FRANCHISED
Survival of the Dead
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"In an us-versus-them world, someone puts up a flag, another person tears it down and puts up his own. Pretty soon no one remembers what started the war in the first place and the fighting becomes all about those stupid flags."
This week on FRANCHI$ED, hosts Jonathan Foster, Ariane Anantaputri & Fil Freitas enlist in the National Guard, only to find the world goes AWOL (zombies again...) and we are left trying to find a safe haven amongst the dead. Our journeys take us to Plum Island – a weird island off the coast of New England, that is inhabited by two Irish families in the midst of a decades old feud.
It's the episode of Season 2, with George A. Romero's SURVIVAL OF THE DEAD (2009). It's the final film in the director's second Dead Trilogy, and sadly, the final film the director would direct before his passing in 2017. This time, Romero – for the first time ever – makes an actual sequel... sort of. The film stars Alan van Sprang as Sergeant "Nicotine" Crockett, who we last saw in Diary of the Dead robbing the poor film students of their supplies, back leading his crew of National Guardsmen into the Apocalypse. Taking influence from William Wyler's The Big Country, Romero places these soldiers into a Hattfields & McCoys-styled Western drama with Zombies.
Is this film a fitting end to the storied director's career? Tune in to find out...
And don't miss our Season Two Wrap Up episode, released in the feed on the same day this episode drops, where we reveal what we've learned from all these zombie movies and our plans for Season Three – coming in Feb or March 2022!
It's time to get Zombified and FRANCHI$ED!
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