Death Warmed Up [Blu-ray]

Director: David Blyth David Blyth

Overview

This funky and intelligent sci-fi-horror sleeper from New Zealand features Gary Day as the maniacal Dr. Howell, director of the Trans-Cranial Applications Hospital, who conducts bizarre brain experiments in a subterranean laboratory on a remote island -- most of which backfire and turn his patients into murderous zombie slaves. Onto this island of weirdness ventures a group of youths -- including the troubled son (Michael Hurst) of the doctor's former scientific rival, whom the mad doc had hypnotized into murdering his father several years ago. The resulting confrontations between the dirtbike-riding kids and armies of rampaging mutants are action-packed and splattery as all get-out.

Product Details

Release Date:	04/30/2019
UPC:	0663390002865
Original Release:	1984
Source:	Severin
Region Code:	A
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:20:00
Sales rank:	29,466

Special Features

Closed Caption; Audio commentary with director David Blyth and writer Michael Heath; I'll Get You All - interview with actor David Letch; Deleted scenes with optional audio commentary by director David Blyth and writer Michael Heath; Original New Zealand 4x3 VHS cut; Interview featurette with David Blyth and Michael Heath; Theatrical trailer; VHS trailers; TV spot

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Michael Hurst	Michael Tucker
Margaret Umbers	Sandy
William Upjohn	Lucas
Norelle Scott	Jeannie
Gary Day	Actor
David Letch	Actor
Bruno Lawrence	Tex
Mark Nicholas	Composer

Technical Credits

David Blyth

Michael Heath

David Blyth	Director,Screenwriter
Murray Newey	Producer
Michael Heath	Screenwriter

Editorial Reviews

Death Warmed Up has the honor of being New Zealand's first all-out gore flick, beating Peter Jackson's Bad Taste by a few years and cementing it in history as a long-lost horror gem whose core audience has yet to uncover it. Winner of the 1984 Grand Prix award at the International Festival of Fantasy and Science Fiction Films, whose jury featured none other than the infamous surrealist auteur Alejandro Jodorowsky, David Blyth and his film were jutted into the spotlight, edging out another little horror outing that just so happened to be there that year -- namely, Joe Dante's Gremlins. What makes Death Warmed Up stand out from the very start is its gratuitous love for the red stuff, mixed with a visual flair that echoes the color palette of Mario Bava or even Dario Argento in a roundabout low-budget way. There's also a kinetic pulse to this juicy little gem that's rarely found in horror, either past or present. Sure, it's a fact that most of the film makes zero sense (especially toward the end), but who needs plot when you basically throw a bunch of teens headed by an albino dreamboat and sadistic mutants together in a psychedelic hospital? Recommended alone for the brain surgery scene with the team of sexy nurses, Death Warmed Up has got the early '80s horror juice that just keeps on giving.

All Movie Guide - Jeremy Wheeler