Fresh
The best to date from Kiwi gore specialist Peter Jackson.
David Stratton, Variety
Braindead
Some things won't stay down... even after they die.
1992 · 1h 43m · R
Comedy, Horror
Directed by
Peter Jackson
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Braindead
Overview
When a Sumatran rat-monkey bites Lionel Cosgrove's mother, she's transformed into a zombie and begins killing (and transforming) the entire town while Lionel races to keep things under control.
Director and cast
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Top critics, in their words
89%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Because all of this looks blatantly unreal, and because the timing of the shock effects is so haphazard, Dead Alive isn't especially scary or repulsive. Nor is it very funny.
Stephen Holden, New York Times
Fresh
Horror films used to be primordial spook shows, tapping midnight-dark fears. Now they tap bodily goo: rivers of blood, dripping limbs, eyeballs that go pop in the night.
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
Fresh
The finale, in which Lionel reduces a horde of flesh-eaters to a mulch of blood, flesh and offal with the aid of a flymo, is probably the goriest scene ever.
Time Out
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