Bad Taste
90 min.
Directed by Peter Jackson, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Terry Porry, Mike Minett, Pete O’Herne, Peter Jackson.

The first film by the perversely imaginative New Zealand director of Meet the Feebles and Heavenly Bodies has become a cult item. Reportedly, the title is an exercise in truth in advertising, which is described in Leonard Maltin’s Movie and Video Guide as a “gory comedy about callous alien fast-food entrepreneurs, here to harvest humanity.” Jackson does it all in this movie: writes, directs, stars, produces, and designs the makeup.

This article appears in June 25 • 1999 (Cover).

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.