Braindead aka: Dead Alive - 1992

Braindead aka: Dead Alive - 1992 Wingnut Films/Polygram - 104 min.(89 min. for Dead Alive) DVD UPC # 031398684138; 3259190269194; 5709624008526 Blu-ray # 031398144366 Cast: Timothy Balme, Diana Penalver, Elizabeth Moody, Ian Watkin, Brenda Kendal, Stuart Devenie, Jed Brophy. Writers: Stephen Sinclair, Frances Walsh, Peter Jackson; Original Music: Peter Dasent; Production Design: Kenneth Leonard-Jones; Photography: Murray Milne; Editor: Jamie Selkirk; Director: Peter Jackson. The third of Peter Jackson's horror-comedies - a parody of zombie, gore and splatter movies which contains copious quantitites of all these. In 1957 Wellington, a young Latin woman meets a romantic partner in the dairy in which she works. While they stroll in Wellington Zoo, his prying mother is bitten by a Sumatran rat-monkey from Skull Island and infected with a varus that turns her into a rotting zombie with a craving for meat - any meat. Her first victim is a nurse and it spreads from there until the couple is confronted with a neighbourhood of bloodthirsty zombies which they must put paid to. Has become a cult classic. Censor Rating: R 16 - Review rating: B-

AVAILABILITY OF VHS OR DVD COPIES

VHS copies are available in both PAL and NTSC formats, as well as DVD. New PAL VHS copies can be obtained for about $40nz. The NTSC VHS will cost $10us. Used copies will cost about 40% less than new.
New DVDs will average $12us, 7# or $40nz. It is presented 1.66:1, enhanced for 16x9, with 2.0 stereo. There are French and Spanish subtitles and closed captioned English with the R1 version (I would appreciate someone emailing me details on the R2 extras). The theatrical trailer is included.
NOTE: There is a Norwegian R2 PAL 4-disc set, "The Peter Jackson Boxset", which contains Bad Taste, Meet the Feebles, Braindead and Forgotten Silver. All have their original English soundtrack, plus optional Swedish, Danish, Finnish and Norgegian subtitles. New sets been spotted at ebay selling for about 15# from UK sources.
There is an ntsc Blu-ray version scheduled for a U.S. release, under the aka title of 'Dead Alive', starting 04 October 2011. The unconfirmed Blu-ray specs are: 1080p presented 1.78:1, enhanced for 16x9, with 2.0 DTS-HD Master English soundtrack, English and Spanish subtitles and trailer, selling for about $15us. No extras.