Dead Alive Reviews

to say its difficult to explain this movie is an understatement. somewhere between a comedy and an all out cheese gore fest. almost british like dull wry humor but then over the top blood shed.

its a story of a momma's boy, his wicked mother, and a love interest. well sort've. its more convoluted than that of course. the whole movie starts with a 'rat' monkey being captured and taken from its native land. people die immediately from this event. then, the man on his date takes the girl to the zoo where the monkey is on display. the mother sneaks around to spy on them, but ends up bitten by the monkey (here we finally see it and its a claymation sort've thing). she is infected, eventually dies, and comes back as a zombie. the man then can't get rid of her and she begins to infect others whom he also is attempting to keep under wraps at his home. the girlfriend becomes a lost story for a while but comes back in for the inevitable ending. all i can say about the ending is take all the fake blood scenes from every other movie ever made plus all the fake blood from every concert gwar has ever performed and you'll have about half the blood that is poured out in this movie. this is a definite blood bath, but its all done with the kind've humor you'd expect from gwar. wild puppetry, stop motion, makeup gore effects, etc. its a wild ride, if a bit understated in the end. theres really not all that much that is shocking, neither by surprise nor extreme. theres also not that much that is truly funny, just absurd.

its well worth watching once. some will love it, most will likely find it to be bizarre. all will be entertained. its impossible to call this genius, but you'll be hard pressed to find anything like it elsewhere. for that, and all the parts of it being generally good, it gets my vote as a great movie.