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Braindead (film), the Glossary

Braindead (also known as Dead Alive in North America) is a 1992 New Zealand zombie comedy splatter film directed by Peter Jackson, produced by Jim Booth, and written by Stephen Sinclair, Fran Walsh, and Jackson based on an original story idea by Sinclair.^[1]

AllMovie

AllMovie (previously All Movie Guide) is an online database with information about films, television programs, television series, and screen actors.

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Australian Classification Board

The Australian Classification Board (ACB or CB) is an Australian government statutory body responsible for the classification and censorship of films, video games and publications for exhibition, sale or hire in Australia.

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Avery Publishing

Avery Publishing is a book publishing imprint of the Penguin Group, founded as an independent publisher in 1976 by Rudy Shur and partners, and purchased by Penguin in 1999.

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Bad Taste

Bad Taste is a 1987 New Zealand science-fiction comedy horror film directed, produced and filmed by Peter Jackson, who also starred in it and co-wrote the screenplay, along with Tony Hiles and Ken Hammon. Braindead (film) and Bad Taste are films directed by Peter Jackson, films set in New Zealand, films shot in New Zealand, films with screenplays by Peter Jackson, new Zealand black comedy films, new Zealand comedy horror films, new Zealand exploitation films, new Zealand monster movies, new Zealand splatter films and WingNut Films films.

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Bill Ralston

Bill Ralston (born 1953) is a New Zealand journalist, broadcaster, and media personality, active in television, radio and print.

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Blu-ray

Blu-ray (Blu-ray Disc or BD) is a digital optical disc data storage format designed to supersede the DVD format.

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Bob McCarron

Robert "Bob" McCarron OAM (born July 1950 in London, England) is an Australian medic and special effects prosthetic makeup artist who has worked on many international movies and television shows.

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Box Office Mojo

Box Office Mojo is an American website that tracks box-office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way.

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Box-office bomb

A box-office bomb, box-office flop, box-office failure, or box-office disaster is a film that is unprofitable or considered highly unsuccessful during its theatrical run.

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Brain Dead (1990 film)

Brain Dead is a 1989 psychological horror-thriller film directed by Adam Simon.

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Brian Sergent

Brian Sergent (born 29 December 1959) is an actor born and based in Wellington, New Zealand.

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British Board of Film Classification

The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) is a non-governmental organisation founded by the British film industry in 1912 and responsible for the national classification and censorship of films exhibited at cinemas and video works (such as television programmes, trailers, adverts, public information/campaigning films, menus, bonus content, etc.) released on physical media within the United Kingdom. Braindead (film) and British Board of Film Classification are film censorship in the United Kingdom.

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Cult following

A cult following is a group of fans who are highly dedicated to some person, idea, object, movement, or work, often an artist, in particular a performing artist, or an artwork in some medium.

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David Stratton

David James Stratton (born 1939) is an English-Australian film critic and historian.

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Davina Whitehouse

Davina Whitehouse (born Eileen Eliza Smith; 16 December 1912 – 25 December 2002), also known by the stage name Davina Craig before her marriage, was an English-born actress, acclaimed for her roles on stage and film in her native land in the 1930s and early 1940s and in New Zealand from the 1950s where she continued her career as an actress.

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Diana Peñalver

Diana Peñalver (born 1965) is a Spanish actress known for starring in Braindead (1992), Year of Enlightment (1986) and El Lute: Run for Your Life (1987).

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DVD

The DVD (common abbreviation for digital video disc or digital versatile disc) is a digital optical disc data storage format.

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Elizabeth Moody (actress)

Elizabeth Moody (née Bromley, 29 October 1939 – 12 January 2010) was an English-born New Zealand film, television and theatre actress and director.

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Elonet

is a website run by the Finnish National Audiovisual Institute which provides a database of about 150,000 films created or screened in Finland.

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Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated as EW) is an American digital-only entertainment magazine based in New York City, published by Dotdash Meredith, that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books, and popular culture.

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Everything2

Everything2 (styled Everything2 or E2 for short) is a collaborative online community consisting of a database of interlinked user-submitted written material.

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Famous Monsters of Filmland

Famous Monsters of Filmland is an American genre-specific film magazine, started in 1958 by publisher James Warren and editor Forrest J Ackerman.

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Fandango Media, LLC is an American ticketing company that sells movie tickets via their website and their mobile app.

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Fantafestival

The Mostra internazionale del film di fantascienza e del fantastico (English: International Science Fiction and Fantasy Film Show), commonly known as Fantafestival, is a film festival devoted to science fiction, fantasy and horror film that has been held annually in Italy since 1981.

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Fantasporto

Fantasporto, also known as Fantas, is an international film festival, annually organized since 1981 in Porto, Portugal.

