The answers are revealing, funny and sometimes deeply moving. Three new zealand films to screen at hot docs ministry for. About 45 kilometres from auckland, spookers is new zealands largest and most successful scare park. But beyond the frightening theatrics is a wealth of personal stories. The complete list of movies on shudder canada in april. Arts, visual and performing education filmmakers criticism and interpretation haunted houses portrayals movie directors psychiatric hospital care psychiatric hospitals. In 2007, spookers received three stevenson franklin country business awards nominations. Florian was born in berlin, germany and moved with his family to the bay of islands, new zealand, when he was eight. Rubbings from a live man is a testament to one mans ability to stare his life in the face, by performing it anew. Spookers 2017 directed by florian habicht aotearoa in this funny and improbably charming documentary florian habicht looks behind the curtain to show us the real lives of the frighteners at the infamous and hugely popular horror theme park at the old kingseat hospital. Complete with beautiful fantasy sequences and made with a huge heart, spookers is another feather in the cap of gifted berlinborn, new zealandbased filmmaker florian habicht pulp, sff 2014. Zombie brides, babykilling banshees and psychokiller clowns are all family in director florian habichts fanciful and funny documentary portrait of spookers, the popular theme park occupying the former kingseat psychiatric hospital. They announced their final schedule of films yesterday and for a genre film festival in only its sophomore year, it is an impressive lineup.
But thats just the first act theres way way more where that came from. Spookers is a haunted house documentary with a heart. Every weekend come rain, hail or shine, this diverse group of amateur performers unite to terrify punters at the southern hemispheres largest scream park, situated in. Kingseat hospital was a psychiatric hospital that is considered to be one of new zealands notorious haunted locations with over one hundred claims of apparitions being reported, as of 2011. Phoenix international horror and scifi film festivals fall fest 2017 screenings include tragedy girls and spookers. Spookers director florian habicht on fear and family stuff. Ganzer film kahlschlag complete stream deutsch hd, kahlschlag torrents, kahlschlag kostenlos sehen, kahlschlag anschauen, kahlschlag komplett online sehen, kahlschlag frei online sehen, tags. The opening night films are imitation girl, starring daily grindhouse favorite lauren ashley carter. Films ratedclassified from 30 apr 2017 to 01 jun 2017. Overall, spookers is a film whose constituent parts dont quite fit together, but nevertheless remains an eminently watchable piece of documentary filmmaking.
While the film s first documentary footage may centre on the best ingredients for dressing dead babies with blood, spookers quickly turns from practical matters and carves out a more interesting path, as one would expect from director florian habicht kaikohe demolition, pulp. Issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online. Video archive for the film spookers, which has a domestic theatrical release in the year of 2017. Spookers screens as part of the sydney film festival on 10 and 11 june, and in the melbourne film festival in. As night falls at spookers, dozens of seemingly ordinary. Complete with beautiful fantasy sequences and made with a huge heart, spookers is another feather in the cap of gifted berlinborn, new zealandbased. He went to high school in kerikeri before attending the university of aucklands elam school of fine arts.
Spookers 2017 directed by florian habicht in this funny and improbably charming documentary florian habicht looks behind the curtain to show us the real lives of the frighteners at the infamous and hugely popular horror theme park at the old kingseat hospital. New spookers documentary will go behind the scenes of aucklands house of horrors. While the films first documentary footage may centre on the best ingredients for dressing dead babies with blood, spookers quickly turns from practical matters and carves out a more interesting path, as one would expect from director florian habicht kaikohe demolition, pulp. Pulp, whose anthems include common people and disco 2000, share their thoughts on fame, love, mortality and car maintenance, in a film that features a career best concert performance weaved together with the bands personal offerings as well as speciallystaged tableaux featuring ordinary people recruited on the streets of sheffield. Spookers long fascinated by the idea of community, florian habicht love story, kaikohe demolition discovered one in an unexpected place while making his eighth feature. August 16th 2017 miff 2017 documentary critics campus 66th miff. To summarise, its a 5km runwalk with plenty of obstacles and zombies. Spookers is hilarious, heartbreaking, exciting, frightening and important. Trailer for spookers as night falls on kingseat psychiatric hospital, out come the zombies, chain sawwielding clowns and bloodstained freaks. Spookers haunted attractions karaka 2020 all you need. Jul 04, 2017 a blog about horror movies that take place during halloween or the fall season. Sheffield docfest festival report 2017 by sheffield. A new documentary is taking fans behind the scenes of one of new zealands most popular horror attractions.
If ever there was a freak me out family film, this is it. Show more warwick stanley broadhead has survived four heart attacks, a triple bypass operation and the guilt and grief of his mothers and his sisters suicides. Spookers is about a nz scare park set in an expsychiatric hospital and will premiere at hot docs in april 2017. Overall, spookers is a film whose constituent parts dont quite fit together, but. Mar 22, 2017 spookers long fascinated by the idea of community, florian habicht love story, kaikohe demolition discovered one in an unexpected place while making his eighth feature. Apr 27, 2017 video archive for the film spookers, which has a domestic theatrical release in the year of 2017. Spookers 2017 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Slavko martinovs pecking order and florian habichts spookers will each have their world premieres at the festival, while annie goldsons kim dotcom. With its horror movie ambience, including shots of contorted, snarling actors elaborately madeup in gore, and ominous solitary walkthroughs of the old institution, spookers the film becomes a perfect simulacrum of spookers the theme park experience. Habicht got to know a number of the performers working there. Rome2rio has found 5 ways to get from auckland to spookers by bus, train, taxi and car. Go behind the scenes with the actors and be inspired by their stories. Spookers hold annual oscares awards at the old kingseat hospital. Event in auckland, new zealand by silo park on friday, january 26 2018 with 794 people interested and 94 people going.
