Haley Caudwell

Baz Luhrmann meets Peter Jackson in this audacious 1950s-style comedy-horror musical extravaganza, featuring a spectacular score performed by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Set in Cold War-era rural New Zealand, HUHU ATTACK! is the story of two social misfits - mousy spinster, Ngaire, and traveling magician, Miles - who find love against a backdrop of small-town prejudice and 40ft-high mutant man-eating Huhu grubs!

As a middle aged married couple shop for a new bed they begin to realise their bed might not be the only thing they’ve out grown.

Dean returns to his small town home where he finds the tight-knit community is still against him. When his live-wire older brother Jon ignites local tensions the brothers retreat into the wilderness with their hunting gear. As an old animosity resurfaces they begin to suspect that Deer is not the only prey being hunted. The higher they climb into mountainous terrain the closer they get to the truth that separates them.