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Perfect Creature

Film (Trailer and Excerpts) – 2006

R16
Restricted

Perfect Creature is set in an immaculately realised alternative colonial New Zealand where steam powers cobble-stoned cities, and zeppelins cruise the skies. A race of benevolent vampires preside over the spiritual life of humanity. When one of them turns rogue, a manhunt begins. Starring international actors (Dougray Scott, Saffron Burrows) Perfect Creature was the second feature for director Glenn Standring. It was the first Kiwi film picked up for distribution by a major Hollywood studio (Twentieth Century Fox), who ultimately dithered with its release.

Mood to burn – a skip load of ideas....Go see it.
– Reviewer Mark Broatch in the Sunday Star-Times

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Acknowledgements

Funded by the New Zealand Film Production Fund, the NZ Film Commission, Movision, Roc Media and the Royal Bank of Scotland

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