The most enjoyable opening credit sequence in years has the staff of Spookers holding up gravestones with the various film crew names, immediately showing the great community that this business has fostered. It’s been a great year for documentaries, but this film about the most successful scare house in New Zealand is – for me at least – right up there as being one of the best films of the year. Let’s get this out of the way first up – Florian Habicht’s documentary Spookers is the best documentary in 2017. Silo Park Outdoor Film Festival, Auckland NZ 2018įamily, horror, community, gore and mental illness in New Zealand. Phoenix International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Fest 2017ĪCMI Australian Centre for Moving Image 2017 The International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival 2017 Mobile Kino Berlin outdoor Halloween Screening 2017 Knoxville Horror Film Festival, Tennessee 2017ĭown Under Fest Berlin (Closing Night film) 2017 Sheffield Doc Fest (Special opening weekend interactive screening) 2017 International Sales & distribution: Journeyman Pictures & Shudder Rating: M - Adult Themes Duration: 90 mins James Hewison - ACMI (Australian Centre Moving Image) Offering great insight into the people who work there, Spookers is at once horrifying, heartbreaking and hilarious. Some have left conservative careers, while others have emerged from painful pasts and traumas.ĭirected by Florian Habicht ( Pulp: A Film About Life, Death and Supermarkets, Love Story, Kaikohe Demolition), this Australian/Kiwi co-production takes us on a tour of the ins and outs of working at the attraction. The haunted house and "freaky forest" are populated by a posse of killer clowns and zombie brides, whose mission it is to terrorise visitors every Friday and Saturday night.īut under the layers of make-up, the "scare-actors" are a ragtag group who have built a supportive community. Welcome to Spookers, NZ's number one haunted attraction. Made with the New Zealand Film Commission and Screen Australia. The Madman Production Company and Junkyard Universe Films presents Spookers. "Made with a big heart and dotted with lovely fantasy sequences, Spookers is a hugely entertaining, strikingly candid and frequently moving slice of showbiz life." -Adelaide Film Festival 2017 Melbourne theatrical at ACMI (Australian Centre for Moving Image) And you’ll never laugh so much at something so frightening." ![]() Spookers is another uniquely Kiwi gem from Habicht, a documentary that delves underneath the bloody makeup to show a whanau with real heart. There are other moments of pure genius too like the night vision of freaked out visitors set to opera music. Just wait till you hear our new unofficial national anthem Sausage Song. It really does feel like a collaboration of art and life, with Habicht letting the performers take over and really let their spirit shine. ![]() What could have been a by the numbers behind-the-scenes is something truly brilliant, thanks to the glorious mind of Berlin-born Kiwi filmmaker Florian Habicht. ![]() ![]() "Horror theme park Spookers might be the stuff of nightmares, but Florian Habicht’s surreal look at the scare factory makes for a dream doco – life affirming and funny as hell. "With his latest film Spookers, New Zealand's wizard at melding fact with the fantastical, Florian Habicht, has produced a surprising, compassionate and insightful portrait of one of the country's more unusual "amusement" parks.īy going behind the scenes of a place which ostensibly peddles in terror and death, the documentarian has uncovered something much more important than the cheap thrills it sells: a community of much-needed love and an outlet for personal growth." "surprising, compassionate and insightful" 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. Monica Semczyk, New Horizons Film Festival, Polandįlorian was commissioned to make a film about New Zealand's haunted attraction Spookers. Florian Habicht's newest documentary explores relationships between zombie brides, clowns and what it means to be human. Misfits from all corners of society find ways to express themselves in New Zealand's largest horror theme park.
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