Braindead (DVD) Reviews

When I first rented this video out, I was expecting a semi-serious horror film. What I got was BrainDead - probably THE goriest, bloodiest and down right grusome film ever made! It's a comedy alright, and it will have you in stitches. The creation of Peter Jackson, also legally responsible for 'Bad Taste', BrainDead (also released as ...  Read the complete review

Two statements sum up this film perfectly: This goriest film ever and the funniest film ever. The blood comes by the buckload and it is unbelievable the ways the makers can shock you further. Just when you think oh well it will calm down now they come up with even more hilarious ways of severing heads and ripping of limbs. The most memorable way ...  Read the complete review

I was flicking through the channels while lying in bed. I was looking for someone to keep me awake really, I was in one of those tired moods, where you can't get to sleep so decide to watch some drivel on the TV. I saw a film guru going on about a film that want allowed to be shown on TV etc etc because of its graphic violence, so i ...  Read the complete review

Last night I had planned to get an early night as I had to get up early to take my Dad to the airport. I had a flick through the T.V guide at about 11:30pm to see if there was anything else on before I went to get my kip, and I saw this description of a comedy horror, a genre that is always really hit and miss. I rubbed my chin and thought about ...  Read the complete review

This is one of the funniest films you will ever see. Its gory, disgusting and just plain sick. Lionel is the mummys boy who falls for the itallian girl who works in the corner shop, but it all goes wrong when his control freak mother is bitten by a "Rat Monkey," and becomes very ill, as over a number of days becomes a zombie, and at ...  Read the complete review

Some films use gore to sicken and scare their audience, Braindead however uses it to sicken its audience, then it uses more till you're in hysterics. This is probably the ultimate example of going over the top to produce a disgusting, but always hilarious movie. Directed by Peter Jackson, probably best known for his film Heavenly Creatures and ...  Read the complete review

Braindead comes in many different versions all around the world, each countries classification board made different cuts with only the Dutch cut benig totally uncut. Known as Dead Alive in America, it was brutually cut to receive a R rating almost more than the UK version was. Now its been released on a uncut DVD in America I may be tempted to ...  Read the complete review

After watching a series of films from the very underated director Peter Jackson i came across this little beauty. Now i have basically grown up with horror movies from the late great hammer horror collection to the modern day screams, but never before had a film got my attention and approval as much as Braindead. I have shown ...  Read the complete review

Probably the last of Peter Jackson's splatter comedies - given that he's now firmly esconced in making expensive, good-taste adaptations of The Lord of The Rings - 'Braindead' is a small masterpiece of full-on disgusting gore. While it never ascends the heights (depths?) of his underground masterpiece 'Bad Taste' (nobody ...  Read the complete review

After watching director Peter Jackson's earlier film Bad Taste, (see my opinion on this), I got hold of a copy of this. It is another excellent film - perhaps not quite as good as Bad Taste, but still great. The main storyline includes, a (very) strange disease (which is initially picked up from a rare animal in a zoo)- which causes ...  Read the complete review