The Dead Hate the Living! (2000)

I love this movie so much

The Worst Film Ever

Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

... As a yawn - a very big yawn I must be getting old because I have trouble watching two horror films in a row . I'd previously just seen SEVERED which is also known to this reviewer as 28 BADLY DIRECTED TRIFFIDS LATER and had difficulty in staying awake watching THE DEAD HATE THE LIVING . This probably sums up the problem with the movie in that it's fairly inoffensive and unmemorable so makes little impression on its intended market . It's obviously produced to tie in with the SCREAM franchise but that series was far from being the witty post modernist genius some claim it to be so right away you're being influenced by something that wasn't very good to begin with which leads to ZZZZZZZZZZ

So, The Dead Hate the Living, eh? Like I said, the movie is a collection of very nice and very terrible scenes.SPOILERS START For example, the best actor was, in my opinion, Matt Stephens, who played Eibon. Therefore his scenes were the greatest in the movie: e.g. The scene where he discovers his wife has died of cancer and begins to study the dead.Tremendously terrible movie situations are watching a big, scuffling zombie walking down a corridor, mumbling: "I kill you." or Eric Clawson, whom I consider to be the worst actor of this piece, saying completely enthusiastically about the death of his friend and co-worker: "Leave him, he's dead." As if someone had spilt some yoghurt on the floor.SPOILERS END 6/10, not more, not less.

A group of young filmmakers break into an old abandoned hospital to shoot a film and inadvertently open a portal that unleashes zombies on the hapless cast and crew in this horror-comedy. Mixing horror with comedy is a VERY tricky thing. The ones that work do so amazingly well (Dead Alive, Return of the Living Dead, Re-animator, bad taste, etc...). The movies that don't work are usually total ass.This self-referential name-dropping, scene stealing film is part of the latter and ranks down there with "Dead Heat" as far as what NOT to do to succeed. Horrible acting, music, lame jokes, stealing scenes outright from far better films, dime-store special effects, and an unengaging, unoriginal story all add up to a putrid stench-filled film.My Grade: D- DVD Extras: Commentary by Writer/Director Dave Parker, and actors Eric Clawson, Matt Stephens, Brett Beardslee, & Jamie Donahue; photo gallery; production art; a 20 minute behind the scenes featurette; Music video; a ad for the puppet master toys; and theatrical trailer Gripes: If you have the commentary turned on and then go to the extras NONE of them will play sound. word of warning

The Dead Hate the Living is a zombie movie. One would think the formula for zombie movies would be rather simple. Walking dead, scared individuals, head shots ensue as the dead lumber after the scared protagonists. Instead we get a meandering film that is likely to bore an individual to death. The plot is straightforward enough dumb, young, filmakers in abandoned hospital open one of the Gates to Hell mentioned in Fulci's The Beyond aka Seven Doors of Death. A couple of zombies come out of said gate and mediocre mayhem begins. A lame film that stumbles around not unlike a walking corpse and never really finds its feet.