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The Dead Next Door
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Overview

User Rating:
4.9/10   1,202 votes
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Director:
J.R. Bookwalter
Writer:
J.R. Bookwalter (writer)
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Genre:
Horror more
Tagline:
How do you kill something that won't die? Where do you run when they're everywhere? more
Plot:
The government sets up a Zombie squad after an epidemic has made the world run rampant with living corpses... more | add synopsis
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User Comments:
The Dud Next Door....... more (54 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Pete Ferry ... Raimi (as Peter Ferry)
Bogdan Pecic ... Dr. Moulsson (as Bogdan 'Don' Pecic)
Michael Grossi ... Mercer
Jolie Jackunas ... Kuller
Robert Kokai ... Rev. Jones
Floyd Ewing Jr. ... Capt. Kline
Roger Graham ... Dr. Franklin
Maria Markovic ... Anna
Jon Killough ... Vincent / farmhouse zombie

Scott Spiegel ... Richards
Jeff Welch ... Cmdr. Carpenter
Michael Todd ... Jason / Van driver
J.R. Bookwalter ... Lloyds
Jennifer Mullen ... Powers
Joe Wedlake ... Dr. Savini
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Additional Details

Runtime:
84 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Dolby
Filming Locations:
Akron, Ohio, USA more
Company:
Amsco Studios more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Bruce Campbell's voice can be heard dubbed for the characters Raimi and Commander Carpenter. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Something to Scream About (2003) (V) more
Soundtrack:
Out On The Road more

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13 out of 21 people found the following comment useful.
The Dud Next Door......., 16 August 2005
1/10
Author: davendes from Glens Falls, NY

With a voice dub from the always awesome Bruce Campbell, oodles of "cult classic" comments/reviews, and a DVD release from Anchor Bay, you'd be led to believe this is truly a lost gem resurfaced. Wrong, wrong, WRONG.

Give a 18-ish man-boy (J.R. Bookwalter) two weeks worth of grocery money and let him indulge his crippled "genius" through a Super-8, and this is what you get. Every minute of this movie is saturated in ineptitude. The plot is unimaginative to the extreme, the gore is laughable, the acting is beyond HORRIBLE, and the original actors voices have been clumsily dubbed back in (why???) complete with loads of woodenness.

Looking for something more specific? How about that most of the characters in this movie have names like Raimi, Carpenter, Savini, etc., and get this- The zombie loving cult leader's name is Rev. Jones. Wow, how original; must have taken weeks to come up with that one. The "sets" are a real joy to behold too. Double-wides, abandoned houses, and a high school serve oh-so-realistically as hi-tech labs, government offices and a cult headquarters. Get the idea?

"TDND" isn't low-budget- It's NO-budget and worthless in every aspect. Bookwalter is still at it today, nearly twenty years later, and is just as talent deprived (ie- Ozone) as he was when this piece of trash first came out. Surprise, surprise.

(The 1 star- It's for Campbell.)

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