Survival of the Dead

Originally posted by MildPossession
Fangoria had the pleasure of catching up with genre legend George A. Romero this past weekend at our annual Chicago Weekend of Horrors convention. Naturally, his new zombie opus was the first thing on our minds. “I do not have a title for the movie yet,” the director laughs. “Right now it’s just called …OF THE DEAD, although I kind of wish I could just name it DIARY OF THE DEAD PART 2. What I can tell you about the story is that it is going to be focused on what is happening in the world right now. The atmosphere is a little different after the Bush years, but I still sense some uncertainty. I guess I would say that it’s about some bigger problems. It looks at how we choose to represent ourselves, and maybe the current financial crisis is as good a time as any to explore how people come together in the face of crisis.”

Can't we just have a good ol zombie movie with no political or societal undertones? These issues have already been super-imposed onto his other movies. The message has just become redundant at this point. I know zombie movies rely on interesting and conflicting characters as much as they do on zombies but can't Romero just make a zombie movie where the people are simply trying to survive?

As for the movie itself, the trailer looks god awful. I'm hoping the trailer was made from a rough cut of the movie because it looks amateurish.

Originally posted by vintageSW77
Why doesnt he make something else?
I think that weve gone as far as we can with Zombies.

Infection,dead rise,mayhem,characters die,characters live,characters escape,bitersweet ending..........

most movies follow the same guidelines

Romero's Zombie Film Takes a Title
Source😖hockTillYouDrop.com July 21, 2009

George A. Romero's latest zombie opus has been shambling about without a title for months now. Today, however, it was announced that his "untitled undead film" is now Survival of the Dead.

The film will premiere at the prestigious 2009 Toronto International Film Festival as part of the celebrated "Midnight Madness" series, spotlighting the ten best new horror movies from around _the world.

Survival of the Dead follows a war-weary band of soldiers who are lured to a remote island that promises to be the last paradise on earth, only to discover that even here there is no escape from the appetites of either the living or the dead.

Says Romero, "We're in the final stages of post-production and it’s great to come up for air and find out the film's been chosen to appear at the Festival. It’s just a terrific honor."

That's quite a rubbish title.

I liked "...Of The Dead"

So I assume that, like Diary, this will be another stand-alone Dead film?

i saw Diary of the Dead and had the strangest urge to gouge my eyealls out afterwardmhmm

Originally posted by That ACDC Chick
i saw Diary of the Dead and had the strangest urge to gouge my eyealls out afterwardmhmm

That's how i felt when i first saw the trailer for his latest movie 🙁

The reasons are probably typical because the movie had some obvious problems but what didn't you like about Diary?

Originally posted by jinXed by JaNx
Can't we just have a good ol zombie movie with no political or societal undertones? These issues have already been super-imposed onto his other movies. The message has just become redundant at this point. I know zombie movies rely on interesting and conflicting characters as much as they do on zombies but can't Romero just make a zombie movie where the people are simply trying to survive?

As for the movie itself, the trailer looks god awful. I'm hoping the trailer was made from a rough cut of the movie because it looks amateurish.

All of his movies are based on political or societal undertones.

Will see what the reviews think of it soon once it's shown at Toronto, and I think it's showing at Venice film festival too.

Of course Land and Diary weren't as good as his Day or Dawn, but I mean, I still like the movies. They're more slapstick now, and he even says that's more of his aim, and yeah, I get that some people don't like that, but if you're going to watch Romero, he wants you to have a laugh. Don't think everything's completely serious... and how can you take zombies that seriously anyways...

A small clip from the new movie

http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=11698

Originally posted by jinXed by JaNx
Can't we just have a good ol zombie movie with no political or societal undertones? These issues have already been super-imposed onto his other movies. The message has just become redundant at this point. I know zombie movies rely on interesting and conflicting characters as much as they do on zombies but can't Romero just make a zombie movie where the people are simply trying to survive?

As for the movie itself, the trailer looks god awful. I'm hoping the trailer was made from a rough cut of the movie because it looks amateurish.

Romero's political and social undertones made his undead franchise what it was, and I for one enjoyed every minute. Personally I don't see his commentaries as redundant rather an ongoing part of the story to his world. Pity Diary went a bit off course and went back to the beginning, would liked to have seen how Lands survivors (not necessarily the main characters as that'd break from Romero's traditions) but those we see moving out of the city on foot at the end progressed.

Originally posted by Selphie
All of his movies are based on political or societal undertones.

i know i was saying that it's gotten redundant. Just look at Land and Diary.

Red Band trailer

http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=14354

and could someone please rename the thread...

looks so bad that it might be good but im thinking it'll just be bad

It's out on dvd in a few days here, I don't have a lot of hope for it...

🍺 As I'm sure most of you already know this is George Romeros new zombie movie,I rented this today and will watch it soon,I own Dawn of the Dead(remake) and Land of the Dead,I think both are Decent films,Recently though I seen Diary of the dead and just did not like it much at all,The same as the recent Day of the Dead(I think thats the name) I did not like this much either,so heres hoping this one is an improvement on the last two.

day of the dead(2008)? didn't see it!

classic day of the dead is my favorite romero flick.
i really didn't care much for diary.
land of the dead was decent by all means, i enjoyed the crap outa it.
same with the dawn remake, and classic dawn, not many romero films i don't enjoy.

the rental stores in my city closed down thanks to movie piracy.(which im not really a fan of, but times change, and we have to adapt) BUT, if i like a film enough, i always buy it on dvd(or in the future, blu-ray)
So someone mail me a copy, or do a live stream of it.

im not taking any chances on buying a movie i havent seen, i've done that enough. (always get hurt in the end)

Tut tut:

http://www.killermovies.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=500263&highlight=survival+of+the+dead+forumid%3A58

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