Here’s the great news – George Romero is making a fifth zombie movie! Here’s the less great news – it’s not really an extension of his Dead series, and it definitely is not the proposed sequel to Land of the Dead. Here’s the worst news – it’s being described as Night of the Living Dead meets Blair Witch.

The film, George A. Romero’s Diary of the Dead, will be about college students who are shooting a horror movie in the woods when there’s a sudden zombie plague – seriously the kind of thing that can ruin your weekend. When the amateur filmmakers discover the zombies they turn their cameras on them in a cinema verite style.

Diary of the Dead will be independently financed, the first indie zombie film Romero has done since Day. He was feeling chafed in the studio system. "I was trying to convince Peter [Grunwald, his producing partner] we could just run off and do it ourselves," he said.