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The Blind Dead
04-23-2007, 10:35 PM
A few years ago, a friend of mine was dating a girl who was completely charmless, utterly wicked, bereft of all human decency and perhaps the most evil bit of mung to ever walk the earth. Still, she had one redeeming quality: she was able to watch disgusting things while eating food that looked exactly like the filth on the screen. She'd scarf down pizza during Braindead, fried chicken during Poltergeist, linguine during Alien and be totally unphased. Once she began--BEGAN--a discussion on maggots while eating a side of rice. So I understand why he tolerated her for so long.

Still, I doubt that she would have been able to finish off a heaping helping of pistachio pudding during the heralded Passing of the Vomit Bowl scene from Bad Taste, but if she could... hell, I'D date her. Screw that, I'd marry her. Friends, I have seen a lot of horrible things, and the times I've come closest to shouting groceries on my couch have been due to watching Bad Taste, the most appropriately titled film ever made, with the possible exception of Ron Jeremy's 1995 masterpiece, What's the Lesbian Doing in My Pirate Movie?

For those of you not in the know, Bad Taste was Peter Jackson's first feature film which he followed up with Meet the Feebles and Braindead (a.k.a. Dead Alive ), creating a de facto trilogy of high quality splatter destined to forever haunt the dreams of twitchy horror detractors who only know Jackson from The Lord of The Rings . I've actually heard people say that his Academy Award...[READ MORE HERE] (http://www.joehorror.com/0000764.html)

Pain
04-24-2007, 01:50 PM
I was fortunate to see this at the theatre when it was originally released (at the Prince Charles off Leicester Square) and it was quite an experience see all the gore on the big screen. I still love this movie to this very day.

The Blind Dead
04-24-2007, 02:58 PM
I always mean to grab this film and never do. I suppose it's because I liked Meet The Feebles and Dead Alive more but it's still a damn good movie.