Dead Alive Review

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  3.0

  54

  out of 100

  Metascore^®
  Mixed or average reviews
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  critic review scores.

• 20

  out of 100

  The New York Times Stephen Holden

  Because all of this looks blatantly unreal, and because the timing of the shock effects is so haphazard, Dead Alive isn't especially scary or repulsive. Nor is it very funny. Long before it's over, the half-hour-plus bloodbath that is the climax of the film has become an interminable bore. [12 Feb 1993, p.C16]

• 70

  out of 100

  Time

  There is good, broad humor amid the very gross gore effects. And when the Living Impaired stalk our hero's home, it's a family reunion out of your bloodiest nightmares. [8 Feb 1993, p.83]

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