Peter Jackson, Zombies, Gore, Ridiculousness and comedy, this is what today's Horror Movie Review contains in 1992's Braindead. Oh, and yes it is THE Peter Jackson of LOTR fame.
Overprotective mother Vera Cosgrove (Elizabeth Moody), spying on her grown son, Lionel (Timothy Balme), as he visits the zoo with the lovely Paquita (Diana Peñalver), is accidentally bitten by the fearsome Sumatran rat-monkey. When the bite turns his beloved mother into a zombie, Lionel tries to keep her locked safely in the basement, but her repeated escapes turn most of the neighbors into the walking dead, who then crash a high-society party thrown by Lionel's boorish Uncle Les (Ian Watkin).
Ridiculously gory and funny. I did feel it dragged in parts. Crazy and creative practical zombie designs. A super sized lawnmowers. The final act has everything covered in thick blood and it reminds me of someone throwing a full blown McDonald's strawberry milkshake all over the place haha. The zombie baby was annoying but funny. The thicc zombie at the end was just the most ridiculous thing and trust me this film gets more and more over the top as you go through it, it's almost as if Peter Jackson kept pushing the roof of ridiculousness haha.
The fact it tries to bring you a serious deep story revelation at the end was out of place for me and the fact the thicc zombie could talk and think like a human compared to the mindless zombies was something else too. See what I mean by it keeps getting ridiculous. It's not a film to take seriously by any means and my god is it entertaining haha. I've just been laughing and saying "what the fuck" for a large majority of this classic cult horror film haha.
God damn early years of Peter Jackson was fucking nuts! Defo has to have been somewhat influenced by Evil Dead. Easily the most ridiculous horror film I've ever seen. I can't believe this film just ends though haha I wanted to see or gain clarity that it was the end of the outbreak haha.
8/10
