The Frighteners (1996)

Director: Peter Jackson

Starring: Michael J Fox, Trini Alvarado, Peter Dobson

Peter Jackson's wild horror-comedy principally filmed in Lyttelton, and starring Michael J. Fox as a psychic con-artist who uses a trio of ghosts he's... Read more

Meet the Feebles (1990)

Director: Peter Jackson

Starring: Harry, Bletch, Heidi

From that gross but sensational director of 'Bad Taste' comes this 'Sluppet' movie. The film revolves around the famous 'Feebles Variety Massacre' - t... Read more

Someone Else's Country (1996)

Director: Alister Barry

Starring: Narrated by, Ian Johnstone

This feature documentary, narrated by Ian Johnstone, tells the story of how the 'new right' took power and exercised it relentlessly to turn our count... Read more

Scarfies (1999)

Director: Robert Sarkies

Starring: Willa O'Neill, Neill Rea, Ashleigh Seagar

When five Otago University students (Scarfies) start squatting in an old abandoned house they discover a locked room with a large quantity of "weed".... Read more

Kiwiana (1996)

Director: Shirley Horrocks

This, one of the most popular New Zealand documentaries of recent years, takes a light-hearted look at the growing craze for "Kiwiana" or things which... Read more

Jubilee (1999)

Director: Michael Hurst

Starring: Cliff Curtis, Theresa Healey, Hori Ahipene, Kevin Smith

When the chairwoman of the Waimatua school jubilee committee unexpectedly falls victim to a farm accident, local man Billy Williams (Cliff Curtis) fin... Read more

The Tommyknockers (1993)

Director: John Power

Starring: John Ashton, Marg Helgenberger, Jimmy Smits, Allyce Beasley, Robert Carradine, J...

Stephen King's hit book is the basis for this fright film about residents of a New England town who discover a strange object in the nearby woods. The... Read more

Vigil / A State of Siege / In Spring One Plants Alone (1984)

Director: Vincent Ward

Starring: Penelope Stewart, Frank Whitten, Fiona Kay

Director Vincent Ward supplies a striking visual atmosphere in this rural melodrama about life on the farm through the eyes of Toss, a young girl who... Read more

Mr Wrong (1985)

Director: Gaylene Preston

Starring: Heather Bolton, David Letch, Gary Stalker

Aka "Dark of the Night". What would you do if the car you had just bought made noises like somebody's dying breaths. This made in New Zealand psycho... Read more

Starlight Hotel (1989)

Director: Sam Pillsbury

Starring: Greer Robson, Marshall Napier, Peter Phelps

A superbly cinematographed and set in rural Otago during the 1930's. It centers on a young and determined Kate (Robson) who runs away from her aunt an... Read more