I had come to accept GEORGE A. ROMERO’S …OF THE DEAD as the title for the zombie king’s newest dead fest, but I guess I have to get over it, as the flick’s title has just been announced via the Toronto Film Festival’s official site. Ready?
SURVIVAL OF THE DEAD.
Not only that, they’ve slapped up a few new pics – which I’ve helpfully passed along to you – and a detailed synopsis; read that below. As for the title, I’ll live with it (pun intended). At this point, there are really no new and exciting places you can go with the “…of the dead” angle. SURVIVAL OF THE DEAD is a nice bit of irony, especially considering where the story seems to go.
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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.
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