Play

00:00

Captions

Volume

The trailer from this movie.

An excerpt from this film.

The credits from this film.

Part one of two from this full length interview.

Part two of two from this full length interview.

The trailer from this movie.

An excerpt from this film.

The credits from this film.

Part one of two from this full length interview.

Part two of two from this full length interview.

Death Warmed Up

Film (Trailer, Excerpts, and Extras) – 1984

R16

Restricted

Add to watch list

Pre-dating Peter Jackson's arrival (Bad Taste) by three years, New Zealand's first horror movie sees Michael Hurst making his movie debut as he fights mutants (including Bruno Lawrence) on Waiheke Island. Hurst's character is out to avenge the mad scientist who forced him to kill his parents. A grand prize-winner at a French fantasy festival (with cult director Alejandro Jodorowsky on the jury), David Blyth's splatterfest marked the first of many horrors funded by the NZ Film Commission. It was also the first local showcase of the smoothly-flowing Steadicam camera.

We wanted to make a good genre film that made money - and it did. It's totally over the top...if you see it with some kids they scream with laughter, they know it's all fake.
– Scriptwriter Michael Heath in the Listener, 12 December 1987

Key Cast & Crew

Gary Day

As: Dr Howell

David Blyth

Director, Writer

Michael Heath

Writer

Michael Hurst

As: Michael Tucker

Murray Newey

Producer

David Weatherley

As: Professor Tucker

See all 32 credits

Produced by

The Tucker Production Company

Source

The Tucker Production Company

Acknowledgements

Presented with thanks to the New Zealand Film Heritage Trust – Te Puna Ataata

Music

Music composed by Mark Nicholas, with vocals by Annie Crummer and Peter Morgan

Songs 'I Like to Drive' and 'Wise Up' written and arranged by Scott Calhoun

'Stand by your Man' sung by Suzanne

Music produced by Wayne Laird

More Information

Which size would you like?

330 x 90 150 x 190

Copy this code and paste it into your website.


<!-- Start NZ On Screen - Death Warmed Up - Badge -->


<a href="https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/death-warmed-up-1984" > <img src="https://www.nzonscreen.com/content/badges/death-warmed-up-1984.horizontal-badge.jpg" width="330" height="90" alt="Death Warmed Up" /></a>

Which clip would you like to embed?

Start clip at:

Beginning This time: eg. 1m7s

At end of clip:

Continue to next clip Stop playing

Would you like the clip to be a fixed size or responsive?

Copy this code and paste it into your website.

 <iframe width="585" height="410" style="width: 585px" src="https://www.nzonscreen.com/embed/b62b781120576e52" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen ></iframe> 

Death Warmed Up

Film (Trailer, Excerpts, and Extras) – 1984

Key Cast & Crew

Gary Day

David Blyth

Michael Heath

Michael Hurst

Murray Newey

David Weatherley

Produced by

Source

Acknowledgements

Music

Tags

Categories

More Information

More from the Horror Collection...

Death Warmed Up

Mr Wrong

The Haunting of Barney Palmer

So Free

Housebound

Bride of Frankenstein

What We Do in the Shadows

Braindead

Mataku

Ao-Terror-Oa - Episodes

Delirium

Rotting Hill

Under the Mountain - The Alien World Below (Episode Four)

Black Sheep

Deathgasm

The Killian Curse - First Episode

The Murder House

About Face - The Lamb of God

The Ugly

Trial Run

The French Doors

Larger Than Life

Trial Run

The Locals

Moonrise (aka Grampire)

When Night Falls

The Scarecrow

Next of Kin

A Haunting We Will Go - Cellar Ghost

Jack Be Nimble

The Brain that Wouldn't Die

The Irrefutable Truth about Demons

Freaky - First Episode

The Lost Tribe

The Devil's Rock

Fresh Meat

Perfect Creature

Coming Home in the Dark

The Frighteners

Reunion

I Survived a Zombie Holocaust

Wound

Ghost Bride

The Dead Room

Spookers

Shadow in the Cloud

Come to Daddy

The Creakers

Share this video