'The Video Dead' feels much more like a student film, held together with Scotch tape and chocolate-syrup blood and looking more like no-budget-1970 than 1987, the year it was made. A mysterious TV inscribed with a skull and programmed entirely with zombie movies is delivered to a man who lives alone. One night, the unplugged TV becomes a portal for zombies. Yup, that's right, zombies escape from the TV and go on a killing spree. I won't pretend that this isn't the fodder of late-night TV. In fact, I vaguely recall seeing it on 'USA Up All Night with Rhonda Shear' back in the very early 90's, usually the final resting place for all 1980's camp horror. What makes this one stand out is its bizarre logic; these are not Romero's zombies.After some time, new residents move into the house and discover the possessed TV in the attic. The film turns into a teen-horror and the characters are given glimpses of another world beyond the screen in which a vampish seductress taunts and a hero garbage man is in search of the escaping zombies. Little of this is explained beyond a few scenes and that plot seems all but forgotten halfway through. In the second half we're introduced to a mysterious roaming Texan (a poor man's Slim Pickens) hoping to avenge his wife's death which was apparently at the hands of these zombies.As if that wasn't weird enough, the zombies giggle, taunt, and torture their prey. There's no biting here, more likely, these ghouls are apt to strangle and kill in elaborate ways (see washing machine death) usually reserved for the likes of 'Jason Voorhees' or 'Michael Myers'. There's also a number of rules (a la 'Gremlins') that can be used in combating them. There was something to do with mirrors, bells, and having to convince the zombies that they're dead; there was even a scene where claustrophobia seemingly causes one of their heads to explode and the others turn cannibal. I didn't really follow all of it but it didn't really matter. With some schlocky gore and a plot drifting from comedy, to stoner movie, to chainsaw wielding buddy adventure, I suggest just sitting back, turning your logic-cap off, and having a laugh at this one; without being at all good, it's not all bad.

A crate is delivered to a house in the woods. The homeowner unwisely accepts the delivery, only to discover it contains a TV set that starts spewing zombies all over the place. When a new family moves into the now-abandoned house, the son discovers the haunted television and is soon told what he needs to do to send the zombies back where they belong. Knowing and doing, however, are two very different things, and the zombies are not likely to go quietly.......With a title like this, you should expect something a little cheesy, but with something about it.This film has nothing about it. Women caked in make up kissing teenage boys, is something I do not want to see, especially when the woman gets killed by some weird sweaty 'hero' once she goes back tot the TV.I understand that the film was shot mostly on weekends, but really, does it really have to have such bad acting and really poor effects?Plot is really non existent, and come the end, you want to destroy your TV, let alone watch a film about people warning an annoying group of people about TV.I'm sure somewhere in the film, it's a metaphoric way of telling people not to watch too much TV.It's worked for me, I'll never subject my eyes to this again.

First time watch.This had a little strange plot, well it new at the time, I liked the idea of Zombies come out of a TV set, The zombies did look a bit scary. (the make up effects were really good) at first but as the movie goes you will find more funny, as do some really funny killing.Were really funny death in scenes in this movie, This movie made me Jump in one scene lol, some so silly made me Jump. There were some bloody moments in this movie was nice, there were not many gory moment in this movie. The acting was really wooden for main lead boy, it felt like it was reading the link and not acting them out at all. I liked the ending of this movie, I thought that was really good way to end the movie. 5 out of 10

Strangely Effective.It's not great but there's something so memorable and basic about the film. The way the TV is laying down, it really skews your perception and gets right in your head. I thought it was a simple, effective, kinda silly, but strangely unforgettable movie. It's like a tiny grain of sand in a clamshell. The Video Dead is the poster child for "kill Your Television. It continues... in your mind... The zombies are memorable and have a practically anthropomorphous alacrity that digs in. Don't mistake this for some masterpiece, it's an obscure, grainy, simplistic zombie film, but somehow refreshing in that it doesn't try too hard to be anything more. In a way it's like a film right out of the Twilight Zone mind trip universe.