Braindead
Restricted to persons 16 years and over 1992 2m Film
- Comedy
- Horror
After his mother gets infected by a bite from a deadly Sumatran rat monkey, Lionel (Almighty Johnson Tim Balme, in an award-winning performance) has to contend with a plague of the living dead while attempting to woo the love of his life. Peter Jackson had already been tagged with the title ‘The Sultan of Splatter’ after his first two features, but this was the film that confirmed it. Armed with a decent budget, he takes a Flymo to fusty 1950s New Zealand and takes cinematic gore to a whole new extreme in the process.
Key Cast & Crew
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Elizabeth Moody
As: Mum (Vera Cosgrove)
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Late 1991, filming a scene from Braindead at Wellington Zoo: from left to right, camera operator Mark Olsen, actor (and sometime director) Tony Hiles, Peter Jackson, and the film's stars, Spaniard Diana Penalver and Tim Balme.
Photographer: Tyrone Kallmoier. Kindly provided by The Dominion Post.
Spanish actress Diana Penalver from Braindead.
Photographer: Ross Giblin. Kindly provided by The Dominion Post.
Richard Taylor with one of his prosthetic creations.
Photographer: Ross Giblin. Kindly provided by The Dominion Post.
Actor Jed Brophy (guts hanging out) and special effects maestro Richard Taylor prepare for a shot for BrainDead: Avalon Studios, late 1991.
Photographer: Ross Giblin. Kindly provided by The Dominion Post.
Allan Burne models a plasticine head of baby Selwyn from Braindead as a preliminary to casting it in foam.
Kindly provided by The Dominion Post.
Debra East applies the finishing touches to Jed Brophy's face for his role as zombie Void in Braindead.
Photographer: Ross Giblin. Kindly provided by The Dominion Post.
