Dead Alive (1992 Dave’s Pick)
The eleventh episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1992 features our producer David Rosen’s pick, Peter Jackson’s Dead Alive. Directed and co-written by Peter Jackson and starring Timothy Balme, Diana Peñalver, Elizabeth Moody and Ian Watkin, Dead Alive was Jackson’s third feature and the end of his “splatter” period.
The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from David Stratton in Variety (https://variety.com/1992/film/reviews/braindead-1117901348/), Peter Rainer in the Los Angeles Times (https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-07-14-ca-12885-story.html), and Stephen Holden in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1993/02/12/movies/review-film-entrails-monsters-comedy.html).
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