Braindead (film) - Legacy

Legacy

• In Jackson's version of King Kong (2005), the cargo hold of the ship has a box reading Sumatran Rat Monkey — Beware the bite!
• In the video game Left 4 Dead (2008), a room can be found (in the Blood Harvest campaign) containing an upturned lawnmower with a rope attached and a considerable amount of blood, referencing a particularly gory scene of the film.
• In the Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated 2010 episode "The Secret Serum", Velma Dinkley's mother references an order of "Sumatran rat-monkeys" from Skull Island.
• Actor, comedian, and friend of Jackson Simon Pegg talks in his book nerd do well that Braindead is one of the main influences on his film Shaun of the Dead.
• In the film The Adventures of Tintin which is directed by Steven Spielberg and produced by Jackson, there is a brief scene where Captain Haddock mistakes Snowy for a "Giant Rat of Sumatra". It should be noted, though, that this is also a reference to a famous Sherlock Holmes story.
• In an Animated Feature Hotel Transylvania, Sumatran Rat-Monkey is named It.