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Synopsis

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 or any real home for them to go back to anymore. Everything they depend upon--all that they hold dear--is fractured as the plague of the living dead begins to spread.

Film Information

• Genre: Horror / Suspense/Thriller
• Director: George A. Romero
• Written By: George A. Romero
• Starring: Michelle Morgan, and Shawn Roberts
• Running Time: 95 minutes, approx.
• MPAA Rating: R for strong horror violence and gore, and pervasive language
• Language: English
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Reviews

"A giddy kick-out-the-jams entertainment. Diary takes a tack that's not exactly new, but is new to Romero, and as one might expect, the director brings a sharp and uncompromising new perspective to it."

   - Glenn Kenny, Premiere

"In most horror movies, it's a given that we should root for the heroes to make it out alive, but Diary of the Dead isn't nearly so certain, and so it terrifies us all the more."

   - Scott Foundas, LA Weekly

"Gripping, intimate genre triumph."

   - Eddie Cockrell, Variety

"This one belongs with the leaders of the scare pack. Isn't it time that we give Romero his due? It's hardly an accident that Stephen King, Quentin Tarantino, Guillermo del Toro, Simon Pegg and Wes Craven recognize Romero as a master. He is."

   - Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

"Horror movie Rule #1: The only way to kill a zombie is to shoot it in the brain. George Romero himself laid this maxim down with his first film, the endlessly influential 1968 gutter classic "Night of the Living Dead." Forty years later, with George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead, the venerable filmmaker has done something almost as startling: He has put brains back into the zombie genre."

   - Ty Burr, Boston Globe

Showtimes

• Wednesday, April 9th
  9:30 pm
• Thursday, April 10th
  7:00 pm
• Friday, April 11th
  9:30 pm
• Saturday, April 12th
  9:30 pm
• Sunday, April 13th
  7:00 pm
• Monday, April 14th
  9:30 pm
• Tuesday, April 15th
  9:30 pm
• Wednesday, April 16th
  9:30 pm
• Thursday, April 17th
  9:30 pm
• Saturday, April 19th
  9:30 pm
• Sunday, April 20th
  7:00 pm
• Monday, April 21st
  7:00 pm
• Tuesday, April 22nd
  9:30 pm