Bruce Hopkins

Grub, a young surfer, is caught in a conflict between his boss, former surf legend Claw, and his passion for Vanessa, a mysterious Maori woman tattooist. Driven by his desire to be tattooed and 'become a man', Grub ignores warnings that Vanessa could be 'Hine Nui Te Po', the Maori sea goddess and mythical 'Eater of Life'. Rebelling against Claw, he is drawn ever deeper into Vanessa's ambiguous world of pleasure and pain, fantasy and reality, until finally the young surfer must face death in order to understand life.

Teenage twins Rachel and Theo travel to Auckland to stay with relatives following the sudden death of their mother. Here, they find an alien environment and overhear Mr. Wilberforce talking about something stirring beneath the ground...the fire-raiser. Theo goes in search to find the fire-raiser - the man he saw on the mountaintop.

A violent young woman and felon gets placed on house arrest, but prison would be safer for her than what becomes a halfway house of paranormal horror.