Dead Alive (Braindead) (1992)

7.6	Rating (729 ratings)
7.5	IMDB rating

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Directed by

Peter Jackson

Starring (View all)

Timothy Balme
Lionel Cosgrove

Diana Peñalver
Paquita Maria Sanchez

Elizabeth Moody
Mum (Vera Cosgrove)

Ian Watkin
Uncle Les

Brenda Kendall
Nurse McTavish

Stuart Devenie
Father McGruder

Jed Brophy
Void

Stephen Papps
Zombie McGruder

Written by

Fran Walsh

Peter Jackson
(screenplay)

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I Kick Ass For The Lord!

14 years, 2 months ago at Jul 24 17:35

pamela voorhees

2 votes

You know that incredible tagline: Some things won't stay down... Even after they die. Boy are they right! As my 100th review, I thought no other movie would qualify that was epic enough that at the same time had no one who had reviewed it. Sometimes i would even like to get hit on the head so the part in my mind which knows a great deal of the movie becomes forgotten; and i can experience it for t... read more

Camp, Not For Everyone

10 years, 4 months ago at May 19 22:14

moviebuff15

1 vote

Be forewarned, this is grade-B all the way, so if you are a no-fun fuddy-duddy like my mom or need an Oscar pedigree for every film, you watch, you will probably find this equal parts tedious and repellent. However, for those with a subversive wit and tolerance for bad taste and a ridiculous amount of blood and gore, look no further. This is your movie.

Lionel (Timothy Balme) is ... read more

Dead Alive / Braidead

11 years, 6 months ago at Mar 7 12:11

Rath

1 vote

With an exact budget and a lot of, but that great imagination, Peter Jackson leads us to an orgy of blood, guts and very much humor. With very his technology of filming (an aim in continuous movement that introduces the spectator in the work as one more observer), a few guessed right special effects and a script descabelladamente absurd, hilariously and grotesquely, this good man and better person... read more

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Description: In 1957, a rare rat monkey is brought from Sumatra to a zoo in New Zeland. The local Lionel Cosgrove (Timothy Balme) is a shy young man, having a complex due to the death of his father, and is completely dominated by his evil and possessive mother Vera (Elizabeth Moody). In a small shop nearby his house, Lionel meets the very superstitious attendant Paquita Maria Sanchez (Diana Peñalver), who believes he is the man of her life. Paquita invites Lionel to go to the zoo with her, but Vera follows them and is bitten by the weird Sumatrian monkey. The monkey's bite turns her into a zombie, and every person she bites also becomes a z ... (more)

Release date: 13 August 1992
UPC: 031398684138

Tags: Horror (34), Comedy (23), Zombies (22), Black Comedy (14), New Zealand (13), Splatter (13), Gore (12), 1992 (11), 1990s (9), Fantasy (8), Zombie (8), Zoo (7), Cannibalism (6), (6), Torture (5), Foreign (5), Priest (5), Blood (5), Undead (4), Peter Jackson (3)

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