Bad Taste
Year: 1987
Director: Peter Jackson
Written by: Peter Jackson
Threat: Aliens
Weapon of Choice: Chainsaw
Based upon: none
IMDb page: 
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Bad TasteYear: 1987 Director: Peter Jackson Written by: Peter Jackson Threat: Aliens Weapon of Choice: Chainsaw Based upon: none IMDb page: |
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The tyranist's thoughts
Now this is the kind of low-budget gore fest that made me love Peter Jackson's
movies in the first place. There weren't a lot of them before he catapulted into the
public eye with that little trilogy he made, but they are quality.
Members of a mysterious government organization are in a small town in the
countryside trying to isolate a group of humans exhibiting unusually aggressive
behaviors. Well, there is much death, but eventually, they figure out that the
aggressive humans are really aliens here to harvest us for food. The grand battle
ensues.
There are places where the low budget and length of time it took to film this show
themselves, but it is still a gore-fest that is top notch. You shouldn't expect much in
the way of a plot. What little there is exists primarily to get us to places where there
can be more gore. The aliens are grotesque and the humans aren't much less so.
If you like the improvisation and kitchen pantry effects of low-budget horror, this is
near the top of the class. It isn't The Evil Dead
but it is probably the next best thing to it.
If you are a Peter Jackson fan, and a horror fan, check this out. Unless you have a
weak stomach. Then you might not like it much.
Posted: January 26, 2006
Total Skulls: 15
| Sequel | ||
| Sequel setup | ||
| Rips off earlier film | ||
| Horror film showing on TV/in theater in movie | ||
| Future celebrity appears | ||
| Former celebrity appears | ||
| Bad title | ||
| Bad premise | ||
| Bad acting | ||
| Bad dialogue | ||
| Bad execution | ||
| MTV Editing | ||
| OTS | ||
| Girl unnecessarily gets naked | ||
| Wanton sex | ||
| Death associated with sex | ||
| Unfulfilled promise of nudity | ||
| Characters forget about threat | ||
| Secluded location |  |
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| Power is cut | ||
| Phone lines are cut | ||
| Someone investigates a strange noise | |
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| Someone runs up stairs instead of going out front door | |
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| Camera is the killer | ||
| Victims cower in front of a window/door | |
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| Victim locks self in with killer | ||
| Victim running from killer inexplicably falls | ||
| Toilet stall scene | ||
| Shower/bath scene | ||
| Car stalls or won't start | |
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| Cat jumps out | ||
| Fake scare | ||
| Laughable scare | ||
| Stupid discovery of corpse | ||
| Dream sequence | ||
| Hallucination/Vision | ||
| No one believes only witness | ||
| Crazy, drunk, old man knows the truth | ||
| Warning goes unheeded | ||
| Music detracts from scene | ||
| Death in first five minutes | |
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| x years before/later | ||
| Flashback sequence | ||
| Dark and stormy night | ||
| Killer doesn't stay dead | ||
| Killer wears a mask | ||
| Killer is in closet | ||
| Killer is in car with victim | ||
| Villain is more sympathetic than heroes | ||
| Unscary villain/monster | ||
| Beheading | |
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| Blood fountain | |
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| Blood spatters - camera, wall, etc. | |
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| Poor death effect | ||
| Excessive gore | |
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| No one dies at all | ||
| Virgin survives | ||
| Geek/Nerd survives | |
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| Little kid lamely survives | ||
| Dog/Pet miraculously survives | ||
| Unresolved subplots | ||
| "It was all a dream" ending | ||
| Unbelievably happy ending | ||
| Unbelievably crappy ending | ||
| What the hell? |