Alan Van Sprang, Joris Jarsky, Kathleen Munroe

On an island off the coast of North America, local residents simultaneously fight a zombie epidemic while hoping for a cure to return their un-dead relatives back to their human state.

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Unrated, 1 hr. 30 min.

Directed by: George A. Romero

Release Date: September 9, 2009

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  • September 19, 2009
    FROM TIFF:
    When you think about it, George A Romero has only had two good films: Night of the Living Dead, and Dawn of the Dead. Of course, both of these films not only spawned the entire zombie genre as we know it, but they brought to the forefront the notion that horror filmma...( read more)king can be as deep and thoughtful as any Oscar winning drama. But Romero's attempts at social commentary have become only more obvious and even more annoying with each subsequent film in his ____ of the Dead saga.
    Granted, I liked Diary a lot, and I seem to be the only one. I liked how Romero handled the contemporary need to document public tragedies, how we are living in an age where information is streamlined almost immediately, so what we are seeing is happening now, at this very moment.
    Survivial of the Dead seems to be about tribalism, or in a more specific sense, warring factions who are stuck in their beliefs to the point where they will resort to violence to uphold them. The film takes place in a distant Quaker-esque island where one clan wants to kill all the zombies, while another clan acknowledges that these zombies were once their friends and family, thus, their bodies should be kept locked up and "alive" so they can find a cure.
    Romero hammers this point into your head within the first five minutes. The rest of the film is a lot of bad acting, bad writing, lame zombie mayhem, and a climax that would have been great if the rest of the movie had been enjoyable. The film stumbles between B-movie cheez, while piling on blatant CGI gore. None of it works.
    But perhaps the most offensive part of Survival is the idea that zombies can survive by eating other animals. Guess what happens by the end of the film? I might be overreacting here, but this idea negates my whole undestanding of zombies as metaphors for how we as a society destroy ourselves and each other through consumerism, war, etc..
    Long story short, if you're a Romero fan, you'll be disappointed. If you aren't, you wouldn't have even bothered seeing this movie anyway.
  • September 17, 2009
    Better than diary, decent addition to the legacy.

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