Saturday, March 8, 2008

Dead Alive

     I'll say it upfront, this movie is very gross and gory, even though it's much more humorous than horrifying. As far as the gore is concerned, this movie actually boasts that it has more blood used than any other movie (this is actually measured by estimating the gallon per second per scene). In fact, the last scene in the movie reportedly used over 7,000 gallons of blood for the final 5-minutes of the movie.  

     Anyway, the movie starts off a little slow but picks up momentum quickly. Some kind of rat bat creature from deep in New Zealand is caught and put in a zoo. Meanwhile, our main character Lionel is dealing with a very weird and domineering mother and a young girl named Paquita that has fallen in love with him. Lionel and Paquita go to the zoo on a date and of course, the mother comes along and hides behind bushes and does other random creepy shit, just to spy on her rather innocent son. Mom gets too close to the rat bat cage and gets bitten by it. Mom starts to undergo many gross and disturbing changes. Her ear falls off, her flesh is falling away and she has big pus-splattering sores all over her body. Hoping to nurse Mom back to health, Lionel keeps her at home where things really start going wrong. 

      Paquita comes over with her dog and the dog runs upstairs where the mom is. Mom grabs the dog, disembowels it, and shoves the rest down her throat. Paquita exclaims with shock and hilarity "Your mom ate my dog!" and Lionel points to the dog's guts all over the place and replies "Well, not all of it".  

     Later that evening Mom seems to die and come back as some sort of evolving zombie. By evolving, I mean she gets bigger and grosser throughout the movie. After actually dying she starts infecting people left and right, turning everyone that comes into contact with her into a bloodthirsty zombie. Out of nowhere, a ninja priest comes to save the day but instead accidentally impales himself on a pointy gravestone.  

     Being the ever-faithful son, Lionel keeps his mom at home, along with a few other victims she's infected, mostly to contain them and to keep mom company. Unbeknownst to Lionel, two of the zombies get their groove on, and about an hour later a zombie baby is born. He may be an infant, but he can kill like a pro. 

      A money-hungry uncle shows up claiming to be the rightful owner of Lionel's mother's (his sister's) property now that she's dead (little does he know). The uncle blackmails Lionel for the house and five minutes afterward has a party to celebrate his new wealth. With this precarious new situation, Lionel and Paquita decide it's time to kill all the zombies by injecting them with poison (why they thought poison would work when bullets and fire didn't, is anyone's guess). So they shoot them all up with this poison and bury them. Unfortunately, the poison they chose was some kind of animal stimulant, that creates super zombies bursting from their fresh graves, ready for some chow. They run rampant, killing everyone at the uncle's party thus turning them all into bloodthirsty zombies. 

      Paquita gets bitten and faces becoming a zombie (fortunately for her, the guy that bit her had dentures!). After killing everyone at the party with a lawnmower, Lionel now has to face his "mother" who is now a HUGE monster with big saggy tits, claws, fangs, and old lady jewelry. Lionel stands up to his mom for the first time in his life. She eats him and he manages to kill her by lawnmowing his way out of her stomach. 

      Shockingly, this disgusting movie is brought to you by none other than the multi-Oscar-winning director Peter Jackson. Most people don't know that growing up in New Zealand, he made one really gory movie after another. This was his zombie flick, Bad Taste was his alien flick, and Meet the Feebles was his porno-puppet flick. All of which can be found here on Cultarama!

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