Dead Alive 1992

AKA: Braindead

Director: Peter Jackson

Starring:
Timothy Balme, Diana Penalver, Elizabeth Moody, Ian Watkin, Brenda Kendall, Stuart Devenie

Rumor has it that many centuries ago some rats deserted a ship and swam ashore to Skull Island where they raped the island's monkeys. This created a new species known as "Rat Monkeys."

One of these creatures is captured by a very cheap "Indiana Jones" clone to be transported back to a New Zealand zoo. Unfortunately, the rat monkey bites this poor slob on the hand. The natives know that a single bite from these creatures causes the victim to become a zombie. The natives lop his hand off with a machete. Then they notice he's been bitten on the shoulder, chop chop, then they see a bite on his head, chop chop, I guess you can see where this is going. By the time they're finished there's not enough of this guy left to air mail back to New Zealand.

We now flash over to New Zealand where Lionel is on a first date with the lovely Paquita. His jealous mother has followed the couple and while spying on them manages to get herself bitten by the Rat Monkey. The old babe then stomps the poor little critter's head into the ground.

Lionel takes his mommy home to recuperate. Mommy starts falling apart, literally. A visiting nurse is called in but poor old mommy croaks. Ah ha, but then she she's alive again, well sorta. She starts nibbling on the nurse who is now destined for zombification. Lionel locks the two gals in the basement. This doesn't seem to work too well though because soon Lionel's got a whole cellar full of zombies.

Lionel visits his local escaped Nazi mad scientist who gives him tranquilizers to keep the zombies quiet. Unfortunately, Uncle Les happens upon the goings on and blackmails Lionel into handing over the house to him. Uncle Les then throws a party and the zombies join in munching on some of the partiers who in turn become zombies and munch on others. Pretty soon the whole place is full of zombies. Soon there's blood, guts and assorted body parts strewn wall to wall.

This one's got it all. More gore at the end than any other movie I can think of. It's also got some half decent comedy too. The uncle wears the most horrible rug I've ever seen. There's also a baby zombie running around and a kung-fu fighting priest. These and other oddball characters make this one a lot of fun even if it is a gorefest. Definitely check it out.