Zombie Squad soldiers take on hoards of the undead. Collector's Edition Year 2017 Studio Music Video Distributors Genre Horror MPAA Rating Not Rated Color Color Runtime 78 Animated Live-Action Full Synopsis Two and a half decades before The Walking Dead made zombies mainstream on cable television, 19-year-old writer/director J.R. Bookwalter Ozone, Witchouse 2 Blood Coven embarked on The Dead Next Door, an ambitious horror feature pitting an elite team of Zombie Squad soldiers against hoards of the undead and the secretive religious cult hell-bent on protecting them. The film would ultimately take four years to complete with the help of a now-famous Hollywood director and more than 1,500 Northeast Ohio residents, who portrayed the multitudes of bloodthirsty ghouls. Director J.R. Bookwalter Cast J.R. Bookwalter; Peter Ferry; Bogdan Pecic; Michael Grossi; Jolie Jackunas; Robert Kokai