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!