Braindead

Braindead is the Third film directed by Peter Jackson, and is the second film in which he played a cameo appearance (look out for the Undertaker's crazy assistant). Starring Timothy Balme as Lionel Cosgrove, this film is a comical, gore feast, zombie flick. The farcical nature of the film is the reason that the British and Australian critics left the original uncut, they didn't see that anyone would take it seriously! Unfortuantly in Germany the film was seriously cut.

The budget of $3 million allowed Jackson to experiment with some particularly gruesome effects, above all the grand finale, the flymo! (Over 300 liters of blood were pumped out of that lethal piece of lawn care equipment!) In fact Jackson's favorite scene, the baby in the park, was only shot because there was some money left in the budget.

Just how did they achieve all that gore? with pork fat, latex, sisal, polyfoam, human hair, ultra slime and hundreds of gallons of maple syrup!