Far from Perfect, Far from Terrible

It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

I watched Brain Dead late one evening on the Horror Channel, not expecting to much. The film helped kill a few hours and that was about it, it clearly comes under the category of it's so bad its 'good' I use the word 'good' loosely.Plot: We see three couples, two prisoners, two women with a weird lesbian undertone and the Reverend Farnsworth and his young disciple 'Candy' who all end up in a cabin together, where they are attacked by Alien Zombies and a Weird black blob.Hot or Not: The film is clearly made on a low budget and there is nothing wrong with that, 'if' the film is made correctly. The problem here is that Brain Dead tries too hard at being funny and although on occasions it did bring a smile to my face, it seemed I the majority of the time I was laughing at how bad the film was rather than the scripted jokes. The set throughout the whole film was so obviously fake, even down to the walls within the cabin. This is no Evil Dead although it would like to be. On a positive note there is some good nude scenes for people who like that and the special effects are quite good for the budget of the film, maybe they should have toned down on the money spent on effects in order to improve the set design.Birds and the Bees:Loads of breasts and Bums on display here but nothing for the gals here.Acting: The acting in this film is very poor, although I have seen worse. Sometimes it comes across deliberate. Joshua Benton as clarence and Sarah Grant Brendecke as Sherry Morgan did OK as leads.Overall: I would only watch this film if you really have nothing else to watch or if you are a fan of low budget films as Brain Dead is better than most. However I think they showed too much interest in making it funny rather than scary, there was little balance, this is no Evil Dead!

This movie is quite bad. You will know this upon watching the first few minutes, its obvious and has all the hallmarks of a stupid, poorly made, low-budget crapfest: Awful acting, completely insipid, contrived dialogue, poor cinematography, etc. This movie really sucks and IMDb has got to start getting rid of the idiots who makes these movies then come on here and write fake positive reviews.The plot is something about a bunch of stupid people with really fake accents find a house and some zombie mutant thing comes after them...eventually, they first have to have the MOST INANE dialogue ever for most of the movie!

Brain Dead starts as a small meteorite crashes to Earth from outer space & lands directly on fisherman Bill's (Dennis Michael Tenney) head & lodges inside his brain where a parasitic alien black slime attaches itself & takes control of Bill turning him into a brain eating zombie. Two convicts the mild mannered Clarence (Joshua Benton) & the psychotic Bob (David Crane) can't believe their luck when their prison transport van gets a flat, Bob uses the situation to kill the guard & make his escape into the isolated woods where handcuffed together Clarence & Bob find a seemingly abandoned log cabin. Then two female hikers & a preacher & his assistant turn up seeking shelter, then the cabin comes under attack from various alien controlled zombies...Produced & directed by Kevin Tenney who has had some degree of success in the low budget horror genre with the likes of Witchboard (1986), Night of the Demons (1988), Witchtrap (1989) & Endangered Species (2002) although he's not exactly a well known name, his latest effort is this rather unsubtle horror gore comedy alien zombie flick which has a certain tacky entertainment value but I am definitely not as impressed as the other IMDb user's who have written comments for it here. I would say Brain Dead steals it's title from the brilliant Peter Jackson horror gore comedy of the same name but lift's it's story straight from The Thing (1982) & The Evil Dead (1982) with it's body controlling alien & it's central concept of various teenage character's trapped in a log cabin in the woods terrorised by possessed (by aliens rather than evil spirits but still possessed all the same) zombies who try to pick them off one-by-one. In this review I have now mention three other horror films, Braindead (1992), The Thing & The Evil Dead & I have to say Brain Dead isn't anywhere near as good as any of them & while there are one or two fun moments I don't think it's that good a film. The script tries to be clever & funny which is fine if you find this moronic playground style humour amusing but I didn't, in fact I found it all rather predictable, stale & the timing just isn't right either. Almost all of the gags & humour fell flat for me, I didn't laugh once during this & the humour is so low brow that it feels like it was written by a five year old. There are big pacing problems too, the first half of the film is really slow going with all these character's meeting up & arguing & trying to be funny, the character's are really obvious stereotypes that are poor & feel like they belong in some cheap TV comedy sketch show. There's a man hating lesbian, a perverted preacher, a smooth wise-cracking hero & a comedy Sheriff. The twist at the end was obviously inspired (or ripped-off) from The Thing & overall while it has a few fun moments I can't get that excited about it.There's some reasonable gore effects here, I say reasonable because they are played for laughs & bouncing rubber joke shop brains covered in slime lessen the impact. A guy has his head ripped in two & his brain falls out, a guy has his head shot off, a zombie smashes his fist through a woman's face & grabs her brain & she is seen staggering around with a hole in her face, someones arm is blown off, someone is shot in two, there are various decapitations & severed heads too. Quite brightly lit & shot Brain Dead isn't scary & is played for laughs more than suspense. All of the female leads get naked at some point or other whether it's skinny dipping or a needless shower scene Tenney always manages to find a reason. There's an unbelievably tacky shot in which the camera travels up a woman's skirt & a close-up of her vagina is seen & then the black alien slime spurts out of it onto the camera, that about sums up the level of sophistication in Brain Dead & the audience it's aiming for.Filmed in California the production values are alright but it does look a bit cheap at times, it's well made enough I suppose but there's no particular stand-out feature. The acting is alright, some are worse than other's but they at least try. One of the worst filmmakers working in the horror genre today Jim Wynorski has a small cameo as the Sheriff but thankfully doesn't seem to have contributed anything behind the camera.Brain Dead is a stupid horror comedy with added cheesy gore effects, I personally didn't find it funny at all but then maybe I just find this lowest common denominator type humour a little beneath my intelligence. It has one or two decent moments but the pacing is poor & the story is just a rip-off of better films.

I saw this at the GoreZone magazine Gore-Fest this weekend- in London (it was the UK premier-) i was looking forward to seeing this film- and although the title is ludicrously unoriginal - (most people will think it's Dead Alive/Brain Dead let's be honest!!) it didn't disappoint. Packed full of excellent splatter gore and comedic situations- and not taking itself too seriously- A breath of (not so) fresh air - and more than holds it's own in it's genre. Some great comedic acting from the felon reluctantly on the run handcuffed to a dim witted trigger happy psycho- and the eye candy cliché babes in distress also did well with tongue firmly in cheeks and totally self aware of their stereotype! I recommend this to anyone who enjoyed Bad Taste, Brain Dead, Undead- and Kevin S. Tenneys previous works 'Night of the Demons' & 'Witchboard'. Enjoy.