The Dead Next Door



"How do you kill something that won't die? Where do you run when they're everywhere?"

The Dead Next Door is a low-budget horror movie from 1989.

Plot centers around a post-Zombie Apocalypse USA, where the Zombie Squad has been tasked to get rid of the undead menace. When searching for a possible cure for the undead they run into a zombie-loving cult.


 * And Then John Was a Zombie: fate.
 * Axe Before Entering
 * Blood From the Mouth: Vincent coughs up blood before dying.
 * Dramatic Thunder
 * Dull Surprise: Raimi's reactions to zombies.
 * Eiffel Tower Effect: When the squad arrives back at the Washington D.C., it is established with shots of The White House and Capitol Hill.
 * Eighties Hair
 * Fingore
 * Foreshadowing: "I bet my life and hat on it!"
 * Gone Horribly Wrong
 * Gorn
 * Human Sacrifice: Rev. Jones' cult is shown sacrifing a girl.
 * I'm Melting: Dr. Moulsson's cure has this effect on the fully undead.
 * Impromptu Tracheotomy
 * Machete Mayhem
 * Off With His Head
 * Screaming Woman
 * Shout-Out Theme Naming: Some of the characters are named after horror directors and such.
 * The Smurfette Principle: Kuller.
 * Sunglasses At Night: Reverend Jones
 * Take a Third Option
 * Time Skip
 * Undeathly Pallor
 * Vertigo Effect
 * Would Hurt a Child: One zombie is found munching a corpse of a child.
 * Zombie Advocate: Whole Cult of them.
 * Bunch of these are stationed on the front of the Zombie Squad headquarters.
 * Zombie Apocalypse
 * Zombie Gait