Movie connections for
Braindead (1992) More at IMDbPro »

Edited into

"30 Even Scarier Movie Moments" (2006)
 -  One of the movies shown.

References

King Kong (1933)
 -  The Rat Monkey is captured from Skull Island (where King Kong was from) and taken abroad, the expeditioners also are confronted by tribal local people who try to stop them.
The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953)
 -  A character has a poster of this film in his room.
Psycho (1960)
 -  Lionel is subservient to his mother.
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
 -  Like the Black Knight, a character has all their limbs chopped off in the graveyard scene with Father MacGruder
Allegro non troppo (1977)
 -  Exact reference "lips sticking together and are ripped from mouth"
The Evil Dead (1981)
Gremlins (1984)
The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
Re-Animator (1985)
Aliens (1986)
Night of the Creeps (1986)
 -  Killing a zombie with a lawn mower
Bad Taste (1987)
 -  "Spoon Stuck in Head" gag
Meet the Feebles (1989)
Society (1989)

Referenced in

Valley of the Stereos (1992)
 -  A character wears a Braindead t-shirt with a picture of the zombie baby from that film.
Ed and His Dead Mother (1993)
The Making of 'The Frighteners' (1998) (V)
 -  mentioned a few times
Idle Hands (1999)
The Convent (2000)
La comunidad (2000)
Postal 2 (2002) (VG)
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)
 -  Mace Windu enters the final scene with the words "This party's over!", and starts choping the droids into small pieces with his lightsaber. In Braindead, Lionel enters the final scene with a lawnmower and says "Party's Over!", before mowing through a mass of zombies.
Undead (2003)
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
 -  The canyon used leading up to the Paths of the Dead was also used by Peter Jackson in Braindead.
Skenbart - en film om tåg (2003)
 -  The injection that the doctor's wife and the doctor's mistress do on the doctor is done exactly as Lionel Cosgrove does in Braindead several times: in the nose.
Dead & Breakfast (2004)
 -  A character tries to run on some blood and just slips and ends up running on the spot, this gag is re-used from this film.
Shaun of the Dead (2004)
 -  When Shaun takes the bandages off his mother's lower left arm to find a festering wound, it's the same as in Braindead (another zombie comedy), where the main character removes the bandages from his mother's lower left arm to find a similar wound.
Hide and Creep (2004)
 -  One of the characters names the movie.
Film Geek (2005)
 -  in Scotty's 'favorite Peter Jackson films' list
The Werewolf Cult Chronicles: Vietnam 1969 (2005) (V)
 -  Expository titles are referenced.
Evil Aliens (2005)
 -  When looking for a way to splatter the aliens Cat takes a long look at the lawn mower but then uses a brush cutter instead
King Kong (2005)
 -  "Sumatran Rat Monkey" on a cage in the background
"South Park: The Return of Chef (#10.1)" (2006)
 -  The shot where Chef's face is ripped off by a mountain lion during his gory death scene is filmed to look exactly like the scene where a man gets his faced ripped off by a zombie in this incredibly gory movie.
Black Sheep (2006/I)
 -  The sheep fetus acts quite similarly to the zombie baby of Braindead.
Left 4 Dead (2008) (VG)
 -  In the Blood Harvest campaign, in the basement of a building near the train station has a lawn mower covered and surrounded with blood and 'chunks'
Zombies of the Night (2009)
 -  Mentioned in the Dialogue Narrative
Død snø (2009)
 -  Character wearing a Braindead t-shirt

Featured in

"Zomergasten: (#14.1)" (2001)
 -  A fragment of this film is shown in this episode
Masters of Horror (2002) (TV)
 -  clips from thes movie are featured and discussed during Peter Jackson's interview
"SexTV: Dark Desires: Sexuality in the Horror Film (#5.15)" (2003)
 -  Clips from movie used in episode.
Entre vivir y soñar (2004)
 -  The film is seen being featured in a theater

Spoofs

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
 -  When hit the baby
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
The Evil Dead (1981)

Spoofed in

Dellamorte Dellamore (1994)
Tales from the Hood (1995)
Bert - den siste oskulden (1995)
The Frighteners (1996)
From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money (1999) (V)
Idle Hands (1999)
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
Sigillet (2006)
 -  Drowning sequence
Dead Rising (2006) (VG)
 -  Zombies can be dispatched by lawnmower like they are in the movie.

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