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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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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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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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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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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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Survival of the Dead Featured in April’s Fangoria
Many thanks to Brandon Nichols over at mPRm Public Relations for looping the A World on Fire community on the latest news for George Romero’s next film. Horror magazine Fangoria is doing a lengthy feature on the upcoming film in the April issue before the actual XBox release on May 1st. Ahhh … Fangoria. Brings back memories of my freshman year of college where I had a stack of them on my night stand for late night reading. It made for great nightmare fuel, but it also introduced me to Guillermo del Toro who would later rock my world with The Devil’s Backbone, and then smash it with Pans Labyrinth. … Read entire article »
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Survival of the Dead Facebook Page and Official Site
Web Sheriff, who appears to be working with George Romero as well as Magnet (the film’s distributor) wrote a bunch of information on the main site today that you might find interesting. For one, there is an official website for Survival of the Dead, but as far as official websites go, there’s not a whole lot there. It’s primarily a link to the Survival of the Dead facebook page followed by a press release. The facebook page has only three hundred members at this point so let’s do George a favor and jack up those numbers. Believe it or not, there’s already a funny review on it which states: … Read entire article »
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Survival of the Dead Release Date Confirmed
If you’ve been sitting on the edge of you chair, wondering when Romero’s next film is set to hit the big time, wonder no more for the news is in. Bloody Disgusting has just released the details for the upcoming movie’s release. From the article: Magnet has locked down a VOD, Amazon and Xbox Live premiere for April 30, with plans to open in limited theaters on May 28th. Out of curiosity, how do you guys plan on watching it? And how cool is this that you have an option?! I gotta say, the news is slightly disappointing. I love the fact that you will be able to watch the film on an Xbox or through Amazon’s video on demand service (hello Roku!), but what kind of sucks … Read entire article »
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Survival of the Dead Video Cover
I just bumped into a post from zombie news reporting site, Buy Zombie which shows the cover artwork for the next George Romero opus, Survival of the Dead. I’ve cropped out most of it in an effort to build suspense, but I think you may be disappointed. I don’t know what bothers me about this cover. Maybe it the gritty looking background or maybe it’s the female zombie on the left who looks to have a sinus infection. It’s not terrible by any means. It’s just … meh. If I were thumbing through the DVD aisle over at Best Buy and I bumped into this movie, I’d probably pick it up with a half squint, wondering the torments of being a zombie with a … Read entire article »
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Survival of the Dead Gets Release Date (kind of)
Here’s some breaking news which doesn’t really say a whole lot. George Romero’s twitter feed which has been dormant for months, tweeted about a set release date of Surivival of the Dead. Clicking on the Variety link reveals that Magnet (the distributor) has set a spring date, so keep your weekends free between April 21st to June 21st. The other interesting thing to note is that the movie will be used to sell an upcoming VOD (video on demand) service that should be debuting soon. … Read entire article »
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Survival of the Dead Finds a Distributor
Great news from the Mail Order Zombie. At long last, George Romero’s latest film Survival of the Dead has been picked up by Magnolia Pictures and it will be receive a theatrical release sometime next year. Before the theater release, the film is going to be released as part of a video on demand service (VOD). This might sound strange to some being theaterical releases always lead the pack. In this case, it is a new on demand service so the developers obviously want to make a rather big splash with Romero’s latest film. I didn’t there was any doubt that this latest film would find a distributor. Even if there were no one bought it and Romero and company decided to sell it out of … Read entire article »
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Zombie Command Reviews Survival of the Dead
ZC Barry over at Zombie Command managed to get an early look at the Survival of the Dead and posted a full on review without spoilers. Long story short, it gets a hardy recommendation. It is his first Romero recommendation in the past twenty years. That being said, ZC Barry informs readers not to expect old school Romero. Here’s a pretty telling paragraph: That said, beware that Romero does move his zombie world forward and the zombies are smarter than they have been before. They are able to ride horses, post mail and are much less dangerous than previously; it’s almost as if Romero himself doesn’t take the genre seriously but forgets that without the backdrop of his films then parodies are much less likely to work. Romero … Read entire article »
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