Bad Taste (1987)
Directed by Peter Jackson
A team from the intergalactic fast food chain Crumb's Crunchy Delights descends on Earth, planning to make human flesh the newest taste sensation. After they wipe out the New Zealand town Kaihoro, the country’s Astro-Investigation and Defense Service (AIaDS) is called in to deal with the problem. Things are complicated due to Giles, an aid worker who comes to Kaihoro the same day to collect change from the residents. He is captured by the aliens, and AIaDS stages a rescue mission that quickly becomes an all-out assault on the aliens’ headquarters.
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I’ve always been a fan of Peter Jackson (going back to “Bad Taste,” “Meet the Feebles,” and “Dead Alive”).
It's produced by Lord of the Rings' Peter Jackson – who began his career in feature film-making with Bad Taste, about the exploits of an invading army of carnivorous aliens – and the director is Jackson's protege Neill Blomkamp.
Peter Jackson let Neil Blomkamp make his Bad Taste but with all of Jackson’s expensive toys.
But Jackson knew how to have fun with such grody romps as Dead Alive and Bad Taste.
Is "Cabin Fever" the gooiest, yuckiest horror movie since Peter Jackson went wild with chainsaws and entrails in " Bad Taste "?
In New Zealand, a pre-Lord of the Rings Peter Jackson churned out wonderfully demented splatterfests like Bad Taste and Dead Alive, Hong Kong had the Chinese Ghost Story cycle, and just two years ago our friends across the pond shared with us the genius that is Shaun of the Dead.
The fact is, for anyone looking for logical links between past and present efforts, films like Night of the Creeps, Robot Holocaust and Bad Taste provide far more credible creative starting points.
Certainly, few believed raunchy puppet master Peter Jackson could go from “Bad Taste” to “The Lord of the Rings,” just as Tim Burton was an unlikely choice to reinvent the “Batman” franchise.
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Nearly all of this is an excuse for gore and gross-out jokes, along with a barrage of references to other movies—The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a particularly obvious influence—and pop-culture artifacts (just why there’s a van with life-size cut-outs of the Beatles as Sgt.
…en el universo repleto de vísceras y humor negro de ‘Braindead. Tu madre se ha comido a mi perro’ y ‘Mal gusto’.
Writer-director Peter Jackson began his filmmaking career with strange, outrageous, mostly bloody little films like "Bad Taste," "Meet the Feebles," and "Braindead" before moving on to more mainstream but decidedly odd movies like "Heavenly Creatures" and "The Frighteners."
The director (visible in an amusing cameo examining a movie camera in a shopping mall) began his career with a fondness for splatter-type material with titles like "Bad Taste" and "Braindead."
It’s worked in so many of his genres including “Bad Taste,” “The Frighteners,” “Heavenly Creatures” and the various “The Lord of the Rings” films.
Made on a shoestring budget by Peter Jackson, Bad Taste certainly lives up to its moniker.
As you might guess, this was made before Jackson became all respectable and worked his way toward make butt-numbing “thrillers” like The Lovely Bones (2009).
Fans of the first two Hobbit movies may not be disappointed by this final instalment, which offers few departures from the formula of yore, but those who remember the risks Jackson took with Bad Taste , Braindead , Heavenly Creatures and even his King Kong reboot may find themselves wishing for more than just more of the same.
Even Jackson's longtime admirers may whisper "Thank goodness!" that the director of early splatter comedies like Bad Taste and Braindead, and the teen-girl murder romance Heavenly Creatures, can say goodbye to reverent fantasy adaptations and get back to his proper job of subversive satire in tones either gross-out or surreal.
Peter Jackson started off making cheap comic-horror films like Bad Taste and experimental pictures like Forgotten Silver.
Let it not be forgotten that Jackson began his career making mega gross-out comedies such as "Bad Taste" and "Dead Alive."
Let's say the new film is a "departure" from the director's earlier work, which included the lowbrow zombie comedy Bad Taste, the wildly scatological muppet massacre called Meet the Feebles, and the exuberant zombie masterpiece Braindead (known in the U.S. as Dead Alive).
(Bad Taste was enough to convince me of the man's genius - even there he exhibits a vision; the real miracle how being he achieved so much with so little.)
Based on a real-life murder case that scandalised New Zealand in the '50s, Peter Jackson 's movie marks a welcome change from the splatter of Bad Taste and Braindead.
Made on a shoestring budget by Peter Jackson, Bad Taste certainly lives up to its moniker.
33-year old Peter Jackson, whose films include Bad Taste and Braindead, has brought an unusually comic and colorful perspective to what one might naturally assume to be a painful tale.
For director Peter Jackson, this was a marked change of pace after such gorefests as "Bad Taste" and "Braindead".
Best known for the reality-based "Heavenly Creatures," his most recent film, Jackson had an earlier career as the splatter impresario behind "Bad Taste" and "Brain Dead."
Peter Jackson has always been a terrific entertainer, giving his all even when he was struggling through the no-budget shooting of his own Independence Day , an amazingly gross alien invasion picture called (accurately enough) Bad Taste.
But in the Tolkien spirit, New Line has wisely entrusted the Rings to a hobbit, choosing an unlikely leader in director Peter Jackson, whose previous credits include the micro-budget slapstick horror films Bad Taste and Dead Alive, and the masterful art film Heavenly Creatures.
Whereas Chris Columbus made Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone with no directorial personality whatsoever, the new The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring was helmed by the far more interesting Peter Jackson, who made the 1994 masterpiece Heavenly Creatures and the raunchy B-movies Bad Taste and Dead-Alive.
Braindead is the magnum opus of Peter Jackson’s early career, retaining the stop-motion and bloodletting of Bad Taste and the puppetry and slapstick sexual exploits of Meet the Feebles.
Peter Jackson 's zombiefest follow-up to Bad Taste, set in suburbia in the late '50s, is 'a slapstick comedy with blood and guts instead of custard pies'.
If you’ve seen Dead Alive (1992), you’ll have an idea of what Bad Taste is like—assuming you bear in mind that this splattery horror/comedy was made on weekends (over a period of several years) for very little money.
And as gory as it is, it's still nothing compared to Jackson's Dead Alive.
Desde que Abbott y Costello se enfrentaban a Frankenstein hasta que el genial Gene Wilder retomó al científico loco, pasando por los vampiros alebrestados de Polanski, la Tiendita de los Horrores, el Rocky Horror Picture Show , las películas de Evil Dead , las locuras de Bad Taste , los innombrables payasos asesinos de serie B y tantas otras cosas que nos llevaron a la gran sátira de nuestra generación: Scary Movie .
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Ever since Sam Raimi 's " The Evil Dead " re-wrote the horror film as slapstick comedy, guerrilla filmmakers with low budgets and big dreams have tried to emulate the punk magic of this cult masterpiece.
In a story about the perils of history repeating itself, perhaps it’s fitting that Peter Jackson — who first hired Rivers to storyboard “Bad Taste” back in 1987, and serves as a producer and co-writer here, along with usual cohorts Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens — failed to learn any lessons from the CG overkill that consumed his “Hobbit” trilogy.