Movie : Survival of the dead

Rating:

This is another movie by George A. Romero that is almost an instant zombie classic. I mean come on, the man is a zombie god, that pretty much invented that horror genre and made it all goo’y and exciting! He deserves credit. And after his good attempt called “Diary of the dead” he comes back with another horror that follows on the same story. Yeah, I’m serious, even some of the same characters are there , plus the cast of the former movie appears for a minute at the beginning of this one. So this is almost like a side-story of the first movie, but at the same time, this is done even better than it’s predecessor.

First of all : this is a zombie film that’s a mix of action and sort-of dark-comedy. So it’s not supposed to be “really scary” and it’s not supposed to be a horror’y type. This is more like a zombie comedy with some drama in the back (which is the weakest link here anyway) just to tie it all together. Basically Romero shows that the zombie subject is a lot of fun and he knows how to make a movie that shouts that out loud. It’s not pretentious. It’s not modern hollywood. It’s not many things. What it is, is a really funny horror comedy, with those VERY, VERY SLOW zombies walking around making stupid faces. Oh and by the way there’s even a MAC vs PC debate in this movie, of course in favor of the mac. Funny stuff! In the zombie genre it’s either the new stuff like the nazi zombies of nordic filmmakers, or the zombie comedies like this one and zombieland. Both do a really good job. Good movie.