1. How can you not love a movie with the line, "Your mother ate my dog"?
2. A gore classic featuring an ***-kicking priest, a grandmother swallowing a cat whole, a house full of zombies, and a lawnmower.
3. It was hysterically funny at times, but the urge to laugh had to compete with the urge to vomit.
4. One of the true classics of splatterdom. Sickeningly wonderful.
5. Unquestionably the single goriest film ever made.
6. Before he discovered Kate Winslet in Heavenly Creatures, Peter Jackson's work looked more like it came from Troma.
7. A Tex Avery cartoon of hyperbolic gore, which gets funnier with each disgusting new sight gag.
8. If you are a little squeamish then this is not the film for you, however those of a nervous disposition need not worry as Jackson is definitely playing for laughs.
9. Horror films used to be primordial spook shows, tapping midnight-dark fears. Now they tap bodily goo: rivers of blood, dripping limbs, eyeballs that go pop in the night.
10. Sick. Perverse. Brilliant.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?
The delightfully gonzo tale of a lovestruck teen and his zombified mother, Dead Alive is extremely gory and exceedingly good fun, thanks to Peter Jackson's affection for the tastelessly sublime.