Excellent, Without a doubt!!

A lot of fun.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

What can I say. I dont usually write reviews bit this is probably my fav film of all time. Yes its silly but that's the point. Personally I find this as Jackson's finest peice of work Loved what he did with Lord of the rings and dont think it could of been done any better, but I have watched this film since I was 7 years old and I always come back to it. Yeah its cheap and yeah its nasty but Thats the beauty. This should be in the syllabus for any inspiring film maker. Just had to get that off my chest as it really is that good and if you dont agree watch it again... And again... And again

Nowadays he's one of the world's most famous directors after his incredible success with the LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy, but everyone has to start somewhere and BAD TASTE is Peter Jackson's beginning. Shot over a period of 4 years as an amateur film and clearly inspired by the likes of THE EVIL DEAD, Jackson's film is equally inventive although totally different in tone. Instead of being a horror film, this is a comedy out and out, with the emphasis on dumb humour. Not really my cup of tea, but at least I could enjoy all the effort that went into this – especially the large-scale climax, with the flying house, which must have taken some doing! The simple story of an alien invasion is handled well on what is a very low budget. For much of the movie, the aliens look human, only changing into their rubbery true forms near the climax. The heroes facing them are men of action, so there's plenty of shooting and fight scenes, some heavily in debt to Schwarzenegger's COMMANDO, although this time around Jackson amps up the gore to unbelievable levels. Brains are splattered everywhere, blood fountains through the air, bodies are chainsawed and torn into pieces – it's all very nasty stuff, although thoroughly unbelievable and played for laughs at all times.One scene, the infamous vomit-drinking moment, is specifically designed to make the viewer be sick, and is pretty hard to watch (because of the sound effects, for the most part). This film's biggest detraction is the quality of the acting, which unsurprisingly sucks – particularly Jackson himself, who proves to be an intensely irritating screen star. Thank God then that his directing is good, showing promise even here. While I can't ever see myself sitting through BAD TASTE again, far preferring BRAINDEAD, fans of horror and gore flicks will no doubt have a ball with this silly outing that just goes to show what you can do with special effects and passion.

Let's face it - When it comes to its hilarious, old school, grind-gore effects (that are really quite over-the-top and need to be seen to be believed), Bad Taste is a small-scale "Alien Invasion" picture that would have, otherwise, been forgotten long ago and dismissed as pure rubbish without them.With so much going against it (terrible dialogue, dumb situations, badly-staged violence, incompetent direction, predictable story), 1987's Bad Taste would be Peter Jackson's first feature film as a director and, with that, it, unfortunately, showed his amateur status clearly at this very early stage in his career.All-in-all - The appropriately titled "Bad Taste" was at least worth a few honest-to-goodness belly-laughs. The absolute highlight of its z-grade hilarity was the priceless moment when the aliens' asses were exposed to the viewer. Talk about funny! Set in the remote, New Zealand town of Kiahoro, Bad Taste was produced on a shoe-string budget of just 200,000 NZ dollars.Besides not giving a sweet-damn about the fate of any of the characters in the story, this viewer also thought that the film's rock & roll soundtrack stank, big-time.Oh, well - What the heck, eh? I still thought that its cheesy effects were a lot of fun to watch.

Bad Taste (1987) This was another re-watch.I have only seen ghis once before, that was about 6 years ago.I didn't remember much about it, I thought there was very good, had decent gory moments in this movie, which I thought really good, for is first half .The effects were really good, very decent and really fum to watch, I did think that the movie, would have been more funny, then it was. I did laugh a few times.Some of the other stuff. I Just felt, it was silly and not funny. It dose seem a little outdated.It's as not aged well at all, the acting, Well it's not great but it not bad, let's just say, it's suits the movie.5 out of 10