Why so many honkey s?

Most could pass but that one white woman the monster kills in the woodsia obviously not Maori. I don't care if she's from NZ. You can't be something you're not

What is a honkey? White? Why would people use these weird terms instead of just saying white?

Decent movie but seeing white people portraying indigenous tribes-people almost ruined it entirely. I guess since the white race has killed off so many natives across the globe, it's hard to find any in the acting industry. Lol

"The pain only reminds us that we are alive."

Wow, such ignorance on display in this thread, ranging from the bigoted choice of words from the OP (anyone who would entitle their thread in such a way has to be a dimwit), and the fact that no one here was able to counter his ignorance with an intelligent response. It seems that all of the posters here know nothing of the Maori, or about indigenous cultures in general.

Fact 1: The Maori have been intermingling and interbreeding with the Europeans ("whites") for centuries, resulting in a population with a very wide range of diversity in physical characteristics, (e.g., facial features) and skin colors. In fact, while this type of intermixing is found with most of the world's indigenous cultures [who later come into contact with outsiders] it was even more prevalent with the Maori, especially compared with the various Native American groups for example. That is because they were relatively friendly with the Europeans arriving in New Zealand, and there was a high degree of assimilation. There are many accounts of the Maori living among the non-natives, as well as quite a few Europeans even going to live among the Maori.

Take a look at the actress Keisha Castle-Hughes for an example of what such mixed offspring can look like. She's half Maori, and she's as light-skinned as they come.
(http://www.people.com/article/keisha-castle-hughes-game-of-thrones-childhood-fame)

Fact 2: Maori people already had a lot of natural variation in skin tone, even before the arrival of, and intermixing with, the Europeans. They share their lineage with the Polynesian and Melanesian peoples of the Pacific, who are actually well known for displaying very diverse genetic features. For example, when the Portuguese and other Europeans arrived in places like Vanuatu and New Caledonia for the first time, there are accounts of them remarking on the native people to the effect of "how different some look from one another" and also that had it not been for the clothes and the strange markings on the skin, "some of the inhabitants might look like us."

The use of actors having different looks and skin tones for The Dead Lands wasn't the choice of a clueless director. Toa Fraser, being himself half Fijian--and having his ancestors in common with the Maori-- knew exactly what he was doing.

Perhaps next time the OP (and a few of the posters that followed him) will do his research, or if too lazy, at least think twice before posting such stupidity.

If you're going to be insulting, at least spell our slur right.

Honkies.