Dead Alive

REVIEW
Before Heavenly Creatures, Jackson made this wild zombie-splatterthon that ranks without a doubt as the goriest film ever made, bar none! Originally filmed as Brain Dead, this coal-black comedy barrage of pus-spewing, entrail-eating wackiness follows the story of an overbearing mother, her charming but somewhat wimpy son, his spicy Latina lover, a kung fu-fighting priest and a very rabid Sumatran rat-monkey. This highly entertaining, limb-shredding homage to such directors as George Romero and Sam Raimi is a must-see for those who like heavy doses of slapstick mixed with their horror.