The Dead Hate the Living! (2000)

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

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.

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!!!!!!!

This is an interesting movie. There are lots of cool Zombies. There's a zombie in it that looks like Sam Kinison! A Sam Kinison Zombie! He will make you laugh and then he will eat your brains! Watch out, viewers, Sam Kinison zombie will scare you! There's also a fat zombie that looks like the ones in resident evil as well. But, the Sam Kinison Zombie is the best. All in all, this is a great movie for Horror fans. Man, that Sam Kinison zombie, cant get enough of that! It's a very good movie, The Dead Hate the Living. They really show it, too. They really hate the living. I wonder if its because we are alive and they are dead? I think that's the correct answer.

It's a shame that this film has such a low rating on IMDb because it really is quite an entertaining film if you are prepared to wait. The problem with this film is that it seems to take forever to actually get going which can be a problem with a lot of the cheaper horror films ( I think that dark power is the worst of those I've ever seen). But for a film with a low budget when it does get going the going is good okay so its not brilliant but you shouldn't really be expecting it to be. A good little horror film made on a low budget and if you have no patience at all just skip forward for the first half hour you'll still get some background info before the action starts.