Peter Jackson's extremely gory, blood drenched zombie horror comedy, his third feature film. Tim Balme is Lionel, a mummy's boy...
Peter Jackson's extremely gory, blood drenched zombie horror comedy, his third feature film. Tim Balme is Lionel, a mummy's boy who has his hands full trying to woo Paquita (Diana Penalver) and deal with a zombie outbreak in Wellington after his mum (Elizabeth Moody) gets infected via a Sumatran Rat Monkey bite.
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"The best to date from Kiwi gore specialist Peter Jackson."
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Variety
Variety"The finale, in which Lionel reduces a horde of flesh-eaters to a mulch of blood, flesh and offal with the aid of a flymo, is probably the goriest scene ever."
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Time Out
Time Out"Because all of this looks blatantly unreal, and because the timing of the shock effects is so haphazard, Dead Alive isn't especially scary or repulsive. Nor is it very funny."
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The New York Times
The New York TimesBraindead | Details
Award winner- Best Film, Director, Actor, Screenplay and Design at the New Zealand Film and TV Awards 1993.
- Rating
- R18+,
- Runtime
- 97
- Genre
- Comedy, Horror
- Country of origin
- New Zealand
