Braindead (1992)

19921h 37mdir. Peter JacksonNew Zealandcomedy horror filmsplatter film

Note: this print runs 97 minutes against a recorded 104 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.

With Tim Balme, Elizabeth Moody, Jed Brophy, Harry Sinclair, Peter Jackson, Ian Watkin, Forrest J Ackerman, Fran Walsh

Directed by Peter Jackson

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Braindead, released in the United States as Dead Alive, 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. The plot follows Lionel, a young man living in South Wellington with his strict mother Vera. After Lionel becomes romantically entangled with a girl named Paquita, Vera is bitten by a hybrid rat-monkey creature and begins to transform into a zombie, while also infecting swathes of the city's populace.

Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Streaming from YouTube.

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