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Summary: On a quiet street, in a small town, pure evil has come to stay. An innocent young man forced to care for his domineering mother finds the task a whole lot more demanding after she's bitten by the cursed Sumatran rat monkey. Passing the point of death, Vera sucks friends and family into her gruesome existence among the living dead and Lionel is sent spiraling into a ghoulish nightmare. Now a crazed zombie, she soon infects enough people to make it difficult for Lionel, still the faithful son, to keep the neighbors from suspecting that something is terribly wrong. (Lion's Gate)
this is the most disgusting tasteless movie i've ever seen. that said, there's certainly an ingenuity to it, and some serious camp... but god. who wants to watch an hour and a half of splattering guts? what's the point? especially with such a lame lead. Also, is is it just me, or is Peter Jackson kinda racist? Two movies filmed in New Zealand with violent primitive savages? Ugh.
"Dead Alive was Jacksonīs ticket to the Horror "Hall of Fame". It counts to the goriest but coevally funniest Flicks of this Genre. Iīve seen this so many times but never get rid of the rough jokes. Ash got his Chainsaw Arm, Lionel his Lawnmower. Hilarious^^
My favourite thing about this movie is that it's a Peter Jackson film. Being as most people would have seen LOTR first, this movie leaves you wondering how this guy made LOTR at all. But I love that Jackson got his start in schlocky genre films. His early work is hugely entertaining and leaves me with warm thoughts of a younger Jackson at the drive-in watching Howling 3. Not to mention the fact that this movie contains what must be the bloodiest scene ever put into a zombie movie. enough said!
Awesome and truly twisted horror-comedy film that doesn't leave any taboo stone unturned. It's pretty obvious Peter Jackson sought to offend as many people as possible with this film.
i don't know where to begin with this one! love the special fx and the comedy, but beneath the surface of this movie there are a lot of stuff goin on. A satire of the family values, religion and society.
"I kick ass for the Lord!!" I saw this shit in 8th grade, way before Peter Jackson went on to do LOTR trilogy. This is his true work of genius. A sumarian rat monkey spreads a zombie disease and lawnmower zombie massacres... Can't be beat.
A movie with a purpose. The purpose is, "let's see how many gallons of fake blood we can use." This is such an awesome movie experience that I would recommend this to anyone who can stomach it. It has the most gore you will probably ever see (yet it's more funny than disgusting). Hats off goes to the effects department that made a lot (awesome gory moments) out of a little (money/technology). Probably shouldn't watch it with your girlfriend (unless she's awesome) but your buddies will dig it.
HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!! if that isnt ur first reaction aftet watching the goriest movie ever made, take off your sunglasses and pull out ur earplugs and fucking watch this movie! this is the goriest, gut-wrenching, funny, disgusting, puke-inducing horror movie ever filmed. not even to mention extremely quotable lines. dead or alive, this calls for divine intervention!
Unbelievable, bloody horror-comedian, really a bizare story. The last 40 minutes were so bloody, maybe over the top but so great and very funny, especially that baby. I'm wondering how many gallons blood one used in this movie ?