The Dead Next Door (1989)

I've seen this movie three times by now and it's still as enjoyable as it was the first time.

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.

The Dead Next Door is made by some students, a group of hard working friends, and it shows. You can basically see on every single detail that this movie was not made by people who had any or much experience in movie making. Though it's mainly the enthusiasm that they put in it, which shows in the movie, that makes The Dead Next Door this much fun.

The acting is hilariously bad and more than once provides a smile on your face. Especially Bogdan Pecic as Doctor Moulsson is embarrassingly bad but at the same time very funny to watch. It's a bit of a bummer that the sound was very bad. This way the dialogs (although they don't mean much in a movie like this) sound kinda dumb and it also make gunshots sound like huge farts.

The Dead Next Door biggest plus is absolutely the gore which never looks realistic but does look pretty cheesy. Think of heads being cut off who continue to bite for flesh and bodies without heads who are still moving and more of those kinda cool things. I didn't like the whole religious cult part though as I felt it didn't fit the movie.

The Dead Next Door is an ambitious little film made by guys who had the best time of their lives making it and that shows in the movie. Don't take the movie serious as it doesn't want to be taken serious. Just enjoy this pure cheesyness.!