Shudder’s Horror Fantasy Series “The Dead Lands” Premieres This January
Shudder’s new supernatural fantasy adventure series “The Dead Lands” is ready to premiere later this month. Set in a mythical Aotearoa—New Zealand in a time before time. A dishonored warrior, Waka Nuku Rau dies, but his Ancestors in the Afterlife send him back to the world to find redemption and honor. There, in the world of the living, he is aided by Mehe, a determined young woman, and together they discover the world has been disrupted by forces, not of the living. Someone, or something, is preventing the dead from entering the Afterlife and now the dead are thrown back into their decaying bodies to hunt the living.“The Dead Lands” is the first genre TV showcase of Māori mythic storytelling and martial traditions, created by a mainly Māori cast with significant Māori involvement at all levels of the production. Directed by Peter Meteherangi, Tikao Burger and Michael Hurst, “The Dead Lands” stars Te Kohe Tuhaka (Monster Problems) as “Waka Nuku
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