A scooper for Horror-Movies.ca has informed them that production offices have officially opened in Toronto for George Romero’s DIARY OF THE DEAD 2, which, if true, is lame news indeed. (Read my previous rant on this sequel, since I don’t want to go through it all again, but to sum up: who needs it?!)
Here’s the plotline, supposedly, for the film: Our heroes, trapped in the mansion where we left them, battle waves of ravenous zombies, barely escaping alive. In search of a safe place to settle, they commandeer an abandoned ferry and sail to a deserted island, only to find that it is already populated by a civilization of the dead. Told in the same first-person style that distinguished “George A. Romero’s Diary of the Dead”, the next episode of the saga is a violent siege set in the middle of nowhere, a desperate struggle for survival, and peace, between two tribes: the living and the living dead.
Certainly not a bad premise, but two things already work against it: 1) I’m guessing the same cast is in place, in which case we’ll still be subjected to a highly inadequate group of “actors” struggling to make believable even the simplest of lines, and 2) the ridiculous handheld camera gimmick isn’t going anywhere… I suppose there will be another “score” added for dramatic effect, which was up there on DIARY 1’s “dumb ass ideas” list.
Hmm.. yeah… great…
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