Following the success of his "Lord of the Rings" movie trilogy adaptation, director Peter Jackson was Hollywood's shiniest golden boy in the early 2000s. He had made millions upon millions of dollars, jumpstarted the New Zealand tourism industry (where the "Rings" films were shot), revolutionized special effects, and racked up 17 Oscars (collectively). He could seemingly do no wrong. So, as a follow-up, Jackson was pretty much allowed to make whatever he wanted and at whatever budget he desired. His dream project, as it turned out, was to remake Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack's 1933 classic "King Kong." Only this time, Jackson would indulge in every stray impulse and allow his movie to take every possible aside.
Jackson's "King Kong" ended up costing about $207 million and ran a whopping 187 minutes (whereas the original film was only 100 minutes long). It took a very long time for the main characters to arrive on Kong's Skull Island,...
Jackson's "King Kong" ended up costing about $207 million and ran a whopping 187 minutes (whereas the original film was only 100 minutes long). It took a very long time for the main characters to arrive on Kong's Skull Island,...
- 7/28/2025
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
There are many animals associated with the world of darkness: bats, rats, black cats, hooting owls and slithering snakes are all horror film fixtures. But, consider the humble primate — humanity's clever cousin, benign enough to help out around the house, or entertain families under the big top. As friendly as Hollywood makes these animals seem, they have proven to be excellent villains. In anticipation of the Stephen King film The Monkey, here are ten of cinema's most terrifying simians.
Though King Kong is clearly the reigning champion of hominid horror, this collection of underrated evil apes, homicidal chimps, and human-primate hybrids will keep horror fans busy until The Monkey arrives on February 21. Readers can even use this list of films by the likes of Peter Jackson and George Romero to enjoy a monkey movie marathon while they wait for the latest Stephen King adaptation to hit the big screen.
The...
Though King Kong is clearly the reigning champion of hominid horror, this collection of underrated evil apes, homicidal chimps, and human-primate hybrids will keep horror fans busy until The Monkey arrives on February 21. Readers can even use this list of films by the likes of Peter Jackson and George Romero to enjoy a monkey movie marathon while they wait for the latest Stephen King adaptation to hit the big screen.
The...
- 2/17/2025
- by Claire Donner
- CBR
These days, Peter Jackson is best known for directing big budget spectacles. He took the Hobbits to Mordor, he cast Benedict Cumberbatch as a dragon, he brought us the sight of a motion-capture King Kong smacking around a bunch of dinosaurs. But when he was just getting his career started, he was making very different kinds of movies: horror comedies that were drenched in blood and pretty much every other bodily fluid you can think of. In 1992, he brought the world what may be the bloodiest film ever made: a zombie comedy he would call Braindead, but many fans know it as Dead Alive. And if you haven’t seen this one yet (you can watch it Here), it’s the Best Horror Movie You Never Saw.
Peter Jackson never had any formal film school training, and not just because they didn’t have such courses in his home country of New Zealand.
Peter Jackson never had any formal film school training, and not just because they didn’t have such courses in his home country of New Zealand.
- 3/8/2024
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Fast zombies redefine horror genre by introducing relentless, terrifying undead threats in recent films. Classic horror comedies and action horrors showcase the evolution and danger of fast-moving zombies. Movies like "Train to Busan" and "28 Days Later" explore post-apocalyptic fast zombie scenarios in thrilling ways.
Fast zombies were terrifying creatures that have frightened filmgoers in plenty of nail-bitingly tense zombie movies in recent years. While the zombie horror movie genre dates as far back as White Zombie in 1932 and its modern incarnation can be traced to George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead in 1968, these earlier movies featured slow-moving, lethargic zombies that were easily outrun when compared to more sinister fast-moving zombies. While fast-moving zombies have their origins in 1980s horror, they truly came to the forefront in 21st-century horror movies that featured undead creatures.
From horror comedies like The Return of the Living Dead to truly tense...
Fast zombies were terrifying creatures that have frightened filmgoers in plenty of nail-bitingly tense zombie movies in recent years. While the zombie horror movie genre dates as far back as White Zombie in 1932 and its modern incarnation can be traced to George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead in 1968, these earlier movies featured slow-moving, lethargic zombies that were easily outrun when compared to more sinister fast-moving zombies. While fast-moving zombies have their origins in 1980s horror, they truly came to the forefront in 21st-century horror movies that featured undead creatures.
