Braindead

Braindead (1992)

Timing: 1:43 (103 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

1992-08-13

Country

New Zealand

Production

WingNut Films, New Zealand Film Commission, Trimark Pictures, Avalon/NFU Studios

Genre

Horror, Comedy

Budget

$3 000 000

Revenue

$242 623

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Director

Peter Jackson

Actors

Timothy Balme, Diana Peñalver, Elizabeth Moody, Ian Watkin, Brenda Kendall, Stuart Devenie, Jed Brophy, Elizabeth Brimilcombe, Stephen Papps, Murray Keane
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Scenario

Producer

Jim Booth

Operator

Murray Milne

Composer

Peter Dasent

Artist

Audition

Fran Walsh

Editing

Jamie Selkirk
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• The American version of the film, in addition to the changed title, was also shortened from 104 to 85 minutes. Several dialogues and a scene where Lionel calms a zombie by giving it whiskey were cut, in addition to scenes of violence.
• The rat-monkey puppet was animated using stop-motion technology by Peter Jackson himself.
• Skull Island is the very island inhabited by the legendary King Kong. In Peter Jackson’s 'King Kong', there is an empty cage on board the ship with a sign reading ‘Sumatran Rat-Monkey’. Skull Island was filmed in the same location as the Paths of the Dead in 'The Return of the King'.
• Elizabeth Moody, who played Vera Cosgrove, appeared in the extended edition of 'The Lord of the Rings' as Lobelia Sackville-Baggins at Bilbo’s birthday party.
• Jed Brophy (punk zombie Void) played an orc rider on a warg in 'The Two Towers'.
• Peter Jackson's mother plays a woman at the zoo who says "Ooo!" when Lionel's mother kills the rat-monkey.
• A poster for the film "The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms" is visible on the wall of Lionel's room.
• The scene of Uncle Les's appearance as a zombie was filmed unsuccessfully: when Les's head protruding from his body is shown in close-up, a thread pulling his neck back is clearly visible in the frame.
• When filming the scene of the final lawnmower massacre, "blood" was sprayed at a rate of 5 gallons per second.
• The scene of zombies being minced by a lawnmower is one of the bloodiest in cinematic history. During the carnage, 40 zombies were killed and 400 liters of blood were spilled.