Review of Braindead

Braindead (1992)
5/10
Braindead indeed
31 October 2005
Warning: Spoilers
This movie is for people who like gore. Mindnumbing scene after scene of gore. Also bad acting comes into play, particularly with the film lead as Lionel. Seems like a lot of performances are at the Benny Hill level of comedy, with lots of signaling "THIS IS FUNNY- LOOK AT MY MUGGING" sort of thing. I like films with plot, character and nuance such as Scream, Wait Until Dark or Silence of the Lambs. This is not one of them. I do admire some of the camera work and techniques- and as mentioned in more favorable reviews, the kungfu scene with the priest is a classic. The start of the film is promising with an Indiana Jones-like escape with the Rat of Summatra from a locale used in Lord of the Rings. A later scene of the rat in the zoo is very low-budget. The last half of the film becomes repetitively gory- the dead are indeed alive and won't go away. I found it boring in the end.
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