The first clip from George A Romero’s sixth zombie movie, Survival Of The Dead, is online, fresh from the Toronto Film Festival!

Earlier we looked at the plot of the movie, and now we get an idea what the tone might be – it looks like the lightest of his films so far.

Romero’s name is an iconic one. He created the modern zombie with 1968’s Night of the Living Dead before going on to create one of – if not the – greatest horrors of all time, 1978’s Dawn of the Dead. 1985 brought on Day of the Dead and in 1990 Romero rewrote his original masterpiece for the Night remake. After a long gap, the legend returned in 2004 with the solid-enough Land of the Dead and 2007 saw the release of the opinion-dividing Diary of the Dead. As Night is in the public domain it was remade a second time, without his involvement, in 2006, starring Devil’s Rejects’ Sid Haig, while the successful 2004 re-imagining of Dawn of the Dead made director Zack Snyder a star. The less said about 2008’s non-Romero Day of the Dead reimagining, or even unofficial knock-off sh*tfest Day of the Dead 2: Contagium the better.

Romero’s zombie films are big on social subtext. He’s attacked Vietnam, racism, consumerism, commercialism, capitalism, genetic experimentation, slavery, the roles of genders, the war on terror, the class divide, the media and even filmmaking itself. With Survival looking to exploit fear and paranoia (something so relevant it’s almost uncomfortable) and the clip above showing a decidedly hilarious demise, it’s safe to say that Romero isn’t slowing down any time soon. Maybe this is the man for the World War Z gig, eh? Just let him keep making movies until there really is no more room in hell.

Source: TwitchFilm