The Dead Next Door

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Movie
German title The Dead Next Door
Original title The Dead Next Door
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1989
length 72 minutes
Age rating FSK indexed
Rod
Director JR Bookwalter
script JR Bookwalter
production JR Bookwalter
Jolie Jackunas
music JR Bookwalter
camera Michael Tolochko
cut JR Bookwalter
occupation

The Dead Next Door is an American low-budget - horror film from director JR Bookwalter from 1989. The budgeted at about $ 75,000 amateur zombie movie operated among others Sam Raimi as Executive Producer with.

action

In the American city of Akron in the US state of Ohio , experiments by the scientist Dr. Bow out a plague that resurrects the dead. The living dead develop cannibalistic traits and turn into so-called zombies , creatures with an almost insatiable greed for human flesh . These monsters then attack the living, infecting them, so that those bitten turn into zombies themselves within a very short time. This leads to a huge increase in the undead population, which is spreading across the United States and eventually depopulating entire swathes of land.

Five years later, these beings are a real threat to all of humanity, as there is neither an effective antidote nor reliable weapon systems to combat them. Well-trained special units, the "Zombie Squad", wage a hopeless and costly fight to master the situation and to protect the few survivors. You will work closely with a team of scientists who are about to complete an immune serum . However, the research director Dr. Moulsson used Bows' original serum to modify its genetic structure. Therefore, a small unit of the protection force travels with Dr. Moulsson and assistants to Akron, the origin of the zombie epidemic.

Contrary to expectations, they hardly find any infected people there, although they are hostile to a Christian sect around Reverend Jones, which holds the zombies captive and offers them human sacrifices. The strange religious community that incidentally witnessed the death of Dr. Bow was responsible, managed to domesticate the creatures partially in order to achieve the desired world domination with their help. The presence of the special unit therefore inevitably triggers conflicts that escalate as the action increases. While Reverend Jones' men are fighting the Zombie Squad unit, the scientists present manage to develop a serum in an urgent manner, which they inject into an infected member of the protection force. Contrary to their thesis, however, this one is not cured, but turned into a zombie.

At the end of the film, the zombies held captive in the cellar by the doomed Reverend are released, followed by bloody fighting. Almost all of the living are killed, only the injured Raimi, a squad veteran, and the blonde Kuller escape the scene. Dr. Moulsson finds death, but still manages to convey the formula to an employee over the phone. The era of mankind ends with the inability of the person called, the research assistant in distant Washington. In a dark scenario, the zombies take over the world.

Reviews

Cavett Binion called The Dead Next Door in All Movie Guide as " probably the most expensive film ever on Super-8 was shot ." However, even though the movie " essentially a home video with Epic width " ( Epic-scale home movie is), it is " very stylish ". According to Binion, The Dead Next Door remains director Bookwalter's best attempt, with countless witty homages to the George Romero films that inspired The Dead Next Door .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. http://german.imdb.com/title/tt0094962/business
  2. ^ Entry in Cavett Binion's All Movie Guide at movies.nytimes.com, accessed August 27, 2008