Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 103 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- New Zealand
