Spec's DooYoo review: Braindead (Braindead (DVD))

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Product:	Braindead (DVD)
Date:	15/11/00 (9 review reads)
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Advantages: hilarious, albeit black humour

Disadvantages: disgustingly gruesome

This is another effort from Kiwi director Peter Jackson , and in the same splattergore-humour vein as his first film - the excellent Bad Taste.
This film is set in New Zealand, 1957. The hero's mother gets bitten by a rabid animal. She eventually dies, but comes back as a flesh-eating zombie. This is much to the dismay of some Teddy Boys who are pissing on her grave. Every time she bites someone, THEY become a zombie too. Luckily the Church Minister knows Tae Kwan Do, and kicks arse for the Lord.

However, fat blackmailing bastard Uncle Les invites the whole town around for a big piss-up. Of course, the zombies gatecrash ...

As in Evil Dead , a zombie's severed head or limb is still capable of action. Jackson takes this to its natural conclusion; one zombie's internal organs chase the hero through the house.

The Minister's TKD punch-up alone puts Slutty the Vampire F*cker to shame, never mind the climax - which involves a lawnmower!

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