Dead Alive (1992) [Blu-ray]
Comedy | Horror

Tagline: Some things won't stay down...even after they die. Tagline: Gored of the rings.

Throw out all your preconceptions about the limits of horror! A new standard has been set with Dead Alive - The Mother of All Horror Films. On a quiet street, in a small town, pure evil has come to stay. An innocent young man forced to care for his domineering mother finds the task a whole lot more demanding after she's bitten by the cursed Sumatran rat monkey. Passing the point of death, Vera sucks friends and family into her gruesome existence among the living dead, and Lionel is sent spiraling into a ghoulish nightmare. Now a crazed zombie, she soon infects enough people to make it difficult for Lion, still the faithful son, to keep the neighbors from suspecting that something is terribly wrong. Dripping with state-of-the art special effects that feature mutilations, rock 'n' roll dismemberments and household appliances, it all combines into the most bizarre ending ever filmed.

User Comment: Brian (bdreyfus@hotmail.com) from athens, GA, 8 February 1999 • This is by far the best horror film I have ever seen in my life. This movie has everything - a horrifying rat monkey, a baby zombie, zombies having sex, gratuitous violence, extreme gore, a super fighting ninja priest, an evil annoying mom that turns into a zombie, a womanizing relative that is a pathetic loser, an old psychic that predicts the future, and lastly someone who takes care of them all. Oh, I can't forget to mention an inspirational scene with a lawnmower too. Overall I give this cinematic masterpiece the highest review, me throwing up in the bathroom afterwards from absolute disgust.

Summary: Intestines can really kill you.

User Comment: *** This review may contain spoilers *** narrator15 from Sydney, Australia, 23 June 2001 • This movie, was the funniest thing I have ever seen. I watched it with tears of laughter in my eye, with no time to wipe them off, seeing a funnier, more dazzlingly inventive scene would immediately follow. I could not believe that the guy who made this is going to be directing the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Here's a short summary of some of the things I saw in it:
• A baby zombie
• Zombies having sex
• A group of zombies being chopped up with a lawn mower
• Talking intestines
• A kung-fu zombie-ass-kicking priest
• A zombie's head being embedded onto a lightbulb so it's face lights up like a Jack-O-Lantern
These things are saved for the last 40 minutes of the film, and the start is pretty slow, but once you get to the action, you've got a truly special film.

Summary: The best of it's kind.

User Comment: Sebastian, 20 July 2005 • Crazy, visceral, over the top, quirky, violent, gory, silly, extreme and (in it's own way) sweet, are just a few words that can describe this visual extravaganza.

What makes it such a good movie? It's fast paced, it's witty, it's charming... and it is GROUNDBREAKING,it's an important movie of the genre.

Lionel is a loser who lives with his dominant mother. Lionel finds a way out, by hooking up with Paquita (a beautiful Diana Peñalver), but soon Lionel's mother gets bitten by a RAT MONKEY and she gradually starts to decompose (it's hilarious) and turns into a living dead... Lionel like a loving son he is, tries to hide the fact that her mother is a zombie, keeping her sedated with drugs... until, naturally, all hell breaks loose.

Timothy Balme is genius as Lionel, I mean; HE'S SO UNDERRATED, he gives a truly comedic performance that's top notch and really entertaining, so is the rest of the cast.

This is my favorite Peter Jackson film, and maybe one of the best horror comedies EVER. It's so f***ed-up, crazy and over the top it's almost poetic.

Everyone who considers himself (or Herself) a Horror Lover, a GoreHound, a rare-movie seeker or a Three Stooges fan should get their hands on this unusual flick.

Summary: All time best horror-comedy? Could be.

[CSW] -4- As one of the user comments said it was "Crazy, visceral, over the top, quirky, violent, gory, silly, extreme and (in it's own way) sweet…" which pretty much describes it. Since this movie goes past extreme in blood and guts, if you think can take it this is the ultimate horror comedy. I don't think there will ever be another that can top this one.
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