Survival of the Dead

Another soon to be classic from the great zombie movie writer and director, George A. Romero. This movie seems to center around two families in a sort of feud, if you will. On the one side, we have the O'Flynns, a family that believes all zombies must be destroyed, regardless of if they were loved ones or not. On the other side, we have the Muldoons, a family that decides it is best to keep their loved ones “alive” until a cure is found. These families reside together on a seemingly peaceful island that is quickly becoming infested with flesh hungry zombies.

This movie poses a great question: Should feelings be null and void when dealing with zombies? In most of Romeros other films, this is not a question. This is how things are. Zombies are killed, relentlessly, regardless of who their former selves were. This new scenario leaves you, the viewer, a choice. Would you shoot mommy and daddy point blank if they were coming at you with those dead eyes? Or would you chain them up in the tool shed, lovingly, until a possible cure was found?

Personally the cure would be too big of an “if” for me, and my extreme hatred of zombies would completely rule out any other feelings I may have had for the beasts that were my family and friends. Sorry, guys, but that's the way it has to be. I can't take any chances of becoming your next meal.

This movie hits theaters May 28^th, 2010, but is available on VOD, Amazon and Xbox Live starting April 30^th, 2010.