Dead Alive overview
Overall Rating
Total Ratings: 1
Synopsis:
Director Peter Jackson's second feature cheerfully trumps the gross-out quotient of his splatterfest debut, the appropriately named Bad Taste. The tone is cartoonishly comic, and the premise is simple: The village dweeb (Timothy Balme) is trying to maintain a budding romance with the sweet Paquita (Diana Penalver) while concealing the fact that his overbearing mum (Elizabeth Moody, in an amazing good-sport performance) is a flesh-eating zombie. (She owes her condition to a bite from a "Sumatran Rat Monkey" at the local zoo.
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Movie Details:
- Director: Peter Jackson
- Studio: Avalon-NFU Studios, New Zealand Film Commission, WingNut Films
- Year: 1992
- Run Time: 97 minutes
- Country: New Zealand
- Language: English
- MPAA Rating: R (for an abundance of outrageous gore)
- Category: Feature
- Genre/Type: Comedy, Horror
- Filmed in: Color
