Braindead (YDead Alive) is a film directed and written by Peter Jackson in 1992 starring Timothy Balme, Diana Peñalver and Fran Walsh.
Braindead is funny to death and one of those movies that made horror-comedy one of the most sought-after genres for those who want to start making movies and don’t have a rich guy to give them 100 million dollars to start working (I think it’s the minimum, but hey).
Plot
They get a cute little monkey off a lost island and take it to a zoo in New Zealand, with such bad luck (could you believe it?) that the little monkey has a virus that drives people crazy and turns them into evil zombies.
The bloodbath is about to begin.
The Movie. Review
Fun, good, original back then and still today despite the two and a half million films that have tried to imitate it ad nauseam. It doesn’t take long for things to get out of hand, but it gets wild when the zombie baby appears and ends up making a mess of things. With some effects that are a little bit amateurish but effective, Mr. Perter Jackson (yes, believe it or not this guy directed the three Lord of the Rings movies and received an Oscar for directing the last release) manages to build a cult movie that, if you like to leave your brains at home, you’ll love.
The film is intelligent within the stupidity it pretends to pursue (like the emperor Claudius). Just for the editing, the movie is worth it. A very well achieved rhythm and a feeling that things are getting better and better with every scene. The thing does not stop, it has secondary characters and parodies to the genre of a director who has learned what is not taught in universities.
When you’re good, you’re good.
To all this we must add the grotesque occurrences that come to mind when someone has smoked something he shouldn’t have (well, someone smart).
Very entertaining for all occasions.
Our Rating
It may not be a movie for everyone, but if you are not so finicky, you´ll definitely like it because it makes nonsense and bloodbath a spectacle hard to beat.
And they try over and over again… without succeeding.
Four stars.
