George A. Romero’s Dead series has officially crossed into irrelevance...

| Original Score: 1/4 | Dec 24, 2024

George A. Romero’s Survival of the Dead feels like it was made by a younger, less talented director trying to accomplish something like Romero’s own classics of the now-tired zombie subgenre.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 18, 2023

You will laugh and you will groan but who will survive Survivial of the Dead? Zombies? Mankind? Or you?

| Nov 15, 2019

At 70 years old, Romero remains the grand master of the zombie movie and Survival of the Dead proves he is still more than worthy of the title.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 28, 2019

It features horrible acting, sub-par special effects, a ridiculous Hatfield-McCoy blood feud, unbelievable character motivations, a handful of zombies and an eviscerated horse.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Oct 24, 2019

A weak addition to the zombie series that suffers from bad acting, a poor script and a distinct lack of action.

| May 14, 2018

This is exactly what makes Romero a great political filmmaker: when he condemns wrongs, he never assumes those wrongs exist on their ow.

| Dec 14, 2017

...he whole film feels like a perfunctory, wearied repetition of a formula.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Aug 10, 2016

Romero seems to have lost his touch doing zombie pics.

| Original Score: C | Oct 3, 2015

Are George Romero's late-career ghoul operas fatigued retreads of his seminal zombie classics, or eccentrically satirical twists on the genre tropes he pioneered? Survival of the Dead isn't about to clear things up.

| Apr 22, 2011

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 4, 2011

full review at Movies for the Masses

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 17, 2010

"A man dies, he gets stupid," someone observes in the film. Maybe if a man makes too many films about the dead, the same fate awaits him. Mr. Romero, you are on notice.

| Original Score: .5/5 | Oct 15, 2010

Romero has freed his story up for a lighter, more amusingly misanthropic take on the worst tendencies of people.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Sep 12, 2010

An exercise in beating a dead horse as well as eating a dead horse, the film demonstrates that the metaphorical usefulness of the zombie genre has reached a state of near rigor mortis, if not putrefaction.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 25, 2010

The creator is still driving his old Model-T to the ground.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 20, 2010

Even Romero's staunchest fans might conclude their hero is going through the motions here. Yes, almost like a zombie.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 20, 2010

What we've got here is a just a B-movie western with buckets of gore, which might be fine coming from a Romero wannabe but not from the genuine article.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 19, 2010

There's something here for enthusiasts to enjoy, but to newcomers or those lacking an appreciation for Romero's work, Survival of the Dead is a zombie soap opera.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 14, 2010

Steeped in fan-pleasing gore but woefully thin on ideas, originality (beyond new zombie-offing methods) or directorial flair.

Full Review | Jul 7, 2010