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Braindead
MEANRANK
76/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1288
- IMDb #1269
- Rotten Tomatoes #793
- Metacritic #2401
- Letterboxd #714
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1175
+6 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #894
- Metacritic Audience #1227
- Douban #837
- Kinopoisk #1793
- AlloCiné #1460
- Trakt #1331
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 54, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 89.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →When a Sumatran rat-monkey bites Lionel Cosgrove's mother, she's transformed into a zombie and begins killing (and transforming) the entire town while Lionel races to keep things under control.
Details
- Director
- Peter Jackson
- Writers
- Fran Walsh, Peter Jackson, Stephen Sinclair
- Released
- 13 August 1992
- Country
- New Zealand
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 103 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $3.0M
- Box office
- $242.6K
- Awards
- 12 wins, 3 nominations
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Cast
Full cast (47) →
Awards & nominations
See all 15 →12 wins from 15 nominations across 6 ceremonies
| Saturn Awards 1994 | Best Genre Video Release | N/a | Winner |
| Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival 1993 | Golden Scream Award | Peter Jackson | Winner |
| Fantasporto 1993 | Best Special Effects | Steve Ingram | Winner |
| Fantasporto 1993 | Best Film | Peter Jackson | Winner |
| New Zealand Film and TV Awards 1993 | Best Film | Jim Booth | Winner |
| New Zealand Film and TV Awards 1993 | Best Male Dramatic Performance | Timothy Balme | Winner |
| New Zealand Film and TV Awards 1993 | Best Director | Peter Jackson | Winner |
| New Zealand Film and TV Awards 1993 | Best Screenplay | Peter Jackson, Stephen Sinclair and Fran Walsh | Winner |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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15 awards — Braindead
×| Best Contribution to Design | Richard Taylor | Winner |
| Best Director | Peter Jackson | Winner |
| Best Film | Jim Booth | Winner |
| Best Male Dramatic Performance | Timothy Balme | Winner |
| Best Screenplay | Peter Jackson, Stephen Sinclair and Fran Walsh | Winner |
| Best Actor | Timothy Balme | Winner |
| Best Special Effects | N/a | Winner |
| Best Film | Peter Jackson | Winner |
| Best Special Effects | Steve Ingram | Winner |
| Best Genre Video Release | N/a | Winner |
| Best Horror Film | Peter Jackson | Nominee |
| Best Special Effects | Bob McCarron and Richard Taylor | Nominee |
| Best Special Effects | Bob McCarron and Richard Taylor | Winner |
| Best Film | Peter Jackson | Nominee |
| Golden Scream Award | Peter Jackson | Winner |