Survival of the Dead...
I'm sure most horror movie goers know by now that George A Romero is the one responsible for the whole 'Night of the living Dead' genre...or at least is the one that got it right...
He was to Zombie films what George Lucas (star wars) was to space sci-fi...
He brought a certain realstic edge to the screen, concerning zombies, that was un paralled back in 68...so ye, this director has been around for a while...
I'm not done with 'Survival of the Dead' yet...but in watching it so far...if I must compare the first one he did, with this, his most current...I'd have to say...in this case, wine doesn't get better with time...The original Night of the living Dead is for more scarier, and much more of a classic, than Survival of the dead will ever be...
I'm like 'George, what went wrong, your suppose to get better, not worse'...
Survival of the Dead feels more like a made for tv special...some kids afternoon school special or something...from the bubble background music constantly playing, to the cast of characters...it all just has a 'Sabrina, the Teenage witch' feel to it...not good...
I'm die hard horror...and when I buy or rent a horror movie, I expect it to creep me out in ways every day life cannot...an escape of sorts...
And I hold zombie movies to the same standard...28 days later (infected people) prooved that movies made in that genre can still frighten you if written, produced and directed right...
And or Will Smiths 'I am Legend'...so ye, Zombie type films can still work and be very effective...
I don't know if this film was or is suppose to be some kind of a half hearted 'spoof', kinda poking fun at his own previous work...I do know it just doesn't have that same level of suspense and believability that his previous films had...
It feels more like Gilligans Iland meets zombies...and so far I'm thoroughly disappointed...from the cast of dull, unattractive, uninteresting characters, to the silly studio musical scores to the story line...this Halloween film just doesn't live up to it's punch...
Gore? sure there's lots of gore...but it feels more like video game gore...gore just for the sake of gore...
http://images.techtree.com/ttimages/story/79326_1.jpg (broken link)
And that sums it up perfectly...you will get about as scared watching this movie, as you would playing a zombie video game...
(I wouldn't be suprised if gamers had a role or influence in the films make-up...gamers need to stay away from directing or writing movies...trying to adapt video game cg or scenerios to real life scary movies, just doesn't work)
From a 1-10 on the scary factor...I give it a 1...
Although, I don't know how they did it...but somehow, in the film...they cross movies...in other words, there's another zombie movie scene in a film that came out a few years ago...and some how they worked a cross scene of that movie into this one...that was clever...but the other movie they crossed scenes with, was actually better and more compelling...
Anyhow..that's my review...I'm not done watching it yet...but I doubt it will get any better...
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