The Dead Next Door - 80s zombie trash

If Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead had a baby, and that baby was raised by a steaming hunk of cheese... you'd have The Dead Next Door (1989). It has a lot of similar themes to both movies, including grey-faced zombies, mad scientists who experiment on the dead, and tons of little things.

Hell, they even show a video of "Dawn of the Dead", and "The Evil Dead" is seen on the television at one point. You know you don't have an original horror film when you're throwing around horror references any chance you can get. Almost every character is named after something related to the genre. Jason, Carpenter, Savini, Raimi... I wonder if they even knew how blatant they were being back then, because it seems a bit much... and it seems like the story is kind of thin, you know?

Either way, the cheese factor makes it pretty entertaining nonetheless. The story is shit, but something about the 80s-ness of it makes it all good fun. The gore isn't half bad either, but let's face it. This is nowhere near the aforementioned zombie epics, in terms of quality, but for a random 80s zombie movie... it ain't half bad. I'm surprised it took me so long to see this one.