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Forrest J Ackerman

Forrest James Ackerman (November 24, 1916 – December 4, 2008) was an American magazine editor; science fiction writer and literary agent; a founder of science fiction fandom; a leading expert on science fiction, horror, and fantasy films; a prominent advocate of the Esperanto language; and one of the world's most avid collectors of genre books and film memorabilia.

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Fran Walsh

Dame Frances Rosemary Walsh (born 10 January 1959) is a New Zealand screenwriter and film producer.

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Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle der Filmwirtschaft

The Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle der Filmwirtschaft (FSK, Self-Regulatory Body of the Movie Industry) is a German motion picture rating system organization run by the Spitzenorganisation der Filmwirtschaft (SPIO, Head Organisation of the Movie Industry) based in Wiesbaden.

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Giant Rat of Sumatra

The Giant Rat of Sumatra is a fictional giant rat, first mentioned by Arthur Conan Doyle in "The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire".

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Gitanos

The Romani in Spain, generally known by the endonym Calé, or the exonym gitanos, belong to the Iberian Romani subgroup known as Calé, with smaller populations in Portugal (known as ciganos) and in Southern France (known as tsiganes).

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Harry Sinclair

Harry Alan Sinclair (born 1959) is a New Zealand film director, writer and actor.

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Hataitai

Hataitai is an inner-city suburb of Wellington, the capital of New Zealand, 3.5 kilometres southeast of the city centre.

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Hoodlum

A hoodlum is a thug, usually in a group of misfits who are associated with crime or theft.

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Hybrid beasts in folklore

Hybrid beasts are creatures composed of parts from different animals, including humans, appearing in the folklore of a variety of cultures as legendary creatures.

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Ian Watkin

Ian Watkin (25 January 1940 – 18 May 2016) was a New Zealand actor known for the films Braindead and Sleeping Dogs.

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Imagine Film Festival

The Imagine Film Festival, formerly Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival (AFFF), also known as Imagine Fantastic Film Festival or simply Imagine, is an annual film festival in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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IMDb

IMDb (an acronym for Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews.

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Jamie Selkirk

James William Arthur "Jamie" Selkirk is a film editor and producer who has worked primarily in New Zealand.

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Jed Brophy

Jed Brophy (born 29 October 1963) is an actor from New Zealand.

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Jim Booth

Jim Booth (7 February 1945 – 4 January 1994) was a New Zealand film producer and actor, known for producing early films from Peter Jackson, including Meet the Feebles (1989) and Braindead (1992).

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Karori Cemetery

Karori Cemetery is the second-largest cemetery in New Zealand.

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LaserDisc

The LaserDisc (LD) is a home video format and the first commercial optical disc storage medium, initially licensed, sold and marketed as MCA DiscoVision (also known simply as "DiscoVision") in the United States in 1978.

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Lawsuit

A lawsuit is a proceeding by one or more parties (the plaintiff or claimant) against one or more parties (the defendant) in a civil court of law.

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Lionsgate

Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. (also known as Lions Gate Entertainment Corporation, and doing business as Lionsgate) is a Canadian-American entertainment company currently headquartered in Santa Monica, California.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.

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Mana Music

Mana Music was a music services company based in Australia and New Zealand.

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McFarland & Company

McFarland & Company, Inc., is an American independent book publisher based in Jefferson, North Carolina, that specializes in academic and reference works, as well as general-interest adult nonfiction.

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Meet the Feebles

Meet the Feebles (also known as Frogs of War in New Zealand as the film's English fake working title) is a 1989 New Zealand puppet musical black comedy film directed by Peter Jackson, and written by Jackson, Fran Walsh, Stephen Sinclair and Danny Mulheron (who also performed the body of lead character Heidi the Hippo). Braindead (film) and Meet the Feebles are films directed by Peter Jackson, films scored by Peter Dasent, films set in New Zealand, films shot in New Zealand, films with screenplays by Fran Walsh, films with screenplays by Peter Jackson, films with screenplays by Stephen Sinclair, new Zealand black comedy films, new Zealand comedy horror films, new Zealand splatter films and WingNut Films films.

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Meredith Corporation

Meredith Corporation was an American media conglomerate based in Des Moines, Iowa, that owned newspapers, magazines, television stations, and websites.

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Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of films, television shows, music albums, video games, and formerly books.

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Mother Teresa

Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu MC (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu,; 26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), better known as Mother Teresa, was an Albanian-Indian Catholic nun and the founder of the Missionaries of Charity.

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Motion Picture Association film rating system

The Motion Picture Association film rating system is used in the United States and its territories to rate a motion picture's suitability for certain audiences based on its content.

