Everyone remembers when New Zealand’s Peter Jackson came barreling onto the scene and in quick order brought us Bad Taste (1987), Meet the Feebles (1989), and Braindead (1992) before eventually settling down into Academy Award-winning fantasy films. (I forget their names. Just Google them.) But he wasn’t the first to introduce the world to his country’s nascent splattery talent: that honor goes to Death Warmed Up (1984), a loopy mash-up of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, The Hills Have Eye, Mad Max, and Looney Tunes, all spit-shined to grimy perfection in a great new Blu-ray from Severin Films.
Remastered by director David Blyth (Red Blooded American Girl) from the only existing materials, this new disc of Death Warmed Up has a ton of gooey goodies that we’ll get to, but first let’s tackle the story:
Dr. Archer Howell (Gary Day – Death Wave) plans on taking his mind control experiments to the next,...
Remastered by director David Blyth (Red Blooded American Girl) from the only existing materials, this new disc of Death Warmed Up has a ton of gooey goodies that we’ll get to, but first let’s tackle the story:
Dr. Archer Howell (Gary Day – Death Wave) plans on taking his mind control experiments to the next,...
- 7/10/2019
- by Scott Drebit
- DailyDead
Watch our special Children of 9/11, 15 Years Later on the new People/Entertainment Weekly Network (Pen), launching September 13. Go to people.com/Pen or download the free app on your Smart TV, mobile and Web devices.Fifteen years ago, Edie Lutnick was a lawyer with an office on the 101st floor of the World Trade Center. Early on the morning of September 11, 2001, Lutnick had a breakfast appointment with a client who cancelled at the last minute. "I didn't come in," Lutnick tells People. "I went back to bed." That cancelled appointment saved her life. A plane struck the tower that morning,...
- 9/8/2016
- by Diane Herbst, @DianeHerbst
- PEOPLE.com
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