Making Bad Taste

1987

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Watch out, aliens...here comes Derek!

Production

Go behind the scenes on the 1987 Horror / Occult movie starring Terry Potter, Pete O'Herne, Craig Smith, Mike Minett

Peter Jackson, Doug Wren, Dean Lawrie, Peter Vere-Jones, Costa Botes, Graham Butcher, Michael Gooch, Peter Gooch, Robin Griggs, Bob Haliburton, Ken Hammon, Clive Haywood, Philip Lamey, Andrew McKay, Laurie Yarrall, Shane Yarrall Update Cast

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Thanks to Jenn Groves

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Bad Taste was filmed over a four-year period by Peter Jackson, with his friends as the actors. Towards the end, the New Zealand Film Commission was impressed with what Jackson had already created, and paid for the rest of it. The entire movie was shot without scripts. Yup, this is the same Peter Jackson now directing the Lord of the Rings trilogy - just goes to show the difference a budget can make - but I don't think he's included a character called Robert in those films!

Thanks to Luis Torres

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Director Peter Jackson used his mother's oven to make the latex masks of the characters.

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All of the sound in this movie is dubbed; the original tapes were lost.

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Peter Jackson constructed his own counterweighted steady-cam. The cost? $15.

Thanks to Mike Travers

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There were 3 models of the alien house made. 1. To blow up the side of. 2. To blast off into the skies. 3. To be spun around on a string in the outer space scenes.

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Deleted Scenes

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Alternate Versions

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The original ending to Bad Taste was that Giles got eaten by the alien...

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