SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

A group of adventurers discover and bring back a deadly rat monkey to a zoo, who can transform their victims into blood thirsty zombies. When a man's mother gets accidentally bitten by the rat monkey, mayhem ensues. Dead Alive, also known as Braindead, was Peter Jackson's third feature after the splatter fest Bad Taste and crude Muppet parody Meet the Feebles. Jackson this time delivers a humorous take on the zombie genre, which harkens to the likes of Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead in its combination of physical comedy with blood and guts galore. Dead Alive is said to be the bloodiest movie of all time and I'm not exaggerating! One of the final sequences required 5 gallons of blood to be pumped out per second! That's absolutely ludicrous! Thankfully it pays off and the film remains one of the greatest zombie comedies of all time.Timothy Balme excellently pulls off the wild physical comedy and in all honesty, he is a runner up for Bruce Campbell in terms of giving the best performance in a zombie horror comedy. There are some insanely over the top moments and you just have to see it for yourself- they're insanely good! Dead Alive/Braindead is over the top violent gory fun that I'm sure you'll enjoy!

Back in the very first couple of years of IMDb's existence, there were some God-awful films that made their way into the Top 250 List. This is one of the more extreme examples. The DVD cover for the movie states that it's 'the goriest fright film of all time'. Since I'm not a fan of this stuff, that statement could very well be true as I haven't seen much to judge it by. The only thing I know is that if the film makers had a goal of making the most disgusting film possible ever, they probably achieved their life's ambition here. The gross-out factor of the picture is way off the Richter scale, and gets my vote for the worst movie in history that should never have been made. Now I know there's an audience for stuff like this and to their credit, director Peter Jackson and writer Stephen Sinclair did a commendable job in creating an over the top gore-fest that looks like it was meant to be more of a horror spoof than anything else. I mean really, you've got a goofy looking Sumatran rat monkey, a kung fu priest, a werewolf/zombie effect that transforms it's victims into the walking dead, and a lawnmower scene that's not to be believed. For some reason there were repeated scenes of the film's hero (hero?) administering the old 'hypo up the nose trick' with some kind of serum developed by a Nazi doctor. When the love interest Paquita (Diana Peñalver) had her fill of all the nonsense going on, she just joined right in to deliver more buckets of blood with the rest of them. If you've got a queasy stomach there are any number of scenes that will send you to the porcelain goddess, and you better be quick about it.I was actually surprised to learn that Peter Jackson helmed this picture, but when the opening scene described the setting of Skull Island off the coast of Sumatra, it all made sense. Jackson would return to Skull Island in 2005 to take a crack at the rat monkey's cousin. Safe to say, "King Kong" wasn't nearly as bloody.

First there was "The Re-animator," an entry from 1985 in the 'zany gore' category that blew the top off the genre, a real A-level B movie. Jackson must have seen this film, and thought 'I can top this in gore and Oedipal comedy.' And "Dead Alive" (or "Braindead" in many parts of the world) was born.The film is neither for the faint of heart, nor for those who cannot enjoy a half hour long dismemberment sequence as a choreography of blades, bodies, blenders and blood. Think of it as the zombie equivalent of the space docking scene in "2001: A Space Odyssey."The film gets right to it: an animal collector is hunted by an indigenous tribe through ravines (also used for the City of the Dead in LOTR by Jackson, talking about early location scouting). He is bitten by a rat-monkey that turns anyone into a zombie. His crew, who know the deal, throw him to the ground. His arm shows a mark. They hack off the arm. His other arm shows a mark. They hack of the other arm. His face shows a mark. They...From there we are thrown into the relationship of a young grocery clerk with his mother (the Oedipal part of the comedy), a domineering hag who will not allow him to court a pretty young customer he falls in love with. Mother is bitten by the rat at a zoo in New Zealand, and from then on, zombie contagion ensues. Mother builds a zombie coterie around her while an embarrassed son tries to hide it and sneaks out to see his girlfriend.The film brings you some of the most memorable zombie-horror-Oedipal-comedy ever put on celluloid (for this was a pre-CGI affair). The final scene even features a re-entry of our hero into the zombie-mother's womb. I mean, how much further can you take the Oedipus myth? In between, you are accosted by non-stop, lovingly done gore, including entrails that chase the hero through an attic, a head sliced off just below the eyes that looks around bewildered while getting kicked like a hockey puck, grave yard ninja zombies. And of course the lawn mower tour-de-force that was just too much for many film critics who did not appreciate the ballet-like quality alluded to above. Peter Jackson made every penny of his microscopic budget count. That's when he's at his best.This film is a cult classic, another grade-A B movie. Although a worthy successor to "The Re-animator," with its preposterous plot and over the top characterization, it cannot enter into A territory, so 7/10 it must remain. Hitchcock's comparatively subtle Freudianism is still better every time.

Once in a life time there comes a movie that combines two opposite genres together to make a seamless whole of a movie. Dead Alive is that movie. Perfectly combining splatter horror, and comedy this movie is sure to make you laugh and vomit at the same time. The premise is simple, an awkward young man's mom is bitten by a Rat Monkey that leads to her becoming a zombie. Eventually she gets out and begins to spread the disease around the neighborhood. Basically you classic zombie movie. But this has a completely different feel to it. For one I couldn't stop laughing, whether is was the zombie baby or the heart and lungs monster, this movie made me laugh. But at the same time I completely lost my appetite. From watching a man get his legs eaten off, or a woman eat her own ear. It really takes a certain kind of person to understand the humor in this movie. I give this movie ten out of ten, not just for the humor and story but for the practical effects. They were absolutely amazing. A few like the monkey or the baby don't really hold up to today's standards, but when the guy gets his legs eaten away leaving just his bones, that was unbelievable. It looked so realistic. The characters were another way that made this movie great. I really enjoyed the characters, they were all people that really acted like someone would in that type of situation making it believable.I wouldn't recommend this movie to just any movie watcher. It takes a special type of person to enjoy this movie to it's full potential. But if you love movies like Shaun of the Dead or Zombieland I suggest you check this movie out. But do it on an empty stomach, I cannot stress how bloody and gory this movie is.