Since director George Romero gave us Night of the Living Dead, a lot of filmmakers have made different versions of zombie movies and there seems to be no end to them in sight. It appears that there will always be undead zombie movies. When it all began in movies, zombies were really scary and the thrill audiences got from them came from deep-seated human fears. Death is something that is feared by a lot of people and what's even more fearful is to have the dead come alive and go after them as food. Like vampires, we all know that dead zombies aren't real, but the thought of them still stir us from the inside out and give us chills whenever we’re alone in the dark.

George Romero’s Survival of the Dead is a story of two warring families trying to survive on an island where one deals with zombies by trying to save them or tame them. Of course, there are those who disagree. The zombies in this movie are less scary. They’re not simply “deceased” but are more like “diseased” with a possible cure somewhere. This concept isn’t really new, but it seems inevitable that turning into a zombie be associated with communicable diseases which are microbial in nature. The idea gives a sense of humanity to zombies that weren’t there before. The moral question comes up: Maybe they aren’t supposed to be destroyed?

In a previous Romero zombie movie, it is implied that the “dead” zombies are able to think simplistically and had a basic drive to survive with their own kind. Now, in Survival of the Dead, it seems they also have the ability to feel. In one scene, one character who’s turning, or turned into a zombie, rides a horse. Her zombie character is an elevation of the zombie archetype from a mindless trudging corpse into something that can interact like a real person. This new twist gives Survival of the Dead a story where you can empathize with the zombies that were once only thought of as supernatural creatures to be feared and dismembered.

It seems that zombies are following the footsteps of vampires in movie- and television-fiction. When before, the only intelligent vampire was Dracula, now, they are an accepted part of society and are treated as a minority protected by laws (True Blood). Zombies in future films will likely also be depicted as intelligent and capable of social interaction with people. Survival of the Dead is one film that explores this possibility in films. Intelligent zombies would certainly make zombie movies more alive; less scary, no doubt, but more mainstream and more appealing to the intellect.

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