Dead Alive | Timothy Balme, Jed Brophy | Awesomely bad horror flick.

Dead Alive | Timothy Balme, Jed Brophy | One of the Goriest Movies Ever!!!

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Dead Alive

	Dead Alive Timothy Balme, Jed Brophy Lions Gate, 1998 average customer review:based on 427 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

If you're not a connoisseur of graphic horror and gruesome gore, you'd better steer clear of this wicked 1992 horror-comedy from the demented mind and delirious camera of New Zealand-born writer-director Peter Jackson. However, if nonstop mayhem and extreme violence are your idea of great entertainment, you're sure to appreciate Jackson's gleefully inventive approach to a story that can judiciously be described as sick, twisted, and totally outrageous. The movie's central character is a poor schmuck named Lionel who's practically enslaved to his domineering mother. But when ol' Mum gets bitten by a rare and poisonous rat monkey from Skull Island and is turned into a flesh-eating zombie, Lionel has the unfortunate task of keeping Mama happy while fending off all the other zombies that result from her voracious feeding frenzies. If you've read this far, you'll either be crying out for censorship or eagerly awaiting your first viewing (or second, or third...) of this wildly clever and audaciously uninhibited movie. And while director Jackson would later achieve critical success with his fact-based drama Heavenly Creatures, his talent is readily evident in this earlier effort. If you find this kind of thing even remotely appealing, consider Dead Alive a must-see movie. --Jeff Shannon

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Awesomely bad horror flick.

This movie is Amazing. Over the top gory! Just super ridiculous. Meant to be scary but it's just insanity. I loved it!

One of the Goriest Movies Ever!!!

This is probably the goriest movie ever made! I love all the gore effects! Lionel and Paquita visit a zoo where a deadly rat-monkey has been brought. His demanding mother spies on them and gets bitten by the rat-monkey. Later, she turns into a zombie and starts eating people. Lionel hides all the dead people in the basement. Later, Lionel's stupid uncle throws a party in the house, and all the zombies escape to feast on the party-goers. The eating and the way Lionel uses the lawnmower to kill the zombies was awesome! But he still has to deal with mother! If you love zombies and extreme gore, you'll love DEAD ALIVE!!!

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Funny

Definitely laughed a lot. One of those good horror movies filled with gore that disgusts you as well as make you laugh at the ridiculousness.

The Ultimate Gore-Fest

WOW. I guess I should have seen this many years ago, but am just now experiencing this little bloody journey. Twisted but fun and oh, how it grows on you. The second and third time around I couldn't take my eyes off of the creepy baby. There's also a deliciously tacky cameo of 4E Ackerman at the zoo (good for Jackson that he paid homage where homage is due). I think this was Jackson's first venture into moviemaking. Happily, he improved with age, but the elements of his future brilliance can actually be discerned beneath the sanguine flood...

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Comedy, gore, still more gore - cringing & laughing

I found Dead Alive to be a comedy full of grotesque special effects, rather than the realistic and rather depressing Dawn of the Dead type of film. I fast-forwarded through some of the boy meets girl fluff and watched the horror parts. At first I thought the movie would be a disappointment, but about half way through it gets funny and then the zombies run wild. The action is somewhat like the second Evil Dead film, but bloodier.

The main character is a little like Norman Bates, but likable. The spear-chucking natives in the first scene of the movie were played by the Fijian rugby team - never saw that before.

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