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One of the movies shown.
References
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.
A character has a poster of this film in his room.
A character has a poster of this film in his room.
Lionel is subservient to his mother.
the doors are seen boarded up to keep the zombies out
Like the Black Knight, a character has all their limbs chopped off in the graveyard scene with Father MacGruder
Exact reference "lips sticking together and are ripped from mouth"
zombies are put in a blender like the Gremlins
Killing a zombie with a lawn mower
"Spoon Stuck in Head" gag
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).
Referenced in
A character wears a Braindead t-shirt with a picture of the zombie baby from that film.
mentioned a few times
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.
The canyon used leading up to the Paths of the Dead was also used by Peter Jackson in Braindead.
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.
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.
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.
One of the characters names the movie.
Video case is shown.
in Scotty's 'favorite Peter Jackson films' list
Expository titles are referenced.
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
Someone's arm get chopped of because he got bitten and they want to prevent him from turning into a zombie.
"Sumatran Rat Monkey" on a cage in the background
Film artwork is shown in a newspaper article.
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.
The sheep fetus acts quite similarly to the zombie baby of Braindead.
When Eva asks what play Igor and Brain are rehearsing, Scamper answers: 'Braindead'.
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'
referenced as a zombie film example.
Character wearing a Braindead t-shirt
The band in the film is named "The Brain Deads" and references the film.
Lawn mower as a weapon.
Angie Dinkley's message on the phone, "When I order a crate of Sumatran Rat monkeys from Skull Island I expect overnight delivery!"
"Party's over" is a line from Peter Jackson's Braindead.
using a lawnmower as aweapon.
It is mentioned in a newspaper article ("Dead Alive").
"I forgot, they're going by Dead Alive rules..."
When Haddock see Snowy for the first time he call him "Rat monkey of Sumatra".
DVD mentioned
Oancitizen balks at the notion that this got a Criterion release
the number 4 in the Top 25 Best '90s Horror Movies.
To be reviewed next time.
mentioned
Featured in
An excerpt of this film is featured.
A fragment of this film is shown in this episode
clips from thes movie are featured and discussed during Peter Jackson's interview
Clips from movie used in episode.
The film is seen being featured in a theater
clip shown
lawnmover massacre.
Footage shown when Hewy compares the Puffin in "Swan Princess" to the Irish priest in this movie
clips shown
movie is reviewed
"When that happened, the film was in danger of becoming Peter Jackson's Braindead..."
Spoofs
When the baby is hit with a frying pan, its face is imprinted in the pan like Han Solo's face when he is frozen in Carbonite
Spoofed in
Drowning sequence
Zombies can be dispatched by lawnmower like they are in the movie.




