You are silly if you pass up Peter Jackson's masterpeice "Dead Alive", also known as "Brain Dead". A great zombie film including a zombie priest and an old woman stomping on a monkey's head. The violence is so fake though, people will be laughing more than screaming. Which is a good thing. You'll love it.

Quite literally the goriest movie I've ever seen. And hilarious! If you can stomach the massive amounts of blood and over-the-top gore it is very funny but it's certainly not for everyone. But if you're curious what uber-nerd Peter Jackson was doing before he went all legit with King Kong and Lord of the Rings, he was making incredibly offensive films like this and "Meet the Feebles"...
Also known as "Braindead", it is called the goriest movie ever made because of the sheer amount of fake blood used during filming. During the infamous lawnmower scene alone, blood was pumped onto the set at a rate of 5 gallons every second...
Now, while the ability to drench your actors and sets in fake guts and gore may not make a movie that is a masterpiece there are definitely questions raised by the film...questions of aesthetics and morality in art and why we enjoy horror and revulsion...
But, really, why do people see this movie? It's because it has a zombie priest and a man cutting down a house of the undead with a toro strapped to his chest.
Do yourself a favor though: if you are thinking of watching it, check out the lawnmower scene on youtube. If you can stomach it...literally, if it doesn't make you puke a little, go ahead and rent or netflix it...otherwise stay away. really...it's bad.

but oh so gory good...

Editorial Reviews
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If you're not a connoisseur of graphic horror and gruesome gore, you'd better steer clear of this wicked 1992 horror-comedy from the demented mind and delirious camera of New Zealand-born writer-director Peter Jackson. However, if nonstop mayhem and extreme violence are your idea of great entertainment, you're sure to appreciate Jackson's gleefully inventive approach to a story that can judiciously be described as sick, twisted, and totally outrageous. The movie's central character is a poor schmuck named Lionel who's practically enslaved to his domineering mother. But when ol' Mum gets bitten by a rare and poisonous rat monkey from Skull Island and is turned into a flesh-eating zombie, Lionel has the unfortunate task of keeping Mama happy while fending off all the other zombies that result from her voracious feeding frenzies. If you've read this far, you'll either be crying out for censorship or eagerly awaiting your first viewing (or second, or third...) of this wildly clever and audaciously uninhibited movie. And while director Jackson would later achieve critical success with his fact-based drama Heavenly Creatures, his talent is readily evident in this earlier effort. If you find this kind of thing even remotely appealing, consider Dead Alive a must-see movie. --Jeff Shannon