Michael St. Michaels, Rocky Duvall, Roxanna Augesen

A family takes delivery of a new TV set, unaware that it is the gateway by which killer zombies enter the world.

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R, 90 min.

Directed by: Robert Scott

Release Date: June 1, 1987

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DVD Release Date: May 17, 1987

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  • December 6, 2008
    You know those kinds of VHS movies you were enticed to grasp at your local video store back in the days, just because its long faded cardboard slipcase looked so underground, so vile and evil that you were totally bound to rent it more than any other (good) movie around. Well, Th...( read more)e Dead Video is the epitome of that kind of movie; this is the Jean Luc Godard's Breathless of cheap and obscure 80s horror flicks.
    This, along with a cheap strong beer, actually made my day. Oh, yeah,, I forgot to say, this movie is exhilarating. And believe me, I know underrated cult B-movie when I see it. And I?ve seen it !! ha ha this is not funny at all.
  • October 26, 2008
    When a delivery van pulls up outside a house it can only mean trouble for what there about to leave inside the owner of the house is woken out of his sleep takes a package from them that isnt even his inside is a tv set once plugged in he ends up dead 9 months later new people ar...( read more)e moving in a brother and sister the brother finds the tv and turns it on what he didnt know was by doing so he just let a bunch of zombies loose onto the world now him, his sister and the former owner of the tv must put a end to the zombies before more people die. Really cool concept for a movie done in total 80's cheese fashion worth checking out for zombie fans
  • September 28, 2009
    not a good movie in anyway but i enjoy the shit out of this flick ..
    highlights 1.washing machine death 2.bad texan accent 3.zombie in wedding gown
    dislikes 1.could lose ten minutes here and there 2.sexy girl on the tv is uglier then the zombies
  • June 24, 2009
    I remember watching this movie on late night creature feature films and though to myself, "Wow how scary would that be for zombies to come out of my television set!?!" After watching this movie I was hoping they would, and be more exciting than the movie. The concept was truly or...( read more)iginal but no real gore scenes made it feel like a made for TV Halloween special.
  • January 1, 2009
    I thought this was amusing. It gets reeeeally slow. I'm not sure what happens through part of the movie but it picks back up again. Definitely give it a watch if you're into the old school b-movies.
  • August 16, 2008
    When the other B-Masters decided that this roundtable would be based off of a sort of "Secret Santa" idea I had some reservations. Not least was that the phrase "Tyrannical and Sadistic Santa" would have been more accurate. You see, the truth of the matter is that we all jumped a...( read more)t the opportunity to inflict something God awful on each other. Ken Begg was threatened with "The Trial of Billy Jack" and Dr. Freex had the poor luck of being given "Jonathan Livingston Seagull." So, when the latter gentleman informed me that my particular torment would be "The Video Dead," I was more than a little relieved.

    The film begins when Mr. Jordan is roused by two deliverymen (who need new brakes for their van). They insist on him signing for a large crate, though the sender and contents are unknown. Okay, I'm paranoid anyway; plus watching movies like this for years doesn't help, but I would politely refuse the consignment. "No, I will not sign my death certificate. Now leave, before both myself and Mr. Twelve Gauge Mossberg get angry." Unfortunately for Mr. Jordan, he accepts the crate and unpacks the B&W television inside. The set has a worrisome peculiarity; there is only one movie on: "Zombie Blood Nightmare." After the writer goes to sleep the TV turns itself on and the main characters crawl out. When the deliverymen come back, because they delivered death to the wrong address, they make a gruesome discovery.
    SO IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN IT THEN YOU HAVE TO=]..
  • April 19, 2007
    Generally labeled as an ineptly-directed no-budget zombie flick, it is in fact a totally enjoyable mindless splatterfest with some very fun & inventive gore FX for its time

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