Horror and holiday fun
ABOVE: Michael Hurst is captured by attendants at the Trans Cranial Applications institute in New Zealand’s first horror movie, “Death Warmed Up,” which will begin on Saturday at the Carlton. The loose plot follows Michael Tucker (Hurst) who is programmed to kill his parents by a genetic surgeon, Dr Archer Howell, and is locked up in a psychiatric institution for the
crime. Years later, Michael and friends travel to an isolated island where Howell runs Trans Cranial Applications, experimenting on humans and turning them into mutant killing machines. Cinemagoers are warned that it takes a strong stomach to sit through this exercise in shlock-horror, which leaves little to the imagination. BELOW: Russell Todd
and Howard McGillin relax in the teen-age comedy, “Where the Boys Are,” which will begin at the Avon tomorrow. This innocent escapade is set in Fort Lauderdale during the mating rites of America’s youth who flock there each summer. This version was inspired by a 1960 s movie of the same name which starred Connie Francis.
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Press, 30 August 1984, Page 18
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