Under the Mountain - The Alien World Below (Episode Four)
More telepathic twins
Cinema of Unease
Sam Neill discusses Jack Be Nimble in this doco
When Love Comes
A later feature from Garth Maxwell
The Frighteners
More Kiwi-made scares with an American lead
Eau de la Vie
Also stars Sarah Smuts-Kennedy
Vigil
Another fraught Kiwi childhood
Next of Kin
More familial horror
Beyond Gravity
An early short from Maxwell
Death Warmed Up
NZ's first horror film
Possum
More domestic horror
Mesmerized
More gothic horror
Rude Awakenings - First Episode
A TV series created by Garth Maxwell
In director Garth Maxwell’s 1993 gothic horror twins Jack and Dora (late US actor Alexis Arquette and Kiwi Sarah Smuts-Kennedy) are separated while young; their adult reunion sees them battling the trauma of their past while being pursued by Jack’s sadistic step sisters. Complete with ESP,and a steam-driven hypnosis machine, Maxwell makes an exuberant and surreal contribution to the cinema of unease. New York Times’ Stephen Holden lauded the heady head-spinner as “a superior genre film” with a “feverish intensity that recalls scenes from Hitchcock and De Palma.”
The Gothic horror film Jack Be Nimble has a hallucinatory power and psychological refinement that you won't find in any number of movie adaptations of Stephen King novels, including Carrie. [...] As the film cuts back and forth between scenes of their childhood and adolescence, it evokes their misery and isolation with a feverish intensity that recalls scenes from Hitchcock and De Palma.– Stephen Holden, New York Times, 10 June 1994
Produced by
Essential Films
Source
Essential Films