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I know there are some Peter Jackson nuts on the board. This is his third film (previous ones to my knowledge being Bad Taste and Meet the Feebles). With Bad Taste and Meet the Feebles he showed his penchant for toilet humor but with each microbudget sleazefest you could still see that there was a very talented director behind the camera.
Plot: Lionel, a young man living with his mother in New Zealand, finds himself falling for a local girl. His mother is none too happy with this, though, and while stalking the couple at the local zoo she is bitten by a Sumatran Rat Monkey (a piece of claymation you have to see to believe) and infected. She quickly becomes a zombie, begins infecting others. Lionel tries his best to keep his dead mother and her victims a secret, but when his uncle decides to throw a party at the house where the zombies are held captive, all hell breaks loose.
Dead Alive (or Braindead, the Australian title) saw him with the biggest budget he'd had to date and he really knew how to use it. Out of roughly 3 million, he spent about 2.5 of it on fake blood and effects. This is NOT a movie for the weak of stomach but damn is it a good time if you can handle it.
Luckily, the violence is handled in a perfectly camp fashion and the story is so fast-paced that you're never given enough time to stay revolted (mostly because chances are the next thing you see will make the last look tame).
How many classic scenes are there? Who can forget the pus in the pudding, Lionel vs. the zombie baby at the playground, or my personal favorite - the kung-fu priest ("I kick ass for the Lord!").
One of my all-time favorites - and hopefully with the success of Lord of the Rings this will find itself a special edition DVD.
NOTE: This is available in a toned-down R-rated version, which you saw if you rented it from Schlockbuster.
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Just for the uninitiated, this movie is NOT a horror movie--it's just a really gory comedy. There is nothing scary at all in it, except maybe for the anticipation felt for first-time viewers--anticipation of the extreme gore scenes.
But anyway, I love this movie, it is so freaking hilarious, and what really turned me on to Peter Jackson in the first place. Now, he's one of my favorite technical directors. Plus, he LOVES DVD and special editions!
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Originally posted by Chaplin Just for the uninitiated, this movie is NOT a horror movie--it's just a really gory comedy.
I feel another war of semantics coming on, Chap!
I would say that the presence of zombies and plentiful amounts of gore make this a horror movie. While it's not scary per se, it does have some parts that made you jump a few times (until you've seen it for the 90th time). And by your rationale, that would say that Evil Dead II isn't a horror movie?
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Originally posted by mdamien13 I feel another war of semantics coming on, Chap!
I would say that the presence of zombies and plentiful amounts of gore make this a horror movie. While it's not scary per se, it does have some parts that made you jump a few times (until you've seen it for the 90th time). And by your rationale, that would say that Evil Dead II isn't a horror movie?
Sure, I'd say Evil Dead II isn't a horro movie. Army of Darkness DEFINITELY isn't a horror movie.
Which parts are scary in Dead Alive?
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Originally posted by Chaplin Sure, I'd say Evil Dead II isn't a horro movie. Army of Darkness DEFINITELY isn't a horror movie.
Which parts are scary in Dead Alive?
The whole intro scene with the zoologist, just because you have no idea what's happening yet. I'd say the beginnings of the cemetary sequence can be a bit creepy your first time viewing them. Some parts of the zombie attacks in the house during the climax definitely get a jump out of you.
There's no way Dead Alive or Evil Dead II can't be considered horror movies. I've never seen them located anywhere else in a video store, either. Army of Darkness is a whole new problem just because of how many genres it tries to blend together. Is it an action movie? A comedy? A horror? Evil Dead II and Dead Alive are both examples of horror movies with a good helping of action. Both have a sense of humor but this type of comedy can only work in a horror movie.
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Originally posted by Dback Jon Of course, many would classify anything by Ashley and Mary-Kate as horror as well.......
Just till they turn 18. Then, well, the possibilities are endless
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Wait. Dead Alive has zombies, so it's a horror movie. Army of Darkness has zombies, so that must mean it's a horror movie.
Horror movies bring out a certain emotion--in most cases, that emotion is fright. Both Dead Alive and Army of Darkness (and to a lesser extent Evil Dead 2) have no frightening parts to them.
Maybe you're just easier to scare--and that is certainly possible.
You're right--semantics.
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Last edited by Chaplin; September 11th, 2003 at 12:27 PM.
Originally posted by Chaplin Horror movies bring out a certain emotion--in most cases, that emotion is fright.
Unfortunately, I think you'd have to say in some cases that emotion is fright. In most cases it seems to be making people uncomfortable.
I think that what some horror movies lack in frights they try to compensate for with gore. They'll keep the fashionably scary themes of a horror movie and heap on the gore/body count. As such, fans have come to expect one or the other from a horror movie (the split in psychological vs. physical horror). Very few movies can do both.
I always thought Evil Dead II and Dead Alive were the best examples of the horror movies that just went for the gore rather than the scares. Still keeps them in the horror category, though.
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