Bad Taste
| release date | November 30 1987 |
| studio | Anchor Bay |
| director | Peter Jackson |
| writer | Peter Jackson |
| starring | Peter Jackson |
| tagline | Watch out Aliens... ... here comes Derek! |
| site | tbhl.theonering.net/badtaste |
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For his first movie he did and as long it took to make and having no money it was a good movie..And had some funny parts really enjoyed it.
This movie is ok. It is really cheezy and put together over a long time. The movie shows the lack of money but still has fun and seems like they had a real blast putting it together. I enjoyed this when i was 18 but now i am not sure. maybe even more. A must see though.
Like with DEAD ALIVE BAD TASTE is Peter Jackson at his best!!! I twisted little movie that needs to be seen. The cheese metor will break during this one but it’s campy style is perfect for this movie, Go out and rent it if you can totally worth the 5bucks to rent it!!!
great i enjoyed it more than evil dead
pure cheesy good stuff!
I really liked it. It may be cheesy in parts but it’s good cheesy. I’m just wondering how Peter Jackson managed to play two parts the one being the bearded alien?
I’m sorry i tried to enjoy this but i couldn’t. I couldn’t wait for it to be over with. Good gore but it was just too outdated.
I laughed my ass off when I first saw this. Not too bad of a low budget feature.
Pre-’LOTR’ proof of Peter Jackson’s genius.
Having loved ‘Braindead’ many years ago, I thought I’d give ‘Bad Taste’ a run and boy was I rewarded! This film is both hilarious and inspirational when you consider Jackson’s vision despite such a meagre budget. He also uses the dramatic NZ landscape to his advantage as well as the down-to-earth shyness of the Kiwi’s.
Casting is limited to friends and family, in addition to Jackson playing the role of several main characters as well as many extras. However, these guys have heart and are genuinely likeable larrikins. The gore is ridiculous and hilarious, and the ‘Commando’-style attack on the mansion at the end is funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time. Jackson’s bumbling hammer-happy (‘Derek’) had me in stitches from the first scene onwards.
Do yourself a favour and watch the ‘making of’ included in the extras featuring a young Peter Jackson wearing a tshirt with Mickey Mouse giving us the finger. Jackson built almost all of the props himself (guns, masks, a house!) and his creativity and enthusiasm is remarkable. This guy invested his heart and soul into the film despite believing that nobody would actually watch the thing, and it’s evident when you see the film.
‘Bad Taste’ shows that you don’t need big budgets or A-list actors to create something that is entertaining and laughter-inducing. 90% of the horrors released these days could learn a thing or two from this guy.
I watched this movie expecting a slapstick gorefest that I could laugh at with my friends. Turns out I hated this movie with every fiber of my being.
Great gory fun
Nah too low-budget for me.
this movie was awesome! by the look of it you’d think it’d be bull shit but it has a good story and good gore!
i love this movie
I got to watch Bad Taste this weekend.. another classic movie from Peter Jackson, although not as funny or gory as Dead Alive, it was good in it’s own way, nice action and some good gore effects..a typical cheese B horror movie, but he does them so well.
I liked Bad Taste. It’s obviously very low-budget and is meant to be hokey and campy, but it succeeds on so many levels. Although it’s not up to par with Braindead (aka ‘Dead Alive’) in the gore department, it does have some smart social commentary and a cool, ’80s vibe. It’s definitely worth a viewing or two.
I thought that bad taste was a mad movie. Not as good as braindead but still classic. It was full of gore and aliens so straight away that sounds awesome and of course the movie was awesome. The front cover is an indication of how good the movie is going to be. This movie did not taste bad at all it burnt my taste buds for good movies (in a good way.)
Storyline: B-grade 10/10
Acting: B-grade 10/10
Special Effects: B-grade 10/10
Best Scene: The whole movie was the best. 10/10
Ending: B-grade 10/10
Overall this movie was pretty much b-grade and b stands for “bomb” and this movie certainly was the bomb. Full of gore and randomness this movie will always go down as a classic in my movie collection. I give bad taste a well deserving b-graded 10/10
Excellet B-rated movie. Great gore. This is one of my all time favoirte movies.
meh i dont see the big fuss it was ok?