From horror comedies like The Return of the Living Dead to truly tense...
- 3/2/2024
- by Stephen Holland
- ScreenRant
Love is in the air this week, and we’re celebrating romance in horror ahead of Valentine’s Day. For horror fans, nothing says romance quite like Peter Jackson’s Dead Alive (aka Braindead outside the U.S.), a twisted love story between meek mama’s boy Lionel Cosgrove (Timothy Balme) and hungry-for-love shopgirl Paquita Maria Sánchez (Diana Peñalver). The film also happens to have just turned 30, released in the U.S. on February 12, 1993.
In celebration of the splatstick horror rom-com’s 30th anniversary, here are 30 reasons we’re still so in love with Peter Jackson’s Dead Alive/Braindead.
30. The ‘50s Setting
Peter Jackson and co-writers Stephen Sinclair and Frances Walsh ensure you’ve never seen the ’50s depicted like this. The story takes place almost entirely in the quaint city of Wellington in 1957. Pastel houses and trolley cars moving down the main street belie the absolute carnage ensuing.
In celebration of the splatstick horror rom-com’s 30th anniversary, here are 30 reasons we’re still so in love with Peter Jackson’s Dead Alive/Braindead.
30. The ‘50s Setting
Peter Jackson and co-writers Stephen Sinclair and Frances Walsh ensure you’ve never seen the ’50s depicted like this. The story takes place almost entirely in the quaint city of Wellington in 1957. Pastel houses and trolley cars moving down the main street belie the absolute carnage ensuing.
- 2/13/2023
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
Long before his involvement in a series of elf-populated, jewelry-based hiking movies, New Zealand filmmaker Peter Jackson won hearts as the director of gloppy, vomitous, utterly repellant midnight grindhouse fare like "Bad Taste," "Meet the Feebles," and "Braindead" (known as "Dead Alive" in North America). Jackson's early films have an excited, adolescent joie de vivre that his later digital-forward technical exercises lack, and are perfect for naughty teenagers who think that films like "Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn" don't go far enough.
"Dead Alive," easily one of the goriest films ever made, is constructed like a comedy film and has a premise that wouldn't feel out of place in a Saturday morning cartoon. Lionel (Timothy Balme) lives with his controlling and guilt-trip-dispensing mother Vera (Elizabeth Moody) in 1950s Wellington. Lionel is beloved by a local shop owner named Paquita (Diana Peñalver) who believes, courtesy of tarot cards, that they...
"Dead Alive," easily one of the goriest films ever made, is constructed like a comedy film and has a premise that wouldn't feel out of place in a Saturday morning cartoon. Lionel (Timothy Balme) lives with his controlling and guilt-trip-dispensing mother Vera (Elizabeth Moody) in 1950s Wellington. Lionel is beloved by a local shop owner named Paquita (Diana Peñalver) who believes, courtesy of tarot cards, that they...
- 10/14/2022
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
[Guest authors Christopher Lombardo and Jeff Kirschner of Really Awful Movies take a look back at some of the most memorable slimy moments in the horror and sci-fi genres.] In Jean-Paul Sartre’s Being and Nothingness, the philosopher weighs in on the icky properties of slime: “…it sticks to me, it draws me, it sucks at me. Its mode of being is neither the reassuring inertia of the solid nor a dynamism…”
The author described “le visqueux” (viscosity) at length, and reportedly even stared at algae to experience the repulsive feelings associated with the title and theme of his dour novel Nausea.
When it comes to phobias, a fear of slime sits pretty low on the list. Who has even heard of blennophobia compared with more prevalent fears such as agora- or arachnophobia?
Perhaps because it’s one of those fears, like being scared of fire, that is so ubiquitous that it doesn’t really need a psychological condition or fancy verbiage attached to it. After all, it’s pretty rare to experience fire in your day-to-day life (as...
The author described “le visqueux” (viscosity) at length, and reportedly even stared at algae to experience the repulsive feelings associated with the title and theme of his dour novel Nausea.
When it comes to phobias, a fear of slime sits pretty low on the list. Who has even heard of blennophobia compared with more prevalent fears such as agora- or arachnophobia?
