The Dead Next Door

How do you kill something that won't die? Where do you run when they're everywhere?

The Dead Next Door is a low-budget horror movie from 1989.

Plot centers around a post-Zombie Apocalypse USA, where the Zombie Squad has been tasked to get rid of the undead menace. When searching for a possible cure for the undead they run into a zombie-loving cult.

Tropes used in The Dead Next Door include:

• And Then John Was a Zombie: Raimi's fate.
• Axe Before Entering
• Blood From the Mouth: Vincent coughs up blood before dying.
• Dramatic Thunder
• Dull Surprise: Raimi's reactions to zombies.
• Eiffel Tower Effect: When the squad arrives back at the Washington D.C., it is established with shots of The White House and Capitol Hill.
• Eighties Hair
• Fingore
• Foreshadowing: "I bet my life and hat on it!"
• Gone Horribly Wrong
• Gorn
• Human Sacrifice: Rev. Jones' cult is shown sacrifing a girl.
• I'm Melting: Dr. Moulsson's cure has this effect on the fully undead.
• Impromptu Tracheotomy
• Machete Mayhem
• Off with His Head
• Screaming Woman
• Shout-Out Theme Naming: Some of the characters are named after horror directors and such.
• The Smurfette Principle: Kuller.
• Sunglasses at Night: Reverend Jones
• Take a Third Option
• Time Skip
• Undeathly Pallor
• Vertigo Effect
• Would Hurt a Child: One zombie is found munching a corpse of a child.
• Zombie Advocate: Whole Cult of them.
  • Bunch of these are stationed on the front of the Zombie Squad headquarters.
• Zombie Apocalypse
• Zombie Gait