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Plum Island undead

FilmUndeadShambles2000 to 2009

The sixth film in Romero's series, in which one family keeps its undead relatives while seeking a cure and tries to get them to eat something other than people. It continues his interest in whether zombies can be changed. Critics received it poorly.12

Battle it
First appeared
2009
Released 2009
Source work
Survival of the Dead (2009)
George A. Romero
Age rating
R
Made in
USA, Canada
What causes it
Never explained
No cause is given.
How you become one
A bite infects; the bitten die and turn.
How it moves
Shambles
The undead are shown staggering.
Weak spots
  • shot to the head

When did it first appear?

Ancient worldMiddle Ages1500 to 18991900 to 19671968 to 19992000 to 20092010 to today2009

Released 2009

field notes

What the sources say

1

One island clan keeps its undead relatives chained while waiting for a cure12

2

The clan patriarch tries to train the undead to eat something other than human flesh12

3

Styled after the 1958 Western The Big Country, with two feuding families12

4

Shot in Ontario for about 4 million dollars12

5

Variety found little new in it beyond fresh ways of killing zombies12

Could you outrun it?

Speed class from how the sources describe it (shambles), not a measurement.

Plum Island undead about 3 km/h (1.9 mph)
You, walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
You, jogging about 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
A fit adult sprinting about 24 km/h (15 mph)
A fast cyclist about 37 km/h (23 mph)

Sources

  1. Survival of the Dead - Wikipedia
  2. Survival of the Dead - Rotten Tomatoes

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