Dead Alive
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Movie Reviews of Dead Alive
Movie Review: OH THE GORE!!! *Drools With Delight*
Summary: 5 Stars
Do you love Zombies? Do you Love special effects? Do you love dark comedy? Do you love EXCESSIVE (and I really emphasize that) gore? Would you love to see a zombie baby rip a girls head in half? If you answered yes to all these questions, then you will fall in love with Dead Alive. This movie truly deserves the title as the goriest movie ever made. This movie crosses all the barriers set by Hollywood and then returns to cover them with gasoline, lights a match and then proceeds to shred it with a blender.
The thing that raises eyebrows the most is that this gorefest was directed by none other than Peter Jackson, the modern day creator of the Lord of the Rings movies. But if you look at it; that explains why his orks looked so real was because he's had all this experience with zombie movies. When one watches lord of the rings and then watches this, they may think "that was a really, really bad movie...", but at the same time, this is a great movie. It's a dark comedy, it's not your standard movie, the acting for the most part is supposed to be bad, but presented in a more humorous aspect so to speak.
The gore isn't the style of the Evil Dead, eventually the gore just becomes so over the top that you can't help but laugh. At one scene a guy shoves a garden gnome into the neck of a headless zombie and at another time the lawnmower is whipped out and slices up all the zombies (it actually spat out 100 pints of blood per minute). This movie has it all, if you are looking for gore special effects, this movie will astonish you and you'll find yourself asking "how did they do that?" It even has Claymation!!! The plot doesn't matter too much (there barely is one at all) its just ends up as "Kill all the zombies before they escape the mansion without getting yourself killed in the end" type of thing. My friends and I couldn't possibly have had more fun when watching this. The zombie baby reminded us all of an evil inbred teletubby. And let's not forget the line said by the preacher which can be titled as the greatest B Movie line ever. "I Kick Ass for the Lord!!!" This hysterical line in then followed by martial arts which you just have to see to understand why it's so funny and my personal favorite part of the movie.
There are three versions however. The R rated version (skip that, it eliminates a lot of the good scenes), the Not Rated version (that's the version you are looking at right now) and the Brain Dead Version (original title) which isn't sold in the U.S. and if you want to seek out a copy I can only recommend using eBay or something similar.
If you are reading this review and smiling with a grin then I urge you to press the buy button now or seek out the Brain Dead version, you will rejoice at the opportunity to have such a gore masterpiece in your possession. Buy today, hoped this helped.
Movie Review: relentless blood splattering mayhem
Summary: 5 Stars
Dead Alive takes the zombie movie to new extremes in amounts of excessive bloodshed and chaos. It features massive amounts of brutal violence and gore, and in great detail. Enough blood and mutilated bodies to shock any long time horror movie fan. This extremely graphic blood fest features some of the most originally grotesque and sick sequences ever, including TONS of spraying blood and flying body parts, a world record amount of dismemberment, disembowelment, multiple decapitations, teeth pulling, a rib cage getting torn out from a body, a zombie's head getting cut off--- kicked around on the floor and then liquified in a blender, a zombie in a meat grinder, a rake thrust into the back of a skull, a lawnmower chopping through a room full of zombies (AWESOME, goriest scene of all time), a monkey's head that gets squashed, tons of internal organs, body parts, puss, goo, slime, and blood spilling everywhere, a zombie's head engulfed in flames, a woman eating a dog, the skin of a head being peeled away from the flesh, a fist going through a head and coming out through the mouth, a zombie cut in half (the upper torso half ends up in the toilet and the legs keep walking on their own), a disgusting animated pile of guts, excessive dead bodies, a heaping pile of severed body parts, rotting zombies, a mutated killer baby, a head attached to spine being whipped around-then the head is smashed like a can of tomato juice, pieces of a woman's head and face falling off, flesh eating, intestines used in every possible way imaginable, outrageous embalming scene (fluids squirt out of the body like a geyser), head explodes like a grape, zombie sex, slashing, hacking, chopping, you get the idea.
