Dead Alive
Dead Alive
A young man's mother is bitten by a Sumatran rat-monkey. She gets sick and dies, at which time she comes back to life, killing and eating dogs, nurses, friends, and neighbors.
Razorbitz reviewedFebruary 22, 2025
Without any exaggeration this film changed how I looked at the world. It is to cinema's greatest benefit that Peter Jackson got his start making crass art like this, but it saddens me so that horror auteurs like him and Raimi have moved so far away from their origins in the glorious splatter of practical effects. I very much enjoy Evil Dead as much as any horror buff but this incredible work of gibbering madness curled its gonzo fingers around my throat and never let go. Where do I even begin describing this film? New Zealand avant-garde? Peter Jackson unpacking his mommy issues? Return of the Living Dead smoking PCP? Too heinous and bizarre to have any modern imitators, yet without it we wouldn't have Lord of the Rings. What a life!
Not a movie I'd watch while eating dinner but a must see film nevertheless!