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George Romero's upcoming ...Of the Dead will take his very well-worn zombie path down a new direction: necrophilia. Not in the gross sexual way that we automatically attribute to the word - but in the truly etymological way. As you probably know "necro" means "death or of the dead" while the suffix "-philia" means "love of or to love". So Romero proposes - what if instead of hating and slaughtering these zombies, these dead friends and relatives come back to life - we love them.

Read the official synopsis from the Voltage Pictures production website after the jump.

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?

While I'm one who doesn't revere the ground Romero walks on this is truly an interesting concept. In fact it's one of the most humanistic approaches to the zombie world I've ever heard. However, the entire principle does remind me an awful lot of the final scene in Shaun of the Dead where Shaun goes into the back shed and plays video games with his zombified friend Ed.

I think the downside is that even with a really interesting main plot - you just know, in order to appease his fans - he needs to have the thing end in a bloodbath. Who the hell wants to see a zombie movie with a PG ending?

But this may be worth watching...