Dead Alive

Movie • 1993  

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Lionel, an innocent young man, is forced to care for domineering mother and finds the task a whole lot more demanding after she's bitten by the cursed Sumatran rat monkey. Passing the point of death, Lionel's mother sucks friends and family into her gruesome existence among the living dead and Lionel is sent spiraling into a ghoulish nightmare.

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Does the dog die?
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At 30:30 (uncut version) Fernando the German Shepherd is eaten offscreen, but his tail is pulled from the mother's mouth and the bed is covered in his remains.
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Is there defecation?
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Is there copaganda?
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Is a baby stillborn?
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If a zombie baby counts
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Is there blackface?
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Is there a large age gap?
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Is someone drugged?
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Does someone miscarry?
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Are there anti-abortion themes?
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Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
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Is there gun violence?
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Abandonment
Is an animal abandoned?
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Abuse
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Almost every character in this movie dies in a very gory manner, regardless of gender.
forsetha
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To be clear, the affair was with only one woman.
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There is a subplot in which Lionel discovers that his mother drowned his father in a bathtub when he was a kid.
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The main character’s mother is emotionally abusive
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Is a child abused?
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A zombie baby is thrown around a bunch. The main character is emotionally abused by his mother
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Animal
Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
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Around 16:45 a Monkey is knocked out, then has its arm torn off by the zombie rat-monkey. Zookeeper collects the corpse.
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Are animals abused?
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Is there a dead animal?
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Does a cat die?
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Does a pet die?
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Dog of female protagonist gets eaten off-screen, then the person who ate the dog regurgitates the dog's tail.
Altius
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Does a dragon die?
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Are there spiders?
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Are there snakes?
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There are intestines that move independently in a sometimes serpentine fashion.
Altius
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Does a horse die?
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There are no horses in the movie.
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Are there bugs?
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Assault
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The zookeeper describes a species as coming from “large rats raping all of the little monkeys”
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Is rape mentioned?
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The zookeeper tells a legend of the sumatran rat monkey, which involves large rats raping tree monkeys.
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Is there pedophilia?
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Bodily Harm
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A man urinating on a grave has his genitals grabbed by a zombie emerging from below ground. Unclear what happens to them, but it's not good.

A gross rapey antagonist gets repeatedly hit in the groin throughout the latter half of the film.
Altius
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Is there amputation?
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Does someone break a bone?
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Does someone have a seizure?
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Frequently and with excessive gore all throughout the movie. If this is your trigger, skip this film entirely.
Altius
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Several zombies, but particularly of note is a crying zombie baby left in a house fire to burn. The zombie baby's crying sounds the same as a human baby in distress.
Altius
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It's a zombie movie.
forsetha
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Is there a hanging?
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Is there body horror?
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Is there eye mutilation?
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Does a head get squashed?
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this film is pretty widely regarded as one of the goriest films of all time, so it's safe to say if you're not comfy with excess gore you probably won't want to see it
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Les rips teeth from a zombie.
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Is someone tortured?
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Children
Is a minor sexualized?
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Does a kid die?
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It's a zombie baby and it's debatable if he even dies. That Zombaby can handle himself 👍
Andi
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Family
Is a child's toy destroyed?
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Does a parent die?
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Vera is the first person to be infected.
forsetha
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Fear
Are there jump scares?
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Gross
Does someone spit?
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Paquita justifiably spits in the face of Les.
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Is there audio gore?
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Does someone vomit?
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Gagging without vomiting at 27:33.

Assisted regurgitation of a partially-swallowed dog's tail from 28:39-28:54.

Custard emerging from a throat wound, looking like vomit from 48:40-49:25

Actual vomiting at 1:16:43-1:16:55.

Maybe vomiting? 1:25:32-1:25:38

Hope this helps!
Altius
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LGBTQ+
Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
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Are there transphobic slurs?
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There are no transgender characters in the movie.
forsetha
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Medical
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There are two separate depictions of a home health care visit by a nurse in response to a worsening animal bite.
Altius
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Are needles/syringes used?
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Mental Health
Is autism misrepresented?
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Is there misophonia?
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There is a deliveryman character who whistles several times. The main male lead also whistles once.

Disgusting custard eating noises. 26:45 to 27:37. Total eating scene runs from 25:11 to 27:42 if you want to skip it entirely and not run the risk. There is also a later zombies-eating-custard scene I hadn't seen when I first made this comment, filled with awful eating noise, that I'm not ambitious enough to locate the time stamps for.

Wet, squishy noises are spread liberally throughout the movie.
Altius
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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LOTS of body horror.
TheDreammweaver
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Technically yes, but it's more accidental than intentional, and is done for laughs. The morning after being bitten, Vera gets ready for a meeting with the president of the Wellington Ladies Welfare League, and accidentally cuts her cheek.
forsetha
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Noxious
Are there flashing lights or images?
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Are there sudden loud noises?
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Does a baby cry?
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Pregnancy
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A zombie gives birth offscreen.
forsetha
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Prejudice
Are there homophobic slurs?
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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Does an LGBT person die?
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Is there hate speech?
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Are there usages of the n-word?
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There’s a doctor who’s sleeve rips and he has a swastika on his arm.
TheDreammweaver
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There isn't a single black person in the whole film.
Altius
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Are there fat jokes?
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Sex
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Lionel and Paquita make out. Two zombies have sex and end up creating a zombie child. They have sex one more time in the Braindead cut.
forsetha
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There is a giant naked zombie woman. The body isn’t real, some kind of practical effect.
TheDreammweaver
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There is a mention of an adult film with a donkey and a chambermaid.
Altius
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Spoiler
Does it have a sad ending?
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Violence
Is there blood/gore?
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I literally cannot explain how much gore there is, like do not watch this if you are AT ALL sensitive to even the largest amount of gore
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Does someone drown?
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