...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.
"Romero's ...of the Dead is revealed"
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You can bet your bottom dollar I'll be there.
July 23, 2009 8:12 AM