Hard to say anything bad about a movie where a guy has to keep pushing a piece of his brain back into his head. Totally awesome. Peter Jackson used to be a genius.
I remember watching this movie years ago. It sure does have its funny moments. You should atleast check it out for yourself and see what you think.
Great B-Movie by PJ!
Thanks to the special combination of extreme gore and comedy this film has found a special place in my heart. I would love to see a sequel, where Derek lands on the alien plantet to get his revenge, which involves a lot of chainsaw action. I highly recommend this movie to people, who want to expand their horizons or hardcore fans of B-movies.
I think it’s better than most low budget horror films. It’s quite inventive with it’s camerawork and the effects are old school but well done.
Not really a great movie but useful to watch to see how you can shoot a film on a low budget and make it look good.
I love this fucking movie. Its great hardly any money and still brutal. I mean people eating puke come on. It doesnt get much better.
Peter Jackson knows how to make horror comedies.
I caught this one while messing around on Google Video. It’s one of those films that I just kept passing over because it just didn’t look that interesting. This movie is great! Derek is now one of my favorite movie characters. I’m surprised this movie isn’t as popular as, say, the Evil Dead series. It’s just as funny, inventive, and quotable as any of those films. It even has a memorable chainsaw kill. 1 skull for the chainsaw kill, 1 skull for the guy with the rocket launcher, 2 skulls for Derek.
Bad taste was an extremely great B-movie that has cult written all over it.I can’t believe this movie gets passed over. This movie deserves the credit it should get cause Bad Taste, in my opinion, is better Than Dead Alive. The gore effects were brilliant, the cheesy acting and everything about this movie was made with such skill. Peter Jackson knows the ways to make a horror comedy. This is one of my favorite horror comedies. All in All, Bad taste needs to be seen by any gorehound horrorbuff because it was amazing. I recommend it.
Maybe cheesy acting and low budget, but you cannot deny how amazingly great this film is.
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Derek FTW!!!
Funny and gory!
Great combination!
Not really any good at all, but you can see the talent that was just percolating under the surface with Pete Jackson.
First watched this movie as a kid its great you cant take away how good peter Jackson is at making horror films.
Classic over the top new zealand horror film.
“Bad Taste”, the super-gory and extremely enjoyable full length debut from the creator of “Braindead”.
A terrific low budget cult-trashfest,
highly recommended to fans of everything horror, trash and Peter Jackson,
not recommended to fans of “Lord Of The rings” and/or people who don’t like horror.
The actors are all completely untalented and unexperienced – still, their performances are all fun, especially because it’s pretty clear that they all had a blast on shooting and slaughtering off aliens and stuff.
We get to see many terrfically disgusting and highly amusing gore effects (exploded heads and bodies, torn off extremities, lots of brains and bowels…), it’s packed with witty and original ideas/scenes (the Beatles car, the spaceship-house, all of the weapons, the exploding sheep, the guy in the barrel with the apple in his mouth, the vomit soup etc. etc.) and there are also lots of cool one-liners / dialogue lines
(“I’m a Derek and Dereks don’t run!” / “I’m sure you’ll be pleased to leave this shitty planet.” / “My friend, the astro-bastard… time for talkies! By the time my colleagues get here, I wanna have you babbling in some extra-terrestrial language.”).
Furthermore, despite Jackson’s low budget, he managed to create some great special and make-up effects. The camera work and the editing is just excellent, and there’s also a pretty neat and well-fitting soundtrack.
A terrific must-see trash classic, quite on a par with movies like “Evil Dead” or “Re-Animator”.
Yes, that Peter Jackson. Before The Lord Of the Rings (and the under-appreciated The Frighteners) he made this horror movie. And it likely comes as no surprise that it is a very good horror movie. What may come as a surprise is that it took him nearly half a decade to film.
In direct opposition to the necessarily regimented production of The Lord Of The Rings films, the scope of which required careful pre-planning, Bad Taste is a movie that never once had a script. It’s a testament to the strength and resilience of Jackson’s vision that he never had to write any of this down…he just did it. Granted, this is not a complex story to coordinate. The plot is laid out in the first three minutes (alien invaders possess residents of small town) and is unimportant aside from assuring us that the remaining eighty-eight minutes will be bloody and silly (and not always in that order).
