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Bad Taste

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Bad Taste
Movie poster
Country Error creating thumbnail: File missing New Zealand
Directed by Peter Jackson
Release Date 1987
Language English
Studio WingNut Films
New Zealand Film Commission
Distributor Image Entertainment (US)
Main Cast
Character Actor
Derek / Robert Peter Jackson
Ozzy Terry Potter
Barry Pete O' Herne
Frank Mike Minett
Giles Copeland (Charity Collector) Craig Smith
Lord Crumb Doug Wren



Bad Taste is a 1987 horror comedy that was the first feature length film directed by Peter Jackson. Jackson also has an acting role in the film.

The following guns were used in the movie Bad Taste


Smith & Wesson Model 29

First gun seen in the film. After Barry (Pete O'Herne) fails to lose a blue-shirted human impostor who has trailed him from the deserted town, he resorts to using the team's Smith & Wesson Model 29 on the alien.

Later the team's unstable Ozzy (Terry Potter) calls the Magnum when the team preps for the manor infiltration and uses it for the rest of the film.

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Smith & Wesson Model 29 - .44 Magnum.


IMI Uzi

Derek (Peter Jackson) uses an IMI Uzi sub-machine gun at the start of the film. The weapon is seen again later in the hands of an alien.

IMI Uzi also appears in the cover of Soldier of Fortune magazine that Ozzy is reading while waiting Barry to report back.


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IMI Uzi 9mm
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Derek holding the Uzi sub-machine gun.
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The prop Uzi being fired. You can tell this weapon is fake because the bolt doesn't move during firing and no casings are being ejected. Peter Jackson added the muzzle flashes in later during post-production.
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Ozzy reading the Soldier of Fortune magazine with a guy cocking a Uzi on cover. (For better view of the Soldier of Fortune cover, check the trivia section below)
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The Uzi seen in the hands of the alien on the right.

Sterling MK IV SMG

Three Sterling MK IV Submachine guns are used by Frank, Barry and Ozzy.

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Sterling MK IV - 9x19mm
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Frank doing a chamber check on his Sterling.
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A closer look.

AKS-47

This is the weapon of choice for most of the aliens in the movie. Again, this was another replica made by Peter Jackson for the movie.

There appears to be two types AKS(s) shown in film. One has the AKM-style slant cut muzzle brake.

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AKS-47 7.62x39mm
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Robert holding up the AKS. Robert is another character played by Peter Jackson.
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A close up shot.


Beretta Model 1935

When "The Boys" are getting out of the manor, the alien who blows their cover pulls out a Beretta Model 1935 at the Boys.

It is also used by some of the alien mooks during the shoot-outs.

Walther P38

Used by one of the aliens playing patty-cake who are killed by Ozzy when the firefight starts and also a drunken alien who Ozzy shoots straight in the forehead.

Walther PPK

After the firefight starts, Lord Crumb (Doug Wren) gets a Walther PPK stashed in a drawer. He is later appears cauctiously sneaking around the homestead in search of the boys and hides behind a bush. He gets a clear shot of Barry, but his perfect kill was foiled by the fact that he failed to load the magazine with real bullets in the first place. He is shown trying to load bullets in the magazine but starts to revert back to his real form and discards it.

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PPK stashed in the drawer
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Lord Crumb sneaking around the homestead with his PPK
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Lord Crumb: "Oh, sod it!"
Notice grips with NSDAP eagle holding a wreath encircled swastika insignia. This kind of PPK grip is often associated with the Nazi Walther PPK Party Leader Pistol AKA "Honor Weapon of the [Nazi] Political Leaders."

M1911

The team leader Frank is seen wielding a M1911 during the firefight outside of the housestead. Most likely to compensate the fact that the M1911 is a non-firing replica, it changes into Browning Hi-Power everytime Frank is shown firing his pistol.

Browning Hi-Power

Barry uses what looks like a Browning Hi-Power pistol after his Sterling jams. It appears that this is a real gun because there is recoil, smoke and ejecting cartridges. Apparently, the New Zealand film commission didn't allow Peter Jackson to use blank firing guns in this movie which is why he made replicas and added in the effects during post-production. Handguns are legal to own in New Zealand so Peter wouldn't of had much trouble using them in the movie. The actors also behave like they're firing a real gun during these scenes. Full auto weapons on the other hand are restricted in New Zealand which explains the use of replicas for the "bigger" guns.

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Browning Hi-Power pistol.
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Barry shooting the Hi-power.
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A close up.
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Recoil, empty casing and smoke suggests that this is a real gun.

MP40

Used by various alien mooks during latter parts of the film

RPG-7

The Boys have a (faux) RPG-7 with them. What 1980's New Zealand special forces under British Commonwealth of Nations are doing with a Soviet-made weapon nobody knows but most likely has something to do with hilarious carnage.

It first appears sealed within a locked crate in the trunk of Frank's car during the team's preparations to raid the homestead. Ozzy gleams over it while the others assure that they won't be needing it, crying dissapproving "bloody hell!" for.

During the final confrontation of the movie, the team decides that the aliens must be stopped and Ozzy runs to Frank's car to aquire the launcher. He breaks the lock with the S&W Model 29 and decides to test it on two aliens investigating Frank's car - blowing his co-worker's ride in process.

After Ozzy is injured Frank aquires it and fires it at the homestead, intending to nail Lord Crumb, but instead makes an animal that goes "baa" go "BOOM". It is then totally discarded.

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RPG-7 with PG-7VM rocket and PGO-7 scope - 40mm
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Ozzy aquires the RPG-7
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Ozzy taking aim with RPG-7 at Frank's car that two aliens are investigating.
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Ozzy with RPG-7 running back to the homestead to settle the score with the alien b******s.
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Frank firing the RPG-7 at the homestead.

Trivia & Additional Images

Firearm Replicas

It's interesting to note that Peter Jackson went about crafting most of the guns himself for the movie. In "Good Taste Made Bad Taste" behind-the-scenes documentary, Peter Jackson demonstrates one of the Sterling SMG replicas and explains how the magazine is actually all wood with a bit of cardboard on top, and that the gun itself was made from Aluminum pipe and some fiberglass. He doesn't specify if he made the other guns but nonetheless they're quite impressive.

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Some of the firearm replicas that Peter Jackson made for the movie. From top; AKS-47, IMI Uzi and 3 Sterling Mk. IV sub-machine guns with rightmost having a extended stock.
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Peter Jackson explaining how he made the Sterling Mk. IV SMG replicas while holding a type of Aluminum Pipe that was used to make them.

Other Curio

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September 1981 issue of Soldier of Fortune that Ozzy (Terry Potter) reads at the car.
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"The Boys'" uniform has the British 2nd SAS patches on them. Maybe a leftover from earlier version of the script, as the boys go under the unfortunate banner of "Astro Investigation and Defence Service" during the movie.
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Production Image with some of the crew dressed as the aliens from the movie. Two of the aliens have MP-40(s) and one of them has a Uzi