Romero loses his touch

Legendary horror filmmaker George A. Romero’s newest flick, 'Survival of the Dead,' was possibly the worst movie at TIFF. It features poor acting, cookie-cutter stereotyped characters, and a ridiculous plot taken straight from a soap opera (yes—there actually is an evil twin). The pace is slow, there’s way too much sitting around, and the zombies look like someone’s mom did their make-up with a kit from Zellers. And the “evils of revenge” theme is laid on pretty thick—it’s like Romero was trying to compassionately smother his painfully dying film with the pillow of heavy-handed metaphor.