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    Braindead (1992)

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    Peter Jackson’s zombiefest follow-up to Bad Taste (1987), set in suburbia in the late 50s, is one of the most relentlessly, gleefully nasty movies ever released, incorporating mutant monkeys, zombie flesh-eaters, death by lawn mower, kung-fu priests and jokes about The Archers.

    It also contains the queasiest dinner scene since La Grande Bouffe, involving spurting blood, dissolving flesh, human ears and bowls of claggy rice pudding.

    When 25-year-old virgin Lionel (Timothy Balme) falls for the lovely Paquita (Diana Peñalver), he provokes his domineering mother’s jealousy.

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    Soon after, a toxic nip from a Sumatran rat-monkey at the local zoo transforms Lionel’s mother – through several putrescent stages – into a hideous, pustulant monster with a craving for human flesh.

    The finale, in which Lionel reduces a horde of flesh-eaters to a mulch of blood, flesh, and offal with the aid of a Flymo (pictured below) is probably the goriest scene ever. 300 litres of fake blood was used in the scene.

    Lionel Cosgrove
    Timothy Balme
    Paquita Maria Sanchez
    Diana Peñalver
    Mum (Vera Cosgrove)
    Elizabeth Moody
    Uncle Les
    Ian Watkin
    Nurse McTavish
    Brenda Kendall
    Father McGruder
    Stuart Devenie
    Void
    Jed Brophy
    Zombie McGruder
    Stephen Papps
    Scroat
    Murray Keane
    Nora Matheson
    Glenis Levestam 
    Mr. Matheson
    Lewis Rowe
    Rita
    Elizabeth Mulfaxe
    Roger
    Harry Sinclair
    Paquita’s Grandmother
    Davina Whitehouse
    Paquita’s Father
    Silvio Famularo
    Vet
    Brian Sergent
    Undertaker
    Peter Vere-Jones
    Mandy
    Tina Regtien
    Stewart
    Bill Ralston
    Winston
    Tony Hopkins
    Zoo Keeper
    Tony Hiles
    Barry
    Tich Rowney
    Lawrence
    George Port
    Spike
    Stephen Andrews
    Spud
    Nick Ward
    Gladstone
    Kenny McFadden
    Courtney
    Angela Robinson Witherspoon

    Director
    Peter Jackson

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