Small screen sensation Lost may have wrapped up this past week, but there’s another showdown this week set largely on an island and centered around feuding factions — some desperate for survival at any cost and others more sanguine about their fate. With his sixth zombie film, Survival of the Dead, writer-director George Romero tells the Hatfield-and-McCoy-esque story of one banished patriarch, hell-bent on clearing Plum Island of zombies like so much dead brush, who hooks up with a group of self-interested mercenaries and clashes with a longtime nemesis who thinks it morally wrong to dispatch afflicted loved ones. I recently caught up with Romero to talk about his filmmaking niche, tribalism, balancing practical and CG effects, and why he doesn’t think zombies have health club memberships. For the interview, from New York Magazine‘s Vulture, click here.