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Peter Jackson's Bad Taste
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0018619077085
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Import
Languages: English (Original Language),
Manufacturer: Import
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Import
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 13, 2001
Running Time: 92 minutes
Studio: Import
Theatrical Release Date: 1989-06
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Editorial Review:
Could a title be any more direct? New Zealand maverick Peter Jackson made a splash (well, more of a splatter) with this film debut, a slapstick gross-out comedy about an alien fast-food franchise that turns a small town into a cheap source of meat. All that stands in the extraterrestrials' way is the Alien Investigation Defense Service (yes, it's a tasteless gag), a bunch of would-be Rambos who take on the aliens with axes, rocket launchers, and chainsaws. Jackson mines vomit jokes, dismembered corpses, and brain-spattering gore for over-the-top laughs and succeeds with inventive low-budget effects, crack timing, and sheer exuberance. Not bad for a film made on weekends with homemade props and a bunch of energetic mates. Jackson topped himself a few years later with the even more outrageous and hilarious bloody gut-buster Dead Alive.
The limited-edition two-disc set also includes the documentary featurette "Good Taste Made Bad Taste," a revealing "making of" shot at the time of production and featuring behind-the-scenes footage of Jackson's home-made special effects, and a 16-page booklet with cast interviews. --Sean Axmaker
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Low budget blood and guts comedy horror movie
This movie is pretty much tongue in cheek sci fi.
Jack in the golden arches from outer space wants to Kentucky fry
humans. The aliens seem unstoppable after butchering a small
New Zealand town. To the rescue is an odd team of young commandos.
The rest is a shoot out between the heroes and the invaders.
As bad as the dialog and special effects are
the comedy touches kind of make up for it.
I just don't much like horror movies...
Rating: - Low Budget my @$$
You might as well go ahead and forget the fact it's low budget, because it's mighty impressive that a movie like this was made on a shoe-string budget (the masks were baked in Peter Jackson's mother's oven!). Peter Jackson's first film is a gory comedy action movie (In my opinion, this isn't a horror movie or a horror comedy) about aliens that take over a town to harvest them for their fast food franchise.
Bad Taste really isn't TOO gory (nowhere as gory as Dead Alive) as it has more ... Read More
Rating: - "So you work for this agency called AIDS..."
Peter Jackson is best known for the The Lord of the Rings trilogy and King Kong, but a long time ago he made his own cult film: Bad Taste. Watching it is a bit of cinema history, in the same way that watching The Evil Dead series is a prelude to Sam Raimi's later work. This whole movie reminds me of a role-playing game session from my high school days, where game masters and players made things up as they went along.
The first thing you notice is that Bad Taste is well, bad. The film and ... Read More
Rating:  - Are you kidding me?!?!?
If this movie had been done by ANYONE other than Peter Jackson, there's no way in the world it would be getting some of these 'good' reviews. This movie just didn't work. Not because it was low budget. I can appreciate a low budget movie if it's well done. This was not. The problem is, it doesn't work as a comedy (because it's not funny), it doesn't work as a parody, and it's just not entertaining. I regret RENTING it and feel even more sorry for anyone that purchased it.
Rating: - Lord of the Onion Rings
One breaded human flesh sandwich with blood gravy and a side of seasoned fingers please...
Bad Taste is a low budget horribly cheesy bloody good time! Some butt ugly Martians (or whatever alien planet) attempt to monopolize the intergalactic market on human hamburger stands. This early effort by Peter Jackson has plenty servings of the grotesque--like slurping vomit, brain spillage, and a plethora of blood. All this cool stuff makes you forget about the horrendous acting, weak plot development, ... Read More
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