Sunday, October 31, 2010   For those two or three people out
there who've never seen DEAD ALIVE here's the story: adult
Lionel still lives with his over domineering mother in a large
house on the hill. He goes on a date with his girl Paquita to a
local zoo. While spying on her son, the mother is bitten by a
rat monkey and the next day turns into a flesh eating zombie!
Lionel can't stand the thought of killing his zombie mother so
he keeps her under sedation in the basement. Keeping a live
zombie in the basement is hard work, so before long everything
has spiraled out of control until there's an entire horde of
zombies running around the house...and all of them want to kill
Lionel.  That's a brilliant story, but what pushes DEAD ALIVE
into the one of the greatest zombie movies of all time territory
is the absolute genius of director Peter Jackson. I remember
when this movie came out (I was in high school) my girlfriend
and I sat on her mom's sofa in absolute horror movie Heaven. I
was so glued to the screen I