Dead Alive (1992)

AKA: Braindead

Some things won't stay down... even after they die.

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Release Date: Aug 13, 1992
Rated: R | Runtime: 104 Mins | Language: English
Director: Peter Jackson
Stars: Tim Balme, Diana Peñalver, Elizabeth Moody, Ian Watkin, Brenda Kendall, Stephen Papps, Murray Keane

Summary

When a Sumatran demonic rat-monkey bites Lionel Cosgrove's mother, she's transformed into a zombie and begins killing (and transforming) the entire town while Lionel races (and fails) to keep things under control.

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What to Expect

Dead Alive / Braindead starts soft. It's a strangely whimsical and romantic story about a mama's boy and a Gypsy girl who form a relationship in quaint Wellington Zoo, New Zealand. It doesn't feel like a horror movie whatsoever. Like, in any way. At all. Of course, before long the horror starts to bleed through and Dead Alive takes on a vibe similar to Evil Dead. And before you know it becomes more like a mind-blowingly gory Shaun of the Dead. It's like a more gross Green Inferno. I'm talking Videodrome gross.

So basically, a couple of guys sneak a killer rat monkey out of Sumatra and into a New Zealand zoo. The monkey bites a woman at the zoo, infecting her with some kind of nasty flesh dissolving zombie virus. And by flesh dissolving I mean this woman's ear slides off her head and lands in her soup. She then proceeds to eat her ear, pearl earring and all. She goes on to infect others who go on to infect others. Her son, the love interest of a youn Read more...

He eventually fails spectacularly.

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Critic Reviews:

Dead Alive, as it might be obvious at this point, is over-the-top. At the end of the film, there is so much stage blood poured on the floor that the actors are literally slipping and falling in it.

– Classic-Horror.com

Dead Alive is an unforgettable zombie movie which will have you gagging and grinning at the same time.

– Halloween Forevermore

Dead Alive is a crazy movie. It would be easy to call it a horror movie since it is about zombies but it really is more of a comedy and a mash-up of many genres.

– Basement Rejects

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