The Video Dead (1987 Video)
3/10
OK Cheesy zombie flick
3 August 2018
Warning: Spoilers
The movie is pretty cheesy and fun to watch. its about a pack of zombies that come out of a cursed tv and start killing people in suburbia.

One thing I like about the film is the zombies, who all get their unique characters and personalities. There is a charred bald zombie, a rotting bride, a pink zombie, and a fat zombie who has an iron in his head.

The kills are creepy and fun at the same time. I especially love the scene when the chubby zombie stealthily sneaks up behind an equally chubby Asian housekeeper and then lets out excited bellowing growls as he starts choking her. He is also not shy to show her he is enjoying killing her, as he continuously giggles and smiles while nodding "yes die" at her agony and her pleas for him to stop. After choking her dead, he seems proud of his merciless kill. The scene freaked me out as a kid.

Thus, the zombies kill for pure fun and games. Another scene sees the bride strangle a housewife and stuffing her into a washing machine. After a few more kills, the heroes venture into the woods but also get killed by a chainsaw-wielding zombie. They later have a dinner party!

The zombies make the best characters in the film. Human characters are paper thin and just there to be killed by the zombies. You have a bickering brother and sister waiting for the arrival of their parents. You have the blond next door neighbor who seems sliughty daft. You have her skinny little father who is getting sexual favors from the chubby maid. And then their neighbors who just all die as soon as we meet them

An odd little horror, but worth watching for sure.
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