Movie Rat-Monkeys,
Jesse joined us for a movie night for the first time since… some movie… if you can remember what it was, I’ll give you credit on the sheet.
This week we watched an all time classic from an Oscar winning filmmaker. This is a 100% true statement! We watched “Dead Alive” (aka Braindead) from Peter Jackson. Yes, ‘Lord of the RIngs Peter Jackson’, He started his career in New Zealand making these weird comedy gross horror movies. (bad taste, dead alive, meet the feebles) before making a normal movie called heavenly creatures and then ‘the frighteners’ with Micheal J Fox. the real question is how he landed LOTR with that resume?!
Anyway. It was a small group, but 2/3 hadn’t seen it, so that was good. It was Erskine’s pick, but he can’t stay up later than my 2 year old baby, so he bailed at 6:51pm.
Plot!
This movie actually has a lot of plot but I always have a hard time recapping these weird movies where the plot doesn’t really matter. It’s not like this is a spy drama where you’re going to toil over how every plot point builds on the next. The plot is like an amusement park ride, just getting you to the next scare or splat.
For my own sanity. I’m just going to paste in the wiki overview, then make some comments.
The film follows Lionel, a man living with his mother Vera in a Victorian mansion, who gets into trouble for his relationship with a Spanish shopkeeper’s daughter, Paquita. When a rabid rat-monkey bites Vera, she gradually converts the residents of Newtown into a zombie horde.
wikipedia
Thoughts!
- The first scene on the island kind of sets the tone for the movie, the zookeeper guy is hacked to death by his own guys for being bitten by the monkey. they could have warned him?
- Is the rat monkey a good attraction at the zoo? It kills the other monkeys.
- The first part of this movie is very slow. Chris was forced to drink.
- Chris pointed out that the lead woman looks exactly like a female Diego Luna (from Rogue One), you’ll never unsee it.
- once his mom is infected, it instantly starts getting gross.
- Forgot about he priest being a karate master, hilarious.
- You kind of start rooting for the zombies. My favorite guy is the punk zombie and later just his heart and intestines.
- The effects are really great and gross. Remember that gross movie “Street Trash”? it wishes it had the effects budget of this one.
- Did the necklace have some special significance, in the wiki it just says it’s given to female Diego Luna by her grandmother. I guess he’s lucky it’s so big.
- tons of great gags. Zombies punching dicks, Zombie sex, A baby zombie, a baby zombie bursting out of the head of a person. The whole zombie life cycle in there.
- They only kind of define what ‘the rules’ are… they aren’t killed by shooting them in the head, and pieces of them continue to move after they are cut off. I think if they had an unlimited budget the pink slime would have congealed into a giant zombie.
- The baby zombie at the park thing… while funny… is very stupid.
- Chris logged off before the finale with the lawn mower, but you can guess what happened right?
- got the nudity space on bingo with ‘Dem big zombie titties’
- looking through the screenshots… man this movie is gross.
- just discovered my favorite frame of the movie, its the black an white photo of his dad feeding his mistress a hot dog.
Hot nekkid zombie grandma
Someone
It’s gross, but a fun kind of gross. Not like Street Trash, which was depressingly filthy.
Do we need to talk about moving the night. I hear that Charlie and Suleman have some kind of DnD thing going on on Thursdays. I’m up for a change.
-Mark
Braindead (also known as Dead Alive in North America) is a 1992 New Zealand zombie comedy film directed by Peter Jackson, produced by Jim Booth, and written by Jackson, along with Fran Walsh and Stephen Sinclair. It stars Timothy Balme, Diana Peñalver, Elizabeth Moody and Ian Watkin. The plot follows Lionel, a young man living in Wellington with his strict mother Vera. After Lionel becomes romantically involved with a girl named Paquita, Vera is bitten by a hybrid rat-monkey creature and begins to transform into a zombie, while also infecting the other townsfolk.
Made on a budget of $3 million, Braindead was Jackson's most expensive film up to that point. Although it received positive reviews from critics, it was a box office bomb. It has since received a cult following, and is now considered one of the goriest films of all time.
source : wikipedia