Trivia for
Braindead (1992) More at IMDbPro »

• During the lawnmower scene, movie blood was pumped at five gallons per second.
  
  
• The song played on the organ as the mourners wait to enter the church (prior to the embalming scene) is none other than Sodomy from Peter Jackson's previous film Meet the Feebles (1989).
  
  
• Director Cameo: [Peter Jackson] Undertaker's assistant.
  
  
• The movie was finished under budget with NZ$45,000 remaining. Peter Jackson used it to spend two days shooting the park scene with Lionel and the baby Selwyn. He has gone on to say that it is his favorite scene.
  
  
• The rental in Sweden (and probably other countries as well) came with supplemental vomit bags.
  
  
• 300 liters of fake blood was used in the final scene of the film.
  
  
• The movie is said to be the bloodiest of all time (measured in amount of film blood used during the production).
  
  
• On its initial release in its home turf of New Zealand, this movie earned more per screen than Batman Returns (1992).
  
  
• There is not one cut from Peter Jackson's original screenplay.
  
  
• The tarot cards in the film are from Aleister Crowley's Thoth deck, but two cards, the Star and the Prince of Cups, are different from the ones featured in the deck, and they were probably specially prepared for the film.
  
  
• CAMEO: Forrest J Ackerman as more or less himself; the tourist at the zoo who take a photo of Lionel's mother squishing the rat monkey's head with her shoe.
  
  
• The Spanish title of the film literally translates to "Your mother ate my dog", a line said by Paquita in the film, who happens to be played by a Spanish actress.
  
  
• Peter Jackson, is a well-known aficionado of the original 1933 version of King Kong (1933). In the beginning of Braindead, the New Zealand Zoo official is stealing the rat monkey from Skull Island. That's Jackson's nod to Skull Island's more famous resident, King Kong. Jackson would 'return' to Skull Island for his 2005 remake of King Kong (2005).
  
  

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