Valentine Movie Review
Dead Alive Not Your Usual Lovely Bones
By. Darth Chew
Hello, all I’ve decided to step down for this month and instead of a game review I’m going to give you a movie review of one of my favorite horror classics. Why, horror and not a movie that is based on two star-crossed lovers or a girl who falls hopelessly in love with a sparkling vampire? Or for that matter a mushy tale of two people separated between years of time? Well I’m sorry but I don’t think I believe in supporting a month that is the most commercial holiday of the year next to Christmas, Valentine’s Day? Actually it’s because I married a strange woman and in turn she married a strange kinda guy. And, one year several years back actually my wife asked if we could watch a movie and at the time the movie that was playing was a horror flick at Carmike in Edinburg you know the place with the kick ass nachos and the awesome Ice’s and ever since then we celebrate Valentine’s Day with a movie from the horror category, now enough about me, which I can go on for hours, trust me it’s been done. But, today this review is about one of my favorite flicks, which is a film directed by Peter Jackson and in my opinion a great and a classic horror film.
The name of said film is Dead Alive or Braindead in the land of the Kiwi’s also known as New Zealand. Now this film is a classic because it is filled not only with comedic zombie action but that this film has several different versions. But first allow me to give you the plot hopefully it’ll get your attention: A young man’s mother is bitten by a Sumatran rat-monkey. She gets sick and dies, at which time she comes back to life, killing and eating dogs, nurses, friends, and neighbors. Now the reason of the different version is that since the movies gore and blood was in so much quantity some countries would not show it in theaters that is why the different versions. Places like Australia and the United Kingdom showed the film in its entire 104-minute length. Other countries like Germany censored the film down to 94 minutes so that was a heavy cut from the original 104 minutes of film. Now, in the United States the movie was released under the name of Dead Alive. Now, some people are confused I understand I’ll explain on the difference of the name it’s because there was another movie with the same name (Braindead) and the rights belonged to that other film. So the movie’s title was changed to prevent any lawsuits. Now, it is stated that the R-Rated version of the above mentioned film is only 85 minutes, while the unrated cut is 97 minutes. Now what’s worth noting is that the 97 minute version is Peter Jackson’s preferred version, as he was given the opportunity to “apply some additional spit and polish” to it. I’ve already given you the simple plot of the film. And, that should be enough to get your mouth watering so I recommend you go find it and watch it. I know you’ll like it as much as I did. Hell you might even love it as much as I did. And, remember this Valentine’s Day don’t forget that once bitten, doesn’t’ mean twice shy it means get ready with the shotgun and the machete cause zombies are coming for dinner and you’re the main course. Till next month this is Darth Chew signing off and look forward for my next game review it’ll be a kick ass fist punching leg kicking…you get the picture.
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