Taking place
in 1957, a troubled shy man named Lionel Cosgrove
(Timothy Balme) is living with her nagging Mum
(Elizabeth Moody) who is harsh and cold towards
him or anyone else.
He also wants to find love with the girl of his
dreams named Paquita Maria Sanchez (Diana
Peñalver) in which they go to a zoo and spot a
poisonous Sumatran rat-monkey who eats another
monkey alive as well as grabbing a hold of Mum by
biting a chunk of her arm but she kills this
beast but later on realises that she is getting
sick as well as her body falling apart.
After she dies she turns into a flesh eating
zombie and bites other people by turining them
into zombie's in which Lionel tries to keep them
in his home and hides them from Paquita but that
fails when hundreds of them starts to invade a
party of unwanted guests at Lionel's home.
This film is also known as Braindead in some area's as the plot is a no brainer
itself. It's way too over the top and the plot is
very silly and sick too. Plus it's guaranteed to
gross you out.
Almost like a ripoff between Evil Dead 2 and Re-Animator with lots of
goofiness in which you wonder if it's a plain
black comedy but there's a horror plot with
zombie's attacking and gruesome moments too so
this flick is definetely a horror film too.
Of course in the beginning we spot a crazed
mother who is way too much and knew how to act
very cold blooded which almost draws to the
horror story for sure along with gross and
twisted moments on the lead character Lionel
Cosgrove trying to feed these zombies with gross
results which seems awfully stupid and gross
thinking about stopping it there. There's a corny discussion between Lionel Cosgrove and Mum as son
and mother with good shots on each of them when
she nags at him constantly for inspecting the
house which looked quite twisted on how all of
this was done.
There's many good shots on both Lionel and Paquita Maria Sanchez walking around in a
zoo and then him staring at an area Nurse McTavish with a camera shot closing in on
him with a disturbed expression from a past
memory as well as spotting a cage with a rat
monkey trying to attack them which kinda psych's
you out while watching this.
There's a good shot on the rat monkey attacking Mum's arm with a perfect close up shot on this creature
biting her arm as well as her getting menacing by
stomping on it giving the situation a real
disturbing feel as to who's more evil.
There's some good gross out close up shots on Mum's face and other parts of her body peeling off
while lying in bed as well as her getting into a
rage when she gets out of bed while Lionel insists that she stays in bed.
There's good shots on Lionel and Mum along with a couple
eating at the table plus there's good close up
shots on one of them eating pudding and gulping away
with shots on Mum's arm squirting blood into
his pudding as well as shots on the wife looking
shocked and grossed out while watching this.
There's also shots on an ear falling into Mum's pudding while she eats it with good reactions the wife getting sick and running into a bathroom.All of
this on how it was directed looked believably
gross.
There's a good shot with a nurse talking to Lionel with a good shot on Mum approaching
behind her and then eating at her with many good
graphic close up shots on all of this. There's
also good fast paced battling scene's by the two
of them now as zombie's attacking one another
while Lionel tries to cover everything up
by holding back a door talking to Paquita without
panicking and covering up this incident to her.
There's some good shots on Balme at a graveyard
with a good camera shot looking up on supporting
actor Jed Brophy as a punk taunting him
and getting his gang to beat him him as well as a
good shot on Brophy's legs speading out
at a tombstone pissing on the grave. There's a
great creepy shot on Moody rising out of
the dirt and dragging him down.
We spot many terrific fast paced shots on
a
preacher doing ninja fights with a gang resurrected as zombie's now which
looked fun to watch despite the lacking story of
this film.
There's numerous good gross out close up shots
with Lionel at an eating table with the
zombie's trying to eat as well as a good shot on
both Father McGruder and Nurse McTavish looking at one another
with lustful grins and then trying to make out
with one another and nice gruesome close up shots
with the results.
There's many funny takes and moments on Lionel trying to stop the zombie baby from attacking
others at a park as well as good shots on this
baby trying to attack and leaping in the air
which offers some good chuckles.
