I've seen plenty of horror movies in the past, most of which have been gory. The Evil Dead, what with its limb chopping, impalings, bloody gun shot wounds, or Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn, a bit more toned down, but it still has chainsaws in the eye, heads crushed in vices, chopped off hands - boy! Sadly, none of these films compare to this in the gore stakes. I've seen nastier films than this, like Se7en, Sal�, Ichi the Killer, Audition - yet this is a different kind of nasty.
The plot is wafer thin, just an excuse for blood and killing, but here it is (yes, you will cringe ) - a loser, whose over-bearing mother spies on him seeing a girl at the zoo, gets bitten by a rat monkey and (shock horror) she gets infected, which is then passed onto the next victim and the next, until the nerd has to lock them all in his basement as they mutate into flesh-eating zombies (of course), scared if they ever get out. Which they do by the way, at a party towards the end, which means muchos gore!
And it comes by the bucketful, with chopped off heads, lawnmower blades chopping at least thirty people up into stumps of flesh, blood up to your knees, decapitations, guts, men chopped in half, skin torn off bone - this is one cool film! The gore is really funny, as one tap will send the blood pouring at full blast, and the set pieces are hilarious, like the priest kicking "arse" for the lord, or the intense last ten minutes of DIY time. The bay in the park scene is cool too, also added in here for your delight are two zombies having sex.
The direction from Peter Jackson is good, far from his Lord of the Rings films (in terms of budget too). The acting is not too good, yet it is all obviously tongue in cheek. The main character is acted well though, and really makes us realise what a wacky character we have on our hands! Sure not in the league of Bruce Campbell as Ash, from The Evil Dead, but hey, who is? If you're in for a bit of black comedy, with TONS of gore (goriest film ever? Yes), loads of slapstick scenes, like two zombies having sex (I know that's twice I mentioned it, but you REALLY have to see this!) then you gotta get Braindead. But if you are in purely for the next Oscar winner, keep on walking. |
