Nine years before he worked with Michael J. Fox on The Frighteners, sixteen years before winning three Oscars with Return of the King, and eighteen years before remaking King Kong, Peter Jackson started his feature film career with the action packed, alien invaded, blood and guts soaked, kiwi to the core, sci-fi horror comedy Bad Taste, and I think it deserves to be held in the same regard as The Evil Dead.

We’ve all seen the standard plot of “aliens secretly live among us and have nefarious plans” ten times over; but, Bad Taste isn’t your standard alien invasion movie. It’s got aliens who intend to sell human meat as intergalactic fast food. It’s also got homemade effects, props, and gore (the last of which is turned up to eleven). And, to top it all off, it’s got some non-actor, average kiwi dudes playing the roles of alien blasting action heroes. Does all that sound interesting to you? If you’re in disbelief you haven’t seen something that sounds this amazing, then Bad Taste is right up your alley.

As alluded to above, Jackson’s Bad Taste depicts the exploits of four members of New Zealand’s “Astro Investigation and Defense Service” as they discover and face off against a horde of aliens disguised as humans, who intend to start selling human as the new intergalactic fast food sensation. We watch as our heroes do battle against the dastardly alien foes with everything from guns (which were mostly crafted of wood and scrap metal by Jackson and the crew) to chainsaws, to a rocket launcher.