The Dead Next Door

J.R.Bookwalter

1989

Made for little money on super 8mm film this has got to be classed as a great achievement.Funded partly by "Sam Raimi" of "Evil Dead" fame this zombie massacre is one of the best of its type, okay, so it's no "Dawn of the Dead" or "Zombie Flesheaters", but next to those classics this rates very highly ! There's loads of gore although, some of the effects do look cheap and most of the acting is crap ! But seeing as the film has been made very much tongue in cheek there can actually be counted as a plus point. The gore , and believe me there's plenty of it !, is well over the top with blood spurting six feet in the air.

A virus is turning everyone infected by a bite into a flesh craving zombie, so the human population are waging war against them with zombie squads searching for survivors trapped by the monsters.For the type of move it's got quite an elaborate plot with religeous cults and mad scientists getting involved in the fast paced storyline.This film is like a breath of fresh air compared to most of the crap produced nowadays and cant be more highly recommended.

Gore Highlights

The first scene of the film sees a zombie ripping a chunk out of somebodys neck before killing all his mates.

Then there's the scene which involves a zombie being shot in the head, having its head chopped off and then managing to take a chunk out of a guys fingers which sends blood spurting everywhere !

In fact this film has all the hallmarks of a zombie gore classic, with loads of neck chompings, entrail rippings, mad scientists doing weird experiments on the dead, face ripping, tongue chomping and over the top blood spurting about six feet in the air.

Overall some of the effects may be cheesy but most are highly effective!!

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