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Peter Jackson Goes To The Movies!
Posted by Todd Brown at 8:13pm.
Posted in Trailer Alerts , Cult, Comedy, Horror, UK, Ireland, Australia & New Zealand, Going To The Movies, indiefilmcafe.
For the latest in our regular column looking back over the careers of film makers we hold dear to our hearts we take a look at the early films of Peter Jackson. Sure, everybody knows the Kiwi director now as the man at the helm of the epic Lord of the Rings films but to say life was not always so for the man is a bit of an understatement.
Jackson got his start making extreme low budget films that showed off his love of genre film and off kilter sense of humor, films built more out of his raw talent and creativity than with any sort of budget or “professional” crew. His 1976 debut, The Valley features Harryhausen inspired stop motion effects and is completely unavailable in any format, and it was not until his 1987 sophomore effort Bad Taste that his films could be seen by an audience on any significant scale at all. Classic splatter-comedy Brain Dead aka Dead Alive followed, along with demented puppet animation Meet The Feebles - a sort of Muppet Show with a vicious case of Tourette’s Syndrome - before Jackson would show his serious side with Heavenly Creatures, a story based on real events that features the first ever starring role for a young Kate Winslet. Spoof documentary Forgotten Silver would follow before Jackson made the jump to Hollywood productions with the under seen horror comedy The Frighteners which would, of course, pave the way for his massive Lord of the Rings success.
Trailers for Jackson’s splattery pre-LOTR work below the jump.
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sarkoffagus 12/10/2007 @ 8:30am
I always enjoy a Peter Jackson triple feature of BAD TASTE, MEET THE FEEBLES and BRAINDEAD. I’m likely in the minority, but my fave of the three is FEEBLES, which my wife and I quote constantly. If we had a son, we’d name him Wobert. “I’m patwolling the moat!” Classic!
dilated_in_disbelief 12/10/2007 @ 2:35pm
“I was just about to pop my cookies!”
is that the line? haha
sarkoffagus 12/11/2007 @ 5:35am
Yeah, that’s the line. Poor Bletch was interrupted!
“I thought you were nice!”
“I am nice!”
“No, you’re not. You’re loose. And you dwink! You’re nothing but a loose lush, Lucille, and I never want to see you again!”
“Oh, Wobert!”
I love it!