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Necrophilia

Necrophilia, also known as necrophilism, necrolagnia, necrocoitus, necrochlesis, and thanatophilia, is sexual attraction or acts involving corpses.

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New Zealand film and television awards

New Zealand film and television awards have gone by many different names and have been organised by different industry groups.

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New Zealand Film Commission

The New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC; Te Tumu Whakaata Taonga) is a New Zealand government agency formed to assist with creating and promoting New Zealand films.

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Newtown, New Zealand

The suburb of Newtown lies in the southern part of Wellington in New Zealand.

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NZ On Screen

NZ On Screen is a state-funded online promotional showcase of New Zealand television and film.

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Owen Gleiberman

Owen Gleiberman (born February 24, 1959) is an American film critic who has been chief film critic for Variety magazine since May 2016, a title he shares with.

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Pūtangirua Pinnacles

The Pūtangirua Pinnacles (also known colloquially simply as The Pinnacles) are a geological formation and one of New Zealand's best examples of badlands erosion.

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Peter Dasent

Peter Dasent is a New Zealand born composer, pianist and songwriter who has lived and worked in Sydney, Australia since 1981.

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Peter Jackson

Sir Peter Robert Jackson (born 31 October 1961) is a New Zealand film director, screenwriter and producer.

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Peter Vere-Jones

Peter Vere-Jones (21 October 1939 – 26 January 2021) was an English-born-New Zealand actor.

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Principal photography

Principal photography is the phase of producing a film or television show in which the bulk of shooting takes place, as distinct from the phases of pre-production and post-production.

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Privacy law

Privacy law is a set of regulations that govern the collection, storage, and utilization of personal information from healthcare, governments, companies, public or private entities, or individuals.

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Re-Animator

Re-Animator (also known as H. P. Lovecraft's Re-Animator) is a 1985 American comedy horror film loosely based on the 1922 H. P. Lovecraft serial novelette "Herbert West–Reanimator".

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Review aggregator

A review aggregator is a system that collects reviews and ratings of products and services such as films, books, video games, music, software, hardware, and cars.

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Richard Taylor (filmmaker)

Sir Richard Leslie Taylor (born 8 February 1965) is the founder, creative director and head of New Zealand film prop and special effects company Wētā Workshop.

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RogerEbert.com

RogerEbert.com is an American film review website that archives reviews written by film critic Roger Ebert for the Chicago Sun-Times and also shares other critics' reviews and essays.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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Routledge

Routledge is a British multinational publisher.

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Saturn Award for Best Horror Film

The Saturn Awards for Best Horror Film is an award presented to the best film in the horror genre by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films.

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Saturn Award for Best Special Effects

The Saturn Award for Best Special / Visual Effects is one of the annual awards given by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films.

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Shaun of the Dead

Shaun of the Dead is a 2004 romantic zombie comedy film directed by Edgar Wright and written by Wright and Simon Pegg.

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Simon Pegg

Simon John Pegg (né Beckingham; born 14 February 1970) is an English actor, comedian and screenwriter.

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Sitges Film Festival

The Sitges Film Festival (Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya) and also translated as Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia and originally the International Week of Fantasy and Horror Movies, is an annual film festival held in Sitges, Catalonia, Spain.

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Skull Island (King Kong)

Skull Island is the name most often used to describe a fictional island that first appeared in the 1933 film King Kong and later appearing in its sequels, the three remakes, and any other King Kong-based media.

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Splatter film

A splatter film is a subgenre of horror films that deliberately focuses on graphic portrayals of gore and graphic violence. Braindead (film) and splatter film are Splatterpunk.

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Stephen Papps

Stephen Papps is an actor from New Zealand.

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Stephen Sinclair

Stephen Sinclair is a New Zealand playwright, screenwriter and novelist.

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Stuart Devenie

Stuart Forbes Devenie is a New Zealand actor and theatre director, whose career spans three decades on stage and screen.

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The Hollywood Reporter

The Hollywood Reporter (THR) is an American digital and print magazine which focuses on the Hollywood film, television, and entertainment industries.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Numbers (website)

The Numbers is a film industry data website that tracks box office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way.

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Tim Balme

Timothy Guy Balme (born 18 January 1967) is a New Zealand actor and screenwriter.

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Time Out (magazine)

Time Out is a global magazine published by Time Out Group.

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Tort

A tort is a civil wrong that causes a claimant to suffer loss or harm, resulting in legal liability for the person who commits the tortious act.

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Trimark Pictures

Trimark Pictures was an American production company that specialized in the production and distribution of television and home video motion pictures.

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is an American magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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VHS

The VHS (Video Home System) is a standard for consumer-level analog video recording on tape cassettes, introduced in 1976 by the Victor Company of Japan (JVC).

