- Year
- 1987
- Country
- NZ
- Runtime
- 91 min
- Director
- Peter Jackson
- Updated
- 9 Aug 2026
- Obscurity
- known (19/100)
Bad Taste
Shot at weekends over four years by Jackson and his friends. Astonishing.
Peter Jackson and his friends shot it over four years of weekends in New Zealand with a homemade Steadicam and effects built in his mum's kitchen, and it is astonishing what they got away with. Aliens harvest a town for an intergalactic fast-food chain, and the gore is gleeful, endless and clearly made by people laughing.
You can watch a future major filmmaker teaching himself everything in real time. It is amateur in the literal sense, made for love, and more inventive than films with a hundred times the money.
Where the Lord of the Rings director actually started.
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