Peter Jackson, the writer-director responsible for the sweetest zombie movie ever made, Dead Alive,
chose as his next film this campy docudrama. Set in 1954 New Zealand,
the picture follows the fantasy-world descent of two adolescent
girls who so lost touch with reality that they irrationally decided
to kill one girl's mother. Jackson directs with playful gusto,
but no coherent point of view to match; he seems perfectly happy
to marvel at this pair of youthful psychotics and leave it at
that. All in all, the movie could use a little more Jane Campion
and a little less Terry Gilliam.
--Zachary Woodruff
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