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Dead Alive (Unrated) (Sp)
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Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786303257877
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Special Edition, NTSC
ISBN: 6303257879
Label: Vidmark / Trimark
Languages: English (Original Language), AnalogSpanish (Original Language), Analog
Manufacturer: Vidmark / Trimark
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Vidmark / Trimark
Release Date: June 20, 1997
Running Time: 97 minutes
Studio: Vidmark / Trimark
Theatrical Release Date: February 12, 1993
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Editorial Review:
The grossest movie ever made, this quintessential splatter film details the tender story of a henpecked boy, his overbearing mum, and a nasty little Sumerian rat-monkey that turns people into voracious zombies. In lesser hands, this ne plus ultra viscera-fest would be so disturbing as to be nigh-unwatchable, but the incredible energy and imagination of director Peter Jackson makes it a first-class guilty pleasure, with plentiful helpings of gallows humor (the scripture-quoting, kung-fu-dispensing priest is a highlight) and a taboo subtext that Sigmund Freud would have loved. Essential viewing for gorehounds and anyone else with a high tolerance for flying entrails. The director would later tone down the gore (but not the manic enthusiasm) for the sublime Heavenly Creatures and The Frighteners. --Andrew Wright
Peter Jackson proves that if gory is funny, then excessive gory is downright hysterical. As our hapless hero wades through an ankle-deep puddle of blood and entrails, brandishing a lawnmower like a portable Cuisinart at the climax of this zombie-fest, you'll either be screaming with laughter or fleeing in disgust. Timothy Balme stars as the shy mama's boy Lionel, whose controlling shrew of a mother (Elizabeth Moody) starts rotting away, literally, with a vague supernatural disease. Mother dies but refuses to stay down, rising as a flesh-eating zombie infecting everyone she bites. Lionel tries to hide her in the basement, but the victims keep piling up and finally break out when Lionel's blackmailing uncle (a grotesque, leering Ian Watkin) throws a party in the house. It's snack time as the guests become undead hors d'oeuvres and rise again as hungry soldiers of the new zombie army marching on Lionel and his girl Pacquita (the lovely Diana Penalver). New Zealand goremeister Jackson pulls out all stops in this truly outrageous sanguinary comedy, from gross-out gags of oozing puss and rotting body parts at a formal dinner to slapstick antics as Lionel tries to keep his flesh-hungry mother sedated during the funeral to the final Freudian showdown between a now-monstrous mother and the newly liberated Lionel. If you like your horror with a sense of humor or your comedy with gristle, then wade through this taboo-busting bucket of blood. --Sean Axmaker
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Finally Delivers
Dead Alive is one of the few films that actually delivers what it promises, it's got the gore. As far as the story is concerned, it's your typical flick, but this movie did something I have never seen in a horror movie before. My favorite scene is probably the girl who gets her head knocked into a light bulb and her head lights up like jack-o-lantern. If you like Evil Dead or Sean of the Dead, you will like this.
Rating: - My favorite horror movie of all time made by my favorite filmmaker!
I do admit that there are movies scarier than Dead Alive like The Shining and Halloween but Dead Alive has more than that. Loads of gore, humors galore, some good scares, romance, and even more. I could go on. Not to mention the lawnmower sequence which is the best scene in the movie (George Romero should do something like that in his next zombie flick). I give 5 stars for the movie but the DVD is something else. And not in the good way. The movie is in desperate need for a better DVD release with ... Read More
Rating:  - A zombie spoof I don't hate? I think the drugs is kickin in.
This film definitly delivers on its claim to be gory. Now goriest of all time? I wouldn't know that but it's the goriest I seen and has its funny moments too. Dead Alive to me, seems like a spoof of the zombie genre. Even though incredibly stupid at times. I was still entertained for the most part.
I didn't find the story to be good at all. But it was definitly pulled off in a hilarious way. There is a creature called a rat monkey that was taken out of its environment and displayed at ... Read More
Rating: - GORY but FUNNY
This has to be the goriest movie I have seen yet, but done in such a way as to not be disgusting. The story is so funny that it overrode any adverse reactions I might have had. Very original thought to the storyline.
Rating: - one of the greatest zombie films of all time
I absolutely love this movie. Everything about the film is brilliant to me, the comedy is funny, the gore comes by the bucketload, and claymation is, in my opinion, much better than cgi any day. I find it hilarious that people who are "turned off by violence" even bother with their petty one star reviews. If you don't like violence, then this movie is OBVIOUSLY not for you. Move on with your lives. For those of you who, like myself, love blood, gore, and zombies, do yourselves a favor and pick this ... Read More
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