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Dead Alive (1992)
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Peter Jackson proves that if gory is funny, then excessive gory is downright hysterical. As our hapless hero wades through an ankle-deep puddle of blood and entrails, brandishing a lawnmower like a portable Cuisinart at the climax of this zombie-fest, you'll either be screaming with laughter or fleeing in disgust. Timothy Balme stars as the shy mama's boy Lionel, whose controlling shrew of a mother (Elizabeth Moody) starts rotting away, literally, with a vague supernatural disease. Mother dies but refuses to stay down, rising as a flesh-eating zombie infecting everyone she bites. Lionel tries to hide her in the basement, but the victims keep...
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| Dead Alive Movie Review by Chris (12/29/2007) |
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In the times of stupid slasher and zombie films which are drenched in gore, none really stand out as much as Dead Alive has. Peter Jackson, who has, after Braindead, directed the LOTR series and King Kong, has really changed from this movie. While the film is ultra cheap and low budget, it succeds in terms of gross out...
(complete Dead Alive review by Chris)
Equally well-known as BRAINDEAD, Peter Jackson's gore-comedy splatters across the screen with the glee of a child that's just been given 50 gallon drums of fake blood. When a bizarre rat-monkey is brought to a New Zealand zoo, it opens the doors to a zombie epidemic of mass proportions! Newly romancing lovebirds Lionel and...
(complete Dead Alive review by Ryan Midnight)
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