Survival of the Dead (2009)
The sixth and final entry in George A. Romero's Living Dead series of films. This sees a small band of AWOL National Guard soldiers led by Alan van Sprang's Sarg who end up on an island where two warring families are attempting to adapt the zombies into eating other living things such as pigs instead of humans.
Taking inspiration from The Hatfield?McCoy feud from the 1860's this is an interesting attempt to take the series in a different direction. It's low key in comparison to earlier entries like Dawn of the Dead and especially Land of the Dead and feels much more like a modern day western...with zombies.
Parts of the film seem under developed and also there are some missed opportunities too - How good could this have been had it featured Riley and his group along with Dead Reckoning who set off for Canada at the end of Land of the Dead rather than some unknown National Guards who don't stick around long enough for much character development? - but Romero in the end wins through with some clever ways for the undead to die all over again.
Nowhere near a classic but one i'm pleased to now own in my Blu-ray collection.
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