PARTY'S OVER!

Some things won't stay down... even after they die.

I hope everyone gets to eat something they love this Thanksgiving.

Despite the fact that a priest does indeed rip every auxilliary body part from one man's torso before being impaled by a gravestone, this clip does no justice to the true extent of gore explored by Peter Jackson in this film (Yes that Peter Jackson, idiots).

Now, I know I reminisce a lot on this blog, but first viewings of shocking visual events are far more significant to me than "Straight-'S' for Satisfactory" report cards of yore. I remember my brother was working on some kind of montage-commentary on "Violence" for a film class in high school... which of course meant gathering your boys together to rent some really gory shit-- and by extension, letting your little brother see some really gory shit. Selected scenes for presumed "discussion" included the now infamous "Marvin" sequence from Pulp Fiction, perhaps a clip from Robocop, but most surely in attendance was this bit of lawn-mower mayhem from Dead Alive:

The original title Dead Alive clearly did not fly with European distribution, where I suppose Braindead was a safer bet... In any case Spain came through with a tagline that was quite to the point: Tu madre se ha comido a mi perro = Your mom ate my dog

Technical Sidenote: For anyone who's ever wondered what "MIDI" means, all of the music you hear in Dead Alive is MIDI, meaning it was composed and recorded using computer software, no real instruments.