Death Warmed Up

Death Warmed Up was a grand prize-winner at a French fantasy festival, 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...
New Zealand Production
Feature 1984 Horror 85.00 minutes
57220006
A young man gets his revenge on the surgeon who turned him into a killer. Michael Tucker is programmed into killing his parents by genetic surgeon Dr Archer Howell and is incarcerated in a psychiatric institution for the crime. Years later Michael and friends travel to an isolated island where Howell now runs Trans Cranial Applications, experimenting on humans and turning them into mutant killing machines. Michael must have revenge on Howell for the death of his parents and also stop him for the sake of mankind...
Voted Best Horror Video of 1985, Video Today Magazine (U.K.)
Sitges, Spain, 1984
Best Horror Film
Grand Prix International Fantasy and Sci Fi Festival, Paris, 1984
Michael Heath retrospective at the International Film Festival of Kerala, Trivandrum, India 1998 along with "MOONRISE," and "THE SCARECROW."
Restored digitised version : world premiere 2018 Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival, Switzerland, 2018.

Directors

David Blyth

Producers

Murray Newey

Screenplay Writers

David Blyth
Michael Heath

Cast

Michael Hurst
Michael Tucker
Margaret Umbers
Sandy
David Leitch
Spider
Bruno Lawrence
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