4 / 10
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The Disc
 
Extra Features
Stunningly, there are absolutely none on the disc, unless you count scene selection which I don’t. This is all the more odd when you consider how packed with supplementary material the Land of the Dead and Diary of the Dead discs were.  
 
The Picture
A sharp and nicely defined effort overall but some of the darker scenes lose contrast and the grain level creeps up. The effects, both practical and CG, are very good and there is even a exploding head from a shotgun blast which harks back to 1978!
 

Inline Image

The Sound
The 5.1 mix uses the surround speakers well, especially in confined environments such as a boat and the woods, where the atmosphere is really created by the ambient sounds – it’s amazing how effective a creak or rustling leaf can be.
 
I didn’t like the score one bit, finding it disjointed and badly placed with some pieces of music interrupting the flow or just ill-suited to the scene.  
 
Final Thoughts
Survival of the Dead is a better than mediocre zombie film, but not by much. If it didn’t have George Romero credited as the writer and director then I would have thought that it was a well made genre piece by a fairly skilled filmmaker, not the man that many regard as the greatest living American horror director.
 
The lack of extra features is shocking and will cause many to think twice about buying this, whether on DVD or Blu-ray Disc.

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