The Dead Hate the Living!
The Dead Hate the Living!
R | 08 February 2000 (USA)
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When a renegade band of young filmmakers break into an abandoned hospital to make their horror epic, they stumble upon a real dead body and decide to use it in their movie. They accidentally bring it back to life, open a portal to a dead world that releases dozens of other zombies, then struggle for their lives in a desperate attempt to flee from the creatures who apparently have them hopelessly trapped in the hospital.

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RogerBorg

This 'movie' can be summed up in one shot; a protagonist throws an flammable object at the zombies. Except he doesn't, because 1) There's no budget to replace a broken vessel, so he doesn't let go.2) The editing is so shoddy that you can clearly see that he doesn't let go. And they just don't give a damn.This is worse than 1950's B movie bad; at least then the editors tried to make up for the lack of budget. This 'movie' is just a sloppy crapfest from yawn inducing beginning to truncated "OK, my mom won't give me another advance on my allowance, so we have to wrap it up here." ending. There's not even any T&A to distract from the awful grind. Utterly bad and sad in every department. A thousand years of bad juju on anyone associated with it.

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badgrrlkane

I mean TDHTL is not by no means a great horror film.It is what it is.A low-grade B-movie but it has it's moments of being a cool horror film even w/h it's name-dropping. And it's thankfully a short film though i would like to seen a sequel to see what happens to the 2 main characters after they enter the land Of the Dead. i mean i 've seen way worse horror films, watch death tunnel & you'll think this one is a gem.Good directing from Dave Parker & i actually liked the storyline though the acting was a bit lame. Reminded me at times of low-grade 80's horror but all in all it's what i expected.I think these bad reviews are from people expecting B-horror to be good horror & films such as this one,Boo,nIGHT oF THE Demons etc are not really meant to be good.They appeal to a lovers of B- grade horror films. And w/h this being a horror comedy it's meant to be cheesy.For those who are trying to say it should've been serious well stick w/h more mainstream or actual scary HORROR FILMS.IDO WHEN I WANT TO SEE THAT TYPE OF MOVIE. But when you watch a B-movie you know is a horror comedy don't compare Dead Alive,Evil dead & all the classics as that's not what these movies are even trying to become. I liked this & would recommend it to true fans of silly Horror comedy.And if you hated this stay away from the Sleepaway Camp trilogy.** out of *****

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Matt Kracht

I love movies. I love horror movies. I love horror movies about zombies. But I did not love this movie. No. I hate horror movies about zombies that try to be witty beyond their limits, and this movie shot for the stars and didn't even make it to the launching pad. This movie promises you gore, zombies, and competent film-making. You will find minor amounts of gore here, yes; and, you will find a couple zombies. The make-up and effects, however, are so fake, it's actually distracting, and it comes across as having been done by some over-eager high school kids who have no professional training. It may very well have been. The promised zombies were perhaps the biggest disappointment. I wasn't asking for much -- I know this movie was supposed to be low budget -- but what's the point of making a zombie movie with just two or three zombies? You might as well just make them escaped lunatics. As far as competent film-making: ugh. The plot was so throw-away, it seemed like a reject from Scream 5 or Scary Movie 8. In fact, I've have had dreams that were way more engrossing than this movie.Will I ever watch this movie again? Yes, I will. I am aiming to educate my friends and loved ones on what it truly means to have seen "the worst movie ever". People are far too free with that phrase, and I want to make sure that they've suffered adequately before they use it. They think, "Oh, I saw that Manos movie on MST3K. That was the worst movie ever!" No. I don't care how many episodes of MST3K you watched. You have not *earned* the right to use that phrase until you have sat through every miserable frame (sober, and without the benefit of witty commentary) of The Howling II: Your Sister Is A Werewolf or Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol. And, now, to this long list of movies that inspire such pain and loathing, I must also add TDHTL.

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Rob_Taylor

Ewww! What a hideous mess of a film. I understand the movie was deliberately made to be bad and littered with scenes and references from horror movies, but come on! When the best line of dialogue in a film is "Hmmm. What would Bruce Campbell do?" you know its time to leave. However, luckily for you, I was paralysed with disbelief and unable to leave before it was done.The film is just awful on so many levels. Crap acting, crap story, crap dialogue, crap make-up and crap errmm crap. The main bad guy, who resembles Rasputin, is found inside some techno-gizmo that opens a gateway to.....aaaaargh! Good God! Why am I even trying to explain this? Explanation would imply that a lot of thought went into this production, which it clearly did not. See, the thing about truly good, bad movies, is that they don't usually know what they are. Someone made them with the thought that the film would be really good and it turned out so bad that it was just a priceless gem waiting to be watched. But with this atrocity, they set out to make a "so-bad-its-good" movie. And it just fails. Fails so awfully that it just makes you cringe to watch it. In fact, nothing remotely like action occurs for 45 minutes. Instead we're treated to what I'll very generously label "character development". A series of scenes between the different characters that only serves to make you hate them with a passion and to highlight their lack of acting talent.Then we get to the techno-gizmo and Rasputin and the gateway to Hell etc. etc., yadda-yadda, boring! Seeing the characters killed one by one was not nearly as satisfying as I had hoped. In fact the ultimate horror (and, in fact, the only real horror this movie offered) was the ending which hinted at a sequel, for God's sake! Rent another zombie movie rather than this one......any one, it doesn't matter. I guarantee it'll be ten times better than this dross.

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