B-horror classic - Dead Alive (aka Braindead - 1992)

Topic started by cataplexy on July 24, 2010. Last post by Romination 2 years, 5 months ago.
Post by cataplexy (7 posts) See mini bio
 This movie is argued as the goriest movie of all-time involving scenes of cutting a scathe through a zombie horde with a push lawnmower and the escape from an enormous zombie uterus - this final scene reportedly used 300 liters of fake blood.  Then it smacks you right in the nuts that the director of this oddly genius film is Peter Jackson.  YES, THAT PETER JACKSON.  It is difficult to describe in words how truly disgusting and disturbing many of the scenes in this movie are presented and range from zombie sex, zombie birth, non-zombies eating pudding where zombie pimple-juice has been squirted and more.  Check out the pictures below after the plot summary and hopefully you haven't eaten this month.  
  
    
 In 1957, a zoologist traps a rare Sumatran rat-monkey on Skull Island and brings it back to New Zealand with the locals hot on his trail. Later, a young man falls in love and takes the young woman to the zoo. His overbearing and disapproving mother follows them and gets bitten by the rat-monkey. The monkey's bite turns her into a zombie, and her doting son has to keep her and the others she's bitten tranquilized in the basement while trying to preserve his love life.   
 
Well, I warned you, here are more pictures.  I apologize in advance. 

 Christopher Lloyd enjoying some unique heroin injection techniques
 Christopher Lloyd enjoying some unique heroin injection techniques

 Actual child birth is much more disgusting than this
 Actual child birth is much more disgusting than this

 This scene would take roughly 30 minutes and a dry erase board to explain
 This scene would take roughly 30 minutes and a dry erase board to explain

 So many BJ jokes, so little space
 So many BJ jokes, so little space
Post by Aarny (743 posts) See mini bio
Great film, but I hate that poster for it.
Post by FelixCulpa (29 posts) See mini bio
Such an awesome movie, lawnmower scene one of the best zombie flick scene ever!
Post by robokungfu (167 posts) See mini bio
This movie has the distinction of being gorier than I had imagined.  This was after I had conjured up in my own mind how gruesome a movie could be.  Not only was it indescribably gory but it above and beyond what I had expected in zombie bloodshed.  It's also insanely entertaining!  I will and shall always adore this movie.  The first time I saw it I jumped out of my seat after it was over with my mouth agape.  
Post by FreylikeDave (221 posts) See mini bio
I honestly thought nothing in that film was as gross and disgusting as... hell, what do I call it?.... the re-wombing scene towards the end. Maybe that's not what is even going on, but that is what it looks like, damn it!
Post by res0nat0r (3 posts) See mini bio
Great zombie comedy-horror movie from Peter Jackson. The scene with the baby in the park when it flies out of the stroller and crawls around with its crazy giggle still cracks me up.
Post by exfauxsure (2 posts) See mini bio
This movie is to cinema as masturbation is to sexuality.  I still pop this shit in regularly for some background when I do other stuff.
Post by fulcilivez (280 posts) See mini bio
This is when Peter Jackson was going for the over the top with his movies. Before he made the leap to Hollywood, Bad Taste was his Scifi/ comedy, Braindead/ Dead Alive was his Horror/Comedy, and Meet the Feebles  words just can't describe that movie.
Post by gangly (1,273 posts) See mini bio
"You've got...The BITE!"
Post by ImHungry (289 posts) See mini bio
@gangly: SINGAIA!!! 
 
(Sorry, don't know how to spell it.)
Post by Rasta_Zergling (18 posts) See mini bio
I used to see this movie all the time years ago at my local video rental place and always wondered what it was. Now I'm really curious to watch it.
Post by Dr_Sarcasmic (46 posts) See mini bio
I keep trying to explain this movie to people but they don't seem to get it until they watch it.  I'm terrible with movie quotes but if I had to pick my favorite it's the whole lawnmower scene where he says "Parties Over".  That scene... jesus.  By the end I was so desensitized by gore and grime and just plain grossness I could eat soft serve while watching Two Chicks One Cup.  Every time someone brings this movie up I say a little prayer to the movie god's that Jackson will do another horror movie.  Please Mr. Jackson, take a little break, fire up the Weta squad, and remind everyone just how sick, demented, and twisted you can be!  Pleeeeaaassseee???
Post by Romination (693 posts) See mini bio
@Aarny said:
" Great film, but I hate that poster for it. "
I actually like the poster. It stuck with me for a long time because it's just so weird and I couldn't imagine doing that to my lips. 
I also confused it  a lot with Silence of the Lambs, because I was 5 and they were both "girl's face with thing near mouth oh look Pokemon!" 
 
Love this movie. Peter Jackson needs to just say "fuck it" and go back to do another gorehound movie like this. Like Sam Raimi doing Drag Me To Hell.
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