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7.4When 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.
Cast
- Timothy Balme as Lionel
- Diana Peñalver as Paquita
- Elizabeth Moody as Mum
- Ian Watkin as Uncle Les
- Brenda Kendall as Nurse McTavish
- Stuart Devenie as Father McGruder
Themes
- infidelity
- poison
- new zealand
- affectation
- reanimation
- zombie
- back from the dead
- monkey
- attempted rape
- wellington new zealand
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Peter Jackson
- Screenplay by
- Stephen Sinclair Fran Walsh Peter Jackson
- Story by
- Stephen Sinclair
- Produced by
- Jim Booth
- Starring
- Timothy Balme Diana Peñalver Elizabeth Moody Ian Watkin
- Cinematography
- Murray Milne
- Edited by
- Jamie Selkirk
- Music by
- Peter Dasent
- Production companies
- WingNut Films Avalon Studios Limited The New Zealand Film Commission
- Distributed by
- Trimark Pictures
- Release dates
- 13 August 1992 ( 1992-08-13 ) (New Zealand) 12 February 1993 ( 1993-02-12 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 104 minutes
- Country
- New Zealand
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $3 million
- Box office
- $242,623 (United States)
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 104
- FilmAffinity ID
- 154413
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- publication date
- 1993-08-12
- title
- Braindead
- capital cost
- 3000000
- review score
- 7.4/10
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Braindead, released in the United States as Dead Alive, is a 1992 New Zealand zombie comedy splatter film directed by Peter Jackson, produced by Jim Booth, and written by Stephen Sinclair, Fran Walsh, and Jackson based on an original story idea by Sinclair. It stars Timothy Balme, Diana Peñalver, Elizabeth Moody, and Ian Watkin. The plot follows Lionel, a young man living in South Wellington with his strict mother Vera. After Lionel becomes romantically entangled with a girl named Paquita, Vera is bitten by a hybrid rat-monkey creature and begins to transform into a zombie, while also infecting swathes of the city's populace.
Made on a budget of $3 million, Braindead was Jackson's most expensive film up to that point. Although it received positive reviews from critics, it was a box office bomb. It has since received a cult following, and is now widely regarded as one of the goriest films of all time.