Mesmerized
Film (Excerpts) – 1984
I don't like contemporary, eccentric, modern — call them what you will — movies. I believe in the rules for a genre picture. I like to improvise and put my own personal touches and twists to them so I can play the melodies a little differently. But I always stick to the ground rules.
– Director Michael Laughlin in Starburst 66, February 1984, page 34
A deep and moving if somewhat obscure ... study of life in New Zealand in the 1880s ... the acting is quite passable.
– NZ Herald review, date and author unknown
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