Bad Taste
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Movie Reviews of Bad Taste
Movie Review: Cult gore movie!
Summary: 3 Stars
Peter Jackson's first film is a classic in the horror genere, a cult movie. But it's not a good movie. Yes, is hilarious; yes, is gory; yes, it has some good moments but...
In the first place, the story is fragemented. It seems like there are two or three movies that have been cut in pieces and then have been put together again. I can mention three stories: the alien people, the two guys in the car, and the alien-busters in the cliff. These three plots are mixed and the result is an erratic timeline. I also have to mention the terrible transition effects that he put between some scenes.
B-Movies are characterized for amateurish acting and this movie is not the exception. Jackson (Derek) character is okey the first 20 minutes of the movie. Then I can hardly see him with all his tics and weird talking. The rest of the characters are just average, not great at all.
Music is out of tune. Basically heavy metal for the action scenes, a gloomy music for the misterious parts and a childish keyboard-based tune for the ¨funny¨parts. Sound FX are poor and unrealistic.
The gory stuff is okey, considering the low budget. In some cases he reaches his goal: to disguste people showing brains, wounds, guts or puke but in other cases the dummie corpses and fake organs are so unreal that you are really tempted to laugh.
So, you will ask, why am I giving three starts to the movie? I have my reason:
1. Peter Jackson is a talented director that always do what he wants. He wanted to do a gore movie and he did it. He wanted to disgust people and he did it. He wanted to act/direct/write the movie and he did it. You see?
2. If you watch Braindead you'll see the progress: the plot is more interesting and centered, the acting is better, and the gory humor present in the movie is way beter than this one. Bad Taste is the base for what he do next.
My advice: Taste it and then, make your own desicion. And don't forget to watch Dead Alive (aka Braindead, aka Mi mamá se comió a tu perro).
Movie Review: Tastes Better Than it Smells
Summary: 3 Stars
(First off, this is not a movie for the average viewer. Only horror nerds, and people who like cult films need apply.)From evil dead to attack of the killer tomatoes, I am pretty much a pro at low budget horror movies. This movie, which i think was Peter Jackson's debut (now famous for Lord of the Rings, and Dead ALive) is actually quite a bit better than i had expected. The film itself is not overly groteque, but rest assured it has its moments, and when it is graphic the special effects are pretty... good. The story isn't to in depth and basically only 2 things happen, the aliens show up and the heroes fight the aliens, but whats there is good enuff. Peter Jackson ,who plays derrik (the coolest of the good guys) and robert (anh ... alien) is pretty funny... SFX wise the film is pretty cool. the aliens look like the guy on the cover, and have a neat hunched over walk. The fight scenes are quick and when guns are involved, not very interesting.
The movie itself, looks very good for an old indie film, the transfer is very crisp, and the widescreen bars aren't very big. Sound wise, there is no especially grand music, but the dialogue is easily heard and the music sounds fine and doesn't detract from the movie. As for extra's, there is a trailer and a bio on peter jackson, not real exciting. THe special edition has a booklet and a making of feature if you're really into extra's.
All said and done the movie is significantly better looking tahn it's low budget breathren. Story wise, it's not a Mind blower, but it has soem dumb fun and some cool special effects.(At one point Derrick gets a chainsaw, goodnes follows)... So if you like goofy, cheasy-gory, horror movies, This one is definately worth the cash. Oh and by the way, the comapny changed the origional cover of this film, to what you see now. The origional had the alien holding up only one finger. Can you guess which?
Movie Review: Early Peter Jackson, Great Peter Jackson as Always (3 and a Half Stars)
Summary: 3 Stars
Bad Taste, Peter Jackson's first real feature film, was filmed on weekends over the course of many years. This, in itself, is one of the film's most amazing achievements, since there are almost no mistakes, and a four year movie shoot would generally lend itself to many continuity errors, like characters looking different, etc. Unbelievably, the film looks and flows as if it really is all talking place over the course of one very bad day for our characters.
Bad Taste, like Peter Jackson's other notorious early effort, Dead Alive, is a gore-comedy, made almost entirely for the gross-out factor, and to showcase some nasty and brutal make-up effects. Even though this film is incredibly violent, if you are looking for gore, then stick to the Unrated Dead Alive DVD. If you're looking for comedy, Dead Alive is still funnier, too. For a gross-out comedy, Bad Taste nails the gross-out, and fails with the comedy. There are two or three VERY funny scenes, (the sheep towards the end is CLASSIC), but Jackson's attempt at comedy ultimately falls short with amateur humor, centered mostly around the gore.
However, there's a lot of fun to be had here. Jackson's old visual style is in full-force here, with sweeping long shots of the New Zealand landscape (gorgeous) and very unflattering push-ins to low angle close-ups of the main characters during dramatic sequences. Most importantly, though, for Jackson fans, is his relatively large role in this movie. Yes, Jackson acts, and actually plays one of the film's funniest characters. If you're a recent Jackson fan, steer clear, but if you like his older work, Bad Taste is a fun film, but ultimately one which loses a lot with each repeat viewing. If you can rent it, I'd suggest doing that first.
Movie Review: This is your brain on drugs.
Summary: 3 Stars
My god this guy musta been on serious drugs to do this movie.
First off i respect Peter Jackson and his movies but this thing is out there. All the aliens are idetified by wearing the same cheap blue shirt for the first 70 min of the movie in human form,and the last 20 as cheaply done aliens that look as if there pregnant toteing around ak-47s, and the charecters are all horibly done but likeable somewhat. Though overall the movie is a huge disapointment the only redeiming quailty is the semi massive amounts of gore whitch is quite amusing along with a few other redeaming parts that i loved like fake puke and cheap alien asses.
but i find that peter jacksons charecter is pretty anoying and kills the semi beleivable parts of the movie(you'll see what i mean).i know this is not supposed to me serious but i really can't stand monty python type humor, it makes me wanna puke as do most foreign(mainly british type) movies. Do yourself a favor if you want some good american comedy/horor get the evil deads there cheaper and way better done, not to mention better plots,.
but if you enjoy gore and raunchy british type humor check this out but please don't waste $18.00 on this pile you'll be disapointed, luckily i used a gift card.
this is comming from someone that enjoyed such tragedies like killer klowns and pupet master(some of them as a kid anyway), so i like my fair share of corny ass movies. maybe its just the british type humor that killed it for me.
Movie Review: Low Budget my @$$
Summary: 3 Stars
You might as well go ahead and forget the fact it's low budget, because it's mighty impressive that a movie like this was made on a shoe-string budget (the masks were baked in Peter Jackson's mother's oven!). Peter Jackson's first film is a gory comedy action movie (In my opinion, this isn't a horror movie or a horror comedy) about aliens that take over a town to harvest them for their fast food franchise.
Bad Taste really isn't TOO gory (nowhere as gory as Dead Alive) as it has more action and tense parts that lead to action, with some humor. Even though there isn't that much gore, there's no shortage of inspiration, or at least some memorable parts. The beginning of the movie where the alien gets his top part of his head shot off is great and looks gross (the way it's supposed to be! Yum.), and seeing the machine gun being fired off is awesome too. I won't really spoil it all for you, but the gore parts will most likely keep you entertained, though don't come just for that.
The story may be a bit bare bones and cheesy, but that's the way I like it! And the actions scenes on it are pretty funny and there are rocket launchers being fired and plenty of machine guns. It's a good watch, though it isn't really, for me, worth having on DVD (hence the three stars). Still worth a watch and entertaining.