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Dead Alive

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Dead Alive
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R,1hr 37min
Released:
February 12, 1993
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Trimark Pictures
Synopsis: Director Peter Jackson's second feature cheerfully trumps the gross-out quotient of his splatterfest debut, the appropriately named Bad Taste. The tone is cartoonishly comic, and the premise is simple: The village dweeb (Timothy Balme) is trying to maintain a budding romance with the sweet Paquita (Diana Penalver) while concealing the fact that his overbearing mum (Elizabeth Moody, in an amazing good-sport performance) is a flesh-eating zombie. (She owes her condition to a bite from a "Sumatran Rat ... Full Synopsis
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A gonzo splatterfest from New Zealand that manages to stay breezy and good-natured even as you're watching heads get snapped off of spurting torsos. Full Review
Metascore
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54
Mixed or Average Reviews
out of 100
Featured Cast
Paquita Maria Sanchez
Mum (Vera Cosgrove)
Uncle Les
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