Video&Audio Camera&Photo DVD Movies
Dead Alive dvd movie.
Home » DVD Movies » Art Home » Local » Australia/New Zealand

Local • Chinese
Local • Canadian
Local • Polish
Local • Greek
Local • Japanese
Local • Spanish
Local • French
Local • Danish
Local • Czech Republic/Slovakia
Local • Italian
Local • Russian
Local • United Kingdom

Dead Alive
buy bestselling dvd movies, videos find reviews, ratings, prices
Dead Alive List Price: $14.98
Our Price: $5.99
You Save: $8.99

Features
 Anamorphic
 Closed-captioned
 Color
 DVD-Video
 Widescreen
 NTSC

In Theaters : 12 February, 1993
DVD Release : 09 September, 1998
[ + Zoom ]   [ Buy Now ] DVD : Usually ships in 24 hours
Dead Alive description
If you're not a connoisseur of graphic horror and gruesome gore, you'd better steer clear of this wicked 1992 horror-comedy from the demented mind and delirious camera of New Zealand-born writer-director Peter Jackson. However, if nonstop mayhem and extreme violence are your idea of great entertainment, you're sure to appreciate Jackson's gleefully inventive approach to a story that can judiciously be described as sick, twisted, and totally outrageous. The movie's central character is a poor schmuck named Lionel who's practically enslaved to his domineering mother. But when ol' Mum gets bitten by a rare and poisonous rat monkey from Skull Island and is turned into a flesh-eating zombie, Lionel has the unfortunate task of keeping Mama happy while fending off all the other zombies that result from her voracious feeding frenzies. If you've read this far, you'll either be crying out for censorship or eagerly awaiting your first viewing (or second, or third...) of this wildly clever and audaciously uninhibited movie. And while director Jackson would later achieve critical success with his fact-based drama Heavenly Creatures, his talent is readily evident in this earlier effort. If you find this kind of thing even remotely appealing, consider Dead Alive a must-see movie. --Jeff Shannon
Dead Alive Customer Reviews
  1     2     3  
♥♥♥♥♥ SPLATSTICK AT IT'S GORIEST!!!!!!!!
I am ashamed to admitt that(being the horror buff that I am) up until about a year ago I have never heard of this movie!! I new Peter Jackson made a few horror films before L.O.T.R., and had seen The Frighteners, and heard about his first film, Bad Taste. I had heard about this movie from a friend then seen it reviewed on BRAVO'S Even Scairer Movie Moments so I decided to pick it up. Boy, was I ever blown away!! This has to be one of the goriest movies ever made. The catch is it's not realistic nor is it exploitive, what it is is the text-book definition of splatstick horror comedy. If you loved "The Evil Dead 2" then you absolutly MUST see this movie The violence and gore in Dead Alive(and there is more than you could ever imagine) are used to compilment the humor. I'm not into giving spoilers so I'll give a brief overview. Lionel is a very repressed person. One day Lionel is at the zoo with a girl he is sweet on and his very overbearing mother. His mother is bitten by the dreaded Sumatran Rat Monkey and soon dies, but what kind of horror movie would this be if she were to stay dead. It's pretty easy to see what happens next, mother returns, Lionel tries to hide her, she bites and infects others. The result is the goriest sluaghterfest ever put to film. What can I do for not seeing this gem sooner? Watching everyday would certainly not be a crime!!!
  1     2     3