The Toronto Star has printed an article by Rue Morgue’s Chris Alexander detailing his visit to the set of George A. Romero’s Diary of the Dead, where the director spills the beans on some of the movie’s details.

“Diary of the Dead talks a lot about the media and this whole electronic eye that’s everywhere out there, all the time. And the main character, well, you don’t ever see this guy, he’s a voyeur. The film argues about the importance of media, and status of someone in that position … it’s an entirely new take on my themes.”

While I’m glad to see Romero trade in big studio money for less artistic interference, I can’t help feeling a little disturbed to see the director attempting to shoehorn social commentary into his films once again. It’s not that I think such tactics don’t have a place in genre filmmaking, just that I don’t think Romero is very good at it. By far my favourite film of his, Night of the Living Dead, is also the most unassuming. It feels more like the work of someone who is subconsiously filtering his outrage into a horror film, as opposed to simply creating films that replace subtlety with a more ham-fisted approach.

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