George Romero’s Survival of the Dead releases on OnDemand on April 30th, and they just released a new red-band trailer you can watch below.  It’s an improvement over previous trailers, because it has a zombie whose head explodes through its eyeballs and that has always been the best thing about zombies.  I think they should just go Monty Python with this, where some scholar comes in and starts explaining why zombies are a perfect metaphor for the current cultural zeitgeist and the decline of blah blah blah and then his brains shoot out his face and he gets stabbed with a wiener fork. That’s how my grand dad went.

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Courtesy of Bloody-Disgusting, this is the new red-band trailer for Survival of the Dead, George Romero’s latest.  If you read this site, you know I never really drank the Romero Kool Aid (zombie flavor), mainly because I’m sick of hearing zombies painted as a timely metaphor for everything from the Cold War to 9/11.  They’re dead people that walk around. And we’ve been making these for 50 years so let’s cut the sh!t, pretty please?

Off the coast of Delaware sits the cozy Plum Island where two families are locked in a struggle for power, as it has been for generations. The O’Flynn’s, headed by patriarch Patrick O’Flynn (Kenneth Welsh) approach the zombie plague with a shoot-to-kill attitude. The Muldoons, headed by Shamus Muldoon (Richard Fitzpatrick), feel that the zombies should be quarantined and kept ‘alive,’ in hopes that a solution will someday be found.
The O’Flynn’s, who are clearly outnumbered, are forced to exile Patrick by boat to the mainland, where he meets up with a cynical band of soldiers, headed by Guardsman Sarge (Alan Van Sprang). They join forces and return to the island, to find that the zombie plague has fully gripped the divided community, and the body count is rising.
As the battle between humans and zombies escalates, the master filmmaker continues to reinvent the modern horror genre with wicked humor and pointed social commentary.” [B-D]

Yes, the pointed social commentary, that was my favorite part.  That and when he stabbed the zombie with his wiener.

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!