Braindead/Dead Alive (1992) – Gloriously Gory and Wickedly Wild

Holy freakin’ crap, what a wild ride this 1992 Peter Jackson film is! This is a Zombie movie that reaches new levels of gore that I have never seen before.

I really can’t describe this film other than using one word:

Awesome.

More blood and gore than I have ever seen in one movie, and yet, Peter Jackson made a good movie and not JUST a gorefest.

The film takes place in 1957 New Zealand, and involves some of the most decrepit, funny, violent and weird Zombies and Zombie action ever filmed. These are disease/plague Zombies and they spread through bites starting with the bite from an evil hairless rat-mokey in a Zoo (the movie starts with a Zoo official taking the 

monkey from Skull island against the wishes of the angry natives of said island) – wait until you see the creepy monkey this – wow is all I can say about that freaky creature.

I’m not going to tell you any more about the story, because I want you to see this film. I will mention that this film has the greatest lawn mower scene ever… EVER!

It turns out that the whole damned movie is also available on Youtube, so if you are impatient, you can watch it there.

See this movie and then let me know what you think.

Here’s the trailer:

And here’s a link to the whole movie (for as long as the link lasts):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUW6Mtg10tU