However there is the most memorable scene with
the zombies invading a party and Coscrove
bringing out a lawnmower to terminate these
zombie's with it which every horror fan who has
seen this flick talks about and rumors spread
around that this film was banned in alot of video
rental stores due to this and many other graphic
gore effects in this film. This was one of my
favourite scene's too I have to admit. The ending
was fun to watch too which saves this flick from
bombing. I just found this film a real bad Grindhouse type of flick without the nudity of course.
Bottom line is it's almost like watching a Troma
Team flick in which we all know how
crappy those one's are but a film for any gore
hounds who enjoy alot of gross out moments like
the aombie's eating at a dinner table or seeing
Mum's body falling apart while eating some
pudding with her guests. Of course the lawnmower
massacre's too. Apart from that you'd probably
want to avoid this stinky piece of trash although
some critics adore this one which I can't
personally understand.
The acting is extremely hokey and
slapstick. Not meant to be taken seriously at all
but most of the cast had good comedic timing.
Timothy Balme (Lionel Cosgrove) as the heroic lead cast member
seems to bring out alot of energy as well as
acting outrageous with how he behaves along
showing a good geeky attitude too along with his
shyness. All in all he was a ham and brought alot
of spunk to his role. He also showed
good nervous expressions too.
Diana
Peñalver (Paquita Maria Sanchez) was the straight one in the film
with the girl next door type of image but really
knew how to act bizarre herself and drew some
interesting characterisitcs onto the film. She
wasn't anything spectacular though.
Elizabeth Moody (Mum) was perfectly cheesy as an
evil type of Mum with her nagging and demanding
behavior. She was completely ruthless and crazy
in which she knew how to do this in a really zany
black comedy way. When she's a zombie she brought
out alot of rage too. I could see her acting in Troma
Team type of flicks since she had a good
dark comedic behavior in that kind of fashion.
Sadly she passed away not long ago.
Stuart Devenie (Father McGruder) seemed to
bring alot of action with his part as a preacher
with his fighting against zombie's especially in
which he really breaks into one role to another.
He also knew how to behave very goofy once he's a
zombie too.
Jed Brophy (Void) looked good as a punk in the film
and reminded me of a punk in Rumble in the Bronx
in which he portrays a bad ass but in a very
slapstick type of fashion which works really well
for this film. He also shows great sneering
aggressions once he's a zombie and knew how to
behave menacingly.
A Sumatran rat monkey tears off
another monkey's arm and eats it.
This rat monkey also bites into Mum's arm.
Mum's flesh starts to peel off her face and arm.
A dead dog is pulled out of Mum's mouth.
Mum's blood squirts out of her arm at a dinner
table as well as her ear falling off into her
pudding.
A nurses neck is bitten in half.
A punk's flesh is torn off at a graveyard and
other people being torn apart.
There's lots of battles with zombie's heads
kicked off and a preacher impaled on a sharp
object.
There's many gross out shots on zombie's eating
at a dinner table which can guarantee to gross
you out if you're eating while watching this
film.
There's numerous scene's with people's bodies
being torn in half or their skeletal bones being
ripped open, heads torn off as well as lots of
buckets of blood splattering everywhere.
Lionel Cosgrove uses a lawnmower to slaughter a
bunch of zombie's and probably one of the best
gore scene's in this film.
Yes this film is packed with gore and can outdo
any Evil Dead flick for sure.
The
music was very cheesy sounding with the odd tuned
out old fashioned piano music and some string
playing too. However there's some nicely sounding
high pitched synthesizer and keyboard playing for
the horror moments used in this film which suits
the scene's all put together by Peter Dasent.
Paquita Maria
Sanchez: Your mother ate my dog!
Lionel Cosgrove: Not all of it.
Lionel
Cosgrove: That's my mother you're pissing on.
Lionel
Cosgrove: [about to charge at the zombies
with a hoisted law mower] Party's over!
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