It might shock some fans ofThe Lord of the RingsandKing Kong , but three - time Oscar winnerPeter Jacksonwasn’t always know for big - budget , high-pitched - conception literary genre film . In the late 1980s and former nineties , the dub New Zealand theatre director was know for making schlocky exploitation film that crept through the hole-and-corner grindhouse scene .
His adult hit from this period of his vocation were 1987’sBad Taste , a unrefined and brutal sinister comedy about alien using human as ingredient for meals at their truehearted food chains , and 1992’sDead Alive , a slapstick repugnance movie about a tyrannical materfamilias slowly turning into a zombified , decrepit anthropophagite .
Both films are pretty much comedy classics from the school of picture thatJacksononce shared with the likes of David Cronenberg , John Carpenter , andGeorge Romero , which inspire modern directors like James Gunn , Eli Roth , and Sam Raimi . Unfortunately , having been take in the ' LXXX and ' 90s on shoe string budgets , the movies were take , edited , and screened on subpar cinema .
However,Jackson — who is a vocal film preservation counsellor — has announced that he is working on convert his previous photographic film to 4 thousand quality . " Anything from those moving picture that is available is , like , 1990s Telecine things , which is the best that we had … compared to now , they look bloody painful , " JacksonexplainedonThe Empire Film Podcast .
" I just have n’t re - put out them because , if I do , I require them to count really good , " Jackson explicate . " We ’ve actually done some experiment . They attend bloody fantastic . They count like they ’re shoot on 35 mm . "
Jackson did n’t say specifically when these re - acquittance could be ask , but the near future seems like a ripe bet .
