History YMMV / Braindead

** [[spoiler: Turns out Lionel's mother crossed this long before she turned into a zombie, drowning both her husband and a woman he reputedly had an affair with in the bathtub. And then fabricated a lie that pushed blame onto Lionel.]]

* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: The film definitely did not sugarcoat the gore and makeup effects, depicting gallons upon gallons of authentic looking blood and human meat chunks, puppetry that allowed for some of the more severely dismembered zombies, and fairly impressive blink-and-you'll miss in-between shots. The film even won several Best Special Effects awards, and rightfully so.

* NauseaFuel: Considering the film is regarded as one of the goriest movies in existence, this is to be expected. However, the biggest offender is probably the custard scene (which is detailed below).

** When guests come over to see his ill mom, they have a relatively uneventful dinner until his mother's ear falls off and lands in the custard. She then absentmindedly eats the custard with the ear.
*** And then one or her zits pops pus into one of the guest's bowls. ''[[UpToEleven He starts to eat it.]]''

* UncannyValley: The Sumatran Rat Monkey. The stop-motion doesn't really help (though it ''does'' help in making it more frightening).

* CrossesTheLineTwice: Where do we even ''start''?

* NauseaFuel: Many, many examples throughout, but the biggest offender is probably the custard scene.

* UncannyValley: The Sumatran Rat Monkey. The stop-motion doesn't really help (though it ''does'' help in making it more frightening).

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The scene where Lionel takes the zombie baby to the park. There's no logical reason why he did this, it adds nothing to the plot, and it's never mentioned again. [[RuleOfFunny But it was really funny.]]

* UglyCute: Selwyn the zombie baby. Some characters in-universe even seem to think so.

** And then Void became Nori in ''Film/TheHobbitTrilogy''.

** A lot of people who watch this movie may just do so for the {{Gorn}}.

* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler: Turns out Lionel's mother crossed this long before she turned into a zombie, drowning both her husband and a woman he reputedly had an affair with in the bathtub. And then fabricated a lie that pushed blame onto Lionel.]]
** And Uncle Les attempted to rape Paquita.

** And then Void became Nori in ''The Hobbit''.

** Father [=McGruder=]'s kung-fu battle with the zombies.

-->'''Embalmer:''' Cranial blowout!

* JustHereForGodzilla: A lot of people who watch this movie may just do so for the {{Gorn}}.

* SignatureScene: Lionel taking Selwyn to the park, and it backfiring ''horribly''.

* UncannyValley: The Sumatran Rat Monkey. The stop-motion doesn't really help (though it ''does'' help in making it more frightening).
* WhatAnIdiot:
** Uncle Les when he decides to host a housewarming party with zombies lingering in the basement. What could possibly go wrong?
** Why exactly, if Lionel was trying to keep the zombies in his basement a secret, did he think it would be a good idea to take a zombie baby ''to the public park?''

* WhatAnIdiot: Uncle Les when he decides to host a housewarming party with zombies lingering in the basement. What could possibly go wrong?

** Not ''all'' of it.

* ColbertBump: Thanks to Jackson's later works with ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings''.

* SpecialEffectFailure: It's ''very'' obvious when Selwyn the zombie baby transitions between an immobile dummy and a person in a costume.

* WhatAnIdiot: Uncle Les when he decides to host a housewarming party with zombies lingering in the basement. What could possibly go wrong?