Nothing can stop the monster that is Twitter – even George Romero is powerless to escape its gaping maw! That’s right, kids: The Zombie King has succomb to Twitter, having gobbled up a page for himself that you can see right HERE.
George kicked things off with this delicious message to fans: Hey, it’s George. I’d rather woof than tweet, but here goes. In the homestretch-mixing Survival of the Dead. The flesh ripping sounds great!
Hard not to like that. Head on over to the master’s page and follow along as he nears completion on his latest zombie opus. SURVIVAL OF THE DEAD will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival as part of its Midnight Madness program. The site lists SURVIVAL’S running time as 90 min.
In a world where the dead rise to menace the living, rogue soldier Crocket (Alan Van Sprang) leads a band of military dropouts to refuge from the endless chaos. As they search for a place “where the shit won’t get you,” they meet banished patriarch Patrick O’Flynn (played with zeal by Kenneth Welsh), who promises a new Eden on the fishing and ranching outpost Plum Island. The men arrive, only to find themselves caught in an age-old battle between O’Flynn’s family and rival clan the Muldoons. It turns out that Patrick was expelled from the isle for believing that the only good zombie is a dead zombie, while the Muldoons think it’s wrong to dispatch afflicted loved ones, attempting to look after their undead kinfolk until a cure is found. But their bid for stability on the homestead has turned perverse: the undead are chained inside their homes, pretending to live normal lives – and the consequences are bloody. A desperate struggle for survival will determine whether the living and the dead can coexist.