Braindead aka: Dead Alive - 1992
Wingnut Films/Polygram - 104 min.(89 min. for Dead Alive)
DVD UPC # 031398684138; 3259190269194
Cast: Timothy Balme, Diana Penalver, Elizabeth Moody, Ian Watkin, Brenda Kendal, Stuart Devenie, Jed Brophy.
Writers: Stephen Sinclair, Frances Walsh, Peter Jackson; Original Music: Peter Dasent; Production Design: Kenneth Leonard-Jones; Photography: Murray Milne; Editor: Jamie Selkirk; Director: Peter Jackson.
The third of Peter Jackson's horror-comedies - a parody of zombie, gore and splatter movies which contains copious quantitites of all these. In 1957 Wellington, a young Latin woman meets a romantic partner in the dairy in which she works. While they stroll in Wellington Zoo, his prying mother is bitten by a Sumatran rat-monkey from Skull Island and infected with a varus that turns her into a rotting zombie with a craving for meat - any meat. Her first victim is a nurse and it spreads from there until the couple is confronted with a neighbourhood of bloodthirsty zombies which they must put paid to. Has become a cult classic.
Censor Rating: R 16 - Review rating: B-
