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A really great film but a truly disgustingly gory film. As much as I like this movie I can never bring myself to rewatch it. It is extremely gory. And as far as gore goes, ahead of it's time. I could think it's possible and fair to say that this film is even more bloody than Hostel.
Posted By: jhendo255 at 11:10pm, September 27, 2008
Check this, as everyone else has already said this movie is awesome. Gore out the ass and I am just going to hit the highlights since the rest has apparently been stated below. Rat monkey, Zombie sex, Zombie baby, Zombie party, mowing Zombies, kicking ass for the Lord, and anything and everything thats jacked the hell up and makes a movie great. My only recommendation, and this is important, is that the R version and Unrated version are largely different. Unrated=bad ass, R rated=cut like hell and for a reason.
Posted By: RedSabbath at 11:40am, September 20, 2008
First of all, let me state that this film was probably the last hurrah for the gore-filled late 80's films & whatta way to go! Released in 1992, Dead Alive is one of the most goriest films ever to come out of New Zealand (or anywhere else really!).
Taking place in 1957, a rare and dangerous animal, offically known as Simian Raticus (the Rat Monkey Sumatra) is taken from it's home at Skull Island and brought to a local zoo. What the visitors don't know is that this monkey has an infectious bite, one that turns anyone into a bloodthirsty zombie! When Lionel, a young man with a smothering Mother who watches his every move, takes his newly found girlfriend Paquita to that zoo, he gets more than he ever bargined for! You see, while he & Paquita enjoys the zoo, Mother is spying on them, only to accidently get bitten by that monkey (Uh, oh!). After Mother gives the animal the boot (watch & see), Lionel takes her home to get well, but as we all know in these movies, that ain't going to happen! Soon Mother gets ill.......really ill! And the zombie-ness begins! When Zombie-Mom gets loose, she takes a nurse with her, and it ain't to the hospital either! After mom's "funeral", she meets a few more of the town locals, including Father McGruder, who appearently "Kicks @*% For The Lord", and soon we have quite a little Zombie-party going on here. That is until Lionel's house becomes host to an actual party by his money-hungry Uncle Les. But no one tells the party-goers that the Zombie's are the real guests of honor! So what do you do when you have a party with eventually a hundred or so uninvited zombies? You break out the lawnmower and get to "weeding" them out, of course!
I think I've told you enough to get your interest in this movie, but if that didn't do it, consider this: I personally own about 75 horror DVD's & Dead Alive is the most goriest, sickest, disturbing, and funniest of my bunch (it's even more of these things than "Evil Dead II:Dead By Dawn"!). The DVD has a nice, crisp picture that's letterboxed, and has a very nice stereo mix too. So, if you want a horror movie that you'll be finding yourself showing everybody you know again & again, then get Dead Alive! You won't be sorry........oh, I almost forgot about the Zombie-Baby! Well, I'll let you get the movie and see for yourself.
(RedSabbath Rating:9.0/10)
The sub-genre of bloody Saturday morning cartoons has come a long way over the years, and it’s hard to Braindead was the granddaddy of them all. Maybe that is why it seems so stale when the gore starts. It’s hard not to compare it to superior movies like The Machine Girl and Kill Bill from the same sub-genre, despite the fact it’s older. I could be the only one who feels that way, but after seeing so many similar movies first that were better, it’s hard to be positive in this review.
I know no one else is going to share my opinion here, but I really loved this movie until the gore started—then it just got bland and seen-this-before. On a technical level, as far as amount, this is most likely the goriest movie ever made. That doesn’t mean it’s effective, however. The gore effects have not aged well and though the gore is terribly unrealistic or anything, but I was just unimpressed with the level of actual blood. It seemed there was a lot of bloodied skin and torn out ribcages, but hardly any blood on the floor or on anything else except in random scenes where blood was a plot point. That’s why I’m hard-pressed to call this the goriest movie ever because I’ve certainly seen more blood on screen than this in Inside and seen more severed limbs in Kill Bill. So maybe it’s just the audacity that tricks us into thinking it’s the goriest movie of all time, because I’m starting to doubt it is.
