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Braindead
Comedy, Horror
When a Sumatran rat-monkey bites Lionel Cosgrove's mother, she's transformed into a zombie and begins killing (and transforming) the entire town while Lionel races to keep things under control.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy outrageous splatter comedy, escalating physical grotesquerie, and deliberately excessive practical effects.
- Tone
- campy, darkly comic, frenetic
- Payoff
- amusement, catharsis
- Pacing
- relentless
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- family control, social conformity, reanimation, escalating chaos
- Setting
- contemporary, suburban coastal town