Perhaps because it’s one of those fears, like being scared of fire, that is so ubiquitous that it doesn’t really need a psychological condition or fancy verbiage attached to it. After all, it’s pretty rare to experience fire in your day-to-day life (as...
- 9/30/2016
- by Christopher Lombardo
- DailyDead
Stars: Morgana O’Reilly, Rima Te Wiata, Glen-Paul Waru, Cameron Rhodes, Millen Baird | Written and Directed by Gerard Johnstone
Permanently pissed-off Kylie Bucknell is, after a bungled robbery, forced by the courts to return to her family home when she’s given an eight-month home detention sentence. Her punishment for a botched Atm raid is made all the more intolerable by the fact she has to live with her over-bearing motor-mouth mother Miriam who’s convinced the house is haunted. But after dismissing Miriam’s superstitions, rebellious Kylie too starts hearing unsettling whispers in the dark, creaking floorboards and strange bumps in the night. Has she inherited her mother’s overactive imagination or is there indeed evil afoot between the windows and doors?
New Zealand has one hell of a track record when it comes to horror. From the early work of Peter Jackson and his film Bad Taste and...
Permanently pissed-off Kylie Bucknell is, after a bungled robbery, forced by the courts to return to her family home when she’s given an eight-month home detention sentence. Her punishment for a botched Atm raid is made all the more intolerable by the fact she has to live with her over-bearing motor-mouth mother Miriam who’s convinced the house is haunted. But after dismissing Miriam’s superstitions, rebellious Kylie too starts hearing unsettling whispers in the dark, creaking floorboards and strange bumps in the night. Has she inherited her mother’s overactive imagination or is there indeed evil afoot between the windows and doors?
New Zealand has one hell of a track record when it comes to horror. From the early work of Peter Jackson and his film Bad Taste and...
- 7/18/2015
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Top 100 horror movies of all time: Chicago Film Critics' choices (photo: Sigourney Weaver and Alien creature show us that life is less horrific if you don't hold grudges) See previous post: A look at the Chicago Film Critics Association's Scariest Movies Ever Made. Below is the list of the Chicago Film Critics's Top 100 Horror Movies of All Time, including their directors and key cast members. Note: this list was first published in October 2006. (See also: Fay Wray, Lee Patrick, and Mary Philbin among the "Top Ten Scream Queens.") 1. Psycho (1960) Alfred Hitchcock; with Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam. 2. The Exorcist (1973) William Friedkin; with Ellen Burstyn, Linda Blair, Jason Miller, Max von Sydow (and the voice of Mercedes McCambridge). 3. Halloween (1978) John Carpenter; with Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence, Tony Moran. 4. Alien (1979) Ridley Scott; with Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt. 5. Night of the Living Dead (1968) George A. Romero; with Marilyn Eastman,...
- 10/31/2014
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Stars: Morgana O’Reilly, Rima Te Wiata, Glen-Paul Waru, Cameron Rhodes, Millen Baird | Written and Directed by Gerard Johnstone
Permanently pissed-off Kylie Bucknell is, after a bungled robbery, forced by the courts to return to her family home when she’s given an eight-month home detention sentence. Her punishment for a botched Atm raid is made all the more intolerable by the fact she has to live with her over-bearing motor-mouth mother Miriam who’s convinced the house is haunted. But after dismissing Miriam’s superstitions, rebellious Kylie too starts hearing unsettling whispers in the dark, creaking floorboards and strange bumps in the night. Has she inherited her mother’s overactive imagination or is there indeed evil afoot between the windows and doors?
New Zealand has one hell of a track record when it comes to horror. From the early work of Peter Jackson and his film Bad Taste and...
Permanently pissed-off Kylie Bucknell is, after a bungled robbery, forced by the courts to return to her family home when she’s given an eight-month home detention sentence. Her punishment for a botched Atm raid is made all the more intolerable by the fact she has to live with her over-bearing motor-mouth mother Miriam who’s convinced the house is haunted. But after dismissing Miriam’s superstitions, rebellious Kylie too starts hearing unsettling whispers in the dark, creaking floorboards and strange bumps in the night. Has she inherited her mother’s overactive imagination or is there indeed evil afoot between the windows and doors?
New Zealand has one hell of a track record when it comes to horror. From the early work of Peter Jackson and his film Bad Taste and...
