Out of the Blue is a 2006 New Zealand crime drama film directed by Robert Sarkies and starring Karl Urban.

On 13 November 1990, David Gray, an unemployed man in his 30s lives in his parents' small holiday home in Aramoana.

Late in the afternoon, he notices children from a neighbouring house have wandered onto his yard and he angrily abuses them, sparking a heated verbal exchange with their father, Garry Holden.

She reaches Julie-Anne and they both get into her van and drive towards the scene, trying to rescue the other girls, only to find Holden's house has been set on fire.

Elderly widow Eva Dickson, who recently has had hip surgery, ventures out with her walking frame to see what is happening and she is joined by a neighbour Chris Cole.

A utility with six people on board, including three children, drives up from the nearby beach, stopping near the burning house.

The first police to arrive are Sgt Stewart Guthrie, Constable Nick Harvey and Detective Paul Knox.

They arrive at Gray's and Holden's houses, seeing bodies in and around the utility, including a woman on the ground who is badly wounded and calling for help.

Knox reaches the utility, discovering the woman is now dead but one of the vehicle's other occupants still alive- 3-year-old Stacey Percy, who has been wounded in the abdomen but is still conscious.

A postscript follows, consisting of a montage of scenes, including the full squad of AOS officers escorting Eva Dickson from her home as a mark of respect for her bravery, Chiquita Holden and Stacey Percy in hospital, both recovering from their wounds, the deliberate torching of Gray's house that occurred several days after the massacre and a list of names of the 13 people who died on 13 November.

Out of the Blue was written by Robert Sarkies and Graeme Tetley, and co-produced by Steven O'Meagher and Timothy White.

The website's consensus reads: "A dramatization of real-life terror that's rendered all the more powerful through its sensitivity, Out of the Blue succeeds as a gripping drama as well as a moving commemoration.

The film was restricted because the murders it depicts are likely to cause younger viewers distress and threaten their sense of personal safety.