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Death Warmed Up

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4.4/10 • 34

1984-11-221h 18m

HorrorScience Fiction

...You'll Never Want To Change Your Mind Again..!

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.

Directors
David Blyth
Writters
David Blyth, Michael Heath
Editors
David Huggett

Top Billed Cast

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  1. Michael Hurst

    Michael Hurst

    Michael Tucker

  2. Margaret Umbers

    Margaret Umbers

    Sandy

  3. William Upjohn

    William Upjohn

    Lucas

  4. Norelle Scott

    Norelle Scott

    Jeannie

  5. Gary Day

    Gary Day

    Dr. Archer Howell

  6. David Letch

    David Letch

    Spider

  7. Geoff Snell

    Geoff Snell

    Jannings

  8. Bruno Lawrence

    Bruno Lawrence

    Tex

  9. Ian Watkin

    Ian Watkin

    Bill

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talisencrw

Apr 16, 2016

4/10

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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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
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Revenue
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Keywords
new zealand