Bad Taste
Watch out Aliens... here comes Derek!
Bad Taste (1987)
Timing:
1:32 (92 min)
6.323/10
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6.526/10
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6.5/10
51000
51000
Country
Production
Genre
Action, Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction
Budget
$150 000
Revenue
$0
Director
Actors
Terry Potter, Pete O'Herne, Craig Smith, Mike Minett, Peter Jackson, Doug Wren, Peter Vere-Jones, Ken Hammon, Robin Griggs, Michael Gooch
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Operator
Composer
Michelle Scullion
Artist
Audition
Editing
Short description
A team from the intergalactic fast food chain Crumb's Crunchy Delights descends on Earth, planning to make human flesh the newest taste sensation. After they wipe out the New Zealand town Kaihoro, the country’s Astro-Investigation and Defense Service (AIaDS) is called in to deal with the problem. Things are complicated due to Giles, an aid worker who comes to Kaihoro the same day to collect change from the residents. He is captured by the aliens, and AIaDS stages a rescue mission that quickly becomes an all-out assault on the aliens’ headquarters.
What's left behind the scenes
- The film was shot on a student grant over several years.
- Peter Jackson, the film's director, plays two roles: a bespectacled man (Derek) and one of the bearded aliens (Robert).
- All the weapons in the film are made from aluminum pipes, and the alien masks were baked in Peter Jackson's mother's oven.
- A similar scene to the cliffside episode, where Derek impales the alien he killed with a machine gun and then shoots from its back, was used in Robert Rodriguez's film "From Dusk Till Dawn".
- The mixture used in the film consisted of yogurt, muesli, and green food coloring.
- There was never a written script for this film; all the scenes were improvised during filming.
- The original title translates to "Bad Taste".
- The idea to shoot a sheep with a grenade launcher came from a computer game.
- A similar scene to the cliffside episode, where Derek pierced the alien he killed through and through with a machine gun and then shot from its back, was used in Robert Rodriguez’s "From Dusk Till Dawn".
- The original title translates to "Bad Taste".
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