Dead Alive
by Peter Jackson
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Actor: Jed Brophy, Murray Keane, Silvio Fumularo, Stuart Devenie, Timothy BalmeDirector: Peter Jackson
Brand: Lions Gate
Primary Contributor: Watkin, Ian
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.66:1
Running Time: 97 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1998-09-09
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Lions Gate
Movie Reviews of Dead Alive
Movie Review: IN YOUR FACE COMEDY CARNAGE
Summary: 5 Stars
THERE WAS MORE BLOOD, GORY SPLATTER EFFECTS AND NAUSEATING IMAGES OF OUTLANDISH CARNAGE IN THIS FILM THAN ALL THE ZOMBIE FILMS EVER MADE BEFORE IN THE HISTORY OF MOTION PICTURES. I DOUBT YOU'D BE ABLE TO WATCH THIS FILM IN MIXED COMPANY. YOUNG KIDS SHOULD NOT WATCH THIS FILM. NOR THE FAINT OF HEART.
THAT SAID, I WILL GIVE THIS HORROR COMEDY, WITH ALL IT'S DARK, CYNICAL, BLACK HUMOR, A FIVE STAR RATING. THERE WERE LAUGHS GALORE IN THIS MOVIE FROM START TO FINISH, TERRIRIFC ACTING, GREAT DIRECTION AND CAMERA WORK AND AMAZING SPECIAL EFFECTS, ALTHOUGH, LIKE I SAID, THEY WERE GORY BUT YOU CAN'T TAKE THIS FILM SERIOUSLY. IT IS A COMEDY, NOT A HORROR FILM.
THERE WERE SIGHT GAGS UP AND DOWN THIS FILM AND GOOD, CRISP DIOLOGUE WITH A WELL WRITTEN SCRIPT. IT MUST HAVE TOOK THEM A LONG TIME TO CREATE THIS FILM, WHAT WITH ALL THE WILD EFFECTS AND MAKE-UP BUT DON'T MISS THIS FILM, IT'S WORTH HAVING. AND I PARTICULARLY LOVED THE ACTRESS WHO PLAYED THE HERO'S MOTHER IN THIS FILM. SHE WAS GREAT! OVERALL, A GREAT JOB BY THE ENTIRE CAST, INCLUDING THE EXTRAS AND PRINCIPALS.
Summary of Dead Alive
On a quiet street in a small town pure evil has come to stay. An innocent young man forced to care for his domineering mother finds the task a whole lot more demanding after shes bitten by the cursed sumatran rat-monkey. Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 08/16/2005 Starring: Timothy Balme Diana Penaliver Run time: 85 minutes Rating: R Director: Peter JacksonIf you're not a connoisseur of graphic horror and gruesome gore, you'd better steer clear of this wicked 1992 horror-comedy from the demented mind and delirious camera of New Zealand-born writer-director Peter Jackson. However, if nonstop mayhem and extreme violence are your idea of great entertainment, you're sure to appreciate Jackson's gleefully inventive approach to a story that can judiciously be described as sick, twisted, and totally outrageous. The movie's central character is a poor schmuck named Lionel who's practically enslaved to his domineering mother. But when ol' Mum gets bitten by a rare and poisonous rat monkey from Skull Island and is turned into a flesh-eating zombie, Lionel has the unfortunate task of keeping Mama happy while fending off all the other zombies that result from her voracious feeding frenzies. If you've read this far, you'll either be crying out for censorship or eagerly awaiting your first viewing (or second, or third...) of this wildly clever and audaciously uninhibited movie. And while director Jackson would later achieve critical success with his fact-based drama Heavenly Creatures, his talent is readily evident in this earlier effort. If you find this kind of thing even remotely appealing, consider Dead Alive a must-see movie. --Jeff Shannon
Peter Jackson proves that if gory is funny, then excessive gory is downright hysterical. As our hapless hero wades through an ankle-deep puddle of blood and entrails, brandishing a lawnmower like a portable Cuisinart at the climax of this zombie-fest, you'll either be screaming with laughter or fleeing in disgust. Timothy Balme stars as the shy mama's boy Lionel, whose controlling shrew of a mother (Elizabeth Moody) starts rotting away, literally, with a vague supernatural disease. Mother dies but refuses to stay down, rising as a flesh-eating zombie infecting everyone she bites. Lionel tries to hide her in the basement, but the victims keep piling up and finally break out when Lionel's blackmailing uncle (a grotesque, leering Ian Watkin) throws a party in the house. It's snack time as the guests become undead hors d'oeuvres and rise again as hungry soldiers of the new zombie army marching on Lionel and his girl Pacquita (the lovely Diana Penalver). New Zealand goremeister Jackson pulls out all stops in this truly outrageous sanguinary comedy, from gross-out gags of oozing puss and rotting body parts at a formal dinner to slapstick antics as Lionel tries to keep his flesh-hungry mother sedated during the funeral to the final Freudian showdown between a now-monstrous mother and the newly liberated Lionel. If you like your horror with a sense of humor or your comedy with gristle, then wade through this taboo-busting bucket of blood. --Sean Axmaker
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