Dead Alive
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Movie Review: Dead Alive is a true horror/comedy masterpiece
Summary: 5 Stars
From start to finish Dead Alive is a masterpiece not only making you scream but also laugh. It all starts out in a small town in New Zealand where a young man named Lynol falls in love with a spanish girl named piquita. As soon as his mother finds out what is going on she decides to follow him on his first (I guess you could call it a date) to the zoo. Where she is watching over them slips and falls against the cage of a Rat Monkey from Skull Island. After the bite she detatches more and more from life finally she dies and rises as the walking dead. After this incident it gets harder for Lynol to keep her under control because he has more zombies to worry about! I am not going to give away anymore of the movie if you want to know more watch it I enjoyed every bit of it. WARNING this movie is not for the faint of heart it contains scenes of explicit violence and gore! If you do not have a strong stomac get the R rated version. But if you want to see this movie in all its gorey detail get the Unrated version of VHS or DVD. If you plan to buy it on DVD all the versions on DVD are unrated so dont worry. Now lets talk some about the DVD features. Unlike the VHS versions the DVD version is digitally masered and is letterboxed at 16x9. The DVD includes the theatrical trailer, Spanish and french subtitles, interactive menus, and scene access. Well thats it I hope whoever reads this decides to watch the movie. P.S. the one review on here that says that the DVD goes out of sync when you press a button after it starts playing. It is definitly a problem with either his copy of the DVD or his DVD player I have consulted with several others who own the DVD version of Dead Alive and none of them have this problem and neither do I
Well thanks for reading my review I apriciate your support and if you have any other questions about any other versions of this film feel free to email me about it. Take Care
Thomas
Movie Review: A watershed for the splatter sub-genre.
Summary: 5 Stars
As any good splatter punk knows, when you want something over the top and beyond reason...look outside the US. Especially after those loons in Colorado shot up their school. American horror has been in the dumps. Although, even before that happened, the Horror genre here was getting pretty stale. Many of the movies were self serving in-jokes. (This was refreshing in the first Scream movie but after that I got really tired of it) And it would seem these days the best horror we have to offer are either remakes or sequels of classic 80's slashers. Kind of sad really considering what we are getting from outside the US. Peter Jackson,(LoTR films) was one of the first foreign directors I noticed. Dead Alive to me upon the first viewing was a ridiculus spoof. But I was pretty drunk at the time and wasn't able to fully appreciate it. Upon my second (sober) veiwing I saw something I had never seen before. This film took me to the place American horror flicks rarely ever did....that extra half second.
Let me explain, Aside from the Uncensored George Romero "Dead" films...the traditional kill scenes in American horror films only showed kills in quick flashes....the impact of the machette, or the plunge of the claw, or the penetration of the knife etc...Then they'd cut away for an expression on the kill's face...cut to the killer, then show a bloody corpse fall down.
The extra half second I mean is the half second after the machette, claw, or knife hits....Other than the initial attack, the unsettling USE of the weapon. Yeah we all know that sharp things are lethal...Jason has hacked more people to death than any other on screen killer. But, you only ever saw so much. In this film we see what happens after. That's what makes it so harsh for some people. And that what makes this a work of art beyond genre films. Peter Jackson is, dare I say it, the Jackson Pollock of horror.
Movie Review: "I Kick Arse for the Lord" . . .
Summary: 5 Stars
Dead Alive (A.K.A. Braindead) is one of the most insanely disgusting movies ever made . . . and it kicks "arse." I teach horror film at a small university and one of my students begged me to screen it in class. Having never seen the film, I decided to take a risk . . . needless to say, that has never happened again!!! It took all of my will to sit in my seat and PRETEND not to be FREAKED OUT! In fact, this story has a great "Part Two" because from the back of the room came a retching sound . . . and out the door went one of my female students. She did not, in fact, get sick . . . but she did return to tell me that "She didn't have to watch that crap." AHHHHHH, that was when I knew I had a winner:)
Allow me to underscore that you MUST buy the unrated DVD!! I have seen the regular release . . . and I think THAT ONE should be banned!! This film should be a test of will . . . not to mention, by the end, it is a test of if you can find a breath between laughs!! Watching Lionel destroy zombies with a lawn-mower . . . in the most extensive blood-bath EVER . . . too funny!! And the UNREAL Oedipal moment at the end (the whole "back to womb" thing) . . . SURREAL!!
