18. Brain Dead (1992)
Widely regarded as one of the goriest films of all time, Brain Dead is a New Zealand zombie movie directed by Peter Jackson before he hit the big time. A hybrid rat-monkey ends up in Wellington Zoo in 1957. Mummy's boy Lionel has fallen in love with Paquita whom mummy does not approve of. While snooping on the pair on a date at the zoo, the old bat - Vera - gets bitten by the rat monkey and turns into a zombie. Ever the devoted son, Lionel tries to keep her tranquilised but old Vera keeps busting out, biting more people and creating more zombies. Lionel tries to keep the zombies under control by herding them into his basement and giving them injections. His uncle Les is after his mother's estate and blackmails Lionel into giving up his inheritance. Lionel injects the corpses with poison which turns out to be animal stimulant. Things erupt into an orgy of violence which include: a dismembered zombie whose intestines try to kill Lionel, a baby zombie on the rampage, Lionel killing zombies with a running lawnmower, an ass kicking kung fu priest. It is bloody, gory and violent but it is also very funny. Filmed at a maniac pace, the level of violence may generate some controversy, but it is thankfully offset by gallons of humour.