Braindead

Name: Braindead
Genre: Horror, Comedy
Released: 1992-08-13
Duration: 1 h 43 min
Rating: 7.4
Cast: Timothy Balme, Diana Peñalver, Elizabeth Moody, Ian Watkin, Brenda Kendall

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

Braindead (1992)

Timing: 1:43 (103 min)

—
no scores

7.4/10
1881

7.4/10
109000

Rate the movie:

Everything about the movie

Video 4

Photo 86

Actors and characters

Video for the film Braindead — THIS IS THE WRONG TRAILER

1:56

Photo 86

Release date

1992-08-13

Country

New Zealand

Production

WingNut Films, New Zealand Film Commission, Trimark Pictures, Avalon/NFU Studios

Genre

Horror, Comedy

Budget

$3 000 000

Box office

$242 623

Website

Director

Peter Jackson

Actors

Timothy Balme, Diana Peñalver, Elizabeth Moody, Ian Watkin, Brenda Kendall, Stuart Devenie, Jed Brophy, Elizabeth Brimilcombe, Stephen Papps, Murray Keane
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Producer

Jim Booth

Camera operator

Murray Milne

Composer

Peter Dasent

Artist

Kevin Leonard-Jones

Audition

Fran Walsh

Editing

Jamie Selkirk
Whole Team (14)

Short description

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.

What's left behind the scenes

The scene of Uncle Les's appearance as a zombie was filmed unsuccessfully: when Les's head protruding from his body is shown in close-up, a thread pulling his neck back is clearly visible in the frame.
A poster for the film "The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms" is visible on the wall of Lionel's room.
Peter Jackson's mother plays a woman at the zoo who says "Ooo!" when Lionel's mother kills the rat-monkey.
Skull Island is the very island inhabited by the legendary King Kong. In Peter Jackson’s 'King Kong', there is an empty cage on board the ship with a sign reading ‘Sumatran Rat-Monkey’. Skull Island was filmed in the same location as the Paths of the Dead in 'The Return of the King'.
Jed Brophy (punk zombie Void) played an orc rider on a warg in 'The Two Towers'.
The American version of the film, in addition to the changed title, was also shortened from 104 to 85 minutes. Several dialogues and a scene where Lionel calms a zombie by giving it whiskey were cut, in addition to scenes of violence.
The rat-monkey puppet was animated using stop-motion technology by Peter Jackson himself.
The scene of zombies being minced by a lawnmower is one of the bloodiest in cinematic history. During the carnage, 40 zombies were killed and 400 liters of blood were spilled.
Elizabeth Moody, who played Vera Cosgrove, appeared in the extended edition of 'The Lord of the Rings' as Lobelia Sackville-Baggins at Bilbo’s birthday party.
When filming the scene of the final lawnmower massacre, "blood" was sprayed at a rate of 5 gallons per second.