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Death Warmed Up

  • 1984
  • R
  • 1h 22m
IMDb RATING
4.5/10
1.3K
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Death Warmed Up (1984)
HorrorSci-Fi

A kid is hypnotized by a scientist to kill his parents and ends in a mental institution. As a grown up he returns to seek revenge over the scientist.A kid is hypnotized by a scientist to kill his parents and ends in a mental institution. As a grown up he returns to seek revenge over the scientist.A kid is hypnotized by a scientist to kill his parents and ends in a mental institution. As a grown up he returns to seek revenge over the scientist.

  • Director
    • David Blyth
  • Writers
    • Michael Heath
    • David Blyth
  • Stars
    • Michael Hurst
    • Margaret Umbers
    • Norelle Scott
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  • IMDb RATING
    4.5/10
    1.3K
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    • Director
      • David Blyth
    • Writers
      • Michael Heath
      • David Blyth
    • Stars
      • Michael Hurst
      • Margaret Umbers
      • Norelle Scott
    • 28User reviews
    • 38Critic reviews
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    Michael Hurst
    Michael Hurst
    • Michael Tucker
    Margaret Umbers
    Margaret Umbers
    • Sandy
    Norelle Scott
    Norelle Scott
    • Jeannie
    William Upjohn
    • Lucas
    David Letch
    David Letch
    • Spider
    Gary Day
    • Dr. Archer Howell
    Bruno Lawrence
    Bruno Lawrence
    • Tex
    Geoff Snell
    • Jannings
    Ian Watkin
    • Bill
    David Weatherley
    • Professor Tucker
    Tina Grenville
    • Netty Tucker
    Nathaniel Lees
    Nathaniel Lees
    • Jackson
    Karam Hau
    • Berry
    Jonathan Hardy
    Jonathan Hardy
    • Ranji Gandhi
    Norman Fairley
    Norman Fairley
    • Barman
    Eva Radich
    • Sister Scott
    Judy McIntosh
    • Duty Nurse
    Ken Harris
    • Janitor
    • Director
      • David Blyth
    • Writers
      • Michael Heath
      • David Blyth
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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      The surgery scene at about 1:15 reuses the exact same footage as the first surgery scene.
    • Goofs
      At the beginning of the movie, when Michael's mother and father are watching the news in their bedroom.
    • Alternate versions
      The BBFC required approximately a minute of cuts to grant a certificate in the UK. Also cut in Australia.
    • Connections
      Referenced in I'll Get You All - David Letch on Death Warmed Up (2019)

    User reviews28

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    4/10
    This COULD have been a fine film, in better hands!
    Ever go to one of those all-you-can-eat buffets that has virtually every kind of food imaginable, and you go in thinking it's going to be an excellent experience, a few of the foods you sample are fairly good, but you're left afterwards with a huge bellyache and the check? That's the way I felt after watching 'Death Warmed Up', from my now-infamous Mill Creek 50-film 'Nightmare Worlds' pack--it has a few interesting ideas, and some decent, though dated, atmosphere, but director Blyth doesn't know how to put it all together. In the right hands, this could have worked, but it definitely doesn't, and that's a shame, because it had potential...'it coulda been a contender!' The two young female leads that play Sandy and Jeannie are beautiful, there's good chemistry between them and the two male leads, particularly in the scene where they're on the ferry going to the island. The completely gratuitous nudity and softcore sex was a great bonus. In an interview that was a DVD extra for 'The Fog', Jamie Lee Curtis explained that she enjoyed starting out in horror and that it was a useful genre for an actor in that it gave one a wide range of possible behaviours to both utilize and show, and, by the end, Michael and Sandy proved to me they were good actors. It's just too bad they were in a nondescript, clunky script that had no idea what it was doing or where it was going. 'Death Warmed Up' is one of those films that doesn't have a climactic finale, or end, per se, it just simply stops or dies, as if the filmmakers simply had no ideas left and simply stopped when they ran out of film.

    THIS is the type of film that should be remade, not the wildly successful and great film that has no need to have a different interpretation or chance at life, but the misfires or the should-have-beens--to show the world that these ideas had validity and meaning after all.
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    Details

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    • Release date
      • April 25, 1985 (Netherlands)
    • Country of origin
      • New Zealand
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Death Warmed Over
    • Filming locations
      • Auckland, New Zealand
    • Production companies
      • Tucker Production Company
      • New Zealand Film Commission
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 22 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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