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Title: Dead may hate the living, but this movie loves 'em anyway
Review: Bottom of the barrel budget and lack of genuine scares aside The Dead Hate the Living is actually quite a nifty little movie. It also serves as a love letter to the late, great b-gore epic filmmaker Lucio Fulci. His name appears on both a bumper sticker and a gravestone on the film within a film's graveyard set. The movie also loads itself down with in-jokes to assorted movies...The Beyond most blatantly but City of the Living Dead, The Evil Dead, The Fog, Dawn of the Dead, Make them Die Slowly, and numerous others get playful nods as well. I haven't seen this much love for a genre and its cult icons outside of a Joe Dante's movie Matinee and it made The Dead Hate the Living all the more refreshing and endearing. And keep your eyes on the guy that plays the make-up effects artist to the comic hilt. That kid is going places!
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