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Movie Review: Survival of the Dead
Here’s an old movie review I wrote before my extended vacation. If you are interested in seeing Survival of the Dead, it’s currently streaming on Netflix with plenty of clips available on Hulu. Some time ago in the quaint state of Pennsylvania, a group of young filmmakers had the idea of creating a new type of horror movie. They all pitched in five hundred bucks and formed a company called Latent Image. Their idea centered around flesh eating corpses. A young filmmaker named George Romero was tasked with writing and directing it. They shot the film in a little farmhouse and called it Night of the Flesh Eaters which was later named to Night of the Living Dead by the distributor. Little did … Read entire article »
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George Romero and Tom Savani – Together Again
In a world whereby everything is a remake, reboot, or re-imaging – a world where if it’s not in 3D, it’s not worth the screen time – a world where most Hollywood powerbrokers appear to get their creative visions from their dog’s late night bowel movements – there’s actually some interesting fun news coming down the pipe. Apparently George Romero and Tom Savani – the dynamic duo behind the legendary Dawn of the Dead – are batting their eyes at each other over the prospect of remaking Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things. Normally, I’d scoff at the thought of a remake but this actually sounds interesting. For the record, each time I hear of another re-something, I want to stick my head in … Read entire article »
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Survival of the Dead Comes to Netflix
Here’s some pretty cool news for those of you who have a Netflix subscription. George Romero’s latest zombie epic – Survival of the Dead - is now available to watch on their streaming service. I would love to say that this is a kick ass film and that if you don’t have Netflix subscription, you should go and get yourself one, but truth be told, I have yet to see this movie. In fact, from what I heard from some of my close zombie friends, you should probably skip this movie if you want to still be thinking good things about Romero. Again, I can’t really say since I haven’t seen it yet, but I have noticed a definite downward arc from Land of the Dead. … Read entire article »
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Ebert to Romero: “I’m Just Not That Into You, Anymore”
It’s hard to believe that I’ve been reading Roger Ebert’s reviews for over a decade now. He’s a thoughtful writer and as much as I’ve disagreed with some of his reviews (he gave Anaconda four stars), I always find myself comparing opinions with him on some of my favorite gems. That said, he’s grumpy bastard if you have to work for him as I did in the early 2000′s, porting his television reviews to the web. Often times, we’d receive the shows too late in the day for our Monday posting deadline, resulting in a venomous phone call from his television people. When Ebert was unhappy, they were unhappy and were they were unhappy, life was miserable. … Read entire article »
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Remero on Left 4 Dead
Many thanks to zombie chow Ben for sending me this interview with zombie icon, George Romero. When I first saw the headline of this article, I thought this was going to be Romero baiting clip with Left 4 Dead being the catalyst. But George takes it all in strides. He shrugs off the fast zombies, saying it’s not his zombies. He acknowledges most zombie films these days aren’t even zombie films but rage infected people. For the recent resurgence of zombies, George gives all the credit to video games and as much as he respects the genre, he will never stick his toe in video game development. As he says, “I’m just too darn slow”. … Read entire article »
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Romero About Zombies: “Get Off My Lawn”
If you are looking for a weird interview with George Romero from a ‘too cool for school’ d-bag, then I think I have exactly what you are looking for. The folks over at Desctructoid sat down with Romero to talk about zombies, doing their best to start a little a fire under George. The first part of the interview is pretty funny. Romero looks a little comfortable as he is barraged with a torrent of questions. This interviewer looks to have forgotten his Ritalin and is a complete spaz. I get the sense that this is his first celebrity interview and he’s doing his best to appear cooly smug about the whole proceeding. … Read entire article »
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App of the Dead
The fine folks over at Zombie Command have made a recent posting about the further antics of George Romero. Yes, he is promoting Survival of the Dead pretty hard right now. Yes, he is in development of two more zombie films. And yes, he is in the process of writing of two books. But did you know he is currently in development of an iPhone application? On an aside, anyone who says life ends after retirement is pure hooey. Romero recently turned seventy and by conventional wisdom, he should be sitting at home, watching a marathon of Judge Judy. Instead, the guy is producing far more work than people half his age. I’m guessing George isn’t going to quit until he is … Read entire article »
