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(1987) |
ome call it the grossest, sickest movie ever made. Others just call it brilliant!
"Bad Taste", the directorial debut of eccentric New Zealand cult director Peter Jackson, is the story of a small New Zealand town plagued by flesh-eating alien zombies.
When shy, lisping skywatcher Derek (played by Jackson himself) notices the unusual behavior of some bloodthirsty stiffs in blue shirts, he calls in "the boys" - the Astral Intelligence Defense System ("we should've changed that name"). The group consists of four intensely stupid Kiwi metal-heads, who trace the aliens back to a charming yellow cottage with an Astro-Turf lawn.
Inside, they discover alien leader Lord Crumb's evil plan to butcher up the human race and ship the meat back to the home planet for a fast-food chain. Meanwhile, Derek - a bit shaken from a plunge off a cliff into a nest of seagulls, cracking open his skull so he has to wear a belt to keep his brain in - appropriates a chainsaw and decides he's going to take care of the alien menace himself.
One of "the boys" manages to infiltrate the alien compound, where he is expected to drink "gruel" made from the leader's personal assistant's "chuck". Yum, yum!
Anyway. After a lot of shooting, splattering and chainsawing, the house/spaceship reels in its Astro-Turf lawn and departs for the home planet, with only Derek and Crumb left inside. In a final showdown, Derek takes his chainsaw to Crumb's head, and crawls through the alien's decapitated body, emerging at the other end with the classic line, "I'm born again!" Then he pilots the ship off to god-knows-where.
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I should stress right here that this movie is really, really gross. It's got everything from brains to fluorescent turquoise vomit to exploding sheep to gallons upon gallons of red Kool-Aid (it's blood; use your imagination). It's also really, really funny, but if you don't like really, really gross, don't watch it.
Jackson created this movie on a $250-grand budget, with a hand-held camera. The acting's terrible, but the fact that the cast is all Kiwi makes some of their crazy lines seem less stupid - don't ask me how that works. The lighting and the gritty quality of the film make for a shaky documentary feel - much like John Waters' earlier films. It's certainly an interesting piece from a cinematic point of view - but don't rent it unless you've got the stomach for it.
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Director Peter Jackson not only plays Robert but he is also Derek.  -Thanks to Danny C And Adam H
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Jackson's films always feature a character named Robert.
I remember that the movie posters were pulled down from the London Underground after a day because of all the complaints about them being in... well - such Bad Taste. -Thanks to David I
Peter Jackson referenced Bad Taste in his acceptance speech at the Oscars. -Thanks to M N
The alien that is ripped in half by Derek's car and than proceeds to hit Derek with pinecones, is the co-director, along with Peter Jackson, of Forgotten Silver, Costa Botes.
Instead of the standard disclaimer at the end of the credits: "Any similarity with persons living or dead is an accident. Sorry."
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Bad Taste was filmed over a four-year period by Peter Jackson, with his friends as the actors. Towards the end, the New Zealand Film Commission was impressed with what Jackson had already created, and paid for the rest of it. The entire movie was shot without scripts. Yup, this is the same Peter Jackson now directing the Lord of the Rings trilogy - just goes to show the difference a budget can make - but I don't think he's included a character called Robert in those films! -Thanks to Jenn Groves
Director Peter Jackson used his mother's oven to make the latex masks of the characters. -Thanks to Luis Torres
All of the sound in this movie is dubbed; the original tapes were lost.
Peter Jackson constructed his own counterweighted steady-cam. The cost? $15.
There were 3 models of the alien house made. 1. To blow up the side of. 2. To blast off into the skies. 3. To be spun around on a string in the outer space scenes. -Thanks to Mike Travers
When Peter Jackson's character, Robert, pulls the bumper off of the B.R.E.A.D collector's car, you can see that the bumper was tied on the car with a rope. -Thanks to Dave
The team member talking on the car's CB radio starts out holding the microphone handset backwards.
When Derek plunges down the cliff and hits the ground, one can clearly see a hand throwing a bucket of blood from the right side of the picture to simulate the splatter. I'm sure that was on purpose.
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Filmed on location near Wellington, New Zealand. The house where the aliens package the humans is the Gear House, Okowai Road, Papakowhai, Porirura. The bay was Titahi Bay/Pukerua Bay (Peter Jackons home town) and the Beach was Makara Beach. [Thanks to Steve Farrell]
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Includes "Rock Lies" by Madlight and "Bad Taste" by The Remnants. The title track is awesome; I was humming it for hours afterwards!
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