George A. Romero may not be the father of the zombie film, but there can be no denying his status as its patron saint. More than four decades after his still-searing Night of the Living Dead put the “gory” in “allegory,” Romero returns today with Survival of the Dead — a grisly, pitch-black satire about the ordeal of an increasingly polarized society. Except this time it’s the living facing each other as two families — the O’F lynns and the Muldoons — battle for control of an island where zombies co-exist like pets. Hungry pets, sure, but maybe even trainable. This could change everything.
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George A. Romero on Survival of the Dead, Gore Fatigue and Dreams of a Zombie Noir
