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1992 Certificate 18
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  • 70
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Peter Jackson, master of subversive comedy, presents the story of a hapless young man whose overbearing mother gets him into a heap of trouble when she catches a bizarre zombie virus and starts turning innocent passersby into walking corpses. This grandiose splatterfest features loads of unforgettable, stomach-turning effects. .. Read more

Starring Elizabeth Moody, Timothy Balme, Diana Penalver, Ian Watkin
Director Peter Jackson
Genres Horror

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Braindead

Peter Jackson, master of subversive comedy, presents the story of a hapless young man whose overbearing mother gets him into a heap of trouble when she catches a bizarre zombie virus and starts turning innocent passersby into walking corpses. This grandiose splatterfest features loads of unforgettable, stomach-turning effects. Highlights include a ghoulish, bloodthirsty baby, zombie mutilation, progressive putrefaction, and an off-the-wall undead mating scene. Sick, twisted, and hilarious, BRAINDEAD (aka DEAD ALIVE) is unlike anything you have ever seen before--and is definitely not for the squeamish.

Starring Elizabeth Moody, Timothy Balme, Diana Penalver, Ian Watkin
Director Peter Jackson
Studio UNIVERSAL PICTURES UK
Run time DVD: 1 hr 39 mins
Certificate Certificate 18
Genres Horror
Language DVD: English
Released DVD: 19 Aug 2002
Production year: 1992
Format DVD
  • Critics' reviews (4) of Braindead

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  • 5 stars out of 5

    New Zealand director Peter Jackson's horrendously funny gross-out shocker is a brilliant black comedy and the ultimate gore movie. Timothy Balme's mother gets bitten by a Sumatran “rat monkey” carrying a living-dead virus and turns into a rabid zombie with terrible table manners. Cue zombie sex, kung fu priests, reanimated spinal columns and half-eaten craniums, all building towards a final, gore-drenched massacre. Jackson's outrageously sick groundbreaker is a virtuoso Grand Guignol masterpiece. You really won't believe your eyes!

    • Radio Times
  • Grossly gory horror, played for sick laughs, with a climactic massacre of the zombies by lawnmower that must rank as one of the bloodiest twenty minutes on film. It is difficult to understand why the British censors are happy to let us watch such jejune a

    • Halliwell's Film Guide
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  • 45 out of 47 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 4 stars [Highly rated reviewer]

    Your mother ate my dog !

    An unmistakeable supposition that has previously succeeded numerous times -- flesh-eating zombies unleash chaos among the living -- is taken not only to the extreme: here it just makes going over the top seem like a weak cliché. It completely jumps straight over a cliff and never bothers to return to any sense of normalcy. Fantastic !

    Peter Jackson is a legend, this movie refuses to cease bombarding you with horror and hilarity. This insanely entertaining flick has buckets and buckets of blood and gore, probably one of the (if not THE) bloodiest around.

    Zombie Sex, bodies being ripped apart in every way imaginable, organs being eaten, kung-fu, mass slaughter with a lawnmower, zombie pregnancy, talking intestines, gallons of blood, extreme use of pus. What more could you wish for ?

    Anyone for custard ?

    • JediSi
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  • 11 out of 13 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    Lord of the (amputated) Limbs

    As long as you can stand 'comedy amputations' and buckets of blood aplenty, you'll enjoy this... it's a great piece of schlock-horror (most of the schlock coming from the tragically 80's sounding music).

    It's got some fantastically funny moments - I loved the priest 'who kicks ass for the Lord', and the sight of a disembowelled rectum farting at the camera may never leave me... If you think 'Kill Bill' had a lot of body parts lying around, well it didn't really... not compared to this film!

    Some people have said Peter 'LOTR' Jackson deserved an Oscar for this. I wouldn't, but it's great fun: as long as you have a strong stomach, and a healthy (or perhaps very unhealthy) sense of humour.

      • Ross Brooker from Milton Keynes, England
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