Summaries

The population of a small town disappears and is replaced by aliens that chase human flesh for their intergalactic fast-food chain.

Derek and his friends must investigate the missing people in a small village. Then they find out its human formed aliens that are really big headed monsters that used all the people in the small village into their snack burgers. Now, Derek must save the day and the world with his chainsaw before the meat eaters strikes the whole planet. Will Derek kill all the aliens?—Liam

Aliens take over a small town in New Zealand. The NZ government send a team to track them down and bring a few in for examination. Derek and Barry head into the town with Ozzy and Frank as back up. From their first encounter they discover that the aliens are not that accommodating and taking them alive might be problematic.—grantss

A fast-food chain from the far reaches of space comes down to Earth: in search of human meat. A UN-space-agency is tasked with keeping these homicidal aliens at bay, but can these agents save the planet from rural New Zealand alone? The world of Bad Taste has many flavours: none of them clean, but very wild.—Johnny-the-Film-Sentinel-2187

Four dim-witted men from the New Zealand National Air and Space Defense League arrive in a small New Zealand fishing town to investigate a report of landing UFO's and take on a batallion-sized army of aliens who have massacred the town's population as part of their plans to use humans as part of their main ingredient for their intergalactic fast-food chain.—<[email protected]>

Details

Keywords
  • cult film
  • alien
  • dark comedy
  • absurd violence
  • b movie
Genres
  • Comedy
  • Horror
  • Sci-Fi
Release date Dec 24, 1987
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) Not Rated
Countries of origin New Zealand
Language English Maori
Filming locations Makara Beach, Wellington, New Zealand
Production companies New Zealand Film Commission WingNut Films

Box office

Budget $200000

Tech specs

Runtime 1h 31m
Color Color
Sound mix Mono
Aspect ratio

Synopsis

The New Zealand Astro Investigation and Defence Service (AIDS) sends Derek, Frank, Ozzy, and Barry to investigate the disappearance of everyone in the town of Kaihoro, North Island, New Zealand. They find the town has been overrun by space aliens disguised as humans. Barry kills one of the aliens and is attacked by others wielding sledge hammers. After Derek notifies Frank and Ozzy (whom are traveling on the road towards Kaihoro), he begins torturing Robert, an alien they captured earlier. Robert's screaming attracts a number of aliens in the area. Derek kills the would-be rescuers, but he is attacked by Robert and falls over a cliff, to his presumed death.

Meanwhile, a charity bill collector named Giles is passing through Kaihoro. He is attacked by Robert, who has been eating the brains of the alien killed earlier by Barry. Giles escapes in his car and stops at a nearby house for help. Another alien (dressed as a chef) answers the door and captures Giles by knocking him out with a wooden meat tenderizer mallet. Giles later wakes up in a tub of water and is told he is about to be eaten.

Derek also wakes up to find that he landed in a seagull's nest. He also finds that his brain is leaking out the back of his head, so he stuffs it back in and uses a hat to hold it in place.

That night, Frank, Ozzy, and Barry sneak into the aliens' house and find a room filled with bloody cardboard boxes. They kidnap and kill an alien and Frank puts on its shirt to infiltrate an alien meeting. He finds out that the residents of Kaihoro have been harvested for alien fast food for this intergalactic fast food chain called 'Crum's Country Delights'. Robert vomits into a bowl, which the aliens dine on, including the disguised (and disgusted) Frank. He escapes and tells the team members of the plan. They sneak out to save Giles as the aliens sleep.

At sunrise, they try to leave but are attacked by the aliens. A long and climatic gun battle breaks out with dozens of aliens (wieling AK-47 assault rifles and various automatic weapons) battle the four humans. Derek joins in on the battle only to have his hat shot off, and he starts losing more of his brain, so he uses his belt as a headband. He grabs a chainsaw from the boot of his car and heads for the alien house. As the boys leave with Giles, the alien leader (Lord Crumb) and his followers transform into their true form and follow. Ozzy uses a rocket launcher to blow up Frank's car, which has been overrun by aliens.

Frank and Ozzy return to the house and hunt for Lord Crumb, killing a lot of more aliens along the way. Meanwhile, Derek kills an alien with his chainsaw and replaces the missing parts of his brain with alien brain. An alien prepares to shoot Frank and Ozzy, but it is beheaded by Derek after he bursts through the wall behind it. Frank and Ozzy are shocked to see him alive.

As they run, Lord Crumb shoots Ozzy in both of his legs and Frank fires his rocket launcher at the leader, but it misses and almost hits Derek, finally taking out a sheep in a nearby meadow. Derek is knocked out by the alien leader and the house transforms into a giant space ship, which blasts off into space with Derek still aboard.

On board, Derek looks out the window to see that he is leaving Earth. Lord Crumb hears a strange, loud noise and investigates. He is killed by Derek, who ambushes him and cuts the alien in half with his chainsaw. Derek proclaims into his phone: "I'm born again! I'm coming to get you bastards!" He then puts on the alien leader's skin, laughing maniacally as he rockets towards the alien planet where he will presumably kill the rest of the alien race (with just his one chainsaw).

On Earth in the final shot, Frank, Ozzy, Giles, and Barry drive away into the sunset in Derek's car.

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