Dead Alive

Theatrical - Wide 1993-02-12

Cast Timothy Balme Diana Peñalver Elizabeth Moody Ian Watkin
Directed by Stephen Sinclair
Written by Peter Jackson Stephen Sinclair

Genres: Comedy Fantasy Horror

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Lionel, a Mama’s boy has the unwanted honor of having to look after his overbearingly evil mother. He ends up falling in love with a local woman who believes that they’re destined together. In a moment of intentional sabotage of one... See more of their dates, his mother is bitten by a mysterious creature that ends up zombifying her. It’s only a matter of time before she rises from the dead a powerful, bloodthirsty zombie. It’s only a matter of time before she starts infecting residents of the town and Lionel has to stop her…and them.

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