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chief, his 15-year-old son Hongi and their tribe allow a rival tribe access to the remains of the second tribe's fallen warriors. Hongi does not trust the rival tribe's leader, Wirepa, and follows him. As Hongi suspected, the visit is a ruse, and Wirepa desecrates the grave site as a pretext for war,
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in Maori mythology. Hongi, suspecting that the monster is in fact a man, tracks him down and, although reluctant, the monster agrees to help Hongi hunt down Wirepa. The monster is in fact a warrior (who is never named in the film) who murdered all the men of his own tribe, and he kills anyone who
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premiered on 23 January 2020 on
Shudder's platforms followed by TVNZ shortly afterwards with later shown on both Shudder and TVNZ OnDemand. Decider called it an exciting and funny Ancient-MÄori Riff on the Z-word Genre Locus Magazine saw it as a first-rate action adventure supernatural horror
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Hollywood supernatural action thriller but wraps it beautifully and carefully in MÄori culture and myth to create something the likes of which Iāve never seen before.ā
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