Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #38798 in DVD
• Released on: 2005-08-09
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 78 minutes

From the Actor
This limited collector's edition includes an all-new trailer and the making-of featurette "15 Years in 15 Minutes" not included on other editions!

Customer Reviews

A crowd pleaser
I bought The Dead Next door because I love zombie movies. Dawn of the Dead is my favorite horror film of all times and I like to hunt down other rare zombie films. If you thought Night of the Living Dead was a low budget film, wait till you get a load of The Dead Next Door. This is perhaps the most low budget film I have ever seen, yet it impressed me. I first watched it with a group of my friends, and we had a great time. The credits to the film are real cheesy, but if you can get through that, the film turns out pretty good. The story has enough plot for ten zombie films and the gore F/X are excellent for it's budget. The picture quality is a let down, but you can get past that by image controls on your television. The acting is so horrendous that it made all my friends laugh their heads off, adding to the fun of the film. Overall, it is absolutly amazing what 19 year old director J.R. Bookwalter was able to accomplish with a shoe string budget. Any zombie fan should hunt this rare title down.

I'm Having Flashbacks!
I laughed, I cried, and in the end, I learned a little bit more about myself. The Dead Next Door is a heartwarming tale of a boy and his dog. In this case, the boy is Zombie Patrol 205 and the dog is everything else. The movie seems to revolve around a yellow hat which has taken control of a scientist's mind, driving him insane with lust and power. A motley crew of zombie hunting mercenaries are at the mercy of the yellow hat's whims and fancies. The movie reached its climax eight minutes in when the unfortunate zombie hunters sat back and enjoyed watching Evil Dead in the lounge. Cult icon, Bruce Campbell, is involved in the sound for some reason, yet makes no appearance in the movie causing most viewers spontaneous hives. The movie took an unfortunate downward spiral when the bastardized human zombie cop stole the maniacal yellow hat, but did not put it on his head. The movie has a stellar sing-a-long soundtrack rivaled only by The Little Mermaid and The Sound of Music. The random dubbed insertion of "Damn it" seemed nothing more than a flimsy ploy to distract viewers from what is nothing short of a Shakespearean script. My personal favorite part of the movie was when Terri screamed at the sight of a sudden onslaught of zombies. I have one major criticism with this film other than the fact that Zombie Patrol 205's cumulative IQ is less than 205, and that is ZOMBIES CAN'T RUN! Everyone knows this and the sight of running zombies seemed more like a dream sequence than reality. Kudos to the set designers for a magnificent pine zombie cage. Why the ingenious alien yellow hat would order its minion scientist to hide in this flimsy cage is beyond me. Still it made for bone-tingling thrills watching the bastardized zombie cop threaten to eat the yellow hat symbiotic slave's tongue. I am eagerly looking forward to the exciting sequel Yellow Hat Strikes Back. Hopefully this time the hat will find its way onto the head of my hero Bruce Campbell. "Hail to the king, baby!"

A momentous achievement in low-budget filmmaking!
This is Bookwalter's famous homage to Romero's DEAD trilogy. DND takes basic elements of NIGHT, DAWN and DAY (in particular the last two) and adapts them to fit a slightly altered mythos. It is hard to really criticise such a momentous achievement in low-budget filmmaking -- 1,500 extras, 4 years in production -- the sheer determination to make such an epic for so little is praiseworthy enough but to have actually achieved something of this standard is incredible. The bottom line is, of course, that without this movie I very much doubt the scene would be as vibrant as it is. Anyone who says that THE DEAD NEXT DOOR is not a belting effort (in my opinion better than 90% of the much-loved Italian zombie output) should be very wary before they show anyone their own little horror movie or even say those fateful words 'I could do better!'