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Braindead (also known as Dead Alive in North America) is a 1992 New Zealand zombie comedy splatter film directed by Peter Jackson, produced by Jim Booth, and written by Stephen Sinclair, Fran Walsh, and Jackson based on an original story idea by Sinclair. It stars Timothy Balme, Diana Peñalver, Elizabeth Moody and Ian Watkin.
- $242,623 (United States)
- Peter Dasent
- $3 million
- Jim Booth
Feb 12, 1993 · Dead Alive: Directed by Peter Jackson. With Timothy Balme, Diana Peñalver, Elizabeth Moody, Ian Watkin. A young man's mother is bitten by a Sumatran rat-monkey.
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- Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
- Peter Jackson
- 1993-02-12
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Feb 12, 1993 · Overview. When a Sumatran rat-monkey bites Lionel Cosgrove's mother, she's transformed into a zombie and begins killing (and transforming) the entire town while Lionel races to keep things under control. Peter Jackson.
Braindead is a 1992 New Zealand zombie comedy splatter film directed by Peter Jackson, produced by Jim Booth, and written by Stephen Sinclair, Fran Walsh, and Jackson based on an original story idea by Sinclair. It stars Timothy Balme, Diana Peñalver, Elizabeth Moody and Ian Watkin.
Peter Jackson's gore-fest "Dead Alive" - AKA Braindead- is a very funny, very bloody film. The story is pretty simple, but includes some ingenious plot elements - such as a budding romance between two very likable characters (Balme and Penalver), a psychologically distressing relationship between Balme and his mother and well scripted dialog.
Released in 1992, Braindead (also known as Dead Alive in North America) is Peter Jackson's third feature film, a gory comedy in the vein of Bad Taste and Meet the Feebles.
