George Romero’s final zombie film, Twilight of the Dead, gets some good news

Brad Anderson is an underrated filmmaker. He quietly released some of the best thrillers of the century, including Session 9, The Machinist, Trans-Siberian, And Beirut. He’s back with an excellent new action thriller. The silent hourabout a deceased deaf detective (Joel Kinnaman) who is trapped in an abandoned high-rise building with a deaf woman who has been targeted by a murderous gang. It showcases Anderson’s usual ability to create tension, but takes it to an even more interesting level by incorporating deafness into the film’s aesthetic. After that, Anderson hopes to complete an upcoming project – the final film in George A. Romero’s zombie franchise. Twilight of the Dead. He told MovieWeb in a recent interview:

“It’s broken. We’re just looking for places.”
We are literally in the phase where we only decide on locations and the like
so that will be great. That would be a completely different film [from
The Silent Hour
]. We take the film that George wrote the treatment for and from which the screenplay was inspired
I try to do it in a way that is respectful to the Romero franchise and the entire universe he created
.”

George Romero planned one last film for the living dead

More than 55 years ago, Romero began his groundbreaking sociopolitical horror project with 1968’s Night of the Living Dead. The filmmaker essentially created the modern zombie in the cultural zeitgeist and followed it with the masterpiece of all time Dawn of the Dead and the truly underrated and horrific Day of the Dead. Years later he returned and produced a controversial and often derided film series that continued the franchise – Land of the Dead, Diary of the Dead, And Survival of the dead.

But the franchise wasn’t over yet; Romero had a story treatment and part of a script for a final film, Twilight of the Deadbut died before he could finish it. Luckily, a director like Brad Anderson is the perfect choice to make this happen. “I hope it happens soon,” Anderson said, adding:

“It should also be something like a finale [franchise]in a certain way.
It’s supposed to be some kind of button, and I suspect that’s how Romero imagined it
. So yeah, it would be great to be able to do it.
We just want to make a zombie movie that’s not like a typical zombie movie
just like [
the Silent Hour
] is not your typical thriller. That’s the kind of films I like to make, ones that don’t straddle the boundaries of the genre so perfectly. I like trying new things.

Meanwhile, Anderson’s new film stars Joel Kinnaman, Sandra Mae Frank and Mekhi Phifer, The silent hourcan be rented or purchased on-demand or on digital platforms. It’s excellent.