— i kick ass for the lord.

day five of hooptober! we got braindead (or i guess as it’s known in north america, dead alive). i couldn’t believe it when i found out this was the same director who made the lord of the rings trilogy.

getting like an indiana jones colonizer type vibe at the beginning with stealing the live monkey. also yeah pretty racist i’m ngl like the aussie (i guess this is new zealand, my apologies) guy speaking all slow to the poc. also him flashing the paper like they gaf or respect the ways of the western world was stupid, you think he’d be smart but nah. they were right for ripping it up but then he was threatening them with a gun?? bro just leave what are you even doing here dawg

why is that beautiful spanish girl smitten with that guy?! i do not see the vision

the tarot cards are hard asf. but ofc they have some extra shit that’s not part of the canon

sobbing why does the dad figure remind me of the dad from superwog

this is lowkey campy. but on a serious note, i hate when women make a man their entire personality. like girl you’re better than that

bro is inquisitive...ly looking into the water lol not his traumatic backstory

as soon as they said zoo, i knew where this was gonna go

when mothers are in love with their sons. i will never date a mama’s boy...he’s a grown ass man and acting like a little boy

this is very much soap operatic with a traditional gender role reversal.

lol i love how the death tarot card is always like the kicker for people

lmfao that wound does NOT look good. how it’s pulsing and shit, narsty

why did she rip off her cheek i’m so confused lol also ew the custard scene why tf didnt anyone say anything
so i guess the transformation is slow

what kind of a response is “not all of it” to the dog. sociopathic

the practical fx are so good in this. his zombiefied mom reaching out of her grave and ripping that guys’ dick off was pretty awesome. the martial arts pastor was so campy and over the top

so the zombies eat other things other than human flesh. they’re acting like babies. they can get sexual with each other?! wtf these zombies are really something else. different than any other zombie universe i know of at least

i will say lionel pmo so bad. he’s just got no spine, he’s weird and cagey...pathological liar and shuts out the one person who cares about him. how many times does she have to get her heart broken by him for her to understand?? lol the guy coming out of nowhere and punching him in the face. he is right though, lionel’s a “bloody” weirdo

the zombie baby...ok so zombies in this universe can reproduce super quickly got it.

lionel is such a fuck up bro. why would you go out with the zombie baby?! also why is the zombie baby like more functional and competent than the zombies that are actual adults...when he was wrestling and abusing the zombie baby in public...bro

the fucking score of this is so melodramatic. the cinematography rocks, but i don’t really get why some scenes are more saturated or filmed differently than others

i’m glad paquita knocked some sense into him and he finally killed his mom and the other zombies. grief and fear make people do some crazy shit (shoutout bring her back)

dunno if i already mentioned but the acting in this is super wacky. it reminds me of how they be acting or talking in anime (derogatory) but omg the dolly zoom! bro this is the second zombie movie i’ve seen for hooptober that has a dolly zoom. i think the first was the return of the living dead

ok so when they get mutated that’s when they turn more into the traditional zombies we know. holy shit the practical fx are amazingly gorey. also i hate lionel’s scream so bad. pmo

the way i knew that guy was gonna be bisected. omfg the punch through the face was crazy. epically gorey and ridiculously bloody at the end. LMAO him trying to run away but running in place on the blood. human remain stepping stones. definitely more entertaining than the other zombie films i’ve watched for hooptober
LMFAO wtf she was stabbing potatoes. the score for this scene was silly asf

why did that guy remove the zombie’s two front teeth though like what did that accomplish

second bisection of the film. crazy shit i am witnessing rn. i feel like the writer(s) had a bunch of gross gorey scene ideas and was like ykw let’s do them all
i love the animated internal organs too. goofy and slapsticky third act. “party’s over” bloodbath. why do i feel like that lawn mower would not be that effective though. a slimy, gutsy mess. this third act is genuinely insane and does the most. i did like how lionel finally stands up to his smothering mom at the end. didn’t think we’d see that character growth, but it’s welcome. also i don’t know how you could make out when you’re covered in blood and blended up zombies. yucky and probably smelly. people never think about the smell in horror

overall, braindead (or dead alive, depending on which continent you’re on) was by far the most gratuitously gorey, most unhinged zombie flick i’ve seen yet in hooptober. peter jackson really said “let’s throw every deranged practical fx idea at the wall” and then sprayed it bright red with old movie blood until zombie arms burst through. it’s campy horror and melodramatic in a soap opera kind of way, but also genuinely inventive in its effects and set pieces (shoutout zombie baby wrestling, reanimated guts, and the lawn mower bloodbath). i still think lionel is a spineless-turned-spineful freak and paquita deserved better for most of the film, but the third act alone is worth the watch. it got a little tired to me, but i could appreciate its eccentricity.