A strange, beautiful film. We watch mother and son as they go about their peculiar daily routine, and we see a dead child in the ocean. It's unnerving and, somehow, everything seems eerily sexual, too. Then we are invited to go underwater where we get a closer look at the strange story science and earth have to tell. There are only mothers and sons in this coastal town. There is routine and control - but who is in control and what happens if someone starts to ask que find out more...
When Kylie is ordered by the man into home detention, as part of her rehabilitation programme, for sticking it to him once too often, she struggles to adapt to the prison she shares with her mother and her mother’s new partner; the family home she grew up in, that may or may not be haunted. The secrets housed within unravel against a seriously pleasing balance of horror suspense and mild peril lols. Worth it for the performance of Rima Te Wiata, as Kylie’s mother Miriam, alone.
find out more...A 'Leatherface' type murderer who wears other people's faces, kills at an all-night horror-thon at an old theatre put on by a bunch of film students. Maggie, the lead character, believes it's really Lanyard Gates, a crazed film maker who killed his family live on stage fifteen years ago. And now he's back to kill his daughter, Sara, who is believed to really be Maggie.
Superlative horror that blends great diy special effects, cinephilia and frights with aplomb. AN find out more...