George A. Romero's newest chapter in the "... of the Living Dead" series takes place on an Island, well after the initial zombie outbreak took place. Two rival factions are fighting based on their respective views of how to deal with the zombies. Patrick O'Flynn leads a faction bent on physically eliminating all zombies in order to curb further outbreaks. His nemesis, Seamus Muldoon, aims to reform the zombies by teaching them the human behavior they once knew.
Muldoon gets the upper hand and exiles O'Flynn, who travels to the mainland and meets a band of renegade National Guards led by the "Sarge" who briefly appeared in Romero's previous film, Diary of the Dead. The two groups ultimately join forces and return to Plum Island, inciting a war between the two rival factions in the midst of an island riddled with the flesh-craving undead.
Survival of the Dead continues the greatest zombie franchise in existence, started by Romero with Night of the Living Dead in 1968. While it's hard to say that this new chapter is anywhere near topping some of Romero's zombie classics, it seems to continue the series nicely. Survival keeps the humour, the gore, and the obligatory underlying political and social commentary of the other films in the series. It may be a bit milder, but it's still gory and fun.
The movie was shot at Port Dover, Ontario, giving it one of the nicest backgrounds on which a blood and guts filled zombie flick has ever been filmed which makes for an interesting contrast. The actors, all Canadian, were all actually relatively decent. The plot was something different from your run of the mill zombie flick, and the script was actually intelligible. You'll know a Romero movie when you see it, beware of cheap immitations.
4 exploding zombie heads our of 5
Rated 18A/R for graphic violence & gore, language, and brief sexual content.
Watch the Survival of the Dead trailer.
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