Jackson filmed Bad Taste over the course of four years, during which time he slowly drummed up the cash to finish the film. After seeing a partially completed portion of it, the New Zealand Film Commission ponied up the needed funds, which says a lot for the quality of people working at the Commission.
As small as the budget was, much like Sam Raimi’s early films, it oozes class and savvy…you know this man understands how to make a movie. It is bold and unapologetically gruesome, yet overtly goofy and lighthearted in a surprisingly inviting way. Bad Taste would be a great film to show a fan of goofball comedy who is not sold on horror (but still has a strong stomach, as there are plenty of brains here).
Jackson’s knowledge of pop culture history, and genre films specifically, shines through in his sometimes blatant references to Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Star Trek, Tales From The Crypt, and even the British Royal Family.
Bad Taste is littered with numerous scenes of geeky goodness. There is a wealth of fodder here for horror movie (and Doctor Who) fans:
- Jackson’s alien character (he plays two roles in the film) pukes up about ten gallons of some fucked-up alien pistachio pudding, which he passes around to the other aliens to drink.
- Derek, one of the two characters that Jackson himself portrays wears a very Tom Baker-esque scarf that did not go unnoticed.
- Derek puts his brain back into his busted cranium, and then dons a hat to keep it from falling back out.
- Whenever there’s blood, it’s never pooling innocently on the ground, but rather spurting, squirting and otherwise gushing towards the actor’s faces. The sound of the gore in this film is amazing. I picture the foley artists sloshing around in a room full of raw meat and jello.
Jackson’s skill as a filmmaker, even without the big Hollywood dollars he would later have at his disposal, is evident in a scene during which Derek hangs off the edge of a cliff while possessed hammer-wielding aliens try to knock him off. The success of this scene is in large part due to the editing, which aside from the brief visible crew member, is astounding. It’s all about where you cut, and what you cut to. Of course, Derek falls, and explodes in a sploosh of blood upon impact. Glorious stuff.
This movie came out in 1987. Hellraiser, Evil Dead 2…Ah, 1987…one of the last hurrahs for practical effects. I’ll take the jiggly, rubber-suited aliens in this film over the crystaline sheen of James Cameron’s Abyss creature every time. The Abyss came out in 1989. It is a good film in many respects, but was truly the beginning of the end for models and prosthetics, as they gave way to computer-generated special effects. Jackson, perhaps because he was around before the CG revolution, kept his hand-made aesthetic while making the LOTR trilogy. He employed a record number of props-makers, set designers, and makeup artists to make sure that unlike his peer Sam Raimi’s films, they did not become cartoons.
Bad Taste displays Jackson’s talent for creative problem-solving. He pulls off the seamless forced-perspective Hobbit shots seen in LOTR due in part to the trials he endured while making Bad Taste. He couldn’t just throw up his hands and call in the computer nerds whenever a scene was complicated. Jackson never takes the Michael Bay way out. Bay is a man who, instead of crafting a project with sweat and love, whips out his technologically superior film-balls and slaps us in the face with them, because he can. But that’s a discussion for another day.
I strongly advise you to check out this gem of 80s splatter, the career genesis of one of today’s greatest film directors.
this is one of those movies that is so cheesy and over the top you can’t help but love it. the gore is hilarious right along with the acting ,story , and just about everything in the movie but it never fails to keep me entertained no matter how many times i watch it!
good ‘ol Peter Jackson. He really is an inspiration for people who just want to grab a camera, some friends and make a random movie.
Bad Taste is a film that every horror fan needs to have seen in his life, just like Braindead.
Both are just such amazing horror cult classics which you can watch over and over again without it gets boring.
And that says something, doesn’t it?
I personally can’t really choose which one I think is better: bad taste or braindead because they’re both so good and they’re not superior to each other.
Bad Taste: goryness on the highest degree, en it’s even work from peter jackson!! I hope he will something like this in the future.