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‘Dead Alive’ at 30 – 30 Reasons We Still Adore Peter Jackson’s Splatstick Horror Romance

Meagan Navarro Braindead, Dead Alive, Editorials, Movies, Peter Jackson

Love is in the air this week, and we’re celebrating romance in horror ahead of Valentine’s Day. For horror fans, nothing says romance quite like Peter Jackson’s Dead Alive (aka Braindead outside the U.S.), a twisted love story between meek mama’s boy Lionel Cosgrove (Timothy Balme) and hungry-for-love shopgirl Paquita Maria Sánchez (Diana Peñalver). The film also happens […]

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10 Romantic Horror Movies for Valentine’s Day

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Another Valentine’s Day is upon us, and love is in the air. What better way to ring in the holiday dedicated to love than with horror movies that put romance at the center of the scares, monsters, and even a little gore? Innocent flirtations, lust, temptation, and enduring love drive the characters in these romantic […]

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Peter Jackson’s Digital 4K Restorations of His Early Horror Films Including ‘Dead Alive’ Coming Soon!

John Squires Dead Alive, Movies, Peter Jackson

Before going mainstream with the Lord of the Rings films, Peter Jackson was a horror guy, kick-starting his career with the gory flicks Dead Alive and Bad Taste. Despite being beloved by horror fans, neither film has to date been restored and re-released, but Jackson himself had revealed way back in 2018, you may recall, that 4K restorations were in the works. […]

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Celebrating ‘The Frighteners’ at 25 and Peter Jackson’s Magical World of Miniatures

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Many of the best effects tend to go unheralded. Those effects are so well done that audiences never even realize what they’re seeing is an effect at all; it’s just taken for granted. The Frighteners, first released 25 years ago in theaters on July 19, 1996, marks a transitional film for filmmaker Peter Jackson as well as his […]

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