The Locals (2003)
Oct 19, 2003Backwoods Undead
A New Zealand-made horror film in which two friends find themselves trapped in a small rural town where the dead keep returning to life
Kate Elliott
Fresh Meat (2012)
Mar 6, 2024Maori Cannibals Comedy
New Zealand comedy in which a teenage daughter discovers that her father Temuera Morrison is a modern-day Maori cannibal cultist. Everything is given a very broad playing
Deathgasm (2015)
Oct 18, 2015Heavy Metalheads Unleash Demons/Splatter Comedy
Outrageous New Zealand-made effort that fondly recalls the 1980s splatter comedies of Sam Raimi, Peter Jackson et al. This often feels like former teen metalheads looking back and puncturing the pretensions of their youth
Ash (2025)
Aug 3, 2025Hostile Alien Planet/Alien Nasty
The rapper turned filmmaker Flying Lotus directs a copy of Alien with an amnesiac crewmember of a ship landed on a hostile planet where the crew are hunted by an alien nasty