Death Warmed Up

AroView: Hell-bent on exacting revenge on a loony scientist, Michael Hurst leads his friends to a secret island where toxic abominations run riot. This low-budget gross-out gave the local film establishment something of a hernia, despite being relatively restrained.

David Blyth’s splatter-fest marked the first of many horrors funded by the NZ Film Commission, and was also the first local showcase of the smoothly-flowing Steadicam camera.