I’ve been pretty vocal about hating everything about George Romero’s latest movie, Survival of the Dead, from the stupid title to the idea of yet another George Romero zombie movie. But after seeing this clip, I acknowledge the possibility that I’ve been wrong. I thought this was a lot funnier than anything I’ve seen from Zombieland, which is trying a lot harder. Get it? The Asian guy can’t stop catching zombies! Asians be fishin’ y’all.
[via CHUD]
George Romero has been making zombie movies since the 60s, but through the magic of bloviating critics, they’re always a timely metaphor for something. Even when they’re the same metaphor at different times! Amazing! Anyway, his latest now has a title, release date, and synopsis.
Survival of the Dead is, according to the press release I just got, about 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. If you want to be the first to see it, you best be at the Toronto Film Festival’s Midnight Madness program, as that’s where the film will be premiering. [CHUD]
Ooh, “Survival of the Dead”, get it? It’s a brilliantly contradictory play on words, like Birth of Abortion, or The Skinny on Fatass, or Helen Keller See’s Candies. Romero, you genius, you’ve done it again! What meaning shall we ascribe your zombies this time??? You brilliantly allow us to make it up ourselves!
Here’s the trailer from George Romero’s latest zombie movie, which I’m sure he’ll tell you is a totally relevant metaphor for something, just like it was 40 years ago. This one’s just called Of the Dead, because George Romero is so lazy he doesn’t even bother thinking up titles anymore. In related news, Brett Ratner’s next movie will be called With Chris Tucker.
[BloodyDisgusting has the synopsis]
USA Today and BloodyDisgusting broke these new stills from George Romero’s latest zombie flick, and surprise, they’re boring and lame. Another shocker: Romero’s still claiming zombies are the perfect topical allegory.
“It’s about tribalism,” says Romero about [his new film, which] unfolds on a small island a couple of weeks after the original outbreak in 1968’s Night of the Living Dead. “There are two factions. It’s the idea that even when faced with a crisis, tribal concerns about power control people’s motives.”
“It’s this whole idea of tribalism, that we can’t pull it together,” he says. “News reports about the presidential race still bring up religious topics or racism. That’s pretty much the central theme.” [USA Today]
Oh f-ck off. Every couple of years he comes out with a new zombie movie and every time he tries to convince us that zombies are the perfect metaphor for whatever’s in the news at the time. Dude, you’ve been making the same movie since 1968. You know what a new political climate requires? A new metaphor. You’ve ascribed so many different meanings to zombies they’ve become only what they are on the surface: people shuffling around saying “Braaaains.” Forty years of that. Can you fathom how insanely goddamned boring that is?
So according to Variety, some dicklicker is doing a remake of George Romero’s 1973 film The Crazies. In related news, George Romero has been remaking Night of the Living Dead since 1968.
Redo will be directed by Breck Eisner [Michael Eisner's son, shocking -Ed.] ; Romero will serve as executive producer.
“Crazies” revolves around people in a small Kansas town who are beset by a virus that causes insanity and death after a mysterious toxin contaminates the local water supply. Overture CEO Chris McGurk and chief operating officer Danny Rosett felt it was a good fit for the company’s expanding slate.
“We’ve been trying to move into horror fare that is clever and smart,” McGurk said.
It’s times like these I wish my site had a giant buzzer sound.
