History Film / SurvivalOfTheDead

* {{Expy}}: Tomboy is reminiscent of Rocky from Romero's little-seen KNIGHRIDERS: an out-and-proud lesbian who's as tough as (if not tougher than) her straight/male cohorts.

* {{Fanservice}}: Tomboy masturbating out in the open. Could be FetishFuel too.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: The single female in the group of Guard refugees shamelessly masturbates in front of her fellows.
** Because she is, as said in the movie, [[SorryImGay "Um, Sorry, I'm Gay"]], and isn't interested in offers from the team's men.
* AHouseDivided: More like An Island Divided. [[spoiler: The Muldoon vs. O'Flynn shootout at the end, zombies milling about and eating people during. And in the final shot, they're still trying to shoot each other as zombies with empty pistols.]]

* ConspicuousCGI: A few of the zombie deaths, particularly the flare gun and the fire extinguisher.

* {{Gorn}}: Oh yeah, big time. Special commendations to a fire extinguisher blowing up a zombie's head, a flare gun lighting a zombie's head on fire, a zombie ripping some dude's scalp off. Oh, and the [[spoiler: poor horse being devoured.]] Ugh.

* HorrorHunger: Subverted, as [[spoiler: Seamus Muldoon aims to stem the zombies from eating humans, and have them move onto other sources of food...and it works, but not before it's too late.]]

* POVSequel: to ''Film/DiaryOfTheDead''.

* TheUnfavourite: Janet [[spoiler: thinks she is but her father says she's not]].

** NotUsingTheZedWord: Played straight as the slang "deadheads" becomes popular, but also subverted as people do use the word "zombie".

** ZombieInfectee: kept alive by the Muldoons. And in [[spoiler: Cisco's case,]] complete with denial... but subverted with the sensible response.

''Survival of the Dead'' (2009) is the sixth and final horror film in George A. Romero's ''Film/LivingDeadSeries'' (as well as his last film in general). It follows some characters who briefly appeared in the previous film, ''Film/DiaryOfTheDead''.

''Survival of the Dead'' (2009) is the sixth horror film in George A. Romero's ''Film/LivingDeadSeries''. It follows some characters who briefly appeared in the previous film, ''Film/DiaryOfTheDead''.

''Survival of the Dead'' (2009) is the sixth horror film in George A. Romero's ''Film/LivingDeadSeries''. It follows some characters who briefly appeared in ''Film/DiaryOfTheDead''.

''Survival of the Dead'' is the sixth horror film in George A. Romero's ''Film/LivingDeadSeries''. It follows some characters who briefly appeared in ''Film/DiaryOfTheDead''.

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* VillainProtagonist: Crockett and his fellow deserters are the same group of renegade National Guardsman who robbed the leads of ''Film/DiaryOfTheDead'', even though Crockett is a sergeant then a colonel that the previous film erroneously credited him as and his posse are different from those who appeared in this film (such as there was no sign of a female National Guard member in the previous movie unlike the appearance of Tomboy in this film).

* ItCanThink: As in many of Romero's films, the zombies can learn and remember. One of the zombies remembers how to ''start his car'', although isn't too good at driving it.

* TwoferTokenMinority: Tomboy as a Black Lesbian is a threefer.

''Survival of the Dead'' is the sixth horror film in George A. Romero's Living Dead series which follows some characters who briefly appeared in ''Film/DiaryOfTheDead''. ''Survival of the Dead'' takes place in a desperate, nightmarish world where the dead walk the earth, relentlessly attacking the living. It is the story of Plum Island - a beautiful refuge whose isolation allows two powerful families to maintain a semblance of order in the wake of the zombie holocaust. But as the inhabitants slowly die off, the two clans become sharply divided: The O'Flynns believe that the undead must be destroyed without exception, while the Muldoons [[ZombieAdvocate insist that afflicted loved ones be kept "alive" until a cure is found]]. Into this situation wander a small group of National Guard troops who have decided to strike out on their own in an effort to survive.

'''''Survival of the Dead''''' is the sixth horror film in George A. Romero's Living Dead series which follows some characters who briefly appeared in ''Film/DiaryOfTheDead''. ''Survival of the Dead'' takes place in a desperate, nightmarish world where the dead walk the earth, relentlessly attacking the living. It is the story of Plum Island - a beautiful refuge whose isolation allows two powerful families to maintain a semblance of order in the wake of the zombie holocaust. But as the inhabitants slowly die off, the two clans become sharply divided: The O'Flynns believe that the undead must be destroyed without exception, while the Muldoons [[ZombieAdvocate insist that afflicted loved ones be kept "alive" until a cure is found]]. Into this situation wander a small group of National Guard troops who have decided to strike out on their own in an effort to survive.

