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Braindead (New Zealand 1992), released as Dead Alive in North America, is an extreme zombie horror-comedy directed by Peter Jackson. It is in the same vein as Jackson's earlier works Bad Taste and Meet the Feebles but Braindead is rather more polished, with a budget of around $3 million. Although it starts with the capture of a zombie-creating creature on the eerie Skull Island, the movie is relatively low-key in its opening half. Only in the second part does it spiral out of control into a blood-filled zombie film. File links The following pages link to this file: Braindead (1992 movie) ...
Peter Jackson CNZM (born October 31, 1961) is a three-time Academy Award, Golden Globe and BAFTA winning New Zealand filmmaker best known as the director of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, which he, along with his long time partner, Fran Walsh, and Philippa Boyens adapted from the novels...
Timothy Guy Balme is a New Zealand actor, best known within New Zealand for his long-running role as Greg Feeney in the television soap-opera Shortland Street. ...
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A group of actors portraying zombies in a film A zombie is an animated human body devoid of a soul. ...
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Peter Jackson CNZM (born October 31, 1961) is a three-time Academy Award, Golden Globe and BAFTA winning New Zealand filmmaker best known as the director of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, which he, along with his long time partner, Fran Walsh, and Philippa Boyens adapted from the novels...
Bad Taste is a low-budget 1987 cult film, one of the first directed by Peter Jackson, in which aliens invade the fictional New Zealand village of Kaihoro (population 78) in order to harvest human beings for their intergalactic fast food franchise but are repelled by a four-man paramilitary...
Meet The Feebles (1989) is a black comedy film by director Peter Jackson. ...
In the 1992 film Braindead, Skull Island is seen as a relatively barren place off the coast of Sumatra with very little foliage and rocky beaches. ...
Plot The first scene of the movie sets up the danger of the Sumatran Rat-Monkey, a hybrid resulting from the rape of tree monkeys by plague rats: An explorer returning from the depths of the island with a rat-monkey in a cage is stopped by his native guides. Seeing the mark of the monkey's bite on his right hand, they immediately hold down the infected explorer and amputate the appendage. A bite mark is then seen on his left arm, which swiftly results in the removal of that limb. Finally, they see a set of bloody scratches on the man's forehead and kill him. The title screen follows the man's dying scream, and as the opening credits roll the captured rat-monkey is shipped to Wellington Zoo in New Zealand. The Sumatran Rat-Monkey, as seen in Peter Jacksons 1992 film Braindead (Dead-Alive) The Sumatran Rat-Monkey (Simian Raticus) is a hideous fictional creature created by director Peter Jackson for his 1992 horror film/ comedy film, Braindead (also known as Dead-Alive). ...
Wellington Zoo is the zoo in Wellington, New Zealand. ...
In 1950s Wellington, Lionel Cosgrove (Timothy Balme) lives with his domineering mother (Elizabeth Moody) and is at her beck and call. To his mother's dismay, Lionel falls for a local shopkeeper, Paquita (Diana Peñalver), and while following the two on a visit to the zoo, his mother is bitten by the Sumatran Rat-Monkey. Despite it being stomped to death, the animal's bite slowly turns her into a zombie. Lionel is horrified, but, ever the dedicated son, is determined to care for her. This does not cite any references or sources. ...
For other uses, see Wellington (disambiguation). ...
A group of actors portraying zombies in a film A zombie is an animated human body devoid of a soul. ...
He acts as her "nurse", even as she starts murdering other townspeople and, in turn, creating more zombies. Through it all, Lionel tries to keep his zombie mother placated with doses of veterinary anaesthetic and also tries to maintain his relationship with the completely oblivious Paquita. Anesthesia (AE), also anaesthesia (BE), is the process of blocking the perception of pain and other sensations. ...
His mother escapes, however, and is run over by a tram. As the town assumes she is dead, Lionel tranquilises the still-kicking zombie for her funeral. After she is buried, he recovers his mother from the grave, but not before three more victims are zombified: a nurse who makes house calls, a hoodlum and a priest (Stuart Devenie) who attempts to fight his attackers off using kung fu (and in the process utters the immortal cult film line "I kick arse for the Lord!"[sic]). This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...
Stuart Forbes Devenie is a New Zealand actor. ...
