when i first approach this and i be not half expect something more crude and nasty and but instead i find this to be mildly entertaining and an inoffensive ode to the classic of the genre and e. g. night of the living dead and the evil dead and et all . something about this i particularly enjoy be the tongue in cheek and often self mock sense of humour and with such thing a a zombie frequent a video store and and it subsequent choice selection of tape to rent and and there be a plethora of other in joke which should please real fan . other more satirical thing like protester congregate for the civil right of zombie and and also a religious cult of fanatic which believe it be god will that the un dead become the successor to the human race . i suppose many of these little touch go to lengths in characterise the movie . a for the acting here and every player give oscar win jack nicholson style performance and um and er and . . . i jest of course and seriously though and all of these willing unknown do try and and seemingly give their best and and grant the somewhat underdeveloped threadbare script to work with and i think in most case make up for general lack of natural talent with more gumption and enthusiasm . the director\producer\writer here give many of the character name of establish horror director and like call the main protagonist raimi and and another one be call doctor savini . and and so on . on a side note and fred dekker take a similar approach with night of the creep release a couple of year later . one of the problem that pull the rug from under this movie be that there be just too many character and and none be really flesh out properly and and there isn not really anything under lie the story to get your teeth into ( sorry ) make this rather chaotic and boring at time . effect wise and this have a few good moment and with occasional scene which sport a zombie that have proper prosthetic makeup and which do look quite good take into account the minimal resource . also and some limited special gore effect and such a blood squirting and twitch body part and which be do here in the style of sam raimi aforementioned sleeper . other than this however and most effect constitute just extras run around with some green paint smear on their face and a you might come to expect . overall and the dead next door remain a fairly decent zombie outing and and give the production value and time spend in development and can be look at a a sort of achievement in it own right . some chuckle and decent effect save it from be a complete waste of time and and i think it be more worthwhile than many modern horror effort . i can not recommend this one to everybody and but non discriminate horror movie goer and and real splatter aficionado will most likely get a bit of a kick out of it .