Braindead
“Some things won't stay down... even after they die.”
Director
Peter Jackson
Screenplay
Stephen Sinclair, Fran Walsh
Peter Jackson's gleefully excessive splatter comedy follows a mild-mannered young man in 1950s New Zealand whose domineering mother is bitten by a Sumatran rat-monkey and transforms into a ravenous zombie, unleashing an outbreak he desperately tries to contain. Escalating from black comedy into a jaw-dropping bloodbath of practical gore effects — including a lawnmower massacre still cited as one of horror's goriest sequences — it remains, by some measures, the bloodiest film ever made. A cult classic that showcased Jackson's technical inventiveness years before 'The Lord of the Rings', it's beloved by horror fans for its go-for-broke commitment to grotesque comedy.
Release
Aug 13, 1992
Budget
$3M
Country
New Zealand
Revenue
$243K
Cast
Timothy Balme
Lionel
Diana Peñalver
Paquita
Elizabeth Moody
Mum
Ian Watkin
Uncle Les
Brenda Kendall
Nurse McTavish
Stuart Devenie
Father McGruder
Jed Brophy
Void
Stephen Papps
Zombie McGruder
Murray Keane
Scroat
Harry Sinclair
Roger
Brian Sergent
Vet
Peter Vere-Jones
Undertaker
George Port
Lawrence
Kenny McFadden
Gladstone
Angela Robinson Witherspoon
Courtney
Peter Jackson
Undertaker's Assistant
Anna Cahill
Mother at Park
Fran Walsh
Mother at Park
Jamie Selkirk
Father at Zoo
Forrest J. Ackerman
Forry
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