- 8/22/2014
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
A Priest, A Rabbi and Your Mom Walk Into a Movie Theatre…
You might think that your Mom disapproves of all horror films on principle. At least that’s the stereotype: the wagging finger; the warning that horror films cause nightmares. But the truth is that this is merely a bit of parental judo, reverse psychology designed to push us to watching horror films, because nothing warns us and upholds the moral order like a horror film.
What are the elements of a horror film after all? There is a monster; there is a sense of danger (as critic Joe Bob Briggs puts it “Anyone can die at any time”); the deaths are usually gruesome; and there is usually a moral. If you think about it, fairy tales and horror films are not that far apart – they are even closer to one another in the fairy tales original Grimm-er forms,...
You might think that your Mom disapproves of all horror films on principle. At least that’s the stereotype: the wagging finger; the warning that horror films cause nightmares. But the truth is that this is merely a bit of parental judo, reverse psychology designed to push us to watching horror films, because nothing warns us and upholds the moral order like a horror film.
What are the elements of a horror film after all? There is a monster; there is a sense of danger (as critic Joe Bob Briggs puts it “Anyone can die at any time”); the deaths are usually gruesome; and there is usually a moral. If you think about it, fairy tales and horror films are not that far apart – they are even closer to one another in the fairy tales original Grimm-er forms,...
- 10/4/2012
- by Michael Ryan
- SoundOnSight
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By Todd Garbarini
New Zealand film director Peter Jackson is a favorite among genre fans most notably for his early, off-the-wall gross-out comedy/horror films. Anyone who has seen Mr. Jackson's early work – specifically Bad Taste (1987), Meet the Feebles (1989), and Dead Alive (1992) – cannot help but wonder how in the world he managed to score the director’s chair for the film versions of J.R.R. Tolkien’s massive epic about hobbits and Middle Earth. These three films, while highly entertaining, are exercises in excess and were not embraced by the masses, although they have all since developed cult followings. Bad Taste, about aliens who invade a fictitious village in New Zealand in order to harvest human beings for their outer space franchise of fast food, took four years to make on weekends and was a gross-out success. It permitted Mr. Jackson to secure...
By Todd Garbarini
New Zealand film director Peter Jackson is a favorite among genre fans most notably for his early, off-the-wall gross-out comedy/horror films. Anyone who has seen Mr. Jackson's early work – specifically Bad Taste (1987), Meet the Feebles (1989), and Dead Alive (1992) – cannot help but wonder how in the world he managed to score the director’s chair for the film versions of J.R.R. Tolkien’s massive epic about hobbits and Middle Earth. These three films, while highly entertaining, are exercises in excess and were not embraced by the masses, although they have all since developed cult followings. Bad Taste, about aliens who invade a fictitious village in New Zealand in order to harvest human beings for their outer space franchise of fast food, took four years to make on weekends and was a gross-out success. It permitted Mr. Jackson to secure...
- 3/8/2012
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Lionsgate has been going through a number of old studios collections and putting out an eclectic mix of Miramax and other acquired titles. There’s little connective tissue between Peter Jackson’s eye-opening Zombie-comedy Dead Alive and Roberto Benigni’s Life Is Beautiful, other that both directors won academy awards. But both are great films in their own ways, and both are great to have on Blu-ray. Our reviews of Dead Alive and Life is Beautiful follow after the jump. Peter Jackson’s 1992 film Dead Alive was the film that first got him noticed stateside by cultists, as his horror comedy followed well in the footsteps of Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead 2. He had previously directed Bad Taste, which also had a following, but seemed to pick up more interest in England than America – or that is to say Dead Alive played more American theaters. Diana Peñalver stars as Paquita Maria Sanchez,...
- 10/18/2011
- by Andre Dellamorte
- Collider.com
by MoreHorror.com
Often referred to as "One of the goriest horror comedy films of all-time", Dead Alive (review) makes its high definition debut this fall as Lionsgate releases Dead Alive on Blu-ray Disc. The early film from Oscar® award winning director Peter Jackson (Best Director, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, 2003) is a cult classic with horror fans.
Hysterical, outrageous and filled with bloodthirsty zombies, the film hit Blu-ray this week on October 4, 2011 just in time for its 20th anniversary celebration (and Halloween). For years fans have been screaming for an unrated version, and now Lionsgate is distributing the unrated version on Blu-ray for all the hungry Dead Alive fans.