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Zombies Take Manhattan
It looks like this month is going to have a whole bunch of Romero news. For awhile, I didn’t hear anything about the happenings of good old George, but these days, it seems like if I don’t hear something about him, then something must be wrong. I just logged onto Twitter and saw this article posted from his Twitter account. Evidently, in order to promote Survival of the Dead, Romero and friends rounded up four hundred corpses to storm downtown New York. Honestly, this sounds like an awesome zombie walk. Probably the best one ever. From the article: … Read entire article »
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Movies Online Interviews George Romero
With Romero prepping for the big theatrical release for his current opus, Survival of the Dead, the fine folks over at Movies Online decided to take a little time out of the big G’s schedule and talk zombies. It’s an interesting read for one thing. He talks about turning the “new dead” series into a franchise so he and his partner can have control over the future of the series. One interesting nugget is the possibility of a boxed set of all his zombies films. In short, not in our lifetime. From the article: The first four films were all controlled by different people. I can’t even get enough cooperation from them to put out a boxed set so forget trying to cross-collateralize used characters. I’d … Read entire article »
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Two More “Dead” Movies Coming
After a long hiatus, A World on Fire is returning back to normal posting. To kick off my return, I thought I’d share this little news item I caught over at io9. With Survival of the Dead being played on video on demand networks such as XBox Live, you’d think that George would be lounging by the side of some pool, sipping some exotic drink. Not so. Instead, he is planning two more zombie films along with writing two books that will be published later this year. … Read entire article »
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Survival of the Dead Red Trailer
If you just haven’t seen enough trailers for George Romero’s upcoming film, here’s another one that will hopefully suit your fancy. Known as the red trailer for being “unapproved” by the MPAA or something like that, it’s really shorthand for saying lots of gore. Funny thing to note … I’ve seen so many zombies flicks lately that I don’t even blink anymore when I see a corpse wrestling with a pound of intestines. I think I might need a vacation. The cool thing about this trailer is that it is introduced by none other than George himself. He does his best to make a decent intro as hordes of white faced zombies close in on him. And when they do reach the man, … Read entire article »
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Survival of the Dead DVD Review
It’s hard to believe that there is already a DVD review of George Romero’s upcoming new film Survival of the Dead when the movie hasn’t even been released in theaters yet. Welcome to the new age of cinema. It’s hard to believe, but I think in a matter of twenty years, movie theaters will either be a thing of the past or drastically retooled into something else. We are in the midst of a digital revolution whereby filmmakers no longer need the film studio for a movie to find its audience. … Read entire article »
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New Trailer for Survival of the Dead
As we grow ever so close to the release date of Romero’s next Dead film, more and more information is being released about the production. Granted, a lot of hardcore Romero fans have already managed to catch the film in the festival circuit, but for those of us out there who haven’t seen the film, each of these nuggets is certainly a tasty treat. This week’s release is a new trailer for the upcoming production. It looks pretty good. Dare I say … it looks Hollywood with plenty of cuts punctuated by a heart pumping score. The trailer follows the exploits of our not so friendly National Guard unit who was last seen in Diary of the Dead. … Read entire article »
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The Crazies Blu Ray Review
With The Crazies having opened this past weekend, it should be no surprise that the Blu Ray version of the film was just released, complete with a commentary track by George Romero himself. FearNet has wrote up a pretty thorough write up about the DVD, giving a sort of mini review about the movie. If you haven’t seen the 1970′s version of The Crazies, the writeup is a perfect introduction to the rather interesting albeit paranoid film. … Read entire article »
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Survival of the Dead’s One Sheet at Bloody Disgusting
The fine bloodied folks over at Bloody Disgusting have managed to get their blood caked paws on Survival of the Dead’s one sheet, and posted the info over at their site. What is a one sheet? Honestly, I hadn’t a clue, so my pals over a Wikipedia let me know that it’s “a single document that summarizes a product for publicity and sales”. What this tells me that it is a slow news day over at BD, which should tell you that’s pretty slow over here in the magnificent offices (**cough**snort**) of A World on Fire. … Read entire article »
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