Dead Alive

Episode 100: Dead Alive (1992)

Theme: Oxymoronic Titles Month
Hosts: Oz & Curtis

This week, Oz and Curtis hit Episode 100 with Dead Alive — Peter Jackson’s splatter-masterpiece that answers the question: “What if King Kong, We Bought a Zoo, Dr. Pimple Popper, Shaun of the Dead, and Looney Tunes all had a baby… and that baby immediately gnawed through its crib?”

Your two favorite motherboys dive headfirst into:

• The Movie Marriage: King Kong × We Bought a Zoo × Dr. Pimple Popper × Shaun of the Dead × pure cartoon chaos.

• Lionel & Paquita, a romance powered by tarot cards, destiny, and the world’s wettest meet-cute.

• Vera Cosgrove, the most controlling mother ever put on film — who still somehow gets more clingy after death.

• The Sumatran Rat Monkey, stop-motion menace, primate plague carrier, and part-time dog eater.

• The Wellington Ladies Welfare League, bravely soldiering through a dinner scene featuring custard, pus, ear cartilage, and the single most violated pudding bowl in cinema history.

• Father Magruder, who kicks arse for the Lord with the kind of martial arts sequence that belongs on a motivational poster.

• Zombie romance, zombie childbirth, zombie park outings, and a zombie baby who gets punched, rag-dolled, and stroller-wrestled like an undead Looney Tune.

• The Party Massacre, where tranquilizer turns out to be stimulant and suddenly every guest becomes a gore geyser.

• The Lawnmower Scene, where Lionel straps a mower to his chest and unleashes 5,000 Rohirrim horses of pure dismemberment.

• Mega-Vera, a kaiju mom whose stomach opens like a fleshy Venus flytrap inviting Lionel “back where he came from.”

It’s goopy, gory, gloriously stupid, aggressively inventive, and the perfect choice to celebrate 100 episodes of Let’s Talk About Flix.

Final Verdict:

Oz — 100 Bowls of Custard
Curtis — 300 Liters of Fake Blood

Next week: Stephen King Month begins with The Dead Zone — Cronenberg, Walken, psychic powers, and ice that is not thick enough. Let the spooky season begin.