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Comwayon A Disappointing Continuation

Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Ogosmith Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

lovecraft231 A band of would be filmmakers go to an abandoned hospital, and find a real dead body-which they use for the movie. It ends up opening a portal to hell-and unleashing some zombies.I make no apologies whatsoever when I say that I like the movie "Scream." Sure, I may lose cred to some horror nerds, but I answer only to myself, thank you. I don't like though, what came after "Scream": A series of annoying, self aware horror movies that thought they were clever, but weren't. Case in point: "The Dead Hate The Living", released by the once interesting Full Moon Studios, is proof that a love for zombie movies does not make a good zombie movie.The movie is full of references to other, better horror movies: "Return of the Living Dead", "The Beyond", and "Cannibal Ferox" to name a few-and while it's heart seems to be in the right place, it all comes off as fanboyish nonsense, which is essentially what it is. Not only that, it's bad fanboyish nonsense. The acting is non-existence, the references to Bruce Campbell and Fangoria are annoying, the soundtrack-filled with bad horror punk, psychobilly, and horrorcore rap-is grating, and the mugging for the camera hurts as well. To be fair, the zombie and gore FX are decent, but they aren't enough to save this dreck from being any good.Writer/Director David Parker would go on to write the notoriously bad House of the Dead (no, he's not happy with the way it turned out-can't say I blame him), and was originally attached to direct a Michael vs. Pinhead movie, though that movie never came to pass thank God. He also acted in the movie Free Enterprise, which is actually a pretty damn good comedy. Amazingly, when "Dead Hate The Living!" came out, some were praising Parker as one of horror's next big things, which shows how bad the shape of the genre was in at the time. After HOTD, his career never took off or fully recovered.

slayrrr666 "The Dead Hate the Living" is a really fun and entertaining zombie film.**SPOILERS**Inside an abandoned hospital, David Poe, (Eric Clawson) his sisters Shelly, (Wendy Speake) and Nina, (Kimberly Pullis) and crew Topaz, (Jamie Donahue) Paul, (Brett Beardslee) Eric, (Benjamin P. Morris) Marcus, (Rick Irwin) and Chas, (David Douglas) begin shooting their low-budget zombie movie inside. Scouring the place for some locations, they find a corpse buried inside a giant chamber, and decide to use them in the film. While shooting the scene, the chamber turns out to be a portal to Hell, and the corpse revives, bringing back a series of zombies from Hell to serve as his minions. The corpse, Dr. Eibon, (Matt Stephens) had used the hospital for his experiments with bringing the dead back to life, but had been overtaken by his subjects before finishing. Trapped inside the hospital with a growing legion of ghouls, they fight to survive before the zombies can turn the group into them to take over the world.The Good News: This is a rather fun and exciting zombie film. There's plenty of gore that, at times, comes off looking really impressive. One of the main zombie leads' head-wound makeup looked pretty hot, the zombies themselves were phenomenal, especially Maggot. There's a fair amount of gore here, including some decapitations, a disemboweling, a punch through a head, a torn out throat, and some chainsaw carnage as well as one of the best scenes. Upon being confronted by Maggot in a darkened hallway, he assumes it's just a make-up effect. Maggot punches a hole with his fist through the character's gut and rips out his intestines, killing him. He then proceeds to drag drags the dead man's corpse up a hallway out of the room by its entrails. That was a really gory moment and is hands-down the highlight of the whole film. The set design and lighting are two areas in particular that really stand out, both looking far more impressive than you'd expect from a low-budget production. Lurid greens and blues color many of the sets, evoking memories of the color scheme of prime-era Argento. Meanwhile, the sets themselves are equally impressive, they're dark and shadowy and look fairly authentic. It's clear that a lot of work went into the visual design of this film. Equally enjoyable is the fact that the fate of the characters paralleled their significance to the script. The one character meant to have their head ripped off was decapitated in real life. A featured zombie's final-look is strikingly similar to the make-up job that had been done on him. He also brings back to undead life the same one in the movie. The fact that this also contains a really fast-moving pace is quite nice, being just a really quick one which doesn't stop. As most of the real rampage comes at the second half, for a front-half that was bearable is a major plus. That rampage is also quite exciting. When the mass hordes erupt from underneath the movie set in front of the survivors like any other zombie film, this just gets really wild and pandemonium simply fills the screen. This is one of the better zombie films around.The Bad News: There isn't a lot wrong with, but what there is comes from the special effects. Even when one character truly became a zombie, the face looked like little more than spray-painted latex, as it's over one eye and a throat wound. Maybe they shouldn't have gone for that exposed skull bit. It threw the whole effect off kilter. The most unforgivable special effects took place due to the atrocious CGI inserted into it. The most obvious is when one of them sets the three main zombies on fire. The flames were obviously animated and don't even have the slightest hint of believability. A couple of later shots, where lightning from an electrical fire and later a gunshot wound which is screamingly fake. The fact that most of the zombie action does occur late in the film might be a source of complaint to some, but it's not an obvious flaw. Overall, this only has a few slight off-kilter aspects.The Final Verdict: With a lot to like and only a few small problems, this becomes one of the better zombie entries in the genre. While by no means one of the defining films, it's still got enough zombie action to give a fan a real good watch, while those not necessarily into the genre might exercise caution with it.Rated R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language

jed-estes If I were not against the ordering of products of the internet I would already have this film in my library but sadly I am still on the look out for this great marvel of movie making. When I rented it about six years ago i fail in love with it's intensity. it had more raw power in it's first five minutes than the supposed overly nasty new Texas Chainsaw Massacre had in it's entire run time. This film gave zombies there due, even more so then Resident Evil, Dawn of the Dead (2004), or 28 Days Later. While all of those films are good this one shows love for the Zombie genre not just popping the old stories out all over again for a new stupid generation. The music in this is extravagant and lush. One of the head Zombies in this would later go on to play Tiny in Rob Zombie's House of 1000 Corpses and Devil's Rejects both remarkable on there own. This film is a must for all Zombie lovers. Seek it out!!!!!!!

Max Kämmerer 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.