First, and arguably
best (even though it's fucking terrible) film by Peter Jackson. I mean, it
really is awful on every level, but it's still flippin' great.
But very shit.
You've either seen it
and you understand, or you haven't.
Well, I suppose if
you haven't seen it and watch it now, it'll probably leave you confused trying
to associate the global, fluffy, mega-nonsense that Jackson now directs with
the rubber-heavy gorefest he started out with, and you'll probably wonder how
on earth someone who made such a terrible pile of nonsense ever got to make a
second film, but if you was in your teens when this came out twenty-eight years
ago, it all made perfect sense.
We'd seen some fairly
extreme gore, even outside the 'banned list', but it was all done so seriously.
Even stuff like the Herschell Gordon Lewis films were cheap and sleazy rather
than straight comedy. Bad Taste was extreme splatter stuff in such an intentionally silly, slapstick way, closer to a Tom & Jerry cartoon than any real world acts of depravity.
I dunno, probably
lots of obscure stuff that done this earlier and better than Jackson, but in my
world of the time, it made quite an impression among my peers.
It is shit though.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092610/
Great/shit/10
Perkin.
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