Bad Taste
“Watch out Aliens... here comes Derek!”
Certified Crap. CrapScore 63, rated by 1 admin.
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Aliens arrive in a New Zealand town with a fast-food business plan that uses the residents as ingredients. Peter Jackson's homemade splatter comedy is rough around the human edges and ingenious around the bodily ones. The story is mostly a delivery system for increasingly outrageous practical invention.
Nominated by @flabbergasted_jones
The club’s verdict
- Acting
- 5.5/10
- Plot
- 8/10
- Effects
- 2.5/10
- Dialogue
- 7.5/10
- Rewatchability
- 8/10
“The takeaway menu has developed a serious conflict of interest.”
@flabbergasted_jones, scored it 63
Synopsis and movie facts
A team from the intergalactic fast food chain Crumb's Crunchy Delights descends on Earth, planning to make human flesh the newest taste sensation. After they wipe out the New Zealand town Kaihoro, the country’s Astro-Investigation and Defense Service (AIaDS) is called in to deal with the problem. Things are complicated due to Giles, an aid worker who comes to Kaihoro the same day to collect change from the residents. He is captured by the aliens, and AIaDS stages a rescue mission that quickly becomes an all-out assault on the aliens’ headquarters.
- Released
- 1987
- Directed by
- Peter Jackson
- Running time
- 91 min
Starring
- Terry Potter as Ozzy / 3rd Class Alien
- Pete O'Herne as Barry / 3rd Class Alien
- Craig Smith as Giles / 3rd Class Alien
- Mike Minett as Frank / 3rd Class Alien
- Peter Jackson as Derek / Robert
- Doug Wren as Alien Leader
- Peter Vere-Jones as Alien Leader (voice)
- Ken Hammon as 3rd Class Alien
Research behind this pick
Researched . Explore the film references and reviews below.
- Film reference · themoviedb.org
Canonical film identity, release date, runtime, director credits, cast, genres, synopsis and poster checked against TMDB movie 9964. Review uses a different release year; the catalogue follows the canonical TMDB release date.
- Review · moriareviews.com
The review praises the ingenious homemade makeup and surreal slapstick while calling scripting an afterthought.
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