Dead Alive is the third wild and gory feature from a then up and coming future blockbuster director Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, King Kong , The Lovely Bones, Bad Taste, Meet the Feebles). Lionel Cosgrove is a good guy having a tough time with things. Ever since his father died saving him during a swimming accident, Lionel has been taking care of his manipulative and smothering Mum. Things seem to be on the up and up for him when he starts a romance with a local shop owner's daughter but a date to the zoo takes a turn for the worse when Lionel's mum follows him and manages to get bitten by a Sumatran rat monkey, a particularly nasty creature whose bite is killer - literally. The bite turns his mum into a zombie and each person she bites turns as well. Pretty soon poor Lionel is living in the house of the dead and fighting off a lecherous uncle scheming to grab the estate.moreless