Braindead

This film is truly the finest hour of the young, aggressive, full-speed-ahead Peter Jackson. Check your squeamishness at the door and get ready for proof that splatter can be played for laughs.Not all the laughs are splatter-based. The opening scene... Full review

Crazy, visceral, over the top, quirky, violent, gory, silly, extreme and (in it's own way) sweet, are just a few words that can describe this visual extravaganza.What makes it such a good movie? It's fast paced, it's witty, it's charming...... Full review

Lionel Cosgrove is a good guy having a tough time with things. Ever since his father died saving him during a swimming accident Lionel has been taking care of his mother. But unfortunately his mother must have come from the same... Full review

Who would have imagined that in 1992 a film director of mainly cult movies would grow to the immense stature that he has today? I certainly didn't, but this is exactly the case with Peter Jackson, who then brought this... Full review

OK, so you've seen Lord of the Rings and the umpteen sequels or whatever, so fine. Do you have any idea how Peter Jackson started out before he went "mainstream"? If not, and you have a sense of adventure, watch... Full review

DEAD ALIVE (1993) ***1/2 New Zealand filmmaker Peter Jackson made his mark in horror cinema (and for himself as a talent to be reckoned with) in this incredibly gory, funny and altogether sickfest zombie flick about a young man's shrew... Full review

This amazingly bloody and hilariously funny gore comedy from Peter Jackson("Bad Taste","Lord of the Rings:Trilogy")is one of the most amazing films I have ever seen.There's a great bit with Timothy Balme walking a hyperactive zombie baby in the park,a kung... Full review

I LOVE THIS FLICK!!! Probably the greatest splatter comedy ever made, because "Braindead/Dead Alive" is a fast-paced, gut-wrenching, disgusting, adrenalin-pushing and ultra-funny cult movie!!! The nightly martial arts-performance on the cemetery is as great as Lionel´s baby sitting-trip on the... Full review

This movie, was the funniest thing I have ever seen. I watched it with tears of laughter in my eye, with no time to wipe them off, seeing a funnier, more dazzlingly inventive scene would immediately follow. I could not... Full review

Braindead was the first really gory splattermovie I saw, and I have seen plenty since then, but Braindead is still the best zombie/comedy-movie I`ve ever seen. All the actors are terrible but that is precisely what makes this movie so... Full review

Whether torn from a screaming victim or found strewn about the scene of a massacre, fake limbs are not hard to make and are great, multipurpose props. ... Full Article

Science has discovered that "if zombies actually existed, an attack by them would lead to the collapse of civilisation unless dealt with quickly and aggressively." ... Full Article

Okay, here's something you don't see every day: a Norwegian-made, Norwegian language (with English subtitles) horror/black comedy film about a cabin full of college students tangling with Nazi zombies. ... Full Article

When I saw 1992's Dead Alive (or Braindead , as it's known in its native New Zealand), it was love at first sight. Like most adolescent infatuations, that love quickly developed into unhealthy obsession and a lot of late nights... ... Full Article

Synopsis: A vile, old woman is bitten by a stop-motion Sumatran rat monkey while visiting the zoo and proceeds to turn into flesh-eating zombie. Her son, Lionel, who has just fallen in love for the first time, is tasked with... ... Full Article