Dead Alive AKA Braindead (1992): This zombie comedy is one of the goriest movies ever made

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Written By Chris Well

“They’re not dead exactly, they’re just—sort of rotting...”

Looking at our list of 13 zombie comedy movies, another entry is Brain Dead AKA Dead Alive (1992). When a young man’s mother is bitten by a Sumatran rat-monkey, she gets sick and dies. But then she, you know, comes back to life, killing and eating dogs, nurses, friends, and neighbors.

This 1992 New Zealand zombie comedy splatter film—considered one of the most blood-soaked movies of all time—was directed by Peter Jackson. The movie stars Timothy Balme, Diana Peñalver, Elizabeth Moody, and Ian Watkin. The movie was produced by Jim Booth, and written by Stephen Sinclair, Fran Walsh, and Jackson based on an original story idea by Sinclair.

In our video playlist below, you can watch the trailer, and hear director Jackson talk about the film…

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Monster Complex video playlist: Dead Alive AKA Brain Dead (1992)

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Chris Well

Chris Well been a writer pretty much his entire life. (Well, since his childhood.) Over the years, he has worked in newspapers, magazines, radio, and books. He now is the chief of the website Monster Complex, celebrating monster stories in lit and pop culture. He also writes horror comedy fiction that embraces Universal Monsters, 1960s sitcoms, 1980s action movies, and the X-Files.

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