Generation MySpace meets the cannibal dead in George Romero's faux-verite reboot of his seminal zombie series, a polarizing meditation on life and death in the infinitely mediated world of blogs, file sharing and incessant virtual connection.
The film within the film, University of Pittsburgh student Jason Creed's (Joshua Close) "The Death of Death," begins with a bootleg news clip: A local reporter doing bored stand up, cops hanging, EMTs removing the sheeted bodies of an immigrant family from a non-descript apartment building. Then the bodies get up: Bullets, torn and bleeding flesh, chaos… the footage never aired, but the cameraman uploaded it on the sly....
Released:
2008
Rated:
R
Length:
95 mins