the zombie diary be set a widespread panic hit england and there a pandemic sweeping across asia similar to bird flu and the government be be urge to take action to prevent an outbreak over here . a team of four documentary filmmaker head outside london to a remote farm to hold an interview about the possible pandemic but find themselves trap and isolate a large part of london be evacuate because the virus hit and hit hard and the virus appear to turn the infect into mindless flesh eating zombie . soon there be more zombie than human and it become an everyday struggle to survive and find food while not get eaten or bite which infect the victim with the virus and turn them into a zombie . all the while this outbreak be go on and civilization begin to collapse it be be film and document by the filmmaker . this british production be write and produce and direct by michael bartlett and kevin gate and be a sort of wretched cross between the blair witch project ( 1999 ) and the night of the living dead ( 1968 ) with a little 28 day later . ( 2002 ) throw in there to and what it boil down to be that i do not like the zombie diary at all . the film only last about 80 minute but it a fairly torturous experience with an amateur feel a the camera shake around all over the place and the entire narrative be tell through little snippet of footage that some cameraman or other have shoot and the character be very thin with no sort of background and various character just disappear without trace or word of what have happen to them and it hard to point to a single leading character that stay the distance since there isn not one . the plot be obviously write during the asian bird flu scare and reflect people nervousness and even have a little dig at the government a the script accuse them of not do enough . the patchy narrative tell through little bit of footage mean there a slightly fracture feel about the zombie diary and it feel that large chunk of exposition be miss a certain aspect do not make sense or just seem to happen at random ( that woman zombie find in a barn for example along with scene bookending the film feature soldier ) . the whole look of the zombie diaries reek of a home film shot on a camcorder with some awful shaky hand hold cinematography and there be time when it be literally impossible to see what go on a the camera be point at the floor it it cut people head off the top of the screen or it just miss the action a it jerk around . this be a real eyesore to watch and the sound isn not much well either with constant muffle or ambient sound hear that shouldn not be . there not much gore here and there some blood and a couple of scene of zombie eat gut but little else . with a supposed budget of about £500 and 000 this be a low budget film and it show and i just hate film generally that look like they be shoot on a camcorder with no real visual aesthetic or competence . the acting be bad and really bad and i will just leave it at that . the zombie diaries be a rubbishy low budget zombie film that try to copy the style of the blair witch project but just come across a a total mess that be pretty hard to watch . watch george a. romero zombie flick diary of the dead ( 2007 ) instead since it much and much good .