Braindead
1992
Some things won't stay down... even after they die.
Directed by Peter Jackson
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When a Sumatran rat-monkey bites Lionel Cosgrove's mother, she's transformed into a zombie and begins killing (and transforming) the entire town while Lionel races to keep things under control.
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- Director
- Peter Jackson
- Written by
- Fran Walsh, Peter Jackson, Stephen Sinclair, Stephen Sinclair
- Produced by
- Jim Booth
- Composer
- Peter Dasent
- Cinematographer
- Murray Milne
- Editor
- Jamie Selkirk
- Sound Designers
- Mike Hopkins, Sam Negri
- Origin countries
- New Zealand, United States
- Production country
- New Zealand
- Runtime
- 1h 43m
- Language
- en
- Rating
- R
- Also known as
- Dead Alive
- TMDB
- 7.4/10 (1,835 votes)
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 89% Fresh
- Metacritic
- 54/100
- IMDb
- 7.5/10 (107,982 votes)
Cast
Timothy Balme
Lionel
Diana Peñalver
Paquita
Elizabeth Moody
Mum
Ian Watkin
Uncle Les
Brenda Kendall
Nurse McTavish
Stuart Devenie
Father McGruder
Jed Brophy
Void
Elizabeth Brimilcombe
Zombie Mum
Stephen Papps
Zombie McGruder
Murray Keane
Scroat
Glenis Levestam
Mrs. Matheson
Lewis Rowe
Mr. Matheson
Elizabeth Mulfaxe
Rita
Harry Sinclair
Roger
Davina Whitehouse
Grandmother
Silvio Famularo
Father
Brian Sergent
Vet
Peter Vere-Jones
Undertaker
Crew
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Trailer
Podcasts
The Evolution of Horror — ZOMBIES Pt 13: Braindead (1992) & Nekromantik (1987)
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User Notes
The most relentlessly Freudian film ever made.