No possible way to remember everything. You will never look at pudding the same way again. That's only a small sample of the insanity. This is a gore hound's dream come true, I guarantee it will be well beyond anything you have ever imagined. The cool thing is, 90% of the gore is within the last 20 minutes! The grand finale is so over the top and fast paced, there's no way to put it to words. Let me just say you will have to pick your jaw up off the floor. Top notch effects from Mr. Jackson. This movie makes the gore and violence in nearly every other film look like Little Red Riding Hood. The uncut version (called Braindead) runs an extra 8 minutes and has even more shocking gore.
If you like Dead Alive, check out: Bad Taste (from the same director, also full of gore), Return of the Living Dead, Pieces, the Beyond, Re-Animator, Redneck Zombies, and Jason Goes to Hell: the Final Friday, tons of gore in these movies as well. 5 stars for Dead Alive, a must see.
Movie Review: Before he directed the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy...
Summary: 5 Stars
...Peter Jackson created this outrageously sick, twisted, & gruesomely entertaining gorefest that's scary [and at times, extremely funny!] The acting is bad (what do you expect from a campy romp of B rated horror?), but the special effects do more than make up for that, despite they are quite dated by today's standards. Nevertheless, when I first saw this awesome flick, the zombies actually proved to be very impressive for 1993. (When this movie was made)
The story concerns young Lionel Cosgrove (A comic performance by Timothy Balme) who lives in a beautiful mansion and is like a Momma's boy to his mother (Elizabeth Moody) with limited freedom. But when he meets the love of his life, Paquita Maria Sanchez (Lovely Diana Penalver), they decide to spend their first date at the zoo. However, Lionel's mother follows after and begins spying on them not too long before she is bitten by the rare Skull Island "rat monkey". Eventually, she becomes infected with a deadly virus and turns into a disgusting flesh eating zombie! In the process, everyone who's either friend or foe of Lionel turn into the undead as well. Now, Lionel is living in a home infested with zombies and it seems that it couldn't get any crazier. That is, until Lionel's evil Uncle Les (Ian Watkin) shows up and decides to throw a party! But little does Uncle Les know that the zombies living downstairs in the mansion attic are coming up to crash the party and soon all the townsfolk who were invited are devoured in some of the most bloody sequences ever caught on film! Now, it's up to Lionel and Paquita to battle the bloodthirsty monsters to the end! (Watching Lionel wielding a lawnmower reminded me of an alternate version of Ash wielding his chainsaw from the "Evil Dead" movies)
You'll laugh, you'll scream, & when it's all over, you'll come back for seconds!
(WARNING: This movie contains shocking material which may not be suitable for minors and/or those who are easily offended by this kind of stuff! However, those who are gore buffs will most definately appreciate Jackson's finely made cinematic slice of rotten cheese!)
I guarantee that fans of "The Evil Dead" and H.P. Lovecraft's "Re-Animator" will LOVE this! The UNRATED VERSION of the film contains more bloody footage and gross-out special effects too shocking to be shown in theaters. (& possibly some other extra scenes that were not shown before) The gore effects are indeed grotesque, but goes back to the roots of such masterminds as George A. Romero and Dario Argento! All horror fans should watch this movie with an open mind at LEAST once! You'll be happy you did!
Movie Review: Dead and/or alive
Summary: 5 Stars
Currently Peter Jackson is reknowned for his fantasy movies and exceptional cult remakes. But once upon a time, he was better known for splatter-gore horror movies, like the "Dead Alive," a bizarrely hilarious movie full of zombies, rat-monkeys and messy death. Glorious!
Lionel (Timothy Balme) is a downtrodden young man, who has the unpleasant honor of caring for his nasty mum (Elizabeth Moody). Then he meets store clerk Paquita (Diana Peñalver), and the two young people fall in love. Unfortunately, during a date to the zoo, his mom follows them so she can wreck his date.
