Suvival of the Dead

(2010) George A. Romero. Village East Cinemas.

A zombie tale out of an old book of dollar-bin local folklore, with two rival families living on the fantastical Plum Island off the shores of Delaware, the least exotic sounding place on the East Coast. The families inexplicably speak with Irish brogues, wearing rustic raiment, mercenary and bushwacking, like shark-hunter cowboys. The families are armed with heavy-duty gunnery, until the two patriarchs, Patrick O'Flynn and Seamus Muldoon, as zombies, duel at high moon. Based on a true island...

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