disgust.

dead... Lionel like a loving son he is, tries to hide the fact that her mother is a zombie, keeping her sedated with drugs... until, naturally, all hell breaks loose.Timothy Balme is genius as Lionel, I mean; HE'S SO UNDERRATED, he gives a truly comedic performance that's top notch and really entertaining, so is the rest of the cast.This is my favorite Peter Jackson film, and maybe one of the best horror comedies EVER. It's so f***ed-up, crazy and over the top it's almost poetic.Everyone who considers himself or Herself a Horror Lover, a GoreHound, a rare-movie seeker or a Three Stooges fan should get their hands on this unusual flick.

the idiot football player, and most famous of all, Father MacGruder, he of the film's best one-liner.Timothy Balme is excellent as the nebbishy mama's boy who ends up taking on the whole undead world by himself, with a couple of mechanical aids. He out-Ashes Ash! Like any good zombie film, the end features waves of zombies, but many with unique and twisted personalities of their own. The best is, of course, zombie baby. It is shocking and yet hilarious to see what zombie baby endures, and yet survives perhaps to live on in the long awaited sequel? Ten stars, and five out of five blood splats thrown up against the wall during the last half hour .

is the goriest film ever made you're wrong.There are some movies that easily top it like Heiko Fipper's "Koma Brutale" 1998 ,Leif Jonker's "Darkness" 1993 and Olaf Ittenbach's "Premutos-The Fallen Angel" 1997 .OK,enough said-this splatter classic is not to be missed.

making gore-highlights again. Yours truly included.Braindead is one of them rare movies you can watch repeatedly .without EVER getting tired of it. Peter Jackson single-handedly set new standards here and attacks the audience with more blood, guts and pulp then anyone has ever done before. It's an outrageous and completely hilarious comedy.under the condition that your sense of humor isn't too easily offended, of course. Personally, I can't understand why someone would dislike this charming little mess. It is as creative, light-headed and unique as Jackson's previous escapades Bad Taste, Meet the Feebles but from a professional point of view: Braindead is a huge step forwards. Unlike with his extremely low-budget adventure better say no budget at all Bad Taste, Jackson now had some funds he could count on. And that shows!! From start to finish, you almost have to seek shelter for the overload of juicy zombie massacres, extraordinary eccentric characters and the morbid sarcasm. Timothy Balme is terrifically cast as the geek who suffers from his mother's tyranny.almost like girlish version of Norman Bates! He finds a little lovin' in the arms of the stunning Paquita, but mommy dearest disapproves their relationship. While trying to boycott her son's relationship, she gets bitten by a rat-monkey a ghoulish monkey-species, indeed . The bite slowly causes mommy to turn into a ravenous zombie and everyone who comes close to the elderly house finds a nasty death. The gore and blood comes with entire buckets, people! The most common household items like blenders and lawnmowers are being used as deadly zombie-weapons. Meanwhile, there are kung-fu priests and fled nazi-doctors running around which is a real hoot, I assure you. Braindead is the ideal movie to 'sit-back-and-relax' and that is a guarantee! Take my advice on this one: invite a group of friends, make sure there's enough beer in the freezer, order a few pizza's and then watch this film together.

which not long before was BRED BY TWO ZOMBIES.... need I go on? Well, one thing would be to point out the performance by Timothy Balme which resonates of the lead character of Return of the Living Dead 3, who was a irritable, crazy person who would take care of his zombie girlfriend, here the lead does the same, except it's for his mother, a priest that scene in the graveyard is hilarious , several bikers, and others, while a girl Diana Penalver sits in utter confusion till the bitter third act. Bottom line, this rivals over Evil Dead and the Living Dead trilogy in gore and comes very close to Eraserhead in bizarrely, and I can think of few other movies aside From Dusk Till Dawn where the blood quota could be used for a drinking game. But it is a little flimsy, and even the most die hard of gore and wacky B-horror fans may tire of it's over the top exuberance and terror in the guise of the apocalypse does somebody really want to see a liver go after human flesh? maybe . Still, if anyone wanted to see another side to the now director of epics like LOTR and Kong, here it is.

nasty creature whose bite is killer…literally. The bite turns his mum into a zombie and each one she bites turns as well. Pretty soon poor Lionel is living in the house of the dead and fighting off a lecherous uncle scheming to grab the estate.Peter Jackson of Lord of the Rings fame once again proves he is more than able to give us the gory goods and make us laugh the entire time. This insanely entertaining flick has buckets and buckets of blood and gore, probably one of the if not THE bloodiest around. For a film with a miniscule budget approximately $3 million he makes every penny count and turns out a very nice looking film. The comedy is pure slapstick and at times dark as pitch. The actors attack their various roles with a solid energy that gives the film a maniac pace. "Brain Dead" aka "Dead Alive" is the best splatter comedy money can buy.

the top seem like a weak cliché. It completely jumps straight over a cliff and never bothers to return to any sense of normalcy. That this story of zombies gone amok has been dressed with an interesting Freudian spin -- over possessive mother tries to control her son's every move even after un dead, quite like PSYCHO -- only makes the hero's evolution from Mama's boy to unlikely survivor ever the stronger and gives the completely lurid tale some grounding even after it explodes left and right, literally, in pieces of flesh and still moving body parts.DEAD ALIVE has a lot to owe to EVIL DEAD 2: DEAD BY DAWN with its gleeful amounts of gore and truly slapstick scenes of crazy body parts, but it out-does it by the sheer volume of gore and blood that comes forth once the real madness begins. The fact that the aforementioned body parts have a will of their own makes for one rip-roaring sight gag after another in frenetic shots -- for example, one character's body snaps in two; his lower torso continues to amble about, his inner organs come ripped apart from his body and even take a peek at a mirror to see how they look, while the owner's upper torso gets partially flushed down a toilet. As a matter of fact, that same character's intestines take up quite a lot of screen time towards the climax as they chase the apparently hapless Timothy Balme around the house as his girlfriend, battling zombies in the kitchen, uses a blender to grind a hand that simultaneously tries to pull her in and all the while a baby zombie is becomes something of a tennis ball, bouncing about while creating yes, even more havoc. That is, until Balme goes berserk with a lawnmower and makes puree out of the entire lot of them. All this shows to what extremes the notion of the exaggeration of horror could be taken: the more blood and outrageousness, the less horrifying it becomes, and here, once it starts, it never lets up until its side-splitting finale.Definitely not for all tastes but for people who like their horror with a nice dose of Tex Avery lunacy, comedy as black as night and tanks of the red stuff -- this is horror comedy par excellence.

is a charming young woman for whom English is perhaps a second language. Soon after they meet, Paquita notices some odd quirks in Lionel's behavior, and slowly begins to realize that there is something besides the usual male fear of commitment. Perhaps Lionel's cannibalistic zombie mother is to blame? Soon enough Balme is babysitting a whole family of living dead who he has to constantly inject with animal tranquilizers, and trying to fend off a despicable uncle who is trying to muscle in on his inheritance. Then the fun really starts. It's the Dead Alive Series with extra gore, infused with brilliant slapstick and just a pinch of Monty Python.Balme is amazing! - an excellent physical actor with great slapstick pacing and manic anxiety. And Penalver is delightfully pretty and sincere yet gives a nice campy performance. Dead Alive is one of the films in which Jackson began to blend detailed ecstatic and fantastic elements into his plots and cinematography - later culminating in the disturbing Heavenly Creatures and the spectacular LOTR trilogy. In Dead Alive, he finds his formula and makes it work without a tremendous budget. The film is well shot and grotesque, but remarkably amusing.