An absolute waste of money

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

But still so bad work with the handheld camera the night vision shots ... Nah it didnt feel right or good, it just make the viewer feel tired.Acting is bad like every low budget movie, the plot starts really really well i could make such a good movie, but they ruin it with all these holes that dont make sense... Especially in the start and in the end where they make the most tragic decisions. And .. zombies are actually not much like zombies, they are too slow and easy to handle. the only real use of them would be for a rape (like it already happened in the movie). since they were easy to beat, I would use them for that too :)

Rape culture film ~ nothing to do with zombies. I expect far more from the UK, firstly. Talk about a director and writers twisted pathos coming out in film! What a freaking waste of film. And the actors, you should all be .ashamed of themselves for doing such a bloody, heinous film! Could you have come up with something other than 20 minutes of taking advantage of a woman and the mentally challenged when the world is coming to an end ? You had to take care of the mighty hard on? You honestly think people want to sit and watch a woman get raped when there are zombies around? What was the point of the film ? What's with the camera man ? Do you know what focus is ? Seriously some of the biggest load of rubbish I have had witness to in years! Get it together people!

World of the Dead: The Zombie Diaries is set in England & start in Hertfordshire in a military base as a squad of soldiers survive the zombie outbreak spreading throughout the country. After the gates are left open(!) by mistake(!?!) the flesh eating living dead infest the barracks & many soldiers, doctors & civilians are killed as it quickly becomes an every man for himself situation. Captain Maddox (Philip Brodie), a female civilian named Leeann (Alix Wilton Regan) along with three soldiers Kayne (Vicky Aracio), Carter (Okorie Chukwu) & Jonsey (Rob Oldfield) manage to escape the carnage in an army van with a few bare supplies. They all agree to travel to the coast & try to leave England on boats for Rotterdam before the entire country has nuclear bombs dropped on it. With hordes of flesh eating zombies & lawless gangs roaming around they won't have an easy journey & even if they do make it to the pick-up point what will they find?This British production was directed by Michael Bartlett & Kevin Gates who also wrote the script, a direct sequel to The Zombie Diaries which was also directed by Bartlett & Gates this is at least slightly better but not by much & I still can't say I particularly liked it. The whole film is put together like a documentary, caught on the spot by a camcorder spur of the moment sort of thing so World of the Dead: The Zombie Diaries doesn't flow like a normal linear film with huge chunks feeling like they are missing & an almost fly on the wall approach that I just don't really like. Comparisions to such horror films like The Blair Witch Project (1999), Rec (2007), Diary of the Dead (2007) & Paranormal Activity (2007) are inevitable & not entirely unjustified as the shaky annoying look & feel of those films are more than represented here. The basic story is simple, a group of living survivors running low on ammunition & supplies have to get from 'A' to 'B' without being eaten alive alive by zombies, it's a simple story that is stretched out over it's 85 minute duration with the usual arguments & such along with an encounter with a vicious group of human survivors who like to torture people & rape women in a scene that is really quite unpleasant to watch & seems out of place in an otherwise largely straight forward fantasy horror. The ending ditches the first person camcorder perspective for the last few minutes which offers up a very bleak & dark ending. In fact the whole film is quite dark & depressing, people doing nasty things to each other, people being killed & eaten & there's a real lack of hope or humour anywhere in World of the Dead: The Zombie Diaries.Now I usually hate the shaky hand-held camcorder style, the sort of film which is filmed in green tinted night visions, the sort of film where the camera never stops moving & shaking, the sort of film where the editing is awkward & we jump from one shot to another & back again, the sort of film where we get shots of the ground shaking as the cameraman runs or a shot of a wall or something that stops the film dead & irritates me. Having said that some of the shaky camcorder footage here in World of the Dead: The Zombie Diaries works quite well, some of the zombie attack scenes benefit from zombies suddenly appearing in frame or out of the darkness but it's just all the other times that this sort of style is just plain annoying. There's a bit of gore, there's some gory gunshot wounds & a bit of flesh eating but nothing excessive. There's a bit of nudity during an unpleasant rape sequence that probably wasn't necessary.The IMDb says this had a budget of about $1,500,000 which seems like quite a lot, I can't really see where they would need all that money but then I have never made a film so I don't know how much things cost. Filmed in Surrey, Hertfordshie & Suffolk here in the UK. The acting is alright but nothing special, I can't say I recognise anyone involved in this.World of the Dead: The Zombie Diaries has one or two effective moments & it manages to generate an isolated & claustrophobic feel at times but the ever annoying shaky camcorder style kills it dead & the simplistic story doesn't help either. For zombie fans only.

While this movie isn't bad, there is a lot of implausible stupidity from the characters in it. The family at the beginning - why, in the middle of a zombie apocalypse would you go out in the dark to see if you can get yourself eaten - oh and while your at it leave the ruddy back door open so zombies can wander in and devour your family? Hmmm...maybe it's just me, but I think I would keep the doors locked, turn the lights off, keep quiet and hide in the loft till morning.The reserve army base - 'oops I left the main gate open'. What?! Another big stretch of plausibility was when the army guys were on the run afterwards. One guy turns round to the zombies at his rear and starts firing an automatic weapon, despite the fact that his comrades are clearly running across his line of fire! I know they are meant to be only reservists, but come on! Later on we get more stupidity when they have the drop on Goke's bandits by the campfire. Leean is on the floor and therefore not in immediate danger of being hit by a stray bullet. The sensible tactic here would have been a quick, waist height sweep of automatic fire across the campfire to take down as many bandits as possible while they are unaware of the soldiers presence. What does our hero commander do? orders a single sniper shot which kills one bandit and alerts all the others who star shooting back! Nice training there, numpty.My biggest gripe throughout this film though, is the fact that we are meant to believe that in the middle of zombie and bandit attacks, etc, some fool stands there filming it instead of helping friends, family or comrades (or maybe just running away). Hey, I'm sorry but if someone was eating, shooting or molesting a member of my team, bottom of my list of priorities would be making a record for future posterity, or a winning entry on 'You've been framed'.Too many scenes were shot in the near complete dark, lit by only a flashlight or a night camera - this just made things confusing rather than scary.All in all, not a bad movie, but could have been a lot better with a bit more thought.