Survival of the Dead (2009)

[napalm-in-the-morning]

Yes, it looks like Optimum have had any confidence in the film knocked out them fast and hard by negative word of mouth and internet rumour. They have slapped together a bare bones disc and sneaked it onto the shelves fast and quiet. Surprising that they even bothered with a blu ray pressing! I suspect the US R1 disc WILL have commentary, trailers and assorted extras. In the UK this has been treated with the same disinterest usually reserved for a Steven Seagal title. A great pity it couldn't have been picked up by Shameless!

[Philleh]

Yeah, this release is indeed shoddy! Which is a shame as they showed a whole lot of love for their Diary release (theatrically and on DVD) but I guess they just wanted it out there – has it had a release anywhere else? Maybe they’ll sell off the rights and Arrow and pick it up? Ha. I do like the vintage art design on the cover though! But Rick would make more of it I’m sure!

[antmumford]

Originally Posted by Tombsy666

Watched this last night, didn't go into it thinking it was going to be another Night or Dawn cause that isn't going to happen, however i thought it was an entertaining 90 mins and its good to see the shuffling slow moving undead again, i liked the concept of the story and yes it did suffer from budget restrictions and poorly constructured cgi effects which i'm not a fan of at all in any film, these aside i will say that even though its not classic Romero i tip my hat to him for maintaining and somewhat re-inventing his take on the zombie genre and hope he continues to make more and hire Tom Savini to take on the effects... now that would be a return to form

George and Tom are teaming up this year to create the remake of Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things. Now that I can't wait for

[Tombsy666]

Thats excellent news, Children shouldn't play with dead things is a fave of mine and if Romero & Savini are scripting a remake of this low budget shocker then it should be a good step forward for both of them, then who knows maybe a collaboration of sorts to get them both back filming another chapter in the DEAD series last ended with DAY OF THE DEAD, i don't include LAND OF THE DEAD as a major part of the living dead series as this was too high class in terms of the production and presentation (still a great film though) I think it's time we got back to the days of some good old school zombie splatter that doesn't rely on cgi and Romero & Savini are the best example

[metaldud]

Just finished watching survval and i thought it was a good film. theres a nice little story in there simple but at least it has a plot to drive it forward, some nice gore scenes throughout the movie and i think i enjoyed it more than land of the dead.

[The Reaper Man@Cult Labs]

I picked up this in ASDA today on Blu Ray today...might give it a whirl later....

[Sarah@Cult Labs]

I seriously can't bring myself to watch this. Not in the same year that the Day of the Dead Blu-ray comes out!

And to think people once said that was the worst zombie film Romero had done....

[The Reaper Man@Cult Labs]

You already seen it Sarah?

[Sarah@Cult Labs]

Survival or the Day Blu-ray?

Actually, it doesn't matter as I've seen neither. Know I shouldn't be judgemental about something I haven't watched but having seen clips of Survival I just can't bring myself to do it.

Can't wait for the Day Blu-ray as it's my favourite one and I know it's going to look amazing which is why Survival coming out around the same time just upsets me...

[nekromantik]

I watched this tonight, had some cool moments and the gore was fun but overall not a very good movie. Its better then Diary and Land in the first hour but then gets boring.