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Promo trailer and stills from Romero’s latest ‘Survival of the Dead’
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George Romero is undoubtedly the father of the modern zombie film. Certainly there were precursors, most notably Victor Halperin’s 1932 film White Zombie starring Bela Lugosi, but the conventions and plot structures that have defined the zombie subgenre as we know it today were all laid out by Romero in his early films (primarily Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, and The Crazies, though it’s not technically a zombie film). Regardless of your opinions concerning the man’s more recent work, it’s always exciting to hear about a new Romero zombie flick and his latest is Survival of the Dead.
While all of Romero’s zombie films have assumedly taken place within the same diegesis (i.e. all the characters are going through the same zombie apocalypse but at different places/times) Survival of the Dead will be the first of his films that could be considered a sequel or spinoff. In 2007 Romero released Diary of the Dead, a faux-documentary style movie in which a group of film students document the onset of the zombie apocalypse. Along the way the characters encounter a group of militarized highwaymen who rob travelers at gunpoint. Survival of the Dead follows this group and their leader as they travel to a secluded island, hoping to find a zombie-free haven.
Romero, though originally from New York City, attended Carnegie Mellon University and made Pittsburgh his home. The majority of Romero’s films have been shot in or around the Pittsburgh area, and it’s this association that has contributed significantly to the Steel City’s dedication to the horror genre and reputation as Zombietown, USA. Recently Romero’s production has moved up to Canada (along with many other film productions) due to the lower price of production north of the border. The last film that Romero shot in Pittsburgh was The Dark Half in 1993, though his zombie films Land of the Dead (2005) and Diary of the Dead were still set in Pittsburgh, if not filmed here.
Survival of the Dead premiered at the Venice Film Festival in September, followed shortly by a screening at the Toronto International Film Festival, but there’s no news yet concerning a wide theatrical release. Early reviews have been favorable though, and it’s likely that we’ll at least see a limited theatrical release of the film. Check out the trailer and photos below courtesy of Bloody Disgusting. The trailer is a bit unfinished, but shows off some pretty impressive kills and a production that seems to be more aesthetically cinematic than Romero’s previous few films.
Comment below what you think of the trailer and how it compares to Romero’s early work and later films.
Trailer for Romero's Survival of the Dead
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