Braindead

See also: Brain Dead

Braindead is a film gore New Zealand of Peter Jackson parodying the films of the same kind which were in vogue lasting the Années 1980. It is a film at the same time gore and comic. He is regarded as one of most important works of this style, even the principal one. One finds in the same kind, and preceding Braindead , of the same realizer: Bad Taste and Meet the Feebles .

Synopsis

Lionel, young man unmarried and timoré, sees his/her mother, somewhat tyrannical, to be made bite by a monkey-rat of Sumatra. According to the legend of the natives of this island, this monkey-rat is cursed and transforms whoever is made bite in zombie. And indeed, some time after Lionel perceives some disorders in the behavior of his/her mother who transforms herself little by little into zombie. Lionel initially tries to cure it but without success. Little by little, the infection is spread but rather than to try to get rid of the monsters, Lionel transforms its house into small inn with zombies in decomposition (what leads to several rather strange scenes like the morbid copulation of a priest and a nurse giving rise to a still-born child zombie). Unfortunately while trying to put them " with mort" definitively, it will be mistaken in substance and will give them Stimulant S what will cause to make them completely mad. With the assistance of his/her Paquita boyfriend, Lionel will finally succeed in eliminating all the zombies of which most sanguinary, his/her mother transformed into a gigantic monster and this in manner gorissime with in particular a Lawn mower.

Data sheet

  • Title: Braindead
  • original Title: Dead Alive
  • Realization: Peter Jackson
  • Scenario: Stephen Sinclair, Frances Walsh and Peter Jackson
  • Music: Peter Dasent
  • Coming out date in France: April 27th 1993
  • Film New Zealand
  • Kind: comic-gore
  • Lasted: 104 minutes
  • Interdict with less than 16 years

Distribution

  • Timothy Balme : Lionel Cosgrove
  • Diana Peñalver: Paquita Maria Sanchez
  • Elizabeth Moody: Vera Cosgrove , the mother of Lionel
  • Ian Watkin: the uncle Leslie
  • Brenda Kendall: the nurse McTavish
  • Stuart Devenie: the father McGruder
  • Jed Brophy: Void
  • Lewis Rowe: Mr. Matheson
  • Glenis Levesiam: Mrs. Matheson
  • Peter Jackson: the assistant of the undertaking

Anecdote

For casting Peter Jackson chose unknown actors of the general public such as Timothy Balme, Diana Peñalver (imposed by a Spanish producer, when this last went bankrupt, Jackson preserved however the character), Elizabeth Moody (which one can re-examine in celestial Créatures ), Ian Watkin. Knowing that Timothy Balme had never seen film of horror of its life and that Diana Peñalver cried with the sight of blood, they carry out both a performance of actor in this work.

Prize list

Internal bonds

  • List of films of zombies
  • the kind of the films of zombies

External bond

  • Braindead on Internet Movie Database

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