[Press release from the Nightlight Cinema.]
From 1985 to 1989, a local director named J.R. Bookwalter made one
of the largest scale Zombie movies ever produced: THE DEAD NEXT DOOR.
More than 1500 extras roamed these very streets in tattered outfits and
Karo syrup-soaked prostheses in search of flesh. Now that Bookwalter has
successfully completed his crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo, the
Akron-native has been able to restore the original Super-8 materials to
glorious HD and surround sound.
"From the
beginning, this project snowballed into something much bigger than I
ever dreamed, thanks to financing from a mysterious executive producer
in Detroit, a large cast and crew with no prior film experience, … and
like-minded horror fans who discovered the film after seeing a (somewhat
premature) four-page spread in FANGORIA magazine," Bookwalter said on
his Indiegogo campaign page.
