This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

What this film lacks in originality, it more than makes up for in spirit. THE DEAD NEXT DOOR is a home-made, amateur zombie film, heavily influenced and inspired by Romero's trilogy - in fact I would go so far to say that it's a complete rip-off. Every plot turn and twist is "borrowed" in one way or another from NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, DAWN OF THE DEAD, and DAY OF THE DEAD, and these are easy to spot. However, don't expect this minor niggle to spoil the fun - far from it.The real fun comes from watching the endless parade of low-budget gore effects trotted out before us. In a mainstream film these would be awful - in this mini-masterpiece, they're a lot of fun. We've got fake blood squirting everywhere, body parts digested, everything you could wish for. Considering that some of the dismemberment scenes look very similar and of a matching quality to those in DAY OF THE DEAD shows you just how much Bookwalter and his team achieved on their budget. In fact I probably enjoy low budget gore more than high budget offerings, as you really get to see all the work put into the effects. The highlight here is a scene where a severed head bites off a man's fingers which are then ejected through the neck opening! The acting is awful - as to be expected. The music is unmemorable, and the opening and closing titles look just like they've been made on a computer - which they have been. These factors only help to add to the fun. As a point of interest, Sam Raimi's Renaissance Pictures actually helped to fund this film, and you may spot long-time Raimi collaborator Scott Spiegel low down in the cast list as a soldier. He's the guy who directed the supermarket slasher, INTRUDER. B-Movie fans take note that the principal character is dubbed by none other than the man himself, Bruce Campbell! For fans of amateur zombie films, this one is a treat.

The Boyz are part of a Zombie Eradication Squad cleans and sweeps houses for survivors of the Zombie Apocalypse, which is in full swing. Adorned in Top Gun Flight suits aviator glasses they are based in a front line surgical hospital where they crack sardonic jokes with the doctors there. The doctors and their orderlies are there to look for a cure to the Zombie Apocalypse. We get a glimpse of their daily grind as a Z.E.S. when they are called out to save survivors who showed up to protest the outright shooting of Zombies are attacked by said Zombies. In one of their patrols they run into a Cult of Survivors that Worship the Zombies and consider them the next step in the evolution of man.The hardest part of the movie is suspending all tactical and Zombie knowledge you have to date. This movie came out before "COPS" where we could see more tactful proficiency in middle-aged balding beer bellied cop clearing out a basement for a teen-age runaway than this squad clearing out a house. I was tearing my hair out as they're shuffling around with 3-4 cross-slung long barreled guns instead of a 45 and a Katana.

In The Dead Next Door the world has become over ran with zombies, in response the government has created a elite squad with one mission and one mission only to eliminate the zombie menace.And at the same time defending themselves against a cult of zombie sympathizers that believe that its god's will that zombies take over the earth. When one of their own are bitten it becomes a race to find a cure and ride Akron Ohio of the horde of walking dead.First off one of my favorite things about this movie when I was a kid and still today was all the horror references and trivia involved with it. In the early beginning of the film be on the lookout for a quick shot of Dawn of the dead, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Evil Dead, and Creepshow. Also some interesting facts about The Dead Next Door the great Bruce Campbell does unaccredited voice work and was also a audio post-production supervisor. Also producing under the name The Master Cylinder, Sam Raimi was also involved and also the namesake of one of the main characters. There's also characters with the last names Savini and Carpenter.This movie is not filled with top notch acting or big budget special effects. But what it is filled with is beautiful make up effects and mind blowing zombie gore. This is a true zombie classic that any hardcore horror fan should take the time to experience. It's very Evil Dead like in the respect it's loaded with humorous one liners and a over the top silly plot mixed in with graphic gore. This is no where near a serious movie but it is loads of campy classic 80's horror fun. And once again for you readers with Netflix memberships this film is currently available via instaview so you have nothing to lose and a ton of enjoyment to gain.8/10 - Ritualistic The Liberal Dead http://liberaldead.blogspot.com

I really enjoyed this film. I watched it once or twice before I hit the special features and watched the featurettes with interviews from the cast and crew. I think those interviews really helped me appreciate this film more. The director had no budget and no idea how to really operate a camera (it seems the first time they shot a lot of the effects and various scenes, the light meter was trusted less than the untrained eye, and many shots came out so dark that they were unusable). With some creative and sometimes silly, schlocky ideas for gore and effects and an interesting, even compelling follow-up to both Romero's Dead films (the original three which had been released by that time) and Sam Raimi's Evil Dead I and II, I really think this film had some interesting points to it. There are no incredible special effects, the acting is silly (the main character's voice has now been replaced with Bruce Campbell's), the budget was extremely low (though it was funded by a "Mr. X," who kept his identity a secret... do a little research on that one, the answer is surprising), and I think they made something campy, fun, and even, at times, creepy. I liked it a lot for a no-budget midnight flick.