* POVSequel: to DiaryOfTheDead.

'''''Survival of the Dead''''' is a horror film by George A. Romero which follows some characters who briefly appeared in ''Film/DiaryOfTheDead''. ''Survival of the Dead'' takes place in a desperate, nightmarish world where the dead walk the earth, relentlessly attacking the living. It is the story of Plum Island - a beautiful refuge whose isolation allows two powerful families to maintain a semblance of order in the wake of the zombie holocaust. But as the inhabitants slowly die off, the two clans become sharply divided: The O'Flynns believe that the undead must be destroyed without exception, while the Muldoons [[ZombieAdvocate insist that afflicted loved ones be kept "alive" until a cure is found]]. Into this situation wander a small group of National Guard troops who have decided to strike out on their own in a an effort to survive.

!! This film contains examples of the following tropes:

* {{Gorn}}: Oh yeah, big time. Special commendations to a fire extinguisher blowing up a zombie's head, a flare gun lighting a zombie's head on fire, a zombie ripping some dude's scalp off. Oh, and the [[spoiler: poor horse being devoured. Ugh.]]

* HeyItsThatGuy: ''TwinPeaks'' fans might recognize Windom Earle (Kenneth Welsh) as Patrick O'Flynn, while ''{{Saw}}'' fans may notice ''Saw IV/VI'''s Agent Perez (Athena Karkanis) and Saw VI's Brent (Devon Bostick) as Tomboy and Boy, respectively.

** NotUsingTheZedWord: Played straight as the slang "deadheads" becomes popular, but also subverted as people do use the word "zombie."

* BuryYourGays: [[spoiler: Subverted. The sole gay character survives 'til the end. She might have been written in to try and make up for the UnfortunateImplications of a brief scene in ''Film/LandOfTheDead''.]]

* BuryYourGays: [[spoiler: Subverted. The sole gay character survives 'til the end. She might have been written in to try and make up for the UnfortunateImplications of a brief scene in LandOfTheDead.]]

* ContinuityNod: The troopers whose story this is are the ones who stuck up the bloggers in ''DiaryOfTheDead''.

* OralFixationFixation: Sgt. "Nicotine" Crockett and his cigarettes.

* Expy: Tomboy is reminiscent of Rocky from Romero's little-seen KNIGHRIDERS: an out-and-proud lesbian who's as tough as (if not tougher than) her straight/male cohorts.

[[quoteright:303:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Survival_of_the_Dead.jpg]] ''Survival of the Dead'' is a horror film by George A. Romero which follows some characters who briefly appeared in DiaryOfTheDead. ''Survival of the Dead'' takes place in a desperate, nightmarish world where the dead walk the earth, relentlessly attacking the living. It is the story of Plum Island - a beautiful refuge whose isolation allows two powerful families to maintain a semblance of order in the wake of the zombie holocaust. But as the inhabitants slowly die off, the two clans become sharply divided: The O'Flynns believe that the undead must be destroyed without exception, while the Muldoons [[ZombieAdvocate insist that afflicted loved ones be kept "alive" until a cure is found]]. Into this situation wander a small group of National Guard troops who have decided to strike out on their own in a an effort to survive.

** Because she is, as said in the movie, [[SorryImGay "Um, Sorry I'm Gay"]], and isn't interested in offers from the team's men.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The Asian guy fishing for zombies. What was his deal?

* CrowningMomentOfFunny: Crockett lighting up a cigarette using the burning head of a zombie he shot with a flare gun as his lighter.

* NarmCharm: The fact that Crockett looks a great deal like BillyMays makes the film ''far'' more amusing.

** Because she is, as said in the movie, [[SorryImGay "Um"]], and isn't interested in offers from the team's men.

* Twofer Token Minority: Tomboy as a Black Lesbian is a threfer.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: Zombies residing at the bottom of a lake, clawing at any human that dares swim by, is pretty damn scary, especially if you can't swim. FridgeHorror [[IncrediblyLamePun sinks]] in if you think about how this could apply to any body of water that had people around it at the time of the ZombieApocalypse, and is deep enough for them to stay in.
** Also, "alive" zombie heads on pikes, still moaning.

* {{Fanservice}}: YourMileageMayVary, but Tomboy masturbating out in the open. Could be FetishFuel too.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: YourMileageMayVary, but zombies residing at the bottom of a lake, clawing at any human that dares swim by, is pretty damn scary, especially if you can't swim. FridgeHorror [[IncrediblyLamePun sinks]] in if you think about how this could apply to any body of water that had people around it at the time of the ZombieApocalypse, and is deep enough for them to stay in.