Dead Alive
DVD/APPROX. 97 MINS/1992/NEW ZEALAND UNRATED
No matter what big budget Hollywood shitfest Peter Jackson decides to direct next, for genre fans he will always be known for his first 3 gloriously
low budget films,
Bad Taste, Meet The Feebles and this classic. Without a doubt Dead Alive AKA Braindead is The funniest "Splatstick" movie
ever! With full on gross out gore and kick ass one liners (especially from Uncle Les) this is a perfect party movie (if there ever was one).

Young Lionel is a real mummy's boy. She wont let him leave her side even though he looks like he is in his 30's! After hooking up with the girl from
the local shop (Paquita), in the cheesiest romantic type thing you will ever see, he takes her to the zoo. Dear old mum follows Lionel to spy on him
and gets bitten by a very vicious rat monkey looking thing. What is unknown is a bite from this monkey turns its victims into zombies! I cannot say
much more about this movie as it will spoil the fun.

Shot on a budget of around $1m, Jackson really had it going on with this one. Not that his two previous efforts were slouches or anything, this is
just way more professional looking. With some very impressive gore, Oddball actors, total black humor and an insane script, this is a horror/cult
movie fans wet dream!

It certainly lives up to its Tagline "You'll Laugh Yourself Sick!"
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"Some things won't stay down... even after they die"
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If you highlight the Trimark icon on the main menu you will be able to watch a
hidden trailer called Stephen Kings Tommyknockers, thats about it really.
RELEASE DATE
September 9, 1998

FORMAT
Anamorphic, Colour,  
Closed-captioned,
DVD-Video, Widescreen,
NTSC

VIDEO
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1

AUDIO
English: Dolby Digital 2.0

SUBTITLES
English, Spanish, French

STUDIO
Lions Gate

YEAR
1992

No. DISCS
1

REGION
1

GENRE
Horror, Comedy

WEBSITE
n/a
DIRECTED BY
Peter Jackson

WRITTEN BY
Stephen Sinclair

CAST
Timothy Balme, Diana Peñalver,
Elizabeth Moody, Ian Watkin, Brenda
Kendall, Stuart Devenie, Jed Brophy,
Stephen Papps, Murray Keane, Glenis
Levestam, Lewis Rowe, Elizabeth
Mulfaxe, Harry Sinclair, Davina
Whitehouse, Silvio Famularo...

SPECIAL FEATURES
* Trailer
* Hidden Egg
Lionel, a Mama's boy has the unwanted honor of having to look after his overbearingly evil mother. He
ends up falling in love with a local woman who believes that they're destined together. In a moment of
intentional sabotage of one of their dates, his mother is bitten by a mysterious creature that ends up
zombifying her. It's only a matter of time before she rises from the dead a powerful, bloodthirsty
zombie. It's only a matter of time before she starts infecting residents of the town and Lionel has to
stop her...and them.  
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