The Zombie Diaries 2 (2011)

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Alright, let me start off by saying I have considered everything I've ever watched, and this is the worst film I've ever had the unfortunate chance to watch. I couldn't even make it to the end, we just skipped through it (as if it wasn't predictable). THIS FILM HAS NO REDEEMING QUALITIES. It's blatant attempt to be as anti racist as possible, the first scene is ruined by confusing race mixing, although it could happen, it's not exactly the most common British family. I really can't put my anger into words, but I will bring up the worst scene of the film. There's a scene... in a barn... where a woman is raped... FOR NO REASON. It contributes nothing to the films story/plot. All it does is use an unattractive woman's body as an attraction. Even in Straw Dogs the rape was somewhat relevant, and it kind of redeems itself by being a half decent flick, but this... this is an insult to film. The writer and directors should be ashamed that they have done nothing but add yet another blemish to the film industry rather than contribute to it. I'm 14, and I assume I would be included in the target audience, but this just p***ed me off. If you take the zombies out of the film, there would still be as much bad acting and irrelevant story telling (and horrific camera work) that it did include. George Romero's sub genre is truly defecated on in this pile of feces. The only thing I can say now is; ANYONE INVOLVED IN THE MAKING AND/OR PRODUCTION OF THIS FILM, NEVER MAKE A FILM AGAIN AND RE-EVALUATE YOUR LIFE.

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.

Besides what other people have said..because I too could tell it was going to be horrible after 3 instances of people being obviously stupid and not trying to get away or protect themselves with a bit of common sense in the first 10 minutes.If I had gone to see this in a theater I would've been angry. I'll watch just about anything in the world with zombies in it, and my standards can go pretty low as long as there's some redeeming value. This wasn't about zombies, and we finally turned it off about an hour into the movie after getting tired and depressed from watching a woman be raped for a couple of minutes. I'd liken this to the hostel or saw of zombie movies, but with less of a plot. I'm very disappointed, I think it had some things that could've easily made it into a much better movie if only they'd chosen to done so.

Well, the reason i picked this movie is because of zombies - i always watch anything thats somewhat associated with those things. From the trailer on youtube movie looked quite watchable + shaky cam effect (that so many people dislike) was a good plus too because this makes the movie more personal, like from the first person view or something.But yeah, thats it, movie is a complete disappointment. Zombies are poorly designed (regular people with damaged clothes and little red paint on face with ping pong ball in eye), awful and pointless storyline, as people mentioned - you don't care who dies and who doesn't. They waste ammo all the time for no reason as this movie uses the old slow-mo zombies and you can easily run away, or even slowly walk away and so on.But what disturbed me the most was the following things:1) 70% of the action is in the dark and how is everyone supposed to see if they rarely use flashlights??? if camera has that green night vision turned on it doesn't outputs any actual light, so how the heck can everyone clearly see in the dark? they freely walk in the basements, that bunker etc without flashlights, but they see... extremely annoying! 2) the green color of night vision (simulation?) was disturbing for my eyes 3) zombie rape scene. Seriously?!? :Doverall this movie is a low budget one and not worth the time