Taglines: Death isn’t what it used to be.
The plot involves inhabitants of an isolated island off the North American coast who find their relatives rising from the dead to eat their kin. The leaders of the island feud over whether or not to kill their reanimated relatives or preserve them in hopes of finding a cure.
On a small island off North America’s coast, the dead rise to menace the living. Yet…the islanders can’t bring themselves to exterminate their loved ones, despite the growing danger from those the once held dear. A rebel among them hunts down all the zombies he can find, only to be banished from the island for assassinating his neighbors and friends. On the mainland, bent on revenge, he encounters a small band of survivors in search of an oasis on which to build a new life. Barely surviving an attack from a mass of ravenous flesh-eaters.
They commandeer a zombie-infested ferry and sail to the island. There, to their horror, they discover that the locals have chained the dead inside their homes, pretending to live ‘normal’ lives…with bloody consequences. What ensues is a desperate struggle for survival and the answer to a question never posed in Romero’s Dead films: Can the living ever live in peace with the dead?
Survival of the Dead (also known as George A. Romero’s Survival of the Dead) is a 2009 American horror film written and directed by George A. Romero and starring Alan van Sprang, Kenneth Welsh and Kathleen Munroe. It is the sixth entry in Romero’s Night of the Living Dead series. The story follows a group of AWOL National Guardsmen who briefly appeared in Diary of the Dead. The film was Romero’s final directorial effort before his death in 2017.
Survival of the Dead (2010)
Directed by: George A. Romero
Starring: Alan Van Sprang, Kenneth Welsh, Kathleen Munroe, Devon Bostick, Richard Fitzpatrick, Stefano Colacitti, Athena Karkanis, Shawn Roberts, Kathleen Munroe, Julian Richings, Wayne Robson
Screenplay by: George A. Romero
Production Design by: Arvinder Grewal
Cinematography by: Adam Swica
Film Editing by: Michael Doherty
Costume Design by: Alex Kavanagh
Art Direction by: Joshu de Cartier
Music by: Robert Carli
MPAA Rating: R for strong zombie violence / gore, language and brief sexuality.
Distributed by: Magnolia Pictures
Release Date: May 28, 2010