Product Description

While filming their horror epic a renegade band of young filmmakers open the portal to a dead world that releases dozens of zombies who proceed to trap them in an abandoned hospital. Studio: E1 Entertainment Release Date: 08/27/2002 Starring: Eric Clawson Brett Beardslee Rating: R Director: Dave Parker

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #95039 in DVD
• Brand: Koch International
• Released on: 2000-03-28
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Formats: Color, DVD, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.com
What could be better than a bunch of Italian horror buffs making their own zombie flick in a spooky abandoned hospital? Being attacked by the real thing, of course. The Dead Hate the Living echoes with such American genre classics as Phantasm, The Evil Dead, and Scream, but it's ultimately a love letter to the nightmarish scenarios and visual freakouts of Italian horror pictures. The hapless crew discovers a creepy black altar (complete with its own decorative corpse) and incorporates it into their film. When their scripted ceremony opens a portal from another dimension and unleashes an army of rampaging zombies, the hallways become flooded in red and blue and green pools of light for no good reason other than it looks cool. The hospital is suddenly adrift in an alternate reality because... well, just because. Writer-director Dave Parker never tries to explain the madness (a zombie's exclamation, "Hate the living! Love the dead!" is as much motive as we're offered), choosing instead to simply plunge viewers into the inspired mayhem. What makes it all work is a love of the genre, a cast of energetic, likable performers, cool zombie makeup, and a sure, stylish hand. Horror movie mavens will pick up on oodles of clever references (a bumper sticker that reads "Fulci lives"; a zombie king commanding, "Make them die... slowly"), but these are merely asides in an accomplished, clever, and remarkably entertaining indie horror riff. --Sean Axmaker

Customer Reviews

Full Moon's Best Yet!
Well, they did it. Full Moon actually released a good movie besides The Puppet Master series and a couple of others. This one is a masterful horror video that focuses on about ten teens that go to an abandoned hospital to shoot their first horror movie. But when the kids find a real body, they want to use it in the movie. The figure, "Whoa, a real corpse! How cool!" How wrong they are. Excellent in the scare factor and gore. This is my second favorite zombie movie next to Return of the Living Dead. Any horror fan will eat up the nods to other horror movies ( Like the bumper sticker that says "FULCI LIVES!" ) Buy this immediately, any true horror fan will not be disappointed.

was not that bad
Some people are being way too harsh on this movie. I'm giving it 5 starts becuase it deserves a better rating that it has. Sure the acting wasn't oscar material but so what. It's still alot better than children of the living dead and the god awful house of the dead. And to the comment one moron made about the main badguy being a rob zombie rip off: 1) they had originally wanted rob to play the part but he was busy and 2) i guess everybody else with long dark hair and a beard is a rob zombie rip off too. Get over yourself. The special effects were decent and the nods to horror fans were cool as well. The premise, people filming a zombie moving being attacked by the real thing, hasn't been done before either to my knowledge. Give this movie a chance and don't listen to these people giving it 1 star because it at least deserves a 2 1/2- 4.

Pleasant Surprise
If you are a fan of Italian Horror/Gore ,then this is a tongue in cheek hommage to what is best about it .The storyline is easily followed with lots of Horror injokes about Fulci ,Argento and many others . The f/x are rather well done for a low budget movie ,in the opening scene what appears to be a bad make-up job on the zombie's neck is actually a bad make up job for the movie that is being shot . And if that isn't enough then all the extras that they packed into the DVD should . Concept art,music video ,outtakes and much more .I was pleasantly surprised by this movie and would recomend it to others .