About Dead Alive:
A mama's boy who has the unfortunate task of looking after his aging, evil mother, Lionel (Timothy Balme, Jack Brown Genius) believes his dreams have come true when he meets the love of his life.
Often referred to as "One of the goriest horror comedy films of all-time", Dead Alive (review) makes its high definition debut this fall as Lionsgate releases Dead Alive on Blu-ray Disc. The early film from Oscar® award winning director Peter Jackson (Best Director, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, 2003) is a cult classic with horror fans.
Hysterical, outrageous and filled with bloodthirsty zombies, the film hit Blu-ray this week on October 4, 2011 just in time for its 20th anniversary celebration (and Halloween). For years fans have been screaming for an unrated version, and now Lionsgate is distributing the unrated version on Blu-ray for all the hungry Dead Alive fans.
About Dead Alive:
A mama's boy who has the unfortunate task of looking after his aging, evil mother, Lionel (Timothy Balme, Jack Brown Genius) believes his dreams have come true when he meets the love of his life.
- 10/7/2011
- by admin
- MoreHorror
Rank the week of October 4th’s Blu-ray and DVD new releases against the best films of all-time: New Releases Fast Five
(Blu-ray & DVD | PG13 | 2011)
Flickchart Ranking: #803
Win Percentage: 57%
Times Ranked: 5781
Top-20 Rankings: 40
Directed By: Justin Lin
Starring: Dwayne Johnson • Vin Diesel • Paul Walker • Jordana Brewster • Elsa Pataky
Genres: Action • Action Thriller • Chase Movie • Crime • Drama • Thriller
Rank This Movie
Scream 4
(Blu-ray & DVD | R | 2011)
Flickchart Ranking: #1420
Win Percentage: 49%
Times Ranked: 6843
Top-20 Rankings: 26
Directed By: Wes Craven
Starring: Alison Brie • Neve Campbell • David Arquette • Hayden Panettiere • Courteney Cox
Genres: Horror • Mystery • Slasher Film • Thriller
Rank This Movie
Submarine
(Blu-ray & DVD | Nr | 2010)
Flickchart Ranking: #2772
Win Percentage: 60%
Times Ranked: 1079
Top-20 Rankings: 10
Directed By: Richard Ayoade
Starring: Craig Roberts • Yasmin Paige • Sally Hawkins • Paddy Considine • Noah Taylor
Genres: Comedy Drama • Coming-of-Age • Drama
Rank This Movie
Classics & Re-releases Salo, Or The 120 Days Of Sodom
(Criterion Blu-ray & DVD | Nr | 1976)
Flickchart Ranking: #4386
Win Percentage: 43%
Times Ranked:...
(Blu-ray & DVD | PG13 | 2011)
Flickchart Ranking: #803
Win Percentage: 57%
Times Ranked: 5781
Top-20 Rankings: 40
Directed By: Justin Lin
Starring: Dwayne Johnson • Vin Diesel • Paul Walker • Jordana Brewster • Elsa Pataky
Genres: Action • Action Thriller • Chase Movie • Crime • Drama • Thriller
Rank This Movie
Scream 4
(Blu-ray & DVD | R | 2011)
Flickchart Ranking: #1420
Win Percentage: 49%
Times Ranked: 6843
Top-20 Rankings: 26
Directed By: Wes Craven
Starring: Alison Brie • Neve Campbell • David Arquette • Hayden Panettiere • Courteney Cox
Genres: Horror • Mystery • Slasher Film • Thriller
Rank This Movie
Submarine
(Blu-ray & DVD | Nr | 2010)
Flickchart Ranking: #2772
Win Percentage: 60%
Times Ranked: 1079
Top-20 Rankings: 10
Directed By: Richard Ayoade
Starring: Craig Roberts • Yasmin Paige • Sally Hawkins • Paddy Considine • Noah Taylor
Genres: Comedy Drama • Coming-of-Age • Drama
Rank This Movie
Classics & Re-releases Salo, Or The 120 Days Of Sodom
(Criterion Blu-ray & DVD | Nr | 1976)
Flickchart Ranking: #4386
Win Percentage: 43%
Times Ranked:...
