Remember the 80’s? Remember how bad most of the horror movies made back then were. That’s not a question, it’s a statement.
The Video Dead is about a couple kids that find themselves home alone while their parents are travelling. They show up to their apparent new home before mom and dad get into town, and they are doing their best to get things ready for their parents arrival. What they don’t know until Suzy exposition tells them, is that the previous owner of that house died under mysterious circumstances there. Come to find out, there is a TV in the attic that isn’t your ordinary Zenith black and white (yes B&W) television. This TV allows the characters from a horror movie being broadcast from beyond to come through to the world of the living. Now the zombies from inside the boob tube are loose and killing. It’s up to them and a man from Texas to kill them and get the TV into a secure place where they can’t escape again.
Yup. That’s the plot of the movie. At least as much as I can put together. This has to be the worst attempt at story telling I have ever been witness to. There were more than a few occasions that I was laughing out loud at the story and how it was portrayed. From the fact that one girls parents are killed and she apparently has NO OTHER FAMILY and just moves in with the other two kids the night her parents are murdered. Also the reason that the Zombies don’t like mirrors is the hardest thing to understand in the movie. The stranger from Texas, who is an apparent expert on these “Video Dead” explains it in the movie like this;
“The reason for the mirrors is simple, the dead can’t stand to look at themselves. Same goes for when a living person come up against one of ’em. when the living person shows fear, it all comes home again cept it’s different. All they want to do is kill what they can never be… the living.”
Sure… make sense to me. The cast of this movie is atrocious as well. They could not have picked worse looking women to be in this. One looks like she is Robert Z’Dar‘s daughter, and the other two look like her cousins. The brother looks as though he is the weird bastard son of Macaulay Caulkin, and Emilio Estevez with a voice like Anthony Michael Hall. None of them can act and most of the dialog is read so flat that it’s hard not to laugh at every scene.
All that said, this movie is so terrible that it almost begs to be watched. It reminds me of movies that they used to show on BLAB TV back in the day. It’s so poorly put together that you almost have to watch it to see for yourself. I would love to recommend this one, however you need to know before hand that it is a horrible movie and THAT is why you should watch it.
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