Survival of the Dead

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George M The worst of Romero's Living Dead films, I really have to wonder what he was thinking making this trash. So there's an enclave of irish people living off the coast of Delaware? And they believe zombies can be cured? (This and the zombies eating a horse after only eating people in the other films, ripped off from The Walking Dead ). A silly, ill-acted, ill-conceived waste of time. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 10/19/25 Full Review Daniel D The lower budget gives it an unfortunately amateur feeling overall, but there are a few ideas that are able to shine through and highlight what made Romero’s undead fascinate us from the beginning. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 10/17/25 Full Review thiago s Filme mais ou menos, o roteiro é fraco, as cenas são mais ou menos, o elenco é mais ou menos, e ninguém ajuda a melhorar o filme, a história é fraca, e o filme deveria ter cenas bem melhores e mais relevantes, para fazer o filme ser bom. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 04/23/25 Full Review DanTheMan 2 In many ways, Survival of the Dead marks a return to Romero's low-budget B-movie roots for his untimely swansong, one that I certainly enjoyed more than his previous venture. There's a real down-and-dirty simplicity to this one, rapidly paced with buckets of gore and absurdist glee, a neo-western zombie fable with a group of good ol' Irish lads pulling the ultimate Hail Mary. The film certainly isn't without a sense of humour, several jokes and a multitude of kills had me chuckling quite a bit, it just lacks a lot of Romero's sharp satire and is more a cerebral means of cinematically satiating one's wanton bloodlust. Philosophical discussions are brief, to the point and rife with real-world applications as the zombies keep coming. Romero sticks to the traditional zombie shuffle, with herds approaching in slow but determined motion. In keeping with the puckish touch for which he is justly renowned, our motley band find a few new and ingenious ways to dispose of them when ammo runs low, including discovering a new way to light a cigar that is both visually lovely, viscerally disturbing and thematically piquant. Romero's direction is clean if unmemorable, the writing is sly although treading on old ground and the performances are solid from all involved. Survival of the Dead works on every level for which it aims and without shortchanging any of them offering a reasonably entertaining variation on a familiar theme, although it lacks the inspiration that would make it stand as an original in its own right. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 10/30/24 Full Review Sams K There's something missing ok, but still very interesting story, there are a lot of cool themes, and it's kinda cool to see a "Shakespearean" inside the twisted world of George A. Romero. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 10/25/24 Full Review Alec B Its kind of a western (yes its set on an Island off the coast of Delaware with a bunch of Irishmen, but it fits with that genres typical themes), and an action comedy, and a zombie/horror film. The point is that its just got too much going on to totally work. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 11/10/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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