- 10/4/2011
- by Jonathan Hardesty
- Flickchart
Title: Dead Alive (aka Braindead) Directed by: Peter Jackson Starring: Timothy Bale, Diana Penalver, Elizabeth Moody, Ian Watkin Running time: 97 minutes, Unrated, Available on standard DVD Peter Jackson’s 1992 cult horror masterpiece has finally been released on Blu-ray. The story of Lionel and his overbearing mother Vera, who gets bitten by a Sumatran rat monkey at the zoo. Vera becomes extremely ill from the bite and quickly decomposes, and has a new-found appetite for live flesh. She eats Lionel’s girlfriend’s dog and several members of the community…however the people who meet their demise at the hands of Vera don’t stay dead for long. Yes kiddies, Peter Jackson made movies...
- 10/3/2011
- by juliana
- ShockYa
Home Invasion is a weekly article that we post to compile all the DVD & Blu-Ray Releases for this week that might be of interest to you. Included are links back to Amazon.com to purchase the item(s). We also included the descriptions and Specifications of the discs – if provided.
DVD & Blu-Ray Releases for October 4th, 2011:
Aaahh!!! Real Monsters: Season One
Scary doesn’t get any sillier than Season 1 of the hit Nickelodeon show Aaahh!!! Real Monsters! These monsters-in-training make fright a hoot as they try to learn the tricks of the scary monster trade. Check out Ickis, Oblina, and Krumm and their herculean efforts to master The Gromble’s class on proper scare techniques. So pull up a seat in the Monster Academy, the scariest (Not!) place under the city dump, and get ready for lessons so bizarre, they’re scary!
Buy the DVD @ Amazon...
DVD & Blu-Ray Releases for October 4th, 2011:
Aaahh!!! Real Monsters: Season One
Scary doesn’t get any sillier than Season 1 of the hit Nickelodeon show Aaahh!!! Real Monsters! These monsters-in-training make fright a hoot as they try to learn the tricks of the scary monster trade. Check out Ickis, Oblina, and Krumm and their herculean efforts to master The Gromble’s class on proper scare techniques. So pull up a seat in the Monster Academy, the scariest (Not!) place under the city dump, and get ready for lessons so bizarre, they’re scary!
Buy the DVD @ Amazon...
- 10/3/2011
- by Andy Triefenbach
- Destroy the Brain
Usually, this spot is reserved for our weekly rundown of the new movies available to stream on Netflix Instant but August is a dead month and there is nothing notable streaming this week. Doesn’t look like there will be for another couple weeks either, so let’s pick the best horror movies available to stream on Netflix right now:
Let Me In / Let the Right One In
Let Me In
Rated R | 2010
Flickchart Ranking: #482
Times Ranked: 9558
Win Percentage: 63%
Top-20 Rankings: 22 Users
Let the Right One In
Rated R | 2008
Flickchart Ranking: #63
Times Ranked: 78814
Win Percentage: 65%
Top-20 Rankings: 404 Users
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The Exorcist
Rated R | 1973
Flickchart Ranking: #281
Times Ranked: 309191
Win Percentage: 49%
Top-20 Rankings: 4116 Users
Directed By: William Friedkin
Starring: Ellen Burstyn • Max von Sydow • Lee J. Cobb • Linda Blair
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The Evil Dead
Rated Nr | 1981
Flickchart Ranking: #350
Times Ranked: 129936
Win Percentage: 49%
Top-20 Rankings: 511 Users
Directed By: Sam Raimi
Starring: Bruce Campbell • Ellen Sandweiss • Betsy Baker...
Let Me In / Let the Right One In
Let Me In
Rated R | 2010
Flickchart Ranking: #482
Times Ranked: 9558
Win Percentage: 63%
Top-20 Rankings: 22 Users
Let the Right One In
Rated R | 2008
Flickchart Ranking: #63
Times Ranked: 78814
Win Percentage: 65%
Top-20 Rankings: 404 Users
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The Exorcist
Rated R | 1973
Flickchart Ranking: #281
Times Ranked: 309191
Win Percentage: 49%
Top-20 Rankings: 4116 Users
Directed By: William Friedkin
Starring: Ellen Burstyn • Max von Sydow • Lee J. Cobb • Linda Blair
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The Evil Dead
Rated Nr | 1981
Flickchart Ranking: #350
Times Ranked: 129936
Win Percentage: 49%
Top-20 Rankings: 511 Users
Directed By: Sam Raimi
Starring: Bruce Campbell • Ellen Sandweiss • Betsy Baker...
