Bad Taste

Bad Taste is Peter Jackson's debut feature film, a gleefully gory splatter comedy in which a team of inept government agents investigates the disappearance of a small New Zealand town's population. The culprits turn out to be aliens collecting human flesh as the latest ingredient for their intergalactic fast food chain. Shot on a shoestring budget with homemade special effects, the film launched Jackson's career and became a cult classic celebrated for its anarchic humor and outrageous gore.

• Peter Jackson filmed Bad Taste over four years on weekends.
• Jackson played two characters: Derek and alien Robert.
• The entire film was made for approximately NZD 25,000.
• Jackson's friends and family formed the entire cast and crew.
• Fake vomit was made from baked bean soup by Jackson.

• I'm a Derek, and Dereks don't run.
• The bastards have landed.
• This is a battle of the minds... and you're unarmed.
• We want to live, just like you.
• Class-4 outbreak. No doubt about it.