Feb 13, 202310 min read‘Dead Alive’ at 30 – 30 Reasons We Still Adore Peter Jackson’s Splatstick Horror RomanceLove 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 […] The post ‘Dead Alive’ at 30 – 30 Reasons We Still Adore Peter Jackson’s Splatstick Horror Romance appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.
Jul 19, 20215 min readCelebrating ‘The Frighteners’ at 25 and Peter Jackson’s Magical World of MiniaturesMany 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 […]