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As the number of zombies grow, Lionel tries to keep them under wraps in his home. The nurse zombie (Brenda Kendall) gives birth to a dreadful zombie baby, dubbed Selwyn, whom Lionel takes to the park on a surreal and violent occasion. Eventually, Lionel's uncle Les (Ian Watkin), a badly dressed louse with a wig, discovers the "corpses" and blackmails his nephew into giving up his mother's estate. This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...
Lionel acquires some poison and dispatches and buries the zombies as Uncle Les and a crowd of his friends invade his home for a housewarming party. But the "poison" turns out to be an animal stimulant and the zombies burst from the ground to attack and infect the party guests in a gory finale.
The movie's climax has Lionel, Paquita, Rita and Les fighting hundreds of zombies, animated intestines, severed heads, and disembodied legs. Most memorable amongst gore fans is Lionel's charge into a room full of zombies with a lawn mower strapped to his chest (which in turn delivers the immortal cult film's second well-known one-liner "Party's over!"). Les is soon killed by Lionel's mother, who has become an evil gargantuan monster and he is turned into a twisted undead creature that Paquita kills. Then Rita's head is suddenly torn apart by the zombie baby. Soon after, Lionel and Paquita retreat to the rooftop as the house is covered in flames and faces down his mother, who traps him inside her abdomen as they duel on the house's rooftop. In an over-the-top Freudian "rebirth", he cuts his way out of her grotesquely changed form and she falls into the fiery home below. As Selwyn screams from the burning house, firefighters arrive with ladders and Lionel and Paquita walk away arm-in-arm, covered in gore. The intestine is the portion of the alimentary canal extending from the stomach to the anus and, in humans and other mammals, consists of two segments, the small intestine and the large intestine. ...
A typical modern gasoline-powered mower. ...
Sigmund Freud (born Sigismund Schlomo Freud) May 6, 1856 – September 23, 1939; (IPA: ) was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist who co-founded the psychoanalytic school of psychology. ...
Versions This splatter film was released in a number of different versions. In some nations, such as Australia and the United Kingdom, the 104 minute film was shown in full (which was quite uncommon in the UK, as many other similar films were heavily censored at the time). In countries where the censors balked at the extreme gore, the film was initially banned or left unrated before being heavily cut. In Germany a 94 minute version was seen with major cuts to some of the film's grislier scenes, but was widely ignored. Poster art for Blood Feast (1963) A splatter film or gore film is a type of horror film that deliberately focuses on graphic portrayals of gore and violence. ...
In the United States, where the film was released as Dead Alive, because of another film with rights to the title Braindead, the R-Rated version is only 85 minutes, while the unrated cut is 97 minutes. This, according to director Peter Jackson, is his preferred cut of the film.[citation needed] The MPAA film rating system is a system used in the United States and territories and instituted by the Motion Picture Association of America to rate a movie based on its content. ...
The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ...
Peter Jackson CNZM (born October 31, 1961) is a three-time Academy Award, Golden Globe and BAFTA winning New Zealand filmmaker best known as the director of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, which he, along with his long time partner, Fran Walsh, and Philippa Boyens adapted from the novels...
Trivia - In Peter Jackson's remake of King Kong, a crate can be seen in the cargo hold of the ship that reads "Sumatran Rat-Monkey - Beware the bite!", a reference to the zombie-creating creature from this film.
- It has been said that a total of 300 liters of fake blood were used in the final scene on the rooftop, making it the goriest scene in film history.
- In some cinemas, tickets for the "Braindead" movie included paper bags for vomiting.
- The song played on the organ as the mourners wait to enter the church (prior to the embalming scene) is "Sodomy" from Peter Jackson's previous film Meet the Feebles (1989).
- During the lawnmower scene, fake blood was pumped at five gallons per second.
- At one point during the lawnmower scene, the jets squirting fake blood are easily visible. Also, many have noted that the blood in this scene is an unusual, bright pink colour.
- There is not one moment of action or dialogue cut from Peter Jackson's original screenplay.
- Jackson makes a cameo as the undertaker's assistant in the botched embalming scene.
- The natives of Skull Island, home of film's Sumatran Rat-Monkey, were played by the Fijian national rugby union team.
