Braindead
Time Out says
Peter Jackson's zombiefest follow-up to Bad Taste, set in suburbia in the late '50s, is 'a slapstick comedy with blood and guts instead of custard pies'. When 25-year-old virgin Lionel (Balme) falls for the lovely Paquita (Peñalver), he provokes his domineering mother's jealousy. Soon after, a toxic nip from a Sumatran rat-monkey at the local zoo transforms Lionel's mother - through several putrescent stages - into a hideous, pustulant monster with a craving for human flesh. The finale, in which Lionel reduces a horde of flesh-eaters to a mulch of blood, flesh and offal with the aid of a flymo, is probably the goriest scene ever.Author: NF
Release details
UK release:
1992
Duration:
104 mins
Cast and crew
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Cast:
Brenda Kendall, Ian Watkin, Elizabeth Moody, Diana Peñalver, Timothy Balme, Stuart Devenie
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Screenwriter:
Frances Walsh, Stephen Sinclair, Peter Jackson
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