Braindead (film) - Plot

Plot

The first scene sets up the danger of the "Sumatran Rat-Monkey", a hybrid creature that, "according to legend", resulted from the rape of tree monkeys on Skull Island by plague rats: Stewart, an explorer returning from the depths of the island with his guide and team, is carrying a rat-monkey in a cage and is stopped by fierce warrior natives that demand the return of the monkey. Stewart escapes with the cage to the rest of his team and a waiting Jeep, leaving his guide behind and the natives in hot pursuit. As the jeep takes off, Stewart's guide catches up and jumps on board. In the ensuing melee, Stewart gets bitten by the Rat-Monkey. Seeing the mark of the monkey's bite on his right hand, Stewart's men immediately hold down the infected explorer and amputate the appendage. A bite mark is then seen on his left arm, which swiftly results in the removal of that limb. Finally, they see a set of bloody scratches on Stewart's forehead and kill him. The title screen follows the man's dying scream, and as the opening credits roll the captured rat-monkey is shipped to Wellington Zoo in New Zealand.

Wellington, 1957, Lionel Cosgrove lives with his domineering mother, Vera. To his mother's dismay, Lionel falls in love with a local shopkeeper's daughter, Paquita, and while snooping on the two during a visit to the zoo, Vera is bitten by the Sumatran Rat-Monkey; she subsequently crushes its head. The animal's bite slowly turns her into a ravenous zombie. Lionel is horrified, but, ever the dedicated son, is determined to care for her. Despite his efforts to keep her placated with periodic doses of veterinary anesthetic, Vera starts murdering other townspeople, turning them into zombies. He tries to keep them locked away in the basement, while simultaneously trying to maintain his relationship with the completely oblivious Paquita. Vera escapes, however, and is hit by a tram.

As the townspeople assume she is dead, Lionel tranquilizes the still-kicking zombie for her funeral. After she is buried, he returns to the graveyard to administer more anesthetic, but is accosted by a gang of hoodlums. Vera bursts from her grave, resulting in more deaths and zombies. As their numbers grow, Lionel manages to keep the zombies under relative control with repeated injections, and tries to keep them concealed in his home. However, Lionel's uncle Les, arrives to try to wrangle with Lionel over his mother's estate. Uncle Les discovers the "corpses" and blackmails his nephew into giving up his inheritance in return for his silence.

Lionel reluctantly administers poison to the zombies ("killing" them) and buries them, just as Uncle Les and a crowd of his friends arrive for a housewarming party. However, the "poison" turns out to be an animal stimulant, and since the zombies come from the bite of the animal (the Rat-Monkey), it only gives them even more energy. The zombies burst from the ground to attack and infect the party guests in a gory finale.

Some of the guests are running, and some are being eaten by the zombies. Lionel goes inside a room where hew saw paquita fighting with Uncle Les, they were horrified by the zombie outbreak, Uncles Les Managed to get outside the window, while lionel pulls a large Hanger with clothes which distracts the zombies and gives Paquita a chance to escape. He later kills the zombified Void by splitting his body into half, but his intestines came to life and tries to kill him. he goes into the attic where he saw a vault containing a corpse. he notices that it is his real mother. he stumbles down from the attic upside down while a rope hangs on his feet. Paquita, Rita, Stewart and Mandy barricaded themselves on a room. A man was being eaten on the window and they help him, but when they pulled him inside his body is half eaten. Mandy screams and a zombie knocks her down and crushing his hands on Mandy's mouth killing her. Stewart was later killed by the zombies. Paquita hide on a cabinet where she saw Rita also hiding. they go to the kitchen and barricade themselves there, but the zombified Mandy was there and the baby. The baby bit Rita's neck, and the two saw Uncle Les screaming for help and they save him by pulling him inside, but the room was fully damaged so the zombies got inside. As the girls run upstairs, Uncle Les was bullied by the baby zombie as he follows it, he had gone into the basement where Lionel's mother turned out to be a giant zombie. She pulled him up and separate his spinal cord and head to his body.

Paquita and Rita were chased by the zombies, Lionel appears and holds a running power lawn mower, bottom outwards, with which he killed some of the zombies. The group are now fighting with hundreds of zombies, animated intestines and spinal cords, severed heads, and disembodied legs. Paquita was fighting with some of the zombies, until she notices Rita, as she talks to her, a baby's hands appeared on her two ears and the hands splits her head into half revealing the baby had killed Rita. just as it attacks Paquita, Mandy's head impaled in a bulb ignites, she manages to blow a gas pipe into it and the zombiefied Rita was exposed in the fire. Lionel managed to kill all of the zombies, until Lionel's mother, who (assumedly because she was the one originally bitten) has become a gargantuan monster, pursues Lionel and Paquita to the rooftop, paquita almost falls and hangs on the roof, where Lionel finally confronts his mother about the truth regarding his father's demise and his real mother. it was revealed that she's only his stepmother. She picks him up and stuffs him back into her womb, Paquita screams in terror while she saw him being stuffed into her womb. Lionel's mother now tries to kill Paquita by removing her hands on the pole in which she holds, and in an over-the-top "rebirth", he cuts his way out of her grotesquely changed body using the amulet and she falls into the fiery house below. Lionel and Paquita escape the burning building, and walk away arm-in-arm covered in gore, as the local fire department arrives on the scene to put out the flames.