Not to mention, this film breaks one REALLY huge taboo: zombie-baby. This infant's antics are ridiculous!! Watch this film JUST to see the scene with Lionel and the baby in the park!! (Ohhh, and the bit with the frying pan ... priceless!!!) Yes, Synder had a zombie-baby in his remake of Dawn of the Dead (and it ROCKED!!). . . but this is JUST HYSTERICAL!!!
This movie is deliberately gratuitous . . . and it is worth every second!!! Honestly, it is not for the weak of heart or stomach (and I will never show it again in-class . . . just way too risky . . . I DO NOT WANT TO HAVE TO CALL A CUSTODIAN OVER A FILM!!!) But, if you are a hard-core zombie enthusiast, GO FOR IT!!!
Movie Review: REAL NAME IS BRAINDEAD!!
Summary: 5 Stars
if you know how to do proper research you would know this lgf edition of dead alive
is the us unrated.the uncensored version of this film under it's original swedish title of "braindead". this version is missing approximately 2 minute and 24 seconds
of footage toward the end of the film. check here on amazon.com or goto amazon uk
and try to find it. it is time for lions gate whom owns the us rights to this film to admit this film is not the original swedish uncensored.
i for one have opened my eyes and now know some hardcore horror and gore films
are treated unjustly by some of the more famous movie studios.
here is a list of films in their original form which have been burried or banned
from print in the us
1.Braindead(swedish)99min deadalive(us)97min
2.hellraiser III hell on earth(uk)97min(us)93min
3.ichi the killer(jap)135min(2hr 15min)(us)120min
4.demons 2-the nightmare continues(uk)94min(us)91min
5.nightmare on elm st 5 dream child (jap)91min(us)90min
6.friday the 13th films 1-10(longer than the us versions)
7.dead and breakfsst (us)84min(uk)90min
8.ice cream man-starring clint howard "ron's brother"(us)85min(uk)95min
9.beyond re-animator(us)95min(uk)96min
10.chainsaw cheerleaders(two versions=unrated 90min uncensored 120min)
11.robocop(r-rated and x rated is a difference of 8 seconds and a different angle
for the execution of the character alex murphy)the x rated is much better.
12.trick or treat=starring mark price 1986new(dvd)93min og(vhs)98min
13.bad taste(SE)91min (us)87min
this is just a sample of what i know, if i learn more i will try and update this list.
i am no longer replying to any comments of this review as of 2/1/11!
chris c
Movie Review: Can be viewed two ways
Summary: 5 Stars
Ok, now this movie can be viewed two ways. One, as a critic with a notebook who would probably scribble down "Absolute piece of crap do not even waste your time" or with your mates with a pizza, plenty of beer and you would probably view it as "Bloody fantastic". I tried to do both but quickly got bored with the first way and almost immediately did the second and me and my friends' reactions were exactly like what I typed earlier, "Bloody fantastic".
Sure it's bloody, sure it's gory sure and it's not the greatest movie of all time but when you sit down and watch would you really expect Citizen Kane? The caption above the title basically says what the whole 100 minutes of pure gory entertainment is all about. It's a gory tale of a wimpy but overall nice bloke called Lionel living and obeying under his over-bearing mother's every rule. But after mummy is bitten by a sumatran rat monkey everything gets a little bit more stressful for Lionel as his mother has turned into a zombie. As he now has to hide her mother's victims, including a dog, from the rest of the neighbourhood. But through all the hilarious, bloody and sometimes disgusting moments it all climaxes with the infamous lawnmower scene and when Lionel is finally "born again" but I won't spoil it for first timers.
Overall it's not a great movie by any means, nor it is a terrible movie but it is great entertainment and briiliant comedy laced with Python-esque style humour perfectly showcases Peter Jackson's warped sense of humour which is also shown in Meet the Feebles and Bad Taste and an obvious skilled director who would move onto bigger and better things such as Lord of the Rings and King Kong. It is an absoulute must for cult movie enthusiasts and gore hounds. Just don't come expecting a terrifying horror movie.