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| Glitzy, good-looking - but pretty unrelated to the actual movie - poster for Peter Jackson's Braindead |
QUICK REVIEW:
A virus-infected Sumatran rat-monkey gets taken to New Zealand, where it spreads its contagion and gets splattered out by Lionel's autocratic mother shortly before a home magazine is to visit her residence. Slowly she rots and spreads the disease, while it becomes harder and harder to be Lionel-in-love.
Braindead is an incredibly uncompromising film with excessively caricatured players and a special effects-climax that knows no boundaries and goes on far beyond what audiences at the time and since have ever been used to.
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| Peter Jackson's Braindead often gets called the goriest film ever made, and I for one cannot name any other film that can keep up with it in gore and gore effects |
The ingenuity, the enormous work involved and the visionary and unique result makes the film an absolute classic. And probably the goriest film ever made.
It is directed by Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001-03)) as his last really edgy New Zealander film, and I think it is the best film of his career, which has now run amok with hobbits and Tintin. I prefer Braindead any day.
At wrap, the production still had 45,000 NZ$, and they made up the hilarious park scene for the remaining dough, which was shot in 2 days. Jackson has since said that this is his favorite scene and the funniest in the entire movie.
Related reviews:
Peter Jackson: The Frighteners (1996) - FX-driven ghost comedy madness
Bad Taste (1987) or, Peter Jackson's Hungry Aliens in New Zealand
Click to enlarge this creepy, hand-drawn poster for Peter Jackson's Braindead
Watch the awesome, very funny trailer for Braindead here!
Budget: 3 mil. $
Box office: 1.8 mil. $
= Big flop
How do you rate Peter Jackson's films and his overall career?
Is Braindead the goriest film ever, or do you think there are other films that come close to matching it?
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