Peter Jackson's Bad Taste (1987)
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Things that make you go 'eww'

With all the hoohah about Lord of the Rings,
director Peter Jackson's older stuff is getting
some play. Lucky for us Bad Taste is reissued
on DVD.

This cult classic is what established Jackson
as a director. He made the film on a shoestring
budget (250K grant from New Zealand government)
and shot it on a camcorder (16mm) in his spare
time over a 4-year period with his buddies
acting and mum and dad as production assistants.
It was shown at the Cannes film festival and
won several awards.

This film is a hilarious spoof of the gore/
spatter genre. A swat team of New Zealand
government geeks take on a ton of vomit-guzzling
space aliens that have come to earth looking for
meat. Luckily, the aliens are generally slow-
moving, so that more of them can be killed
in gratuitous ways (just don't lead them
as much).  These are a few of my favorite
things: when the dog bites, when the bee
stings, geeks with chainsaws, gore, machine
guns, violence, meaningless gore, sick humor,
exploding livestock, intestines, gore, vomit,
bad acting, brains in mid-air, and a bazooka

-Peter Jackson himself plays the dual role of
Derek the geek and Rob Zombie (vomiting model)


Cool things about the DVD
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-The making of. Tells how young Peter the geek
siezed his parents camcorder as a kid and started
goofing off with it making some cheesy army-guy
blowing-stuff-up flicks with his mates and some
stop-motion stuff. Shows how Peter, the unfocused
young genius, had so many ideas going on that
he rarely finished anything before moving on to
new stuff. The rubber space alien costumes were
baked in Peter's own oven.


Viewing parameters
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view with mates while getting toasted.
Be sure to eat first, not during