ThedevilChoose When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Mehdi Hoffman There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

Frances Chung Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Taha Avalos The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

patrick-wheeler-31-914173 This is one of the greatest zombie movies ever if you want to get an idea of what the 80's were like; mullets, zombie mayhem, and 80's synth closing music over credits, this movie is a time capsule to those innocent 80's when anyone and everyone that had that "can do" attitude when it came to making movies (Scott Spiegel learned from the best; Raimi, Campbell & Tapert) did so with conviction, no matter how bad the final product turned out. took me back to some fun times. it is quite entertaining once you watch it from a "looking back to the 80's" perspective. watch with a Duran Duran cassette playing in your "Walkman" and "pop" your Polo collar

zombizombizombi Love this movie cheesy as hell gory as hell and I like the direction a lot the bad dub job Bruce Campbell voice in the movie lots of zombies and just great camp I think a lot of people just don't get it glade I did tho!Story well there is a zombie apocalypse and there is a crazy Jim Jones like cult that want to save the zombies rev Jones ha ha the character names are great to commander carpenter ramie Romero etc.For a super 8 movie its very impressive zombies look great and gore effects work very well also love the opening credits and soundtrack I need to find it if its available.If I was J.R Bookwalter I be proud its entertaining and the replay value is way high the movie runs only 78 minutes.The DVD by anchor bay is must buy!!!!

lastliberal You know that something different is coming when the zombies try to rent Dawn of the Dead.Scott Spiegel has a long list of credits, but he sure was a lousy actor here. Glad to see him leave early. Of course, he wasn't too much worse than the rest of the zombie squad members, whose carelessness always seemed to get themselves in situations where they were bitten.This was an enjoyable zombie movie, with some great makeup and plenty of gore. Someone should have told the director that when the cult sacrifices someone, they should be naked.Loved the wacko reverend, his mullet-headed enforcer, and the religious cult. Seeing the rev get his just desserts was a thrill, all all mullet-heads should be eaten by zombies.

Nick Drew When I first approached this, I was not half expecting something more crude and nasty, but instead I found this to be mildly entertaining and an inoffensive ode to the classics of the genre, e.g. 'Night of The Living Dead', 'The Evil Dead', et all.Something about this I particularly enjoyed was the tongue in cheek, often self-mocking sense of humour, with such things as a zombie frequenting a video store, and its subsequent choice selection of tapes to rent, and there is a plethora of other in jokes which should please real fans. Other more satirical things like protesters congregating for the civil rights of zombies, and also a religious cult of fanatics which believe it is Gods' will that the un dead becomes the successors to the human race. I suppose many of these little touches go to lengths in characterising the movie.As for the acting here, every player gives Oscar winning Jack Nicholson style performances, um, er, . . . I jest of course, seriously though, all of these willing unknowns do try, and seemingly give their best, and granted the somewhat underdeveloped threadbare script to work with, I think in most case's make up for general lack of natural talent with more gumption and enthusiasm. The director\producer\writer here gives many of the characters names of established horror directors, like calling the main protagonist Raimi, and another one is called Doctor Savini. , And so on. On a side note, Fred Dekker took a similar approach with 'Night of The Creeps' released a couple of years later.One of the problems that pull the rug from under this movie is that there is just too many characters, and none are really fleshed out properly, and there isn't really anything under lying the story to get your teeth into (sorry) making this rather chaotic and boring at times.Effects wise, this has a few good moments, with occasional scenes which sport a zombie that has proper prosthetic makeup, which does look quite good taking into account the minimal resources. Also, some limited special gore effects, such as blood squirting and twitching body parts, which are done here in the style of Sam Raimi's aforementioned sleeper. Other than this however, most effects constitute just extras running around with some green paint smeared on their faces, as you might come to expect.Overall, 'The Dead Next Door' remain a fairly decent zombie outing, and given the production values and time spent in development, can be looked at as a sort of achievement in its own right. Some chuckles and decent effects save it from being a complete waste of time, and I think it is more worthwhile than many modern horror efforts. I can't recommend this one to everybody, but non-discriminating horror movie goers, and real splatter aficionado's will most likely get a bit of a kick out of it.