From: gunnarh@dhhalden.no (GUNNAR HORRIGMO)
Subject: Re: _Brain Dead_ Peter Jackson-Dir
Organization: Ostfold College
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 18:03:26 GMT

In article <1993Jan5.153957.476@otago.ac.nz> pjrolfegeol@otago.ac.nz writes:
>Subject: Re: _Brain Dead_ Peter Jackson-Dir
>From: pjrolfegeol@otago.ac.nz
>Date: 5 Jan 93 15:39:57 +1300
>In article <9212311414.AA00655@udcps3.cps.udayton.edu>, dhentric@udcps3.cps.udayton.edu (David Hentrich) writes:
>> 
>>       Two months ago, I attended (actually worked) a 24 hour horror film
>> festival in Columbus, Ohio.  I missed the film, but my friends (horror
>> fanatics) all claimed that they had seen the grossest film of all
>> time at this festival.  I was told that it made Romero's zombie films
>> look like a G rated film.  The film is called _Brain Dead_ and is due
>> for release sometime in February (I've seen it listed in _The Film Journal_
>> under TriMark pictures with no release date).
>> 
>>       The director of _Reanimator_, _From Beyond_, and _The Pit and the
>> Pendulum_ (starrring Lance Henrikson) attended the festival as a guest speaker
>> (and he brought a couple of his films with him).  (For the life of me,
>> I can't think of his name right now . . . it's *not* Brian Yuzna as he
>> was the guest speaker the year before.)  During his talk to the audience,
>> he announced that he had seen _Brain Dead_ about a week before at some
>> screening in California.  He said that he was AMAZED (a horror director
>> was amazed!) at the amount of blood and gore.  He said that he had 
>> personally asked the Australian director of _Brain Dead_ how many
>> gallons of fake blood he used . . . 3 *THOUSAND* gallons.  According
>> to the _Reanimator_ director (who I can't recall his name), he had
>> thought the previous record was 30 gallons . . . or that could have 
>> been the most he had ever used . . . I can't remember.
>> 
>>      All of my friends watching the movie (gore buffs) told me that it
>> made them (without exception) feel ill.  I'VE GOT TO SEE THIS FILM!
>> I don't know if this film will come out at the designated time . . .
>> TriMark puts their films into the Dayton,OH area as a test market
>> before they really release it . . . and I have as yet to see a full
>> release of some of their films that I've run (i.e. _Leprechaun_).
>> I hope it gets released on the big screen and not video.
>> 
>>      I've heard that at one point in the film, one of the main characters
>> picks up a running lawnmower and uses it to cut through an army of zombies.
>> And dig this . . . if you take away all the gore . . . the movie's
>> a love story!
>> 
>>      If anyone knows anymore about this film or has any corrections, mail
>> me!  I wanna know!  This film is done, but not in release yet.  By the
>> way, the director of _Reanimator_ has a new film coming out in February
>> from Warner Bros. called _Fortress_ starring Christopher Lambert.  This
>> is a futuristic prison film.  Supposed to be out in February.  I've seen
>> the trailer for it.
>> 
>>      P.S.  This movie is not to be confused with the Concorde film of a few
>>            years back called _Brain Dead_.  This one's new!
>> 
>> -- Dave Hentrich                       dhentric@udcps3.cps.udayton.edu
>> -- Computer Science Undergrad
>> -- University of Dayton
>> -- Projectionist
>> -- Loews Beaver Valley 6 (Dayton,OH)
>> 
>> ** I speak only for myself! **> 
>
>BRAIN DEAD has been released here as a movie and on video.  It is truely the
>most goriest and funniest horror movie I have ever seen!!!
>One minor correction to the above though...
>PETER JACKSON IS A NEW ZEALANDER!!! NOT Australian.
>Most of the cast are New Zealanders also.
>And believe it or not it was shot on location in (you guessed it) New Zealand.
>See it as soon as you can as it is a fantastic movie. 
>
>PETE

And the director of REANIMATOR is, if I'm not mistaking, Wes Craven.
FYI.



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