minute short called "Roast of the  Day", which started shooting in 1981. The story concerned Giles  (Craig Smith (I) (qv)) an aid worker who comes to the small  coastal town of Kaihoro on collection day. The young man encounters  a psychopath named Robert who then pursues him. Giles escapes the  madman and reaches an old heritage estate where he tries to contact  the authorities. However the same clan of cannibalistic psychos that  Robert is from occupies the house and captures Giles. In a twist of  irony the aid worker is later cooked up to relieve the famine of the  cannibals. Along the way Jackson added the "special forces" team  that would be sent to rescue Giles, but in this early version, the  "boys" would turn out to be cannibals as well (they staged the whole  thing because they like to play with their food). When it came time  for Jackson to finally edit the film together he found that he had  nearly fifty minutes worth of useable footage. So with its current  length and being inspired by the 16mm efforts of Sam Raimi (qv)s  _Evil Dead, The (1984)_ (qv), Jackson continued shooting to make the  movie a full