One of Peter Jackson’s earliest movies could be finally getting a physical upgrade as a Dead Alive 4K UHD release is reportedly on the way alongside Bad Taste and Meet the Feebles
Physical media advocate and reliable source President of Physical Media reported that Bad Taste, Meet the Feebles, and Dead Alive 4K UHD and Blu-ray releases are tentatively set for late this year.
Dead Alive 4K UHD Resurrecting a Peter Jackson Classic
Dead Alive, aka BrainDead came out in 1992 and features the signature creatively disgusting carnage of early Peter Jackson films.
When a Sumatran rat-monkey bites Lionel Cosgrove’s mother (Elizabeth Moody – Heavenly Creatures), she’s transformed into a zombie and begins killing (and transforming) the entire town while Lionel (Timothy Balme) races to keep things under control.
It’s a film fans have been eager to see get the restoration treatment alongside other early Jackson movies Bad Taste and Meet the Feebles. We’ll hopefully see more details on who will be behind the Dead Alive 4K UHD and the others and what they will contain.
1989 puppet comedy Meet the Feebles sees Heidi, the star of the “Meet The Feebles Variety Hour” discover her lover Bletch, The Walrus, is cheating on her. And with all the world waiting for the show, the assorted co-stars must contend with drug addiction, extortion, robbery, disease, drug dealing, and murder. Meanwhile, the love between two of the stars is threatened by Trevor the Rat, who wishes to exploit the young starlet for use in his porno movie.
Bad Taste sees a team from the intergalactic fast food chain Crumb’s Crunchy Delights descend 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. The aliens capture him, and AIaDS stages a rescue mission that quickly becomes an all-out assault on the aliens’ headquarters.
Jackson has already been on a restoration job recently. He’s helped restore The Beatles documentary Let It Be ahead of premiering the 1970 film on Disney Plus on May 8, 2024.
