.

Now it’s up to you, reader. What do you think? Friday The 13th Part VI: Jason Lives: Zombie Movie Or Not?

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The debate for Night Of The Creeps, Zombie Movie Or Not?, received 13 comments and 9 non-repeating votes. With 9 votes for and 0 votes against being a Zombie Movie, as far as this site is concerned, Night Of The Creeps IS a Zombie Movie.

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Whether you live in the New Jersey  or Pittsburgh area,  this weekend (June 20-22) you have two chances to make it out to a horror convention!

Happening in New Jersey is the Fangoria’s Weekend of Horrors, with the Night of the Living Dead 40th Anniversary Tour with George A. Romero (Legendary Zombie Director), Judith O’Dea (Night of the Living Dead 1968), Russ Streiner (NOTLD 1968), Bill Hinzman (NOTLD 1968), Kyra Schon (NOTLD 1968), Goerge Kosana (NOTLD 1968), Marilyn Eastman (NOTLD 1968), and John Russo (co-writer, NOTLD 1968). Other guests include Sergio Stivaletti (FX on Dellamorte Dellamore), Ken Foree (Dawn of the Dead 1978), Shawn Roberts (Land of the Dead, Diary of the Dead), and an American Zombie preview with director John Solomon.

Also happening is the HorrorHound Weekend Pittsburgh, with Tom Savini (FX Legend/ Director/ Actor and more), Bill Moseley ( Night of the Living Dead 1990, upcoming Dead Air), Ottoviano Dell’Acqua (THE WORM-EYED ZOMBIE!, Zombi 2), Howard Sherman (Day of the Dead 1985), John Amplas (DayOTD 1985), Greg Nicotero (FX Legend and more), Allan Troutman (Return of the Living Dead), Mike Christopher (DOTD 1978), Beatrice Ring (Patricia, Zombi 3), Leonard A. Lies (DOTD 1978), Jim Krut (DOTD 1978), Clayton Hill (DOTD 1978), Sharon Hill (DOTD 1978),  David Crawford (DOTD 1978), David Early (DOTD 1978), Frank Serrao (DOTD 1978), Nick Tallo (DOTD 1978), G. Joe Shelby (DOTD 1978), Al Cliver (Zombie, The Beyond), and also includes a screening of the original 1978 Dawn of the Dead and a Savini-Thon film festival.

If you are attending either show, send us your zombie-filled pics, and have fun!

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