![]() ![]() Indeed, we start off thinking we are watching a zombie film before in the last ten minutes or so, the script takes an abrupt dogleg to show that this is actually a case of demonic possession. ![]() At most, cheats by giving us a number of situations where you keep wondering how someone could retain frame of mind to keep filming as such things are happening.Balaguero and Plaza keep explanations for what is going on scanty. TV news presenter Angela Vidal (Manuela Velasco)Where George Romero made Diary of the Dead into another of his sweeping apocalyptic works, bitingly questioning the nature of truth in the media, lacks any interest in social perspective and keeps itself as a fast and furious horror show, contained within the locale of an apartment building.Romero cheated somewhat on the camera’s eye perspective in Diary of the Dead – adding music, using smooth camera set-ups and contriving reasons to have two camera-people at times, even showing the editing in of security camera footage so as to get exterior shots.īy contrast, keeps the vision purer – it retains the single camera’s eye and is full of ragged handheld camerawork in a series of wildly vertiginous shots that have the tendency to leave one feeling seasick. (This was of course before Paranormal Activity (2007) became a massive hit in 2009 and sparked off what became known as the genre of the Found Footage horror film). Both and Diary of the Dead are depictions of an outbreak of zombies, where both films have been shot with faux reality camera as though we were watching a documentary a la The Blair Witch Project (1999). Romero’s Diary of the Dead (2007), which had its premiere only a month after did. has a number of similarities to George A. Producer Julio Fernandez and production companies Filmax International and Castelao Productions have been behind the majority of these. Paco Plaza is the relative newcomer, having previously directed the horror film Second Name (2002), the excellent Romasanta: The Werewolf Hunt (2004) and the subsequent true-life supernatural manifestation film Veronica (2017) and The Grandmother (2021) about a sinister senior. Former horror fanzine editor Jaume Balaguero has been a director on the rise in the last few years with efforts like The Nameless (1999), Darkness (2002), Fragile (2005), Sleep Tight (2011), Muse (2017) and Venus (2022), as well as the story for The Nun (2005), the script for Inside (2016) and produced Summer Camp (2015). Is a collaboration between two top contemporary Spanish horror directors. ![]()
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