And I also must agree about the hand-held part. (I know, for some people, the whole hand-held thing makes them queasy. Well, then don’t go see them.) Anyway, Diary of the Dead seemed to be made by an old-style director trying to approximate what a hand-held camera would appear like. And not quite getting it. Whatever complaints you might have about Cloverfield, they nailed that part. Grainy film, bad lighting, incredibly shaky. Or even little things… when a character drops the camera, its autofocus whirs away as it trys and pick out something to focus on. A great, and very real, small touch. It really seemed that it was a home movie, as implausible as the subject matter might seem.