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Bad Taste

Film, 1988

 Bad Taste

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 Synopsis

After over a dozen efforts (most were never finished) Bad Taste was Peter Jackson’s breakthrough film; the first to make it from his Pukerua Bay backyard to cinema screens. An all-male cast of public service Alien Investigation and Detection Service (AIDS) operatives run amok with guns, food, vomit, rockets and misguided enthusiasm to rid the earth of alien Lord Crumb and his fast-food gang who want to turn earthlings into hamburgers. Cannibalism is on the menu in this ‘splatstick’ masterpiece.

 Credits

 Peter Jackson
 Pete O'Herne
 Mike Minett
 Dean Lawrie
 
 

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 Background

A perspective by Tony Hiles | 19.09.2008

Bad Taste is Peter Jackson's first completed film. Essentially splatter-comedy from beginning to end, the story revolves round the catching and dispatching of a band of Alien ...

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 Where to buy

Available on DVD from Aro Video.

 
 

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