Though none of this makes the film bad. It isn’t bad. For what it tried to do, it did. The lawnmower scene was nicely done. There were quite a few genuinely funny scenes, and I’m not sure the last time a gore movie (I almost said horror movie, but this really isn’t one) had me laughing as hard as Braindead did. The casting and acting were absolutely perfect for the type of movie it was. It reminded me a lot of a bloody episode of Wallace and Gromit, for whatever reason.
I just can’t give this a perfect rating. I guess I’ve seen so many modern movies like this before I saw Braindead, it just looks slightly bland and overdone. I just can’t say it holds up well to movies like The Evil Dead, even though it has more gore. I think there are some movies that are meant for a certain generation, and a lot of people in the next generation won’t understand it. Maybe that’s what Braindead is. It was made before horror-comedy really caught on in a major way, but after you’ve seen all the others this just seems repetitive—at least to me. Make up your own mind. Any and every horror fan needs to see this movie. Don’t let my negative comments discourage you from that.
Oh Dear God! This is, without a doubt, the goriest movie I have ever seen. I loved it! It is also very funny. The zombie sex was hysterical (especially since one of the participants had been a priest before he turned). The fact that a zombie baby was conceived during this unholy union was even better. Tasteless to the extreme and I loved every minute of it!
Thanks to Bloody Disgusting for helping me find this gem of a horror movie! Would have never heard of it. Lots of Humor,even more Gore than anything eles I,ve ever seen! Gotta go and start my Lawnmower now!
Wel well Peter Jackson at his best!!! Not since Cemetery man has there been a Zombie movie so entertaining! I laugh myself to tears every time I watch this movie! The gore is amazing, exe THE LAWNMOWER IN THE LIVINGROOM!!! or the BABAY IN THE BLENDER!!! A great KIWI film if ever there was one. And to think this great director went on to make crap like THE LORD OF THE RINGS!!! What a waist Peter Jackson...what a waist!!
I give DEAD ALIVE/BRAIN DEAD nine Zombie babies in a blender out of ten Zombie babies in a blender!
Ok I saw this movie like 10 years ago and didn't like it. I know, I know! The gore-yes amazing if you crave gore it's the best! However, I'm not a huge gore fan. Sorry!
My absolute favorite movie ever made. Absolutely. What a freakin ride, man! Everything about this movie is great...the incredible gore and over-the-top efx that this movie is known for is really only part of the equation...the characters (I love Picita's Grandmother, the zookeeper, and the drunk in the park!), camera work (I love the close up, fish eye face shots!) and even the set designs (Lional's house on the hill, the basement...) are excellent. The dialouge and scripting are really good too ("but we are romantically entangled!" and, "Your mother ate my dog!" are two personally satisfying standout quotes.)
This movie delivers on so many levels and CAN appeal to so many people...it truly is a standard setting, genre defining CLASSIC!
if you have NOt seen this movie, then go start your lawnmower, flip it over, and JUMP INTO IT...or just rent it. MAKE SURE IT'S THE 97min. UNRATED VERSION!!!!!
This movie is incredible. The story is pretty good and the scares don't exist. I don't watch ghe goriest movie ever for scares. This movie is completely crazy. So funny and great lines all over the place. The get to watch early peter jackson (lotr) movies is pretty good. I have always liked this movie. The movie is just a ride complete humor, enjoy everyone.
This is definitely the goriest movie ever made, no doubt about it but I didn't enjoy it all that much. It was just OK for me. Worth a watch if you are into all gore and no scares.
Posted By: TheGreaper773 at 4:55pm, February 8, 2008
wow....no one has Reviewed this yet? come on! this movie was a landmark in horror movies!
Plot: this movie had a pretty good plot....but a monkey Rat? Wtf? lol random...but none-the-less pretty awesome. the love story was pretty good, the acting was good....its all good lol 5/5
Gore: 10/5 simply THE GORIEST MOVIE EVER MADE!.....Nuff Said
Downfall: there really isnt anything bad about this movie....yeah its a wee bit cheesy but thats ok in my book
Closing Statement: word of advice: never eat pizza whilst watching this movie...you WILL throw up....i have experienced this first hand lol...the gore in this movie is PHENOMINAL! ...sooo much...i recommend this movie to anyone who need a Gore fix...because you will be satisfied for a long time!
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