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Movie A Day: Dead Alive
I know there are some Peter Jackson nuts on the board. This is his third film (previous ones to my knowledge being Bad Taste and Meet the Feebles). With Bad Taste and Meet the Feebles he showed his penchant for toilet humor but with each microbudget sleazefest you could still see that there was a very talented director behind the camera.
Plot: Lionel, a young man living with his mother in New Zealand, finds himself falling for a local girl. His mother is none too happy with this, though, and while stalking the couple at the local zoo she is bitten by a Sumatran Rat Monkey (a piece of claymation you have to see to believe) and infected. She quickly becomes a zombie, begins infecting others. Lionel tries his best to keep his dead mother and her victims a secret, but when his uncle decides to throw a party at the house where the zombies are held captive, all hell breaks loose.
Dead Alive (or Braindead, the Australian title) saw him with the biggest budget he'd had to date and he really knew how to use it. Out of roughly 3 million, he spent about 2.5 of it on fake blood and effects. This is NOT a movie for the weak of stomach but damn is it a good time if you can handle it.
Luckily, the violence is handled in a perfectly camp fashion and the story is so fast-paced that you're never given enough time to stay revolted (mostly because chances are the next thing you see will make the last look tame).
How many classic scenes are there? Who can forget the pus in the pudding, Lionel vs. the zombie baby at the playground, or my personal favorite - the kung-fu priest ("I kick ass for the Lord!").
One of my all-time favorites - and hopefully with the success of Lord of the Rings this will find itself a special edition DVD.
NOTE: This is available in a toned-down R-rated version, which you saw if you rented it from Schlockbuster.
I know there are some Peter Jackson nuts on the board. This is his third film (previous ones to my knowledge being Bad Taste and Meet the Feebles). With Bad Taste and Meet the Feebles he showed his penchant for toilet humor but with each microbudget sleazefest you could still see that there was a very talented director behind the camera.
Plot: Lionel, a young man living with his mother in New Zealand, finds himself falling for a local girl. His mother is none too happy with this, though, and while stalking the couple at the local zoo she is bitten by a Sumatran Rat Monkey (a piece of claymation you have to see to believe) and infected. She quickly becomes a zombie, begins infecting others. Lionel tries his best to keep his dead mother and her victims a secret, but when his uncle decides to throw a party at the house where the zombies are held captive, all hell breaks loose.
Dead Alive (or Braindead, the Australian title) saw him with the biggest budget he'd had to date and he really knew how to use it. Out of roughly 3 million, he spent about 2.5 of it on fake blood and effects. This is NOT a movie for the weak of stomach but damn is it a good time if you can handle it.
Luckily, the violence is handled in a perfectly camp fashion and the story is so fast-paced that you're never given enough time to stay revolted (mostly because chances are the next thing you see will make the last look tame).
How many classic scenes are there? Who can forget the pus in the pudding, Lionel vs. the zombie baby at the playground, or my personal favorite - the kung-fu priest ("I kick ass for the Lord!").
One of my all-time favorites - and hopefully with the success of Lord of the Rings this will find itself a special edition DVD.
NOTE: This is available in a toned-down R-rated version, which you saw if you rented it from Schlockbuster.
