Acting generally good throughout, but nothing is outstanding. Nice original soundtrack and very good photography. The genre is comedy horror, but most of the horror is within a five minute segment near the end. When the facility is locked down for the weekend and the drugs take effect, the human guinea pigs experience sinister hallucinations pointing to a horrific double murder. Screenplay: Raybon Kan, Jason Stutter Cinematography: Phil Burchell Music: Plan 9 Editing: Jason Stutter Production Manager: Kate Manson Makeup Supervisor: Susan Durno Special Effects Designer: Kevin Stevens, Producers: Jason Stutter, Raybon Kan Director: Jason Stutter.Ī supernatural force brings together two lost souls undergoing radical treatment at an experimental drug-testing facility. Recommended.Ĭast: Raybon Kan, Jessica Grace Smith, Suze Tye, Bret McKenzie, Rhys Darby. They must finally face the consequences of that silence and secrecy. When the girl goes missing, violence and truth gradually emerge from family tragedy and betrayal that has surrounded them for years. It is a film about childhood dreams that are shattered by the reality of the world around us, but it is also about a sixteen year old girl who hungers for the world beyond her small town. This is a dark, gradually building, thriller about returning home and retracing history. Screenplay: Brad McGann, based upon the book by Maurice Gee Director of Photography: Stuart Dryburgh Music: Simon Boswell Editing: Chris Plummer Costume Design: Kirsty Cameron Production Design: Jennifer Kernke Producers: Trevor Haysom, Dixie Linder Director: Brad McGann. & Little Bird - 120 & 126 min.Ĭast: Matthew MacFadyen, Miranda Otto, Emily Barclay, Colin Moy, Vicky Haughton, Jodie Rimmer, Jimmy Keen. Doris and Jack go on a search for their natural parents - with tragic results. Doris becomes pregnant to Terry, her boyfriend, who is also psychic. Doris uses her powers to search for Jack, who has invented a machine with which he can hypnotise people and has induced his adoptive parents to commit suicide. Jack is adopted by an impossibly cruel farming family. Doris goes to a good home, but she is psychic and the other children find her strange. Two children are abandoned by their mentally ill mother. Writer: Garth Maxwell Photography: Donald Duncan, Chris Neal, Grant Major Original Music: Chris Neal Special Effects: Kevin Chisnall Editor: John Gilbert Director: Garth Maxwell. Highly recommended.Ĭast: Alex Arquette, Sarah Smuts-Kennedy,Bruno Lawrence, Tony Barry, Elizabeth Hawthorne. Additionally, unique special effects by the Peter Jackson crew brought this film to International attention and rave reviews. Excellent production values and photography. When obstacles to their friendship are presented, by the mother, they see eliminating her as the solution. The two girls meet at school after one has arrived with her parents from England, and quickly develop a close, and sexual, relationship, which includes a shared fantasy world. Writers: Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh Production Design: Grant Major Director of Photography: Alun Bollinger Editor: Jamie Selkirk Music: Peter Dasent Producer: Jim Booth Director: Peter Jackson.Ī presentation of one of New Zealand's most notable murder cases involving two teenage schoolgirls who murdered one of their mothers. Wingnut Films/Fontana Film Productions - 98-108 min.Ĭast: Melanie Lynsky, Kate Winslet, Sarah Peirse, Diana Kent, Clive Merrison, Simon O'Connor.