Dead Alive (1992)

Rating: 7.5/10 - ‎58,211 votes
104 min  -  Comedy | Horror  -  12 February 1993 (USA)  

Storyline

Lionel, a Mama's boy has the unwanted honor of having to look after his overbearingly evil mother. He ends up falling in love with a local woman who believes that they're destined together. In a moment of intentional sabotage of one of their dates, his mother is bitten by a mysterious creature that ends up zombifying her. It's only a matter of time before she rises from the dead a powerful, bloodthirsty zombie. It's only a matter of time before she starts infecting residents of the town and Lionel has to stop her...and them.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Timothy Balme	...	Lionel Cosgrove
	Diana Peñalver	...	Paquita Maria Sanchez
	Elizabeth Moody	...	Mum (Vera Cosgrove)
	Ian Watkin	...	Uncle Les
	Brenda Kendall	...	Nurse McTavish
	Stuart Devenie	...	Father McGruder
	Jed Brophy	...	Void
	Stephen Papps	...	Zombie McGruder
	Murray Keane	...	Scroat
	Glenis Levestam	...	Nora Matheson
	Lewis Rowe	...	Mr. Matheson
	Elizabeth Mulfaxe	...	Rita
	Harry Sinclair	...	Roger
	Davina Whitehouse	...	Paquita's Grandmother
	Silvio Famularo	...	Paquita's Father

Braindead, released as Dead Alive in North America, is a 1992 New Zealand zombie horror comedy gore film co-written and directed by Peter Jackson. The film was written by Jackson with his partner Fran Walsh and Stephen Sinclair. 

Initial release: February 12, 1993 (USA)

Director: Peter Jackson

Running time: 104 minutes

Budget: 3 million USD

Screenplay: Stephen Sinclair