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From filmstalker [excerpt]

Survival of the Dead

...is the title that would suggest there's something more to being dead than just dead and eating people. However the blurb returns to familiar territory, and then puts a bit more of an interesting slant on it all.

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.

So two groups of survivors find a place to live while the rest of the world is in chaos, and one of the groups wants a Shaun of the Dead life, while the other is doing the typical struggle for survival.

Oh I don't know, Romero has lost his shine and appeal for me these days, the rest of the world is overtaking him at a fast rate of knots, and I do wonder how much of this film will deliver something new and how much will just end up being the same old stuff.