- On its initial release in its native New Zealand, this movie earned more per screen than Batman Returns (1992).
- The movie was finished under budget with $45,000 remaining. Peter Jackson used it to spend two days shooting the park scene with Lionel and the baby Selwyn. Peter Jackson has gone on to say that it is his favorite scene.
- The film's estimated North American box office gross was $70,544.
- The location used for the film's opening scene, where the explorer is retrieving the rat-monkey, was used again by Jackson in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, when Aragorn and his companions journey to the Paths of the Dead.
- In a lawsuit, Bradley v Wingnut Films Ltd [1993] 1 NZLR 415, it was alleged that the comedy horror film Brain Dead had infringed the privacy of the plaintiffs by containing pictures of the plaintiff's family tombstone. The tombstone appeared on the film for less than 14 seconds. It never appeared in its entirety, only the letters "BRA" were visible behind a person sitting on the wall at the side of the plot. After reviewing the New Zealand judicial authorities on privacy, Gallen J stated: the present situation in New Zealand ... is that there are three strong statements in the High Court in favour of the existence of such a tort in this country and an acceptance by the Court of Appeal that the concept is at least arguable. This case became one of the series of cases which contributed to the introduction of Tort of Invasions of Privacy in New Zealand.
- The trailer was made in split vision with the trailer playing in one half while the other contained pictures of sheep.
- Film director Eli Roth, noted for directing bloody horror films, describes himself as a gore hound but stated that Braindead had more than satisfied his thirst for gore in a horror movie.
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The Sumatran Rat-Monkey, as seen in Peter Jacksons 1992 film Braindead (Dead-Alive) The Sumatran Rat-Monkey (Simian Raticus) is a hideous fictional creature created by director Peter Jackson for his 1992 horror film/ comedy film, Braindead (also known as Dead-Alive). ...
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Meet The Feebles (1989) is a black comedy film by director Peter Jackson. ...
In the 1992 film Braindead, Skull Island is seen as a relatively barren place off the coast of Sumatra with very little foliage and rocky beaches. ...
The Sumatran Rat-Monkey, as seen in Peter Jacksons 1992 film Braindead (Dead-Alive) The Sumatran Rat-Monkey (Simian Raticus) is a hideous fictional creature created by director Peter Jackson for his 1992 horror film/ comedy film, Braindead (also known as Dead-Alive). ...
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| - Lionel Cosgrove: That's my mother you're pissing on.
- Lionel Cosgrove: They're not dead exactly, they're just... sort of rotting.
- Lionel Cosgrove: Party's over!
- Lionel Cosgrove: [as an excuse for punching Selywn and stuffing it into a bag] Hyperactive...
- Paquita Maria Sanchez: Your mother ate my dog!
- Lionel Cosgrove: Not all of it.
- Uncle Les: That's someone doing the business!
- Uncle Les: Ahhh, so you found your father's old stag movies, did ya?
- Uncle Les: Is that the one with the donkey and the chambermaid?
- Mr. Matheson: What we need is another war!
- Father McGruder: The Devil's among us!
- Father McGruder: Stand back boy! This calls for some divine intervention!
- Father McGruder: I kick arse for the Lord!
- Intellectual at party [struggling against an attack by Void] Okay! Okay! I take it back! Nabokov wasn't a pedophile!
- Intellectual: [defending himself against oncoming zombies] Some of my best friends are Pedophiles!
- Undertaker: [as Vera's eyes pop out and green slime sprays out] Cranium blowout!
- Zoo Keeper: Story goes, these great big rats come scuttling off the slave ships and raped all the little tree monkeys.
- Zombie Mother: Nobody loves you like your mother!
- Mr. Matheson: WHAT? NO PUDDING !
- Mr. Matheson: [After having gotten his pudding and after pus from Vera's bite wound squirts into it, he stirs it further in and the pudding turns pinkish] Rich and Creamy, just the way I like it!
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Russian: ВладиÌмир ВладиÌмирович ÐабоÌков, pronounced ) (April 22 [O.S. April 10] 1899, Saint Petersburg – July 2, 1977, Montreux) was a Russian-American author. ...
Pedophilia or pædophilia (see spelling differences) is the paraphilia of being sexually attracted primarily or exclusively to prepubescent or peripubescent children. ...
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