She succeeds, sort of -- she gets bitten by a Sumatran rat-monkey from Skull Island (the same one where Kong came from?) and dies. But poor Lionel can't get off that easily -- because of the bite, his mom comes back to life as a flesh-eating zombie. Soon zombies are running amok, and Lionel and Paquita must find a way to get rid of them. Can true love triumph over the undead?
Be forewarned: this movie is gross. Very disgusting. Lots of fluids and body parts, and zombies eating people in detail. And the whole movie climaxes with hundreds of zombies crashing a party, and a spectacularly gory sequence involving a, uh, lawnmower and chainsaw.
But gore alone doesn't make a movie a cult hit -- any idiot can make a zombie movie. This one is special because of Jackson's twisted sense of humor; "Shaun of the Dead" definitely owes a stylistic debt to him. How many movies do you see where a character tries to clean up the blood after Zombie Mom has lunch?
Jackson sprinkles his 1950s setting with all sorts of weird characters -- a kung-fu reverend and a Nazi vet among them. He takes every weird zombie scenario and runs with it, whether it's Lionel babysitting a hyper zombie baby or the Reverend McGruder announcing, "I kick ass for the Lord!" or "Stand back boy! This calls for some divine intervention!"
But the movie is also notable for a very touching love story, between Lionel and Paquita -- and like any good hero, Lionel has to overcome obstacles (the zombies and Mum) before they can live happily ever after. Both actors do very solid jobs, and Balme really makes us like his downtrodden mama's boy, especially once Lionel picks up that lawnmower.
"Dead Alive" is a delightfully stomach-turning ride through a town full of zombies, body parts, and those ugly little buggers from Skull Island. Although it's not for the faint of stomach.
Movie Review: A fun romantic comedy the whole family can enjoy!
Summary: 5 Stars
Most people are confused about the misleading packaging. Yes, there is violence, blood, even graphic footage of disembowelment, but that's all icing on the cake. This movie is about the romance between two young lovers, Lionel and Paquita.
Paquita gets her fortune told and finds she will meet a young man and fall in love. She will know this man by the sign of the star and the moon. No, no, she doesn't fall in love with a Muslim, she falls in love with Lionel! Lionel is a mama's boy that is on his way to pick up a few things from her store for ol' mum. Lionel is a klutz and knocks over a bunch of pencils which miraculously fall into a formation that, to a person with a severely overactive imagination, may sort of look like a star and a moon. This is enough for her and she falls instantly in love. I gotta remember this trick.
Paquita becomes an instant ball and chain, but she's pretty so who cares? She invites herself to go on a date with him to the zoo. Here the movie gets a little weird. They are getting along well and things are romatical but then they see this monkey getting torn apart and eaten by some god-awful freak of nature rat-monkey. Lionel's mum is there and she gets bit. Unfortunately she turns into a zombie and most of the rest of the movie gets sidetracked by this zombie-blood-and-guts side plot. I understand why they needed the zombie subplot, as a device to keep the two lovers apart. But they got carried away with it! Eventually the love-story gets devoured by the zombie plot!
There's still some great romantic comedy hijinx though. Zombie-mum eats Paquita's dog for example. "Your mother ate my dog!" Also, when Zombie-mum is going on a murderous rampage throughout the house, Paquita is more concerned with whether to pack the green toothbrush or the white one.
Most hilarious part of the film award goes to the scene where Lionel takes the zombie baby to the park. When it misbehaves and tries to attack a little girl, Lionel gives it a good thrashing. Smacking against the swing-set bars, and finally slam dunking it as a drunken bum looks on cheering him on.
The two plots come together in the stunning and gory climax at a Bebop-zombie-and-jive party as Lionel and Paquita face off against hordes of the undead.
FINAL WORD: I would like to have a Paquita of my own to go on romantic-zombie-killing adventures with.