Episode 160: Dead Alive (Braindead) w/ special guest Josiah Mansfield

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Film Reviews, Tv & Film, Film History

5.0 • 548 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2025

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Aaron's brother Josiah returns to the show to discuss 1992's New Zealand comedy splatter film "Braindead" ("Dead Alive" in North America) directed by Peter Jackson with the Spoop Bois. They talk about the wild nature of Peter Jackson's career trajectory, the amount of fake blood used with the practical effects, and the insane humor and how it works. They also get into their favorable scenes, why setting the film as a 1950s period piece helps enhance certain themes, mother-son dynamics, and many other aspects of the movie. Josiah, Aaron and Derek are not dead exactly, they're just...sort of rotting.Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/WatchIfYouDareWe are on PodBean, Apple Podcasts, Podchaser, Goodpods, Amazon Music, Spotify, iHeartRadio and CastBox. Please rate, review, subscribe, and share our show. Also, check out our Spotify Music playlist, links on our Twitter and Podbean page. Our socials are on Bluesky and Facebook and Twitter @WatchIfYouDare

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0:32.9	the Spoop Troop today.
1:06.5	Thank you. Boop Troop today. A podcast for the Lord.
1:10.5	I'm sure a million other movie podcasts have done that exact same intro.
1:15.0	So welcome, everyone, to our turn of that unoriginal intro.
1:18.9	We are watched today our horror movie podcast, hosted by me, The Coward, Derek,
1:24.8	my movie monster co-host, Aaron, in which we dissect the fears, phobias, and social relevancy,
1:27.7	horror movies across all ages and subgenres.
1:30.8	Subgenre being this may be our first splatter film ever.
1:35.8	I love a good splatter film, rich and creamy just the way I like it.
1:44.3	And we discussed just how scary they are for horror movies and just how effective they are for horror junkies like Aaron. Yeah. So with that, we got a returning guest. This is your second episode. Your picks are rad because you came on for our alien episode. We reserve that one for you, which is a pretty big one. Oh, yeah. So let's just go back and listen to that one. And now we got you for fucking brain dead dead alive alive this is also sort of linked to my other tattoo
2:03.1	oh really well i also have a lord of the rings tattoo yeah oh yeah yeah and i just got a tattoo of
2:09.1	my cat so we have to do something like pet cemetery next hey that's a great third pick we got
2:13.6	link it all together yeah we haven't done that one yet so but uh er Aaron's brother Josiah has come back to the podcast, so welcome back.
2:21.1	But yeah, let's get right into it, boys.
2:23.3	We're going to get into our recommendation section for our newer listeners.
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