Braindead

Braindead (Dead Alive in North America) is a 1992 zombie-horror-comedy film in which a young man's mother is bitten by a Sumatran rat-monkey. She gets sick and dies, but comes back to life, killing and eating dogs, nurses, friends, and neighbors.
 * Directed by Peter Jackson. Written by Stephen Sinclair, Peter Jackson, and Fran Walsh.

The rot has set in....taglines

Lionel Cosgrove

 * That's my mother you're pissing on.


 * They're not dead exactly, they're just... sort of rotting.


 * [about to charge at the zombies with a hoisted law mower] Party's over!


 * [as an excuse for punching Selywn and stuffing it into a bag] Hyperactive...

Stewart

 * Listen! You no pick up the cage, you no get the big dollars.


 * I'm a New Zealand zoo official, and this monkey is going to Newtown!

Father McGruder

 * The Devil is amongst us!


 * Stay back boy! This calls for divine intervention!


 * I kick arse for the Lord!

Mr. Matheson

 * What we need is another war!


 * [After pus from Vera's bite wound squirts into his custard] Damn fine custard... rich and creamy, just the way I like it!

Uncle Les

 * Ahhh, so you found your father's old stag movies, did ya? [Pause] Is that the one with the donkey and the chambermaid?


 * She's history! I know what to do, I've read the comics! Total... bodily... dismemberment!


 * Step right up you greebo bastards!

Others

 * Intellectual at party: [struggling against an attack by Void] I take it back!  [Void snarls]  I'm sorry I called Nabokov a pedophile!


 * Intellectual: [defending himself against oncoming zombies] Some of my best friends are Pedophiles! [His famous last words]


 * Undertaker: [as Vera's eyes pop out and green slime sprays out] Cranial blowout!


 * Zoo Keeper: Story goes, these great big rats come scuttling off the slave ships and raped all the little tree monkeys.


 * Zombie Mother: No one will ever love you like your mother!

Dialogue

 * [the Sumatran rat monkey bites Mum, and she crushes it with the heel of her stiletto]
 * Zoo Keeper: Holy shit!
 * Mum: Look at this! It bit me. I've been savaged! And my dress!


 * Paquita Maria Sanchez: Fernando!! [Looks at Lionel] Your mother ate my dog!
 * Lionel Cosgrove: Not all of it.

Taglines

 * The rot has set in....


 * Gone with the Blood...


 * The most undercooked comedy in the history of Cinema!


 * The Goriest Fright Film of All Time!


 * ...and this little zombie stayed at home!


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


 * There's something nasty in Lionel's cellar - His family!


 * You'll laugh yourself sick!

Cast

 * Timothy Balme - Lionel Cosgrove
 * Diana Peñalver - Paquita María Sánchez
 * Elizabeth Moody - Vera Cosgrove
 * Elizabeth Brimilcombe - Zombie Vera
 * Ian Watkin - Uncle Les
 * Brenda Kendall - Nurse McTavish
 * Stuart Devenie - Father McGruder (The Fighting Priest)
 * Stephen Papps - Zombie McGruder
 * Jed Brophy - Void
 * Murray Keane - Scroat
 * Glenis Levestam - Nora Matheson
 * Lewis Rowe - Albert Matheson
 * Elizabeth Mullane - Rita
 * Harry Sinclair - Roger