Diary of the Dead (18)

Forty years on from his debut Night of the Living Dead, George A Romero reintroduces a zombie pandemic to America – like they don't have enough social problems already.

A group of student film-makers are deep in the woods when they hear news of another rising of the dead. The director Jason (Joshua Close) films the team as they flee for safety, encountering the National Guard, an Amish farmer, and a load of dead-eyed flesh-eaters en route.

Romero's not afraid to spray the blood around, and the stalk-and-slay formula still earns him a few frights. But the Old Etonian professor with a taste for archery, booze and nihilist humour adds a surreal note of parody the film can barely sustain.