Dead Alive
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 29 Ratings
- Starring: Diana Peñalver, Elizabeth Moody, Ian Watkin, Timothy Balme
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- Director: Peter Jackson
- Genre(s): Thriller, Fantasy, Horror, Comedy
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Positive: 4 out of 7
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Mixed: 2 out of 7
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Negative: 1 out of 7
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78The "Citizen Kane" of Oedipal zombie-cannibal-right to death-comedy-love stories... So gleefully over-the-top that it's decidedly hard not to gag while you're laughing yourself incontinent... Sick. Perverse. Brilliant.
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75A gonzo splatterfest from New Zealand that manages to stay breezy and good-natured even as you're watching heads get snapped off of spurting torsos.
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60An almost unrelenting barrage of gore, Dead Alive is also a constant assault on the funnybone, a film in which the graphic blood-spilling is taken so far over the top that it becomes hilarious instead of disgusting.
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20Because all of this looks blatantly unreal, and because the timing of the shock effects is so haphazard, Dead Alive isn't especially scary or repulsive. Nor is it very funny. Long before it's over, the half-hour-plus bloodbath that is the climax of the film has become an interminable bore. [12 Feb 1993, p.C16]
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Positive: 11 out of 12
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Mixed: 1 out of 12
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Negative: 0 out of 12
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