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Director Peter Jackson's second feature cheerfully trumps the gross-out quotient of his splatterfest debut, the appropriately named Bad Taste. The tone is cartoonishly comic, and the premise is simple: The village dweeb (Timothy Balme) is trying to maintain a budding romance with the sweet Paquita (Diana Penalver) while .. Read more

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

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- 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
- 32016
- - Halliwell's Film Guide
  - 02 Mar 2006 at 15:42
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  - 3
  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 ... read more »
  
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  - JediSi
  - 301 reviews
  - Kent
  - 24 Aug 2007 at 23:44
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- - 0
  - 0
  Gruesome..... but entertaining
  
  If you hate to see body parts and rivers of blood then leave it. It was gruesome but quite funny, we laughed out loud. If you would like to see people being ... read more »
  
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- - romeo7
  - 6 reviews
  - London
  - 01 Feb 2012 at 01:04
- - 1
  - 0
  A must see!!!!
  
  One of the best slapstick horror/gore films i've ever seen. Absolutely brilliant, a total laugh and not once does it get boring!
  
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- - Daveosaurus
  - 5 reviews
  - 02 Dec 2011 at 23:14
- - 1
  - 0
  Must watch
  
  I don't even know what just happened but I love it. Hands down the best spoof-romantic-zombie-slapstick-horror I've ever seen. It's also the only ... read more »
  
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- - Partysover
  - 1 review
  - 01 Dec 2011 at 22:38
- - 0
  - 0
  David Tennant?!?
  
  Anyone else see the resemblance to David Tennant here?!?!? A very gory, rather outdated film but for a comedic horror, it's quite good!
  
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- 1067555
- - Gemx
  - 1 review
  - 26 Nov 2011 at 23:40
- - 0
  - 4
  Messy Picture
  
  I'm sure this is a good film...the problem's that the DVD quality is awful! Really bad!!
  
  The film's already quite dated and the lack of ... read more »
  
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- 1067479
- - a customer
  - 26 Nov 2011 at 21:18
- - 2
  - 0
  classic gory horror
  
  cheesy film with silly acting daft blood but funny and classic gory horror, in the days before evil dead was created.
  
  if you like the evil dead kinda... read more »
  
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- 1052906
- - cheesekake
  - 166 reviews
  - uk
  - 19 Oct 2011 at 10:59
- - 0
  - 0
  goriest films I have ever seen.
  
  A young man's mother is bitten by a Sumatran rat-monkey. She gets sick and dies, at which time she comes back to life, killing and eating dogs,and my ... read more »
  
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- - boltonlee
  - 25 reviews
  - 22 Aug 2011 at 22:17
- - 0
  - 7
  Give it a miss !!!!
  
  Oh dear they don't get much worse than this. Very very poor entertainment value.. Acting is Bad, Effects are poor, even the music was annoying....
  
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- - Wasafterwatchingit
  - 24 reviews
  - 18 Aug 2011 at 14:24
- - 0
  - 3
  Great fun if you are bored!! Rubbish movie!!
  
  Possibly one of the worst films I have seen but I have watched it about 3 maybe 4 times and every time I watch it does make me giggle! The affects are stupidly ... read more »
  
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- - Davek1984
  - 5 reviews
  - 10 Aug 2011 at 01:35
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  Gore fest, not for the squeamish!
  
  Possibly the most horrific horror film I've ever endured. Comedy and horror combined, but the grotesque gore out ways the comic demise or each zombie in ... read more »
  
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- - DanMichaelKing
  - 2 reviews
  - London
  - 25 Jul 2011 at 00:37
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  - 3
  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 ... read more »
  
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  - JediSi
  - 301 reviews
  - Kent
  - 24 Aug 2007 at 23:44
- - 25
  - 7
  FUNNY
  
  Was i scared? 'no',if you want a laugh at how bad a horror film can be then this is for you!
  
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- - thewiseone
  - 10 reviews
  - Birmingham
  - 16 Nov 2007 at 20:07
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  Best zombie film ever!
  
  Peter Jackson is a visionary genius; ever since his ‘Lord of the Rings’ trilogy nobody can dispute that. However before he brought the magical realms ... read more »
  
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- - antennina
  - oxon
  - 17 Jan 2004 at 21:00
- - 11
  - 2
  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 ... read more »
  
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- - Ross Brooker
  - Milton Keynes, England
  - 27 Jan 2004 at 18:05
- - 8
  - 1
  Total Rubbish
  
  I've seen low budget, tongue in cheek, laughable Zombie films etc. - this has to be the worst. Not even worth 1 star!. Avoid this film, it is total ... read more »
  
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- - David Pass
  - Macclesfield
  - 25 Nov 2007 at 12:15
- - 6
  - 0
  The Man who brought us Lord of the Rings! from this
  
  In the few minutes it takes to recover from laughing and gagging while watching 'Braindead', you get the impression Pete Jackson and his pals must have ... read more »
  
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- - a customer
  - Canterbury
  - 06 Oct 2004 at 13:01
- - 6
  - 0
  Braindead
  
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  Not what i exspected at all .How it has such a good rating i dont now.
  
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  - Loughborough
  - 28 Mar 2008 at 20:37
- - 6
  - 2
  bad in every way
  
  Apparently this was Jackson's first feature. We generally forgive the young their mistakes, but as Jackson had to be around 30+ when he made this appalling ... read more »
  
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- - Ellesar
  - 84 reviews
  - London
  - 14 Jul 2008 at 23:57
- - 5
  - 0
  Gorious!
  
  This is a fantastic low budget film, the highlights obviously being the tremendous amount of silly gore. You actually kinda grow attached to the little family ... read more »
  
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- - Sam
  - Oxford
  - 05 Oct 2004 at 14:43
- - 5
  - 0
  Sheer Zombie Carnage
  
  One of the films that helped propell to Peter Jackson to international recognition.
  
  The 'Lord of the Rings' director is obviously a true fan ... read more »
  
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- - Paul Baker
  - Bishops Stortford, England
  - 14 Mar 2005 at 17:44

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  Director Peter Jackson's second feature cheerfully trumps the gross-out quotient of his splatterfest debut, the appropriately named Bad Taste. The tone is cartoonishly comic, and the premise is simple: The village dweeb (Timothy Balme) is trying to maintain a budding romance with the sweet Paquita (...