Survival of the Dead

SURVIVAL OF THE DEAD Blu-ray Review

by David Lane    Posted: September 30th, 2010 at 6:00 am

I’m not really sure even where to begin with Survival of the Dead. The film left me dumbfounded and a bit mystified by just how poorly it was made and how much of a fall from grace it felt like, from the guy who created this genre in the first place.  If you saw George A. Romero’s last zombie flick Diary of the Dead, and thought it missed the mark and were hoping he would get back on track with his sixth zombie outing… You would be sorely mistaken.  With the last two Dead movies Mr. Romero seems hopelessly out of touch with the undead onscreen and the living audience members that have to suffer through these half-baked attempts at cinema and social commentary.  More after the jump.

George Romero’s SURVIVAL OF THE DEAD Review

by Ti Alan Chase    Posted: April 10th, 2010 at 2:05 pm

“Survival isn’t just for the living.”  So says the tagline for Survival of the Dead, the most recent addition to George Romero’s zombie oeuvre. It’s a great premise.

Romero effectively created the zombie genre with Night of the Living Dead (1968) and Dawn of the Dead (1978).  But it was with 1985′s Day of the Dead that he introduced the unique notion that the living dead could rise above their mindless craving for human flesh and could relearn human behaviour.  Twenty years later, when he finally made a fourth Dead movie – 2005′s Land of the Dead -  he expounded further on that idea, going so far as to make his signature black hero a zombie instead of a living human.  More after the jump:

Romero’s SURVIVAL OF THE DEAD gets a Red Band Trailer

by Ti Alan Chase    Posted: March 30th, 2010 at 8:31 am

A new, Red Band Trailer for George A. Romero’s Survival of the Dead has hit the net thanks to IGN. Romero, of course, is the godfather of zombie movies.  His groundbreaking debut, Night of the Living Dead, was not the first zombie movie ever made, but its unique blend of horror and social commentary solidified zombie movies as a viable genre.

Unlike most genre filmmakers, Romero has never been content to just copy his original ad infinitum; instead every zombie movie he makes is thematically and stylistically different from those that have come before.  This approach is sometimes quite successful (Dawn of the Dead) and sometimes less so (Diary of the Dead).  With Survival of the Dead, Romero looks at what happens when the undead become pawns in a Hatfield-McCoy type feud.  It’s a premise with great promise and I really hope he hits this one out of the park.

See the new trailer and read the synopsis after the jump.

Fantastic Fest 2009, Day 3 – UNDER THE MOUNTAIN, CIRQUE DU FREAK, and SURVIVAL OF THE DEAD

by Adam Charles    Posted: October 2nd, 2009 at 6:40 am

I saw three films on Day 3 of Fantastic Fest.  Two movies were  family-friendly films, that had different approaches in being a friend to families.  One felt reminiscent of the Disney films that aimed to give families a fun scare, while the other was a more mature “Harry Potter”-esque fantasy of monsters and freaks.  Then, I ended it with the latest from the zombie grandmaster whose movie didn’t really want to be a friend to families.  Read my reaction to “Under the Mountain”, “The Vampire’s Assistant: Cirque Du Freak”, and “Survival of the Dead” after the jump.

New Images from George A. Romero’s SURVIVAL OF THE DEAD

by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub    Posted: August 14th, 2009 at 11:14 pm

Premiering at next month’s Toronto Film Festival is George A. Romero’s “Survival of the Dead”. As far as I know, the film doesn’t yet have distribution, but I’m sure if the film gets good reviews at the festival, someone will pick it up. But even if the critics don’t bite…with Romero’s name and it being a zombie film, it’s got a built in audience. Someone will distribute this thing, even if it’s just on home video. So until we all get to see it, after the jump are a bunch of new images. Take a look:

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