Archive for July, 2010
Survival of the Dead: Is it Really that Bad?
How bad is Survival of the Dead? If you make the rounds among the various horror blogs, genre podcasts and sit in on the discussion panels at the various fan conventions around North America, you’d think that Survival rank up there with the AIDS virus and 9-11 as scourges inflicted on humanity. Or is that just a bunch of hyperbole, like the second sentence of this paragraph? I’m not surprised that some people don’t like the movie. We all have different likes and dislikes. Some people are bound to like it and others not so much, with more people falling somewhere in between. What has surprised me is the emotional intensity of those who didn’t like it, which has gone beyond panning it as a sub par film, venturing more into taking it as a personal insult. Is Survival of the Dead really that bad?