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Erin Harrington, Senior Lecturer in English and Cultural Studies, University of Canterbury

New NZ film The Weed Eaters asks: why bury a body when you can just eat it, maybe with some tomato sauce?

Maslow Entertainment

In the microbudget horror comedy The Weed Eaters, a group of bumbling townies get high on someone else’s supply with grisly and ridiculous consequences.

Jules (Alice May Connolly) gives up partying with her friends for New Year’s Eve, and instead goes away with her boyfriend Brian (Finnius Teppett) and two of his slacker mates, Campbell (Samuel Austin) and Charlie (Annabel Kean), not to a cabin in the woods but an old shed on the edge of a deer farm in North Canterbury.

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