George Romero's Survival of the Dead

[samurainoir]

Even makeup-wise: a dead guy is a dead guy, there are limits THERE too.

Come check out the Toronto Zombie Walk in October! You'll have a blast.

Here is the photo gallery.
2009 toronto zombie walk - Flickr: Search

[Brazoo]

Last year I took my nieces to lunch at Sneeky Dees and a group of zombies walk folks came by. I thought it would freak them out, but they thought it was great!

[MysteryWho]

Romero is definitely beating a living dead horse now, but he isn't a failure as a filmmaker.
I think Martin and Creepshow are great horror films, perhaps not as great as NOTLD and Dawn of the Dead. Season of the Witch and the Crazies were also interesting but they didn't quite work. Day of the Dead and Land of the Dead were a lot of gory fun but somewhat weak. Heck, even the NOTLD remake he produced was worth seeing once or twice. Okay, so that's two classics, two great films, and at least five more watchable diversions. That's not too bad of a record.
Meanwhile, I get the impression Romero has had some problems getting a decent amount of money together for his other projects. He has mostly worked independant from the big studios for various reasons and the few investors he can manage are probably solely interested in backing something that will make a modest profit, such as a zombie movie with the Romero "seal" on it. In a way, I can't blame them. Knightriders was pretty weird.
I can't comment on Diary(which is actually on deck to be watched at this moment) or Survival, but like a rubbernecker alongside a wreck, I can't look away.

[MysteryWho]

P.S. Actually the idea of a really Canadian zombie is intriguing. He should at least feature a prominent zombie with Gerussi's medallion buried in his chest hair. There had better be a Louie Del Grande cameo as well!
Pontypool is the Canadian zombie movie I would reccomend first, I suppose.

[palitoy]

The Ultimate Canadian Zombie

[samurainoir]

P.S. Actually the idea of a really Canadian zombie is intriguing. He should at least feature a prominent zombie with Gerussi's medallion buried in his chest hair. There had better be a Louie Del Grande cameo as well!
Pontypool is the Canadian zombie movie I would reccomend first, I suppose.

Not sure if Louis Del Grande can become a zombie since they blew up his head...


Pontypool is great. I can't wait to see what Bruce Macdonald does with the second and third films. Supposedly they are going to build in scope.

It's too bad Al Waxman's dead. After playing the homeless version of his King of Kensington character in Twitch City (a TV show set in Kensington by the creators of Pontypool), the next step would be the Zombie King of Kensington.


My vote is David Sazuki Zombie.

[ctc]

>Romero is definitely beating a living dead horse now

Hey! THAT'S a neat idea! Nobody's done zombie animals in a move! Video games, yes.... movie, not so much. Well; SORT of.... in one of them video game movies....

Don C.

[MysteryWho]

^^It's funny, as I wrote that line I was thinking of the horses from Tombs of the Blind Dead. I believe they are also zombies.

[mazinz]

>Romero is definitely beating a living dead horse now

Hey! THAT'S a neat idea! Nobody's done zombie animals in a move! Video games, yes.... movie, not so much. Well; SORT of.... in one of them video game movies....

Don C.

Hey Don, if you are being serious then you need to look up the film black sheep, and one another (indie) whose name I am trying to recall that had zombie cows

both of them came out a few years ago

[fallensaviour]

Don't forget the half zombie dog in return of the living dead and zombie dogs from resident evil.

[mazinz]

if you want to see the film officially (and not from the region 2 PAL ver) and if you have time warner cable the film is on the "movies on demand" channel for a 24 hour rental.
It is abbreviated so if you glance at the name it looks more like girls of the dead which is why I missed it originally when looking at that channel

[Rextasy]

Let's hope so. He's done... I agree that NOTLD is amazing and a true genre classic. I've even found some new love on recent viewings for Dawn of the Dead, a film I never really liked in the past. But how many times can you keep making the same movie? I dunno... He's old hat now. A one trick pony, about 6 tricks past the first. Like a lot of filmmakers his age, I can respect his earlier work for its purity and true genius, but IMHO he's never been able to make a film as good as NOTLD... Not even close. He's become a parody of himself... A joke. I'd actually like to see him make a movie that had nothing to do with zombies, as I feel he's using them as a crutch. He never evolved as a director, or grew past what he did in NOTLD and I think a lot of people know that.

SC

Hear, hear. When I heard about LOTD, I hoped Romero would get financing for it. Now I wonder how the hell he keeps getting financing. I know zombies are hot and all, but come'n. As for "Survival," the reviews alone will keep me from catching it even on cable. Horror movie fans are necessarily masochistic, but you have to draw the line.

[mazinz]

don't worry this jackass Romero wants to do another two more films now, how dry do his movies have to get? They just keep getting worse and he is destroying his legacy rather than enhancing it

[Mikey]

I finally seen Survival of the Dead on cable the other day,

Man, that movie was nasty bad

The special effects looked like 70's cheap bluescreening (see heads on pole scene)

I didn't think anything could beat Diary for lousiness but Survival did it.

Worst Romero Zombie movie EVER