Aliens have landed on earth led by Lord Crumb, with the intention of selling mankind as hamburger meat to their intergalactic buddies. So we are now added to their menu, though the earth's government issues a full-scale alert and calls in "The Boys"- Frank, Oz, Barry and Derek to take care of the problem. Can they stop Lord Crumb turning the human race into "Crumb's Country Delights" or will "The Boys" meet the same fate as mankind. In all this leads up to bloody showdown between the two sides, literally.
Peter Jackson's roughly made cult classic "Bad Taste" is purely vulgar trash, but hey that's its charm. A lot blood and guts went into this production, do I need to say more. There's no real purpose, or story behind this shamble or better put madness. It's all about grossing you out with a huge excess of cheesy gore, sick humour and outrageous violence. Yummy! And to think I was going to eat dinner while watching it. Sure it's incredibly dumb and tatty, but this is one of those films that its so bad that its good entertainment. It looked like they had a great time making the film, and it definitely shows on screen. Well, the conviction was there since it took Jackson and his pals four years to make this low-budget splatter and the crew had a whole a lot things to do other than one particular role. Like Peter Jackson who directed, co-written, acted, edited, cinematography and did the special effects. From that it surely does deserve its strong cult status.
Everything about it boarders on farcical, the performances are truly uninspired, or they are just too damn relaxed. It's hard to say if they were mocking themselves as its like they just read the script for the first time and putting no real effort in their lines. Maybe the dialogue was made up on the spot? And those thick accents, well they came across as drongos (excuse the Australian slang) using a lot bad pun and wit. Although, the memorable fashion statements, takes the cake. Camera work is totally sluggish, the soundtrack is pumping for all different moods and there's nice dummy, uh I mean stunt work. The film is filled with a terrible amount of clichés and homage's, but the thrills are top grade. You get over-the-top gung-ho action with brain splattering and body parts flying everywhere! These moments are hilariously set-up in a twisted slapstick way. Although, the winner of this film is the repulsive gore and decent alien make-up and effects. Which is a big contrast to the pleasantly lush New Zealand scenery!
This deliberately idiotic feature mixes gore and comedy to great effect. Highly amusing, but definitely not for the faint hearted or squeamish!
Jackson went onto to make two more wicked cult films after this, the grotesque "Braindead" and the overly filthy "Meet the Feebles". If you dig this film, you might as well check out those films too.
Peter Jackson's roughly made cult classic "Bad Taste" is purely vulgar trash, but hey that's its charm. A lot blood and guts went into this production, do I need to say more. There's no real purpose, or story behind this shamble or better put madness. It's all about grossing you out with a huge excess of cheesy gore, sick humour and outrageous violence. Yummy! And to think I was going to eat dinner while watching it. Sure it's incredibly dumb and tatty, but this is one of those films that its so bad that its good entertainment. It looked like they had a great time making the film, and it definitely shows on screen. Well, the conviction was there since it took Jackson and his pals four years to make this low-budget splatter and the crew had a whole a lot things to do other than one particular role. Like Peter Jackson who directed, co-written, acted, edited, cinematography and did the special effects. From that it surely does deserve its strong cult status.
Everything about it boarders on farcical, the performances are truly uninspired, or they are just too damn relaxed. It's hard to say if they were mocking themselves as its like they just read the script for the first time and putting no real effort in their lines. Maybe the dialogue was made up on the spot? And those thick accents, well they came across as drongos (excuse the Australian slang) using a lot bad pun and wit. Although, the memorable fashion statements, takes the cake. Camera work is totally sluggish, the soundtrack is pumping for all different moods and there's nice dummy, uh I mean stunt work. The film is filled with a terrible amount of clichés and homage's, but the thrills are top grade. You get over-the-top gung-ho action with brain splattering and body parts flying everywhere! These moments are hilariously set-up in a twisted slapstick way. Although, the winner of this film is the repulsive gore and decent alien make-up and effects. Which is a big contrast to the pleasantly lush New Zealand scenery!
This deliberately idiotic feature mixes gore and comedy to great effect. Highly amusing, but definitely not for the faint hearted or squeamish!
Jackson went onto to make two more wicked cult films after this, the grotesque "Braindead" and the overly filthy "Meet the Feebles". If you dig this film, you might as well check out those films too.