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'''Braindead''' (1992, also known as ''Dead Alive'') is [[Peter Jackson]]'s third feature film, a gory comedy in the vein of ''[[
It is a [[Squick|Squicktastic]] gore fest. Intentionally hilarious in all its splattery glory. That's probably all you need to know.
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* [[Asshole Victim]]: {{spoiler|Uncle Les, the thugs that assault Lionel in the cemetery... and then Lionel's mom as we learn that she murdered Lionel's father and his mistress.}}
* [[Badass]]: Lionel may be a wuss and a mama's boy, but still manages to destroy dozens of zombies and survive almost unharmed.
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* [[Bloody Hilarious]]
* [[Chainsaw Good]]: Lawnmower better.
* [[Chased
** Perfectly justified as said natives know exactly what the Rat Monkey's bite does: "Shangaia!"
* [[Church Militant]]: "I kick arse for the Lord!"
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* [[Dead Baby Comedy]]: more like ''Undead'' Baby Comedy.
* [[Delinquents]]: Lionel meets a group of these while he goes to the cemetery to certify that his zombie mom won't raise from the grave. It doesn't end well for all of them.
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: A horrible, infectious disease spread by a nonhuman primate, eh?
* [[Enfant Terrible]]/[[Undead Child]]: Baby Selwyn. Who was conceived ''after'' its parents' zombification and was born apparently about a day later.
* [[Evil Matriarch]]: Lionel's mother. She bullies him relentlessly and sabotages his social life. After her zombification, she gets worse.
* [[
* [[Fat Bastard]]: Uncle Les.
* [[Final Boss]]: Lionel's Mother
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* [[Helping Hands]]: when you chop up a zombie, the severed parts still move and attack you, including a complete set of ''bowels''.
** Can't reach the starter for the lawnmower? Just grab a severed arm!
* [[High
* [[Homage]]: The explorer foolishly [[King Kong|brings a deadly primate back from Skull Island]].
** [[Shout
*** And the Paths of the Dead in Jackson's ''[[The Lord of the Rings (
* [[Improvised Weapon]]: A lawnmower becomes a powerful weapon against zombies.
** Jackson has jokingly claimed that the lawnmower is the preferred murder instrument in New Zealand.
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* [[It Got Worse]]: There's a reason {{spoiler|stimulants and poisons come labeled.}}
* [[Jerkass]]: Lionel's uncle, Les.
* [[Just Eat Gilligan]]: So much could have been solved if Lionel had just killed his mother after she fully turned into a zombie. Or killed the zombies that she created rather than keep them all sedated. Or, when he finally did decide to kill them, to use some more traditional methods (like chopping them up or [[Kill It
** Although [[Return of the Living Dead|cremating a zombie isn't always the best idea]].
* [[Losing Your Head]]: A nurse who's taking care of Lionel's mother gets her head ripped off and it's only still attached by a flap of skin.
* [[Love At First Sight]]: Sort of. Paquita is initially not impressed by Lionel and finds both his presence and clumsy antics annoying... until he accidentally forms a star symbol, which she was previously told would be how to recognize her true love. It's then she gets interested.
* [[Ludicrous Gibs]]: The last third of the film is a total carnage, and the zombies' severed parts even have a "life" of their own!
* [[
* [[My Beloved Smother]]: Vera, Lionel's mother. Full stop.
* [[One
* [[Pre
** Also, "''I kick arse for the Lord!''"
* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: [[Bad Taste|Almost]] [[Meet the Feebles
* [[Rule of Funny]]: Peter Jackson finished this film greatly under-budget and ahead of time. He used the extra resources to go back and extend the scene where Lionel takes Selwyn to the park, for the sake of this trope.
* [[Rule of Symbolism]]: {{spoiler|Lionel being dragged back to his mother's womb and fighting his way out}} ([[The Other Wiki]]'s plot summary even describes this as "an over-the-top Freudian 'rebirth'").
* [[Scare Chord]]: The music makes a noticeable jump when {{spoiler|Lionel accidentally injects the zombies with stimulant}}.
* [[Shallow Love Interest]]: Paquita's first boyfriend, Roger. Her relationship with Lionel starts like this as well, but then they both develop genuine interest for each other.
* [[Shout
* [[Sliding Scale of Comedy and Horror]]
* [[Stop Motion]]: the Sumatran Rat Monkey.
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* [[Tear Off Your Face]]: One of the victims of the zombie outbreak has his face torn completely off.
* [[Those Wacky Nazis]]: The veterinarian Lionel buys the tranquilizer from is one of those, with a poorly-concealed swastika under his lab coat.
* [[Took a Level
* [[Vomit Indiscretion Shot]]: When Paquita tries to dispose of the zombie baby with a blender; she almost hesitates and then the baby vomits bright-green puke on her face.
* [[You Killed My Father]]: Near the end of the film, Lionel finds out that {{spoiler|his mother drowned both his father and a woman that he had an affair with in the bathtub}}.
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