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Cast |
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| Lionel |
Timothy Balme |
| Paquita |
Diana Panalver |
| Mum |
Elizabeth Moody |
| Uncle Les |
Ian Watkin |
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Stats |
| Director |
Peter Jackson |
| Rated |
Unrated |
| Year |
1992 |
| Runtime |
97 min |
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Score |
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Plot |
| Lionel is a mommas boy, and is
falling in love. But he can't find a way to break it to his mother
that there is another woman in his life. Then one day Lionel and his
girlfriend Paquita go on a trip to the zoo. Little does Lionel know,
but his mother follows him. While spying on him she is bitten by a
Sumatran Rat Monkey. She ends up dieing and turning into a zombie.
Lionel's Uncle Les believes that his sister died before she wrote in her
will that the house she owns will go to Les. When he throws himself
a house warming party zombies start turning up left and right. |
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Review |
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"I kick ass for the lord."
If only all those post Lord of the
Rings, obsessive Peter Jackson fans could see this movie. What would
they think of the man if they knew that he had also directed one of the
goriest movies in the history of cinema? Well Dead Alive (AKA Braindead)
is just that. It is the bastard brain child of the now
Oscar winning director Peter Jackson. This movie is so off the wall that
it is pure genius. It has crossed all lines of onscreen violence and
even has a silly side filled with slapstick and black comedy that will
have you in tears. It is a strange thing to be able to laugh your ass
off by a zombie film and still be able to enjoy it at the same time.
The movie starts of with two safari men
transporting a certain cursed animal known as the Sumatran rat monkey of
an island that is inhabited with natives. The monkey is transported to a
zoo in a small and quiet New Zeeland village. While at the zoo spying on
her son Lionel who is on a date, Lionel’s mother is bitten by the rat
monkey. This is when all hell breaks loose, the bit ends up killing his
mother, but she comes back
as a vicious zombie. When his mother attacks some locals and turns them
into zombies as well, Lionel is forced to keep them locked in the
basement until he can figure out what to do with them. Well his Uncle
Les comes out of nowhere and decides that he is going to throw a huge
party at Lionel’s place. When the Lionel’s little friends from the
basement escape and attack the party goers, one of the goriest sequences
in the history of cinema is played out right in front of our very eyes.
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Gore |
| Never has such gore been witnessed, and in the
unrated cut of this film we see it all. Including; faces ripped
right off, rib cages torn out, dozens of impaling, the flesh and meat
ripped right of of the lower half of a body, a fist punched trough the
back of the head and out through the mouth, a hand that is gut off with
a pair of medical scissors, garden sheer decapitations, numerous fully
shown disemboweling, a face ripped in half from the inside, a head put
in a blender, and an end massacre with a lawn mower that has to be seen
to be believed. All this and I am just getting started. If
you haven't seen this film you are probably thinking that the shots of t
the gore are quick, well you couldn't be more wrong. Peter
graciously lets the camera linger on each of the grotesque harms that
happen to the characters. But you should note that this is all severely
butchered in the edited cut of the film, so get the unrated to view it
in all of its gory glory. |
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