Oh yea! The goriest movie around! There is no question. Limbs everywhere, heads exploding, living guts that hunt for human flesh, body parts in blenders, and lawnmower massacre! Really, you can't beat it in pure blood content. The lawnmower scene alone, blood was being pumped through the damn thing at five gallons per second. Let me repeat, per second! And on top of the sheer gore, there is plenty of comedy and on top of that, cheese. Romance cheese to be exact! Please Peter Jackson, stop making epic fantasy movies and go back to making epic splatter movies! Sam Raimi went back, cant you?
Our story follows a love triangle between Lionel, his mother Vera, and Paquita. Lionel loves Paquita, but Mother doesn't want that. She wants all of Lionels attention. She needs it. Shes one of those horrible, overbearing mothers that coddles their children to much and acts up when they are not paying attention to her. She. Is. Horrible.
Even though the movie is very gory, the movie never presents it in a serious manner. Instead of churning your guts and putting you off, you are more likely to laugh and revel in it. Its light and over the top. It fits perfectly with the characters.
On that note, everyone in this movie is a caricature. They overact, overemote, they're colorful, crazy, and just badass. Then on top of that the colors of the film just pop. Bright reds, greens, yellows. It all looks and feels like a living cartoon. And that is where all the charm comes from. Its like you are watching some dime horror comic come to life. The scene where Lionels uncle Les butchers up a whole horde of zombies as they tear down a wall and attack looks like a panel ripped straight out of a book.
All of this is caused when a Rat-monkey is stolen from Skull Island, put in a New Zealand zoo, and when Lionels mother gets too close, bites her. She promptly beats the beast down and slowly crushes its skull beneath her foot as a horrified crowd watches in disgust. Happy with ruining Lionel and Paquitas date, she forces him to take her home and treat her wound. Unfortunately for both of them she now has a bad case of Singaia (The Bite) and its quickly taking over her body. The next morning finds her in a horrible state, she looks horrid, but stirs with a fright as she realizes a guest from the WLWL is coming to her house today for a meeting and a meal. As she panics to put on her makeup, she tears a large piece of flesh from her face. It dangles there, a little flesh flag hanging from her cheek, with Lionels help, she superglues the bit back onto herself and their meal begins. Throughout the meal, she begins to show signs of her upper brain functions failing, her speech become incomprehensible, she attacks her food like a wild animal. Finally the guest has enough when she witnesses Veras ear fall off into her custard, she doesn't stop eating, taking the ear onto her spoon and devouring it.
The infection continues, ending after Vera eats Paquitas dog, she jumps up and attacks Lionel, ending in her toppling down the stairs. They call for Nurse McTavish, but its to late. Vera is dead. As McTavish consoles Lionel, Veras body reanimates, she tears her hands into the nurses face, popping her head back like a Pez dispenser. The infection quickly takes the nurse as the two zombies both come after Lionel. He shoves them down the basement stairs and locks the door behind him. Later on he visits a local vet to try and obtain some sedatives, he leaves with a large jar of tranquilizer and soon after subdues the zombies.
Mom escapes, gets hit by a trolley, and is buried. Lionel then goes out to dig up her body that night, but a group of greaser thugs catches him in the middle and beats him. Mother bursts out of the ground, grabbing one by his man-junk, pulls him down and tears him up. She proceeds to slaughter the rest, turning them to zombies. They corner Lionel, but then the greatest man ever appears to save him! Father Magruder! "Stand back boy! This calls for divine intervention!" *leaps in the middle of the zombies* "I kick ass for the Lord!" He then proceeds to put even Bruce Lee to shame as he kicks the crap out of the zombies, only to find his end at the hand of... the head of a zombie he kicked high into the air.
From here, the outbreak gets worse, Lionel subdues all the zombies, takes them to his basement, only to have his uncle Les find them, blackmail him for his house, and in the dumbest move around, throw a party. A party that gets interrupted by super zombies created by Lionel using poison to try to kill the zombies. Gore everywhere, peoples faces torn off, mouths punched through, spines torn out, heads in blenders, Lionel using a lawnmower to literally mow down at least thirty zombies in no time flat, and the final showdown with a mutated, super huge, super fat zombie Mother.
It all has to be seen to be believed. But its super fun, as long as you can hang through the cheesy love parts.
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