![]() The feature stars Clare Monnelly (Moone Boy), Bríd Ní Neachtain ( The Banshees of Inisherin and a recent IFTA winner for Róise & Frank), and Ukrainian actress Aleksandra Bystrzhitskaya ( F20), adds the siteįréwaka will be told in both Irish and English. ![]() It feels like the GOP and the Tories made a public service announcement.Aislinn Clarke ( The Devil’s Doorway) has just started production on Fréwaka, a horror film that’s currently lending in Ireland, reports ScreenDaily.įréwaka follows the story of a student palliative care nurse, played by Monnelly, who is plagued by a trauma from her past that has a disorienting effect on her present – her relationship, her career and her ability to function. It is revealed that this event is later doctored for television, now with no mention of the epidemic and instead blamed on supposedly crazed illegal migrants. The cold open of the actual ground zero event as a husband and father kills his wife and child, then himself - before rising again as a zombie - kicks off the story. Previous scenes link back up later in the movie from a new angle to coyly drive home what's true. For a movie about movies and what should and shouldn't be included in a tell-all feature, Diary of the Dead is (appropriately) edited really efficiently. The film itself is good, but by no means Romero's best work. With the world now still recovering from COVID-19, and people still reassembling their lives, the desperate clinging to whatever is near and the scraps of information being spoon-fed to its audience here is grimly relatable. Fear is drummed up even higher by reports of death, and the characters frantically reach out to loved ones to make sure they are still OK. As we look back on this movie in 2023, 16 years after its release, the characters are dictated by newscasts and the internet. Hindsight has a strange effect on Diary of the Dead. It doesn't come off as an old man merely trying to corner a trendy (but quickly dated) market with a new angle, but like he was really trying to incorporate a relatively new style alongside his already proven satire. We would be placed in their shoes as we essentially watched the whole situation play out via their point of view.ĭiary of the Dead feels fresh for Romero. Everything would now be captured via handheld cameras. ![]() The undead would be as slow and lumbering as ever, but the technology around them had evolved. ![]() Related: Best Zombies Ever Put On-Screen, Rankedįour movies into his zombie universe at the time, the director opted for something a little new with his fifth take. 2005's Land of the Dead (following the-blow out success of both 28 Days Later and Shaun of the Dead released just before), Romero's most studio-friendly film, felt uncharacteristically polished without really saying anything new, while the genre had evolved and mutated before his bottle-spectacled eyes. Feeling a little stale by then, Romero's zombies were aptly still walking while others in the genre had discovered how to run, both figuratively and literally.
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