Feebles is SO weird. Yeah, I sometimes wonder who at New Line looked at his movies and said “yeah, he can totally do Lord of the Rings”. I mean Heavenly Creatures is actually a very good film, but nothing in his pre-LOTR catalog says “give this guy a bunch of money to make an epic trilogy”.
Well, I’ve never forgotten the zombie baby in DEAD ALIVE, or the zombie lungs/guts who prayed not to be lawnmowered! He was very effective with tiny budgets, maybe that’s what drew them.