1992 · splatter · comedy-horror · cult
Dead Alive
Directed by Peter Jackson1h 43m1992
When a Sumatran rat-monkey bites Lionel Cosgrove's mother, she's transformed into a zombie and begins killing (and transforming) the entire town while Lionel races to keep things under control.
Our read: Dead Alive (1992) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive splatter · comedy-horror · cult entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, extreme splatter / comedy-horror, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- kinetic
- extreme
- inventive
- funny
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“You want the goriest zombie comedy ever made and think slapstick splatter sounds hilarious.”
Skip it tonight — Visceral gore and mom-zombie carnage will ruin your appetite and your night.
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