Teringer
An Exercise In Nonsense
ThedevilChoose
When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.
Lucia Ayala
It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.
classicsoncall
This movie compels me to use words I've never used in a review before - like revolting, perverse, appalling, pointless, disgusting and putrid. I may have used the word disgusting before, but you get my drift. I know everyone has to start somewhere, and for director Peter Jackson, this was his somewhere, but gosh, this is so dreadful it just boggles the mind. And to think it made IMDb's Top 250 Best Movies list back in 1996. Check it out, right there between "Duck Soup" and "Patton" at #178. Anyone able to explain that to me? This was one of those movies that if I could have fallen asleep while watching I would have, but it was just too engrossing, with the emphasis on 'gross'. Just a colossal waste of time, money and celluloid, with the only redeeming factor being that Jackson went on to give us what's arguably the best fantasy film series of all time in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. The mind boggles.
phanthinga
Bad Taste is the first movie ever directed by Peter Jackson back in the old days and this movie by far is the best low budget horror movie i saw in a while.When the alien invasion a small British want to turned human into a fast food chain it up to a group of national guard to stop them and save the world or at least the town first.I love the low budget feel of this movie everything must be practical from the make up effect to the outrageous gore and it just so damn satisfied.There many memorable moment like the edge of the cliff scene or the mansion shoot out and last but not least the final ending.When talk about gory moment it not a splatter fest from start to finish cause it also a decent slapstick comedy and many bad ass one liners that so Bristish it hurt.I wish someday Peter Jackson remember his horror roots and gave us Bad Taste 2 with him one again as Derek
Moviesarefun
Giving this title an accurate review is actually hard, and why is that? It's because this is a movie that you should look from two different perspectives really. The first one is the regular movie one. The movie is really cheap with cheap humor and cheap special effects. The second one is the "So good it's bad" one.Bad taste has always been a movie i enjoy watching, but i know what i get when i watch it. It's not Citizen Kane. But it is not Evil dead 2 either. Its a movie that falls short when it comes to either gore, horror or anything else. That is why i know i am pretty unbiased when it comes to giving this movie a six out of ten.The movie is crammed by everything in the horror genre. You have zombies that are chasing our heroes, however later we get the insight that they aren't zombies but aliens. Our heroes kills most of the zombies/aliens whom infested the town and move onto the big bad zombie/aliens boss. This is where the movie actually start to get good for me, before this the only skit i found really good was the guy that imitated a machine gun.This movie is not for everyone i can tell you that right now, its a movie where you have to enjoy a cheap B-movie. As i said, this is not Evil dead where a casual viewer would enjoy it for the comedy. This is a hardcore B-movie in the lines of Plan 9 from outer space or Robot monster.
shangra86
This picture is about murderous alien zombies, headed by the unspeakable Lord Crumb, who invade Earth, intent on subjugating humanity for use on the menus of their intergalactic fast-food franchise. And it's also about the anti-alien SWAT squad battling them: four rambunctious New Zealanders who eventually seem little better than murderous psychopaths themselves.It's a personal film to the max. Jackson wrote, produced and directed "Bad Taste" as well as editing it, doing the makeup and playing two roles, a demented commando and a crazed zombie alien. (At one point, through camera magic, the two Jacksons battle each other on a steep mountainside.) As Derek the commando, Jackson suggests that, had he continued acting, he might well have become New Zealand's Rick Moranis. (Fortunately, he didn't). As a movie maker, he proves that he was a natural from the first moment he pointed his camera at a band of fear-addled humans or bloodthirsty ghouls."Bad Taste" must be one of the most accurate titles in cinematic history. This movie is intended to make part of the audience reel and another part scream--though it's bad taste done, obviously, with a wink.Most of the movie is a series of wild chases, terrifying fist fights, nauseating sight gags and bizarre gun battles, studded with gore and homages to "Night of the Living Dead," "Evil Dead" and "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre." But throughout, despite the budget, it's staged and shot with deep-focus bravura and brilliance, non-stop verve and relentless energy.Like "Dead Alive," "Bad Taste" means to scare us and make us laugh, go past all our defenses. You're probably shockproof if you aren't offended by the grislier moments of "Bad Taste"--like the scene where Derek, woozy from his zombie battles, peels back his own skull and sticks in some mashed brains he finds on the ground. But, if you aren't entertained, you've probably never seen a horror movie.
