"The goriest and most brilliantly hilarious splatstick movie ever made."

Easily one of the most notoriously gory films ever created, Peter Jackson's 'Brain Dead' - also known as 'Dead Alive' - is a stupid, ugly, trashy, but...
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"The goriest and most brilliantly hilarious splatstick movie ever made."

Easily one of the most notoriously gory films ever created, Peter Jackson's 'Brain Dead' - also known as 'Dead Alive' - is a stupid, ugly, trashy, but brilliantly and comically gruesome and revolting film that can only be described as a "splatstick" comedy. It's also one of the funniest films I have ever viewed. The plot, while unbelievable and infinitely silly, is at the same time, excellently structured and, in the end, this film doesn't need a brilliant plot to accomplish what it accomplish. The emphasis is not on storytelling, and it doesn't even need to be, 'Brain Dead' is a brilliant work of disgusting, putrid art no matter what way you choose to look at it.

The story revolves around a man, his controlling mother, his "soul-mate" Paquita, who, when his mother sees them on a date, goes down there to ruin it, when a rat monkey bites her. She eventually turns into a flesh-craving zombie, like many other characters in the film. Blood, guts, bones and vomit ooze out of every rotting limb like it was water from a tap - THE single goriest film ever made.

A lot of people think this film is awful, but that's because they don't get it. It's meant to be awful, it's meant to be stupid, it's meant to make you laugh at how bad it is - that's what Peter Jackson's intent was and what he was trying to do with this film. And it succeeds. Very good film and definitely worth checking out if you believe trash can't be brilliant...oh, and you might want to have a new pair of pants handy.

Bloody and funny, but only for gore fans.

It still amazes me what this guy was able to do with such small budgets. This movie is grade A cult-classic gore slapstick.

A must-see for any horror/comedy fan.

The story is unacceptable, but the movie magic they use in the film is really really good, very convincing for a movie at that time. It'll still be the goriest movie of all time for a long time. Never seen such a mess on the screen!! :D

I have seen a lot of gore films in my day, but this is the worst. The dinner scene in this movie makes me gag. The last scene in the movie has to be one of the bloodiest of all. This movie does not hold back with the blood or the humor. I don't...
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I have seen a lot of gore films in my day, but this is the worst. The dinner scene in this movie makes me gag. The last scene in the movie has to be one of the bloodiest of all. This movie does not hold back with the blood or the humor. I don't recommend eating during this film.