Peter Jackson’s 1987 film Bad Taste is set largely in the fictional New Zealand town of Kaihoro.
The town is threatened by aliens who plan to harvest humans as an ingredient for an intergalactic fast-food business. Jackson made the film over several years with friends and a very small crew, creating its deliberately rough, splattery comedy-horror style.
Kaihoro is fictional, although the film was shot in real locations around the Wellington region. The name is therefore easy to confuse with Wellington, the New Zealand city where Jackson later based much of his filmmaking work.
Bad Taste was Jackson’s first feature film as director, but the question here concerns the story’s location rather than its place of production. The film became an early example of the imaginative practical effects and dark humor that characterized Jackson’s independent work before his larger studio productions.