Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!

2hotFeature one of my absolute favorites!

Lachlan Coulson This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

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

jamesgandrew A group of adventurers discover and bring back a deadly rat monkey to a zoo, who can transform their victims into blood thirsty zombies. When a man's mother gets accidentally bitten by the rat monkey, mayhem ensues. Dead Alive, also known as Braindead, was Peter Jackson's third feature after the splatter fest Bad Taste and crude Muppet parody Meet the Feebles. Jackson this time delivers a humorous take on the zombie genre, which harkens to the likes of Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead in its combination of physical comedy with blood and guts galore. Dead Alive is said to be the bloodiest movie of all time and I'm not exaggerating! One of the final sequences required 5 gallons of blood to be pumped out per second! That's absolutely ludicrous! Thankfully it pays off and the film remains one of the greatest zombie comedies of all time.Timothy Balme excellently pulls off the wild physical comedy and in all honesty, he is a runner up for Bruce Campbell in terms of giving the best performance in a zombie horror comedy. There are some insanely over the top moments and you just have to see it for yourself- they're insanely good! Dead Alive/Braindead is over the top violent gory fun that I'm sure you'll enjoy!

VAndolini I love this film. Love. I watched a while back on the Independent Film Channel, and i love how funny and extremely gory it is, a very clever film with an adorable Timothy Balme in the lead. A lot of little in jokes, like the rat being on Skull Island, home of Kong, etc. Very, very gory, the priest is hysterical kicking ass for the Lord. Love, love, love it.

videorama-759-859391 He's finally done it. Jackson has finally created something that is a gore fest and a half, the last half hour, almost non stop with it. Whereas Bad Taste was cheap and had repulsive gore, was slightly funny, where in between this were some long stretches of boredom, and was just plain stupid, here Jackson has made a much smarter film of better quality, where so far, this was his best. Braindead is a romantic horror tale, where boy introduces girlfriend to mother, where they make the dreaded mistake of going to the zoo. The mother is bitten by a Samutrian Rat, something I'd never wanna be bitten by, especially if the rat was infected, as I can recall. As to how this horribly ensues, all I can say, is strap in for one hell of a zombie fest, no holds barred, and I'm talking buckets of the stuff. High level horror fans won't be disappointed as Jackson has really shown what he's capable of with this mainstream, pre Lord Of The Rings, pic. Trivia note: Braindead took two years to hit video shelves.

Gustavo Silva In 1992, Peter Jackson gave us this. For modern moviegoers it may seem odd (having in mind the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy), but before his Hollywood stardom, Peter had this bizarre propensity of creating extremely gory pictures where everything is, I dare to say, "disgustingly funny".Let me give you a super quick synopsis of the story: A "Sumatran Rat- Monkey" (google it, it's a thing) is a hybrid creature - that "according to legend", is the result of the rape of tree monkeys on Skull Island by plague carrying rats - is captured and shipped to a local zoo.Lionel Cosgrove (Timothy Balme) lives with his insanely scary soon-to- be-a-monster mother, Vera (Elizabeth Moody). Lionel, on a casual visit to a market, meets Paquita (Diana Peñalver) and helplessly falls in love with her, to his mother's dismay.While peeping on the two during their date in the zoo, Vera is attacked by the hedious creature. By raising the "impossible love" cliché to a whole other level, Vera turns into a ear dropping zombie, that will be the great obstacle between Lionel and Paquita's love.But it gets worse. Vera infects other people and the number of zombies starts to grow. The only solution that Lionel sees is to keep all of them concealed in the basement, giving them repeated injections of a so called deadly poison, that turns out to be an "animal stimulant". You see where this is going, don't you?Now, let's give a more technical analysis of this scorned flick.The narrow shots (close-ups) in this movie have a switched effect. Normally they are used to emphasize dramatic scenes, where tension reigns. But in this movie, these shots are used to accentuate the comical expressions of the characters, and also to show the viewer in detail all the disgusting stuff along the movie."Braindead" is completely waggish. From the music to the dialogues. And these are quite priceless: we have quotes like "That's my mother you're pissing on" or "Your mother ate my dog!".Everything about this movie is designed to make you sick (yeah, keep this in mind, don't watch it after a heavy meal). But in a good way. It's hard to find a scene without any gore in it. Peter Jackson takes everything to the limits and that's one of the keys of comedy: exaggeration.When the movie was released in 1992, it was a commercial failure but over the years it earned a cult status, in great part thanks to the success of "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy.According to experts, "Braindead" is placed in the "trash" movie category. Oh, if all the movies were "trashy" like this one, the world would be a cinematic paradise.Visit my facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/scornedflicks