it is the rare 'crazy' movie that actually has something to say.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

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.

The writer Henry Jordan (Michael St. Michaels) receives a mysterious TV set and soon he learns that the apparatus is a gateway through which undead come to the world of the living. They kill Henry and the house is sold to another family. The teenager Zoe Blair (Roxanna Augesen) comes to house to clean it for her parents that are traveling abroad. Her brother Jeff Blair (Rocky Duvall) comes later to help Zoe and finds the TV set in the basement. He brings to his room and out of the blue, the stranger Joshua Daniels (Sam David McClelland) knocks on the door. Joshua explains that he sent a TV set mistakenly to that address, instead of to the Department of Occult Warfare. Jeff does not believe in Joshua, but soon he leans the truth about the TV of the undead. "The Video Dead" is a funny trash-movie about a television set that is a gateway to the world of the undead. The screenplay entwines horror with comedy with great scenes and laughable dialogues. There are many flaws (for example, nobody questions the fate of Jeff; his girlfriend and her family), but the film entertains and it is worthwhile watching if the viewer is fan of the genre. The conclusion is excellent. My vote is six.Title (Brazil): "A TV dos Mortos Vivos" ("The TV of the Dead")

This movie got a lot of hate back in the day, and its really not that hard to see why. Its pretty bad. The story, while it sounds good on paper, doesn't translate well on screen. While its typical eighties low budget horror, which means there aren't any Oscar winners anywhere to be found , and the hairstyles and clothes are way out dated, its better than the majority of "acting" that you'd find from back then. The effects are so so, if pretty fake looking, with the exception of one of two decent looking zombies. Check it out if youre in the mood for some eighties midnight movie type fare.

'The Video Dead' feels much more like a student film, held together with Scotch tape and chocolate-syrup blood and looking more like no-budget-1970 than 1987, the year it was made. A mysterious TV inscribed with a skull and programmed entirely with zombie movies is delivered to a man who lives alone. One night, the unplugged TV becomes a portal for zombies. Yup, that's right, zombies escape from the TV and go on a killing spree. I won't pretend that this isn't the fodder of late-night TV. In fact, I vaguely recall seeing it on 'USA Up All Night with Rhonda Shear' back in the very early 90's, usually the final resting place for all 1980's camp horror. What makes this one stand out is its bizarre logic; these are not Romero's zombies.After some time, new residents move into the house and discover the possessed TV in the attic. The film turns into a teen-horror and the characters are given glimpses of another world beyond the screen in which a vampish seductress taunts and a hero garbage man is in search of the escaping zombies. Little of this is explained beyond a few scenes and that plot seems all but forgotten halfway through. In the second half we're introduced to a mysterious roaming Texan (a poor man's Slim Pickens) hoping to avenge his wife's death which was apparently at the hands of these zombies.As if that wasn't weird enough, the zombies giggle, taunt, and torture their prey. There's no biting here, more likely, these ghouls are apt to strangle and kill in elaborate ways (see washing machine death) usually reserved for the likes of 'Jason Voorhees' or 'Michael Myers'. There's also a number of rules (a la 'Gremlins') that can be used in combating them. There was something to do with mirrors, bells, and having to convince the zombies that they're dead; there was even a scene where claustrophobia seemingly causes one of their heads to explode and the others turn cannibal. I didn't really follow all of it but it didn't really matter. With some schlocky gore and a plot drifting from comedy, to stoner movie, to chainsaw wielding buddy adventure, I suggest just sitting back, turning your logic-cap off, and having a laugh at this one; without being at all good, it's not all bad.