Warning: The film featured here was restricted to children under the age of 16 when it was released and should be reserved for the informed public.
There is Peter Jackson, known to the general public, who created the iconic Lord of the Rings trilogy. And then there’s the other Peter Jackson, who made absolutely insane movies with a great economy of resources in the years before he burst into Middle-earth. The craziest of them all? Undoubtedly, the incredible horror comedy Braindead.
A true alien, BrainDead, released in France in 1993, tells the story of Lionel, a shy young man whose mother intervenes. One day he meets the beautiful Paquita, whom he falls in love with, much to the displeasure of his dear mother, who is determined to ruin the relationship.
While the mother is spying on one of their attempts at the zoo, she is bitten by a Sumatran rat monkey. He succumbs to his wounds, then turns into a cannibalistic zombie and gradually pollutes the city. Only Lionel can stop the invasion…
From there, the audience is immersed in a delirium that has almost no limits. With a modest budget of $3 million (modest but comfortable compared to his first two films), Peter Jackson allows himself to offer a horror comedy unlike any other.
Braindead is very nasty, very funny, full of ideas, grossly tasteless, outrageous, burlesque, cartoonish… in short, a crazy movie that’s all over the place, made up of bits of string and not at all well acted (that’s its charm), but from where it’s incredible Vitality emerges.
An instant cult hit (and in video clubs, souvenirs…), this Braindead won’t leave you unscathed, with some frankly amazing scenes. A child in a movie, for example… No, we’d rather leave you with a surprise!
We insist on placing a big warning: Braindead is a comedy, but a terrible comedy (really terrible) that may shock sensitive souls. No wonder Peter Jackson’s film was banned from French cinemas for under 16s.
Winner of the main prize at the Avoriaz International Fantasy Film Festival in 1993, the reference of the time, Braindead, is therefore an absolute find for fans of crazy horror comedies. It is necessary in this matter, which should not disappoint them.
When BrainDead was released in theaters, Los Angeles Times reporter Peter Reiner said he saw “The funniest disgusting movie ever made. The movie that will be made Re-animator for a UNESCO documentary on Mother Teresa”. Quite a program, isn’t it?
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