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Weighted arithmetic mean

The weighted arithmetic mean is similar to an ordinary arithmetic mean (the most common type of average), except that instead of each of the data points contributing equally to the final average, some data points contribute more than others.

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Wellington

Wellington is the capital city of New Zealand.

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Wellington Airport

Wellington International Airport (Taunga Rererangi o Te Whanganui-a-Tara; formerly known as Rongotai Aerodrome or Rongotai Airport) is an international airport located in the suburb of Rongotai in Wellington.

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Wellington Botanic Garden

Wellington Botanic Garden ki Paekākā is a botanical garden close to central Wellington in New Zealand.

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Wellington tramway system

The Wellington tramway system (1878–1964) operated in Wellington, the capital of New Zealand.

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Wellington Zoo

Wellington Zoo (Rawhi Whakaaturanga o Te Whanganui-a-Tara) is a zoo in the green belt of Wellington, New Zealand.

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WingNut Films

WingNut Films Productions Ltd is a New Zealand production company based in Wellington, with other offices in Hollywood, United States, London, United Kingdom, and Melbourne, Australia; notably for producing and collaborating predominantly with filmmaker Peter Jackson, especially on The Lord of the Rings. Braindead (film) and WingNut Films are WingNut Films films.

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Zombie

A zombie (Haitian French: zombi, zonbi, Kikongo: zumbi) is a mythological undead corporeal revenant created through the reanimation of a corpse.

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Zombie comedy

The zombie comedy, often called zom com or zomedy, is a film genre that aims to blend zombie horror motifs with slapstick comedy as well as morbid humor.

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Zoology

ZoologyThe pronunciation of zoology as is usually regarded as nonstandard, though it is not uncommon.

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16 mm film

16 mm film is a historically popular and economical gauge of film.

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18 (British Board of Film Classification)

The 18 certificate is issued by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), to state that in its opinion, a film, video recording, or game is suitable only for persons aged 18 years and over.

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1992 in film

The year 1992 in film involved many significant film releases.

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19th Saturn Awards

The 19th Saturn Awards, honoring the best in science fiction, fantasy and horror film and television in 1992, were held on June 8, 1993.

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20th Saturn Awards

The 20th Saturn Awards, presented by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films and honoring the best in science fiction, fantasy, and horror belonging to genre fiction in film, television and home video in 1993, were held on October 20, 1994.

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4K resolution

4K resolution refers to a horizontal display resolution of approximately 4,000 pixels.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braindead_(film)

Also known as Braindead (1992 film), Braindead (1992 movie), Braindead (1992), Dead Alive, Dead Alive (film), Dead-alive, Rat monkey, Rat-monkey, Skull Island (Braindead), Sumatran Rat Monkey, Sumatran Rat-Monkey, Sumerian Rat-Monkey.

, Mother Teresa, Motion Picture Association film rating system, Necrophilia, New Zealand film and television awards, New Zealand Film Commission, Newtown, New Zealand, NZ On Screen, Owen Gleiberman, Pūtangirua Pinnacles, Peter Dasent, Peter Jackson, Peter Vere-Jones, Principal photography, Privacy law, Re-Animator, Review aggregator, Richard Taylor (filmmaker), RogerEbert.com, Rotten Tomatoes, Routledge, Saturn Award for Best Horror Film, Saturn Award for Best Special Effects, Shaun of the Dead, Simon Pegg, Sitges Film Festival, Skull Island (King Kong), Splatter film, Stephen Papps, Stephen Sinclair, Stuart Devenie, The Hollywood Reporter, The Independent, The Numbers (website), Tim Balme, Time Out (magazine), Tort, Trimark Pictures, UNESCO, Variety (magazine), VHS, Weighted arithmetic mean, Wellington, Wellington Airport, Wellington Botanic Garden, Wellington tramway system, Wellington Zoo, WingNut Films, Zombie, Zombie comedy, Zoology, 16 mm film, 18 (British Board of Film Classification), 1992 in film, 19th Saturn Awards, 20th Saturn Awards, 4K resolution.

Braindead (film), the Glossary

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See also

1990s New Zealand films

1990s exploitation films

1992 black comedy films

1992 comedy horror films

1992 science fiction films

Film censorship in Germany

Film censorship in the United Kingdom

Films directed by Peter Jackson

Films scored by Peter Dasent

Films set in Sumatra

Films with screenplays by Fran Walsh

Films with screenplays by Peter Jackson

Films with screenplays by Stephen Sinclair

New Zealand black comedy films

New Zealand comedy horror films

New Zealand exploitation films

New Zealand monster movies

New Zealand slapstick films

New Zealand splatter films

New Zealand zombie films

Splatterpunk

Wellington in fiction

WingNut Films films

References