Evil Dead influenced Braindead

Peter Jackson's early films are made from Raimi's, and he has said so repeatedly: Evil Dead was the proof that a very small crew with no money could make a horror film that looked invented rather than cheap. What carries: the camera as a physical object thrown through the set, splatter pushed so far past plausibility that it becomes comedy, practical effects built in a shed, and a single house that fills with the dead. Filed MEDIUM. It is a stated debt of method and tone rather than borrowed material, and Braindead's lawnmower takes the idea somewhere Raimi did not.