"DEAD ALIVE"(or "Braindead" as it was originally titled) was released by famed New Zealand director Peter Jackson in 1992. Now, the importance of this is that DEAD ALIVE is simply the greatest zombie movie ever made!
I'm not sure what started this whole Zombie trend, but I was into zombies before it was cool...(rather hipstery of me, but whatever) and the garbage is flowing to the casual Zombie fan crowd. DEAD ALIVE is certainly well known in the horror fan community, but a lot of these Walking Dead fanatics don't realize what the good stuff is. So, I would like to choose 5 of the greatest moments from DEAD ALIVE that certainly make it the best Zombie movie ever!(Take that Romero)
5.Zombie Babysitting
-You don't need to know much of the story to understand any of what I am going to write. Simply know that the main character Lionel tries to hide the fact that he has zombies living in his basement for as long as possible. However, two of the zombies have sex that starts out like this..
Eventually the female zombie gives birth to THIS abomination.
So Lionel, being the awkwardly confused gentleman he is, decides to play Father and try to assimilate with the other parents in the park playing with their children. It doesn't turn out too good, because the baby zombie is "hyperactive" as Lionel puts it, and then he decides to punish it...in a rather humorous fashion.
4.Gory Deaths-Cliche I know. But DEAD ALIVE has some of THE goriest deaths(well technically they aren't deaths, because they come back alive..or rather..come back undead) but anyway I shall leave a few gifs I found on the interwebs of some of my favorite gory moments. Enjoy!
3.Uncle Les
-Ok, so Uncle Les is a racist and potential rapist, but he's ridiculous...and we all know that ridiculous characters are often amusing. I suppose it's due in part for his New Zealand accent, but he's hilarious with his one liners("Bugger that!" comes to mind as he runs away from zombies). He's a masochistic bastard. Stacks up the zombie bodies, and even runs through walls to chase after them! However, what I like in particular about him is the amount of times he gets hit in the nuts(one of them even knocking his toupee off). Let's take a look...
2.New Zealand Lawnmower Massacre
-The zombies have taken over Lionel's house. SOMEHOW he has beaten the odds of surviving through massive amount of zombie attacks(not to mention obvious times where zombie blood gets into his mouth...wouldn't that change him?...who knows) When things start to look really bad Lionel whips out a lawnmower and quips "Party's over."
What follows is possibly the goriest few minutes in Zombie movie history. Slicing and chopping up of zombie limbs in massive quantity. The amount of red displayed has never felt so gratifying in a movie! No amount of gifs or pictures can do this scene justice..so why don't you just watch the following video?
1.Kung fu Priest
-What else could possibly be the best moment from DEAD ALIVE? A few greasers give Lionel some trouble in a cemetery, but then they turn into zombies once one of them gets attacked! So the Priest notices some trouble and yells "This calls for divine intervention!"
Some awesome display of kung-fu is put on as the priest starts to kick some zombie ass. Flying kicks, and roundhouse kicks, and all other sort of kicks that rip apart the zombies. It's seriously such a random scene, but undoubtedly one of the greatest moments in movie history. I'd rather not ruin the scene for you...so go out and watch the movie!
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