George A. Romero, perpetual Godfather of Zombie films is off making yet another film Of the Dead. Having released only a few films ‘of the dead’ in the first 3 decades, the new films are now coming quite hard and fast, with Land of the Dead being followed by Diary of the Dead, and now it seems that the film the internet is circulating as “Something of the Dead” is moving along quite nicely. Nicely enough, it seems, to have a teaser trailer made and ready for distribution to all those who are interested. You can view it on Voltage Picture’s own web-page, available here in as high a quality as they’ll let us all watch it. Voltage Pictures is also including a brief synopsis to add to the previously meager description. For those who recall, we previously seemed to have a plotline very much like Fulci’s Zombie with an island and a shark being mentioned. Now it seems the synopsis has at least forgotten about the shark. Voltage Pictures tells us that Romero’s new film is about the following:

“On a small island off North America’s coast, the dead rise to menace the living. Yet…the islanders can’t bring themselves to exterminate their loved ones, despite the growing danger from those the once held dear. A rebel among them hunts down all the zombies he can find, only to be banished from the island for assassinating his neighbors and friends. On the mainland, bent on revenge, he encounters a small band of survivors in search of an oasis on which to build a new life. Barely surviving an attack from a mass of ravenous flesh-eaters. They commandeer a zombie-infested ferry and sail to the island. There, to their horror, they discover that the locals have chained the dead inside their homes, pretending to live ‘normal’ lives…with bloody consequences. What ensues is a desperate struggle for survival and the answer to a question never posed in Romero’s Dead films: Can the living ever live in peace with the dead?”

 Now having read a lot of stories about this particular idea of late, I’m surprised to see more people aren’t offended by the very idea of asking if the living can live in peace with the dead. Surely we always knew the living lived just fine with the dead. It’s those pesky undead that we have trouble living sensibly with. Somewhat like when you try to make a seal and a polar bear play together, it seems one individuals hunger for the flesh of the other always interferes with the loving friendship. Either way, the lack of sharks and tropics has to be a positive thing for this film. The only negative that trailer showed was a load of people talking in Drunken Irish. As if the drunken Irish could be distinguished from Zombies. We’ll keep reporting as the story unfolds.