Four Weddings director Mike Newell's debut is an unrelentingly tense thriller based on the true story of a massive 12-day manhunt on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island, Bad Blood is an unrelenting and tense thriller. In the small farming community of Koiterangi, backward farmer Stan Graham (Jack Thompson) refuses to hand in his prized .303 rifle for the war effort. His unstable wife Dorothy (Carol Burns) goads him into defying the law. Tensions escalate into a bloodbath as Stan shoots three police..