Max Kämmerer
So, The Dead Hate the Living, eh? Like I said, the movie is a collection of very nice and very terrible scenes.SPOILERS START For example, the best actor was, in my opinion, Matt Stephens, who played Eibon. Therefore his scenes were the greatest in the movie: e.g. The scene where he discovers his wife has died of cancer and begins to study the dead.Tremendously terrible movie situations are watching a big, scuffling zombie walking down a corridor, mumbling: "I kill you." or Eric Clawson, whom I consider to be the worst actor of this piece, saying completely enthusiastically about the death of his friend and co-worker: "Leave him, he's dead." As if someone had spilt some yoghurt on the floor.SPOILERS END 6/10, not more, not less.
movieman_kev
A group of young filmmakers break into an old abandoned hospital to shoot a film and inadvertently open a portal that unleashes zombies on the hapless cast and crew in this horror-comedy. Mixing horror with comedy is a VERY tricky thing. The ones that work do so amazingly well (Dead Alive, Return of the Living Dead, Re-animator, bad taste, etc...). The movies that don't work are usually total ass.This self-referential name-dropping, scene stealing film is part of the latter and ranks down there with "Dead Heat" as far as what NOT to do to succeed. Horrible acting, music, lame jokes, stealing scenes outright from far better films, dime-store special effects, and an unengaging, unoriginal story all add up to a putrid stench-filled film.My Grade: D- DVD Extras: Commentary by Writer/Director Dave Parker, and actors Eric Clawson, Matt Stephens, Brett Beardslee, & Jamie Donahue; photo gallery; production art; a 20 minute behind the scenes featurette; Music video; a ad for the puppet master toys; and theatrical trailer Gripes: If you have the commentary turned on and then go to the extras NONE of them will play sound. word of warning
belldandy032
This is made of horror fans, by horror fans, for horror fans. Throughout the movie are references to classic horror movies and their stars (Fulci, Bruce Campbell, Dawn Of The Dead, The Changeling, Dick Miller, etc). This movie is not afraid to poke fun at itself, it's all in good fun. Parker was not trying to make this a terrifying, original movie but trying to give a good laugh to horror movie fans. Parker tries to incorporate as many horror/thriller clichés as possible. Granted there are not thousands of zombies in the film, or dozens for that matter but the few that are there have great makeup. If you are not a huge movie buff then this may not be suited for you, although you'll probably get a few good laughs out of it even if you've never seen a horror movie in your life.
John_Warwick
It's a shame that this film has such a low rating on IMDb because it really is quite an entertaining film if you are prepared to wait. The problem with this film is that it seems to take forever to actually get going which can be a problem with a lot of the cheaper horror films ( I think that dark power is the worst of those I've ever seen). But for a film with a low budget when it does get going the going is good okay so its not brilliant but you shouldn't really be expecting it to be. A good little horror film made on a low budget and if you have no patience at all just skip forward for the first half hour you'll still get some background info before the action starts.
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