Subgenre Sampler
New Zealand > Suspense/Crime: 71 Films to Buy & Rent
- Bridge to Nowhere (1986)
- Dir. Ian Mune
Feat. Bruno Lawrence
- Young backpackers go bush and find themselves in a conflict of survival with bad–egg Bruno Lawrence.
- Lost Tribe, The (1985)
- Dir. John Laing
Feat. John Bach, Darien Takle, Martyn Sanderson…
- John Bach's performance is the highlight of this mysterious drama in which he plays a man suspected of murdering his anthropologist brother who has…
- Mesmerized (1985)
- Dir. Michael Laughlin
Feat. Jodie Foster, John Lithgow, Michael Murphy…
- Jodie Foster plays a young woman in colonial NZ who flees an orphanage but finds herself trapped in an arranged marriage to a much older business man…
- Mr. Wrong (1985)
- Dir. Gaylene Preston
Feat. Heather Bolton
- A young woman acquires a Mark 2 Jaguar that appears to be harbouring the ghost a past owner. Some well executed thrills keep Heather Bolton…
- Should I Be Good or Should I Be Evil? (1985)
- Dir. Graham McLean
Feat. Beaver , Harry Lyon
- Musos Beaver and Harry Lyon from Hello Sailor have a bash at acting in a story based on the Mr Asia drug–ring. Music by Hammond Gamble.
- Trial Run (1984)
- Dir. Melanie Read
Feat. Annie Whittle
- Eerie occurences manifest into the worst nightmare for a wildlife photographer posted at an isolated cottage. Annie Whittle gives it heck as the…
- Next of Kin (1982)
- Dir. Tony Williams
Feat. Jacki Kerin, John Jarratt, Alex Scott
- Moody Australian haunted house flick about a young woman who inherits a retirement home possibly contaminated with a malevolent spirit. Not a classic…
- Scarecrow, The (1982)
- Dir. Sam Pillsbury
Feat. Jono Smith, Tracey Mann, Daniel McLaren…
- A fine film adaptation of Ronald Hugh Morrieson's classic New Zealand novel about a crazed killer who instills fear and paranoia in a small rural…
- Bad Blood (1981)
- Dir. Mike Newell
Feat. Jack Thompson, Carol Burns, Denis Lill
- A gripping drama based on the factual account of Stan Graham, who in 1941 murdered four policemen and sparked one of the greatest manhunts in New…
- Dead Kids (Strange Behaviour) (1981)
- Dir. Michael Laughlin
Feat. Michael Murphy, Louise Fletcher
- Minor cult item concerning a series of nasty murders in a small town, which may be connected to a deranged scientist and his psychology experiments.…