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List Price: $9.98 | | Label: Starz / Anchor Bay
Salesrank: 25249
Released: August 9, 2005 |
| Our Price: $4.46 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
The government sets up a Zombie squad after an epidemic has made the world run rampant with living corpses. Raimi, Mercer, Kuller, and others head off to Ohio to try and find a cure to the epidemic but soon run into a crazy cult of zombie lovers who are set on preserving the zombies and letting a new world be born because they believe that it's God's will. When Mercer gets infected with the zombie virus, Raimi and the others must work quickly to find a cure and avoid the cult.
The Dead Next Door Reviews:
Nice debut, but Bookwalter got better with experience. 
2009-12-11 - The Dead Next Door (J. R. Bookwalter, 1989)
J. R. Bookwalter, who gave us the surprisingly fun Ozone back in 1993, got his celluloid start as an extra in George Romero's 1985 flick Day of the Dead. His directorial debut was The Dead Next Door, and like many features produced by those who have been on the fringes of Romero's ride to superstardom, it owes a great deal to Romero. Unlike a lot of other movies that have come out of Romero's camp followers, however, The Dead Next Door is not a derivative, jumbled mess. Bookwalter already had a vision for what he was after that differed from Romero's (as can be seen by more recent work), and so he didn't feel the need to stay tied slavishly to the canon, as did filmmakers like Savini, Hinzmann, and Russo. So while The Dead Next Door still has its ties, it can't be seen as anything but its own film.
Plot's pretty basic: zombies come back from the dead and the military puts together a unit that's supposed to go out and exterminate them. Problem is, since the zombie invasion began, a religious cult has sprung up around the walking dead, and they will do anything they can to stop the government team from achieving its objective.
Yeah, it's basic, and this is a seriously no-budget film, so you have to know what you're getting into here. Don't expect a big Hollywood production with top-notch actors and effects. If, however, you're open to movies that are a lot of fun to watch because the people who were making them had a lot of fun making them, then The Dead Next Door may be right up your alley. You may be better off starting with Oxygen, which Bookwalter made with an even smaller budget (but more experience, so it's a better movie) and then progressing to this, but if you like your cheese with a large slab of dead meat, then you will eventually want to get your mitts on The Dead Next Door. **
ZOMBIE CRAP 
2009-10-30 - This is total zombie crap-bad acting, bad effects and worst of all, BAD ZOMBIES. Do yourself a favor and stay away from this one- watch Zombie, city of the living dead or even the disturbing burial ground, all of which are, at worst, watchable, as opposed to this terrible attempt at filmaking.
UHHH! HORRIBLE
2008-11-19 - I love zombie movies..so I bought this one to try it out. Don't waste your money!!! I love a b-rated zombie movie more than the average person so it says something when I say this movie sucks!!!
Awful & Pathetic
2008-05-20 - The worst zombie flick I have ever seen...bad filming; cheap effects. A lot of bad zombie movies make up for their low budget with damn good zombies and lots of gore and humor... or a spooky atmosphere/music at the very least... In this movie the only difference between the zombies and the regular folk is that their faces have blue and red paint smeared on them. The bonus material is more interesting than the actual feature movie...and even that was lame. I think it's got high ratings only because the zombie story was different here from a lot of typical zombie scenarios.
A fine zombie horror comedy! 
2008-05-15 - A virus has accidently been unleashed and changes humans into vicious flesh-eating zombies that begin to attack the nation. The goverment sends out a special zombie killing task squad to elimiate the dead and it's pro-zombie protesters in Ohio where they must try to find out the source of the virus that started it all.
A fun mix of off the wall humor and gory zombie horror with some action! it happens to be the most expensive independent movie shot on Super-8 film ever with 4 years in the making. Produced by Sam Raimi whom is credited as "The Master Cylinder" in the credits, Bruce Campbell does a dub voice over on a couple of actors and stars "Evil Dead 2" co-scripter Scott Spiegel. It has be a cult film that has gained a small following since it was first released on video, fans of the genre will recongize some of the jokes and references to other horror flicks especially Romero's movies, it's a blast.
This special Edition DVD from Anchor Bay contains good picture and sound quality with some cool extras like an audio commentary, trailer, a featurette, behind the scenes still gallery, auditions, deleted scenes, music video, production still gallery, video storyboards and FrightVision 2000 Reunion.
Also recommended: "Re-Animator", "Night of the Living Dead (1968 and 1990)", "Dawn of the Dead (1978)", "Day of the Dead (1985)", "Land of the Dead", "Diary of the Dead", "Planet Terror", "The Stuff", "Shaun of the Dead", "Versus", "Demons", "Night of the Creeps", "Dawn of the Dead (2004)", "The Return of the Living Dead Trilogy", "Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (a.k.a. Living Dead At The Manchester Morgue)", "From Dusk Till Dawn", "Dead Alive (a.k.a. Braindead)", "Night of the Comet", "Hell of the Living Dead (a.k.a. Night of the Zombies)", "Zombie (a.k.a. Zombi 2)", "Nightmare City (a.k.a. City of the Walking Dead)", "Grindhouse", "Fido", "Evil Dead 1 & 2", "Phantasm", "Resident Evil Trilogy", "Zombi Holocaust", "Bio-Zombie", "Dead and Buried", "Bad Taste", "City of the Living Dead", "House By The Cemetery" and "The Beyond".
