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Actor: Costa Botes, Graham Butcher, Michael Gooch, Peter Gooch, Robin GriggsEdition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
Running Time: 90 minutes
Release Date: 2001-11-20
Audience Rating: Unrated
Publisher: Starz / Anchor Bay
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
VHS Movie Reviews of Bad Taste
Movie Review: Low budget blood and guts comedy horror movie
Summary: 3 Stars
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...
Movie Review: Low Budget my @$$
Summary: 3 Stars
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 action and tense parts that lead to action, with some humor. Even though there isn't that much gore, there's no shortage of inspiration, or at least some memorable parts. The beginning of the movie where the alien gets his top part of his head shot off is great and looks gross (the way it's supposed to be! Yum.), and seeing the machine gun being fired off is awesome too. I won't really spoil it all for you, but the gore parts will most likely keep you entertained, though don't come just for that.
The story may be a bit bare bones and cheesy, but that's the way I like it! And the actions scenes on it are pretty funny and there are rocket launchers being fired and plenty of machine guns. It's a good watch, though it isn't really, for me, worth having on DVD (hence the three stars). Still worth a watch and entertaining.
Movie Review: "So you work for this agency called AIDS..."
Summary: 3 Stars
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 audio quality is terrible. The accents are a bit difficult to understand for Americans. One of the characters, Derek, appears to be mentally ill. And yet there's a certain rough charm to the whole thing.
The plot, such as it is, involves a crack team of government agents who work for the Astro-Investigation and Defense Service (AIDS) sent to investigate the disappearance of the citizens of Kaihoro, New Zealand. Your reaction to the in-joke name of the agency will dictate whether you find Bad Taste to be hilarious or stupid. An agency with an acronym like AIDS is something my high school buddies might dream up on a whim.
The AIDS strike force consists of Ozzy (Terry Potter), Barry (Peter O'Herne), Frank (Mike Minett), and the aforementioned Derek. They stumble onto an alien race of merchants who know all about "how to serve man," and not the butler kind of service. The film begins with the capture of one of the aliens, Robert (Peter Jackson), who is held captive by hanging him over the edge of a cliff by his ankle. While Barry explores the ghost town, Derek decides to torture the leader for information by stabbing him in the foot. This ultimately leads to the other aliens coming to the rescue, Robert escaping, and Derek falling off a cliff to his supposed death.
"Wait, Derek died?" asks Derek's player.
"Yeah," says the GM. "You had a good fight there with the alien sledgehammers but you slipped off the cliff."
"But," whines the player, "I was just getting started! You can't kill Derek off like that!"
"Okay, fine. Derek lands on seagull eggs and only some of his brain falls out, but he's still alive. Now he's crazy as a loon."
"Great! I stuff his brains back into his skull and keep going..."
In comes Giles player. "Hey guys. Is it too late to play?"
"Nah," says the GM. "You're a collector whose come to Kaihoro to collect. And the aliens abduct you and toss you in a stew!"
"Oh, great..."
Bad Taste pretty much devolves from there, leading to Derek attacking people with a chainsaw, Ozzy and Frank firing rocket-launchers at the aliens, and the aliens themselves turning out to be shoulder- and butt-padded monstrosities who can barely run much less pose a threat to anybody. It all ends with a house flying into space.
Bad Taste veers from thrilling action to long, boring pans of characters walking from Point A to Point B. There are random gags (most of them involving slipping on some form of excrement), over-the-top violence ranging from organs being stuffed into places to drinking someone else's vomit, and plenty of jokes about aliens and action movies. The action scenes are actually very well done, and there's plenty of people running as machine gun fire peppers their feet.
Bad Taste makes no bones about what it is - a cult film. Jackson's humor is evident here, but he would go on to do much more horrifying and humorous films. While Bad Taste is no Evil Dead, it's still enjoyable as a piece of film history over a couple of beers with your buddies.
Movie Review: Are you kidding me?!?!?
Summary: 1 Stars
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.Movie Review: Lord of the Onion Rings
Summary: 4 Stars
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, and poor camera work.
Nearly as fun as Dead Alive. Good stuff!
Summary of Bad Taste
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
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