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Braindead

Braindead

Horror · Comedy · 1992

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.

Movie details

Braindead

“Some things won't stay down... even after they die.”

1992 Horror · Comedy 1h 43m

Critical arithmetic

The consensus, allegedly.

IMDb

7.5 / 10

108K votes

Rotten Tomatoes

89 %

Tomatometer

Metacritic

54 / 100

Metascore

TMDB

7.4 / 10

Community rating

External scores via OMDb · CC BY-NC 4.0. Values normalized for display; availability varies by title.

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.

CriticWise case file

What this film says about your taste.

Not a recommendation score. A measure of how closely the film’s taste signals resemble yours.

The archetype split

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Peter Jackson

Written by

Fran Walsh · Peter Jackson · Stephen Sinclair

Timothy Balme

Timothy Balme

Lionel

Diana Peñalver

Diana Peñalver

Paquita

Elizabeth Moody

Elizabeth Moody

Mum

Ian Watkin

Ian Watkin

Uncle Les

Brenda Kendall

Brenda Kendall

Nurse McTavish

Stuart Devenie

Stuart Devenie

Father McGruder

Jed Brophy

Jed Brophy

Void

Court is in session

Put Braindead on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Arthouse Gremlin

“Its refusal to behave is the point.”

The strange choices create the kind of friction that follows you out of the theatre and into the argument.

The prosecution The Popcorn Loyalist

“Oddness is not depth.”

A film can break every rule and still leave nothing behind but the memory of how hard it tried to be singular.