Spookers welcomes scarily competitive mature athletes. The 2017 melbourne international film festival is already slated to start with a jungle trek, take audiences on a retro scifi trip and showcase a hefty dose of cannes titles. I have to say with all the tours we have completed on our trip, this event was one of our high lights. He is working on the film at the south seas film school and expects the movie will be completed. Florian habicht harriet friedlander residency arts foundation. Australasias largest scare park spookers, is housed in an expsychiatric hospital and run by an eccentric farming family. Director florian habicht reveals the transformative and paradoxically. Top 10 spookiest scenes in 2017 horror films horror world. Spookers tells the story of a quirky and closeknit family of new zealand sheep farmers who run the most successful scare park in the southern hemisphere creating a family of scarers like no other. Auckland to spookers 5 ways to travel via train, bus, line. New zealand film commission approves funding for new florian habicht film spookers spookers is the story of a sheepfarming family who transformed their lives by opening new zealands first scare park, and in doing so created a home away from home for hundreds of aspiring horror performers. The film contrasts the heavy stuff with a healthy dose of deadpan kiwi humour. Spookers everybodys nz film festival opunake eventfinda.
David palu and huia apiata at the opening night of the 2017 new zealand international film festival in auckland. Every weekend, come rain, hail, or shine, this diverse group of amateur. Apr 21, 2017 spookers welcomes scarily competitive mature athletes, bring your world masters competitors. A documentary movie about new zealand family running a successful scare park in rangitikei, in a large originally abandoned psychiatric hospital. An imaginative and thought provoking film about mental health and scaring. Spookers everybodys nz film festival, everybodys theatre is part of. Its a smart, distinctive documentary, complete with a dry sense of humour. Spookers has become a magnet for talented misfits who scare people for a living. In 2008, he completed rubbings from a live man, a documentary performed by its subject, theatre practitioner and artist warwick broadhead. Florian habichts new documentary goes behind scenes of. Rewriting the haunted narrative in florian habichts spookers. Last year, to make a friday the th special, i wrote a reflection upon the jason voorhees movies formula. Spookers 2017 new zealand international film festival.
Spookers is the must see haunted house documentary of 2017. As night falls at spookers, dozens of seemingly ordinary people become freaks, zombies and chainsawwielding clowns. Spookers is the name of a live horror attraction south of auckland, adjoining what was once kingseat psychiatric hospital. Every weekend come rain, hail or shine, this diverse group of amateur performers unite to terrify punters at the southern hemispheres largest scream park, situated in a former psychiatric hospital. Easily share your publications and get them in front of issuus. Three new zealand films will screen at hot docs, north americas largest documentary film festival. However, he ended up making an unlikely social documentary that reflects on mental health issues in relation to the importance community in a growing world prone to isolation. There is currently one video available for the film, of which one and only one is a trailer, as listed below. The complete list of movies on shudder canada shudders horrorheavy streaming service offers its fair share of scares when it comes to freaky flicks. The sydney film festival is one of the longest running events of its kind in the world. Spookers clip takes us into the world of new zealands haunted houses 26 october 2017 dread central. Caught in the web follows its successful sxsw world premiere in austin, texas last week with screenings in toronto. Oct, 2017 top 10 spookiest scenes in 2017 horror films hey guys, happy friday the th. Spookers welcomes scarily competitive mature athletes, bring your world masters competitors.
He just completed the documentary feature spookers with the madman production company and junkyard universe films. Completed damon gameau that sugar film embarks on a personal journey to explore what the future could look like by the year 2040 if we embraced the best solutions already available to us to improve our planet and shifted them rapidly into the mainstream. On july 29th 2017, andy and beth watson and former actors whom performed at corn evil outside marton attended a special screening of the film at event cinema in palmerston north. My birthday treat this year was a visit to spookers. I made a trip to spookers on my 16th birthday it was a dream for years but the place is agerestricted. Spookers 2017 florian was commissioned by madman to make a film about new zealands popular haunted attraction spookers. In 2010, new zealand filmmaker dale stewart shot his horror film compound at the former hospital property after receiving permission from spookers, the current owners. It is located in karaka, new zealand, south of auckland and since 2005 has been used as a site for spookers.
Spookers, florians latest documentary, had its world premiere at hot docs 2017, north americas largest documentary film festival. During his stay in new york city he filmed and performed in love story, which premiered at the opening night of. The film, made by kiwi florian habicht, has released its first trailer and it looks amazing. The philadelphia unnamed film festival is back for its second year, running from september 28october 1, 2017 at the proscenium theatre in philadelphia.
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