- 8/18/2011
- by Daniel Rohr
- Flickchart
Lionsgate has officially announced a Blu-ray release of Peter Jackson's Dead Alive for October 4th. No technical specifications or special features have been announced. A mama's boy who has the unfortunate task of looking after his aging, evil mother believes his dreams have come true when he meets the love of his life. While out to sabotage her son's happiness, his Mum (Elizabeth Moody) is accidently bitten by a Sumatran rat-monkey, which turns her into a flesh-eating zombie. Lionel is forced to put his relationship on hold to stop his undead mother, and the rest of the town that she's infected before it's too late.
- 7/13/2011
- by wil
- HorrorYearbook
More high definition goodness is on the way courtesy of Lionsgate, as we're finally, finally, getting the insanity that is Peter Jackson's Dead Alive in glorious high definition! Oh yeah, and two other flicks no one really cares about.
September 20th
Scary Movie 2 Blu-ray Disc
Scary Movie 3: Unrated Blu-ray Disc
Audiences will laugh twice as hard this fall as Lionsgate debuts two hilarious Miramax films on Blu-ray Disc - Scary Movie 2 and Scary Movie 3: Unrated. Presented for the very first time in 1080P High Definition and 5.1 DTS-hd Master Audio, both horror parodies star two of comedy's leading ladies -- Anna Faris (The House Bunny) and Regina Hall (King's Ransom). Available on September 20th, each Blu-ray Disc is loaded with an assortment of special features including deleted scenes, featurettes and audio commentaries.
Scary Movie 2
The follow-up spoof picks up from where the original Scary Movie satire left off,...
September 20th
Scary Movie 2 Blu-ray Disc
Scary Movie 3: Unrated Blu-ray Disc
Audiences will laugh twice as hard this fall as Lionsgate debuts two hilarious Miramax films on Blu-ray Disc - Scary Movie 2 and Scary Movie 3: Unrated. Presented for the very first time in 1080P High Definition and 5.1 DTS-hd Master Audio, both horror parodies star two of comedy's leading ladies -- Anna Faris (The House Bunny) and Regina Hall (King's Ransom). Available on September 20th, each Blu-ray Disc is loaded with an assortment of special features including deleted scenes, featurettes and audio commentaries.
Scary Movie 2
The follow-up spoof picks up from where the original Scary Movie satire left off,...
- 7/13/2011
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
On October 4, Lionsgate will release Peter Jackson’s (The Frighteners) high-spirited 1992 zombie gore-a-thon Dead Alive on Blu-ray disc for the list price of $19.98.
Oh baby, Dead Alive is coming to Blu-ray!
The release represents the comedy-horror film’s Blu-ray debut in the U.S.
Hysterical, outrageous and filled with bloodthirsty zombies, Dead Alive revolves around mama’s boy Lionel (Timothy Balme, Jack Brown Genius) who has the unfortunate task of looking after his aging, evil mother (Elizabeth Moody, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring). While out to sabotage her son’s love life, Mum is accidently bitten by a Sumatran rat-monkey, which turns her into a flesh-eating zombie. Lionel is thus forced to put his relationship on hold to stop his undead mother and the rest of the town that she’s infected before it’s too late. That’s when the gore really kicks in!
Oh baby, Dead Alive is coming to Blu-ray!
The release represents the comedy-horror film’s Blu-ray debut in the U.S.
Hysterical, outrageous and filled with bloodthirsty zombies, Dead Alive revolves around mama’s boy Lionel (Timothy Balme, Jack Brown Genius) who has the unfortunate task of looking after his aging, evil mother (Elizabeth Moody, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring). While out to sabotage her son’s love life, Mum is accidently bitten by a Sumatran rat-monkey, which turns her into a flesh-eating zombie. Lionel is thus forced to put his relationship on hold to stop his undead mother and the rest of the town that she’s infected before it’s too late. That’s when the gore really kicks in!
- 7/13/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
One of the goriest fright films of all-time makes its high definition debut this fall as Lionsgate releases Dead Alive on Blu-ray Disc October 4. The early film from Oscar winning director Peter Jackson is celebrating it's 20th anniversary A mama's boy who has the unfortunate task of looking after his aging, evil mother, Lionel (Timothy Balme, Jack Brown Genius) believes his dreams have come true when he meets the love of his life. While out to sabotage her son's happiness, his Mum (Elizabeth Moody, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring) is accidently bitten by a Sumatran rat-monkey, which turns her into a flesh-eating zombie. Lionel is forced to put his relationship on hold to stop his undead mother, and the rest of the town that she's infected before it's too late.
- 7/13/2011
- shocktillyoudrop.com
New Zealand actress Elizabeth Moody starred as Mum in Peter Jackson’s 1992 horror-comedy Dead Alive. She was Vera Cosgrave, Lionel’s domineering mother, who became a flesh-eating fiend after being bitten by a rabid Sumatran Rat-Monkey in the film known as Braindead in the United States.
She was daughter of Yvette Bromley, a founder of the Court Theatre, and began performing on stage as a full-time actress in 1976. She appeared in several films including The Scarecrow (1982), Turn of the Blade (1992), and Jackson’s Heavenly Creatures (1994). She was featured as Lobella Sackville-Baggins in the extended edition of the 2001 fantasy classic The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.
Moody died in Christchurch, New Zealand, on January 12, 2010, at the age of 70.
She was daughter of Yvette Bromley, a founder of the Court Theatre, and began performing on stage as a full-time actress in 1976. She appeared in several films including The Scarecrow (1982), Turn of the Blade (1992), and Jackson’s Heavenly Creatures (1994). She was featured as Lobella Sackville-Baggins in the extended edition of the 2001 fantasy classic The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.
Moody died in Christchurch, New Zealand, on January 12, 2010, at the age of 70.
- 2/12/2010
- by Bryan
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
Well, congratulations. It’s Mother’s Day, and you’re playing on the Fangoria website instead of calling your poor mother. But why should you worry? I mean she only fed you, clothed you, and let you know when you were slouching. You just go on about your day, and don’t worry about your poor mother.
Hopefully, you are now feeling sufficiently guilty and are currently handcrafting the world’s largest and most extravagant Mother’s Day card. But before you head down to the craft store for a crate of construction paper and a wholesale bag of pipe cleaners, lets reflect on that special breed of celluloid madre, the horror mother.
May we present our count of the top 10 horror mothers:
10- Betsy Palmer as Mrs. Voorhees in Friday The 13th - Mrs. Voorhees avenges the mistreatment of her son by killing off camp counselors, warning us all...
Hopefully, you are now feeling sufficiently guilty and are currently handcrafting the world’s largest and most extravagant Mother’s Day card. But before you head down to the craft store for a crate of construction paper and a wholesale bag of pipe cleaners, lets reflect on that special breed of celluloid madre, the horror mother.
May we present our count of the top 10 horror mothers:
10- Betsy Palmer as Mrs. Voorhees in Friday The 13th - Mrs. Voorhees avenges the mistreatment of her son by killing off camp counselors, warning us all...
- 5/10/2009
- Fangoria
Peter Jackson was born in New Zealand on October 31st, 1961. An only child, Jackson was given an 8mm camera at the age of eight, which he utilized to the fullest extent imaginable. As a youth Jackson made quite a few low budget independent films, a few of which even earned him notice.
"World War Two" and “The Valley” were two such short films made by Jackson during his teenage years, and provided Peter some notoriety early on as the blossoming filmmaker managed to incorporate some impressive stop motion effects regardless of functioning on a non existent budget. Despite a lack of formal training, the New Zealanders initial love for special effects and short films have steadily evolved into successful major motion pictures.
In an interview with David Stratton, Peter Jackson once said “I wanted my special effects movies to have little stories and plots. And so the concept of writing...
"World War Two" and “The Valley” were two such short films made by Jackson during his teenage years, and provided Peter some notoriety early on as the blossoming filmmaker managed to incorporate some impressive stop motion effects regardless of functioning on a non existent budget. Despite a lack of formal training, the New Zealanders initial love for special effects and short films have steadily evolved into successful major motion pictures.
In an interview with David Stratton, Peter Jackson once said “I wanted my special effects movies to have little stories and plots. And so the concept of writing...
- 2/28/2009
- Fangoria
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