"Dead Alive", according to its own literature, used 400 gallons of stage blood during its last 15 minutes. even though it was done for laughs, as sort of a black comedy, it STILL induces cringing in even the hardiest horror/zombie fans, who of course consider it a classic. Just imagine Jackson's talent, used to direct a movie about flesheating zombies,
...on a budget of about a buck-fifty.
I've got "Dead Alive" on DVD, and it's my favorite film to show to my friends who have gotten jaded by the usual horror movies. It always causes their jaws to drop (just not into their soup, like Nurse McTavish's...).
It's probably the goriest movie ever made. Just when you think it can't possibly top itself, it does -- ten more times.
You'll find yourself saying "I can't believe they did that" pretty continuously for the last 45 minutes of the film.
Paquita: "Your mother ate my dog!!"
Lionel: "...not all of it..." Father McGruder: "I kick arse for the lord!"
ROFLMAO! When that priest went kung-fu on some zombies, with that battle cry,("I kick a$$ for the Lord") I just about busted a gut. For those with the right kind of sense of humor, it's terribly funny.
And I can easily see it being the bloodiest, goriest movie ever. Not the most violent, however, as it WAS done for laughs.
That honor has to go to "Cannibal Holocaust", which got its director arrested for murder. To get aquitted, he had to produce in court the actors he was alleged to have "killed". It's got to take top "honors" because it was played straight, not humorously.