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 | | The film's opening, an image of the New Zealand flag and the sound of the national anthem, followed by a portrait of the youthful Queen Elizabeth II (recalling the opening of Bad Taste), makes the connection between the mother country and the terrible mother in the story. |
 | | This scene, as Helen Martin notes, is part of a larger motif of birth imagery in the film that includes shots of uterine passageways in the house and the scene of Lionel hanging from the ceiling lamp cord while pursued by crawling intestines (6). |
 | | Jackson had a bigger budget and better resources than ever before when he returned to Braindead after a delay of over two years, and it shows: the film has even more blood, guts and generally gross imagery than Jackson's previous two productions. |
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