I love this film. Love. I watched a while back on the Independent Film Channel, and i love how funny and extremely gory it is, a very clever film with an adorable Timothy Balme in the lead. A lot of little in jokes, like the rat being on Skull Island, home of Kong, etc. Very, very gory, the priest is hysterical kicking ass for the Lord. Love, love, love it.

Greatest low budget gory film that has ever been made.

before making the incredible trilogy The Lord of the Rings, Peter Jackson ventured into films like Braindead, a well-trash film, the story is quite bizarre, a monkey-rat of Sumatra that when it bites people turns it into zombies, bizarre, the script is problematic, the cast even not being so well known, at least at the time, they are competent, the makeup is done well, the film has a lot of blood, has very strong scenes, you will see many organ in the film, the film is funny , you can give good film of laughter, the direction of Peter Jackson is good, the soundtrack is good, and the last minutes of the film are good, Braindead sins in the script, more is fun and bloody, most also disgusting. Note 8.0

First there was "The Re-animator," an entry from 1985 in the 'zany gore' category that blew the top off the genre, a real A-level B movie. Jackson must have seen this film, and thought 'I can top this in gore and Oedipal comedy.' And "Dead Alive" (or "Braindead" in many parts of the world) was born.The film is neither for the faint of heart, nor for those who cannot enjoy a half hour long dismemberment sequence as a choreography of blades, bodies, blenders and blood. Think of it as the zombie equivalent of the space docking scene in "2001: A Space Odyssey."The film gets right to it: an animal collector is hunted by an indigenous tribe through ravines (also used for the City of the Dead in LOTR by Jackson, talking about early location scouting). He is bitten by a rat-monkey that turns anyone into a zombie. His crew, who know the deal, throw him to the ground. His arm shows a mark. They hack off the arm. His other arm shows a mark. They hack of the other arm. His face shows a mark. They...From there we are thrown into the relationship of a young grocery clerk with his mother (the Oedipal part of the comedy), a domineering hag who will not allow him to court a pretty young customer he falls in love with. Mother is bitten by the rat at a zoo in New Zealand, and from then on, zombie contagion ensues. Mother builds a zombie coterie around her while an embarrassed son tries to hide it and sneaks out to see his girlfriend.The film brings you some of the most memorable zombie-horror-Oedipal-comedy ever put on celluloid (for this was a pre-CGI affair). The final scene even features a re-entry of our hero into the zombie-mother's womb. I mean, how much further can you take the Oedipus myth? In between, you are accosted by non-stop, lovingly done gore, including entrails that chase the hero through an attic, a head sliced off just below the eyes that looks around bewildered while getting kicked like a hockey puck, grave yard ninja zombies. And of course the lawn mower tour-de-force that was just too much for many film critics who did not appreciate the ballet-like quality alluded to above. Peter Jackson made every penny of his microscopic budget count. That's when he's at his best.This film is a cult classic, another grade-A B movie. Although a worthy successor to "The Re-animator," with its preposterous plot and over the top characterization, it cannot enter into A territory, so 7/10 it must remain. Hitchcock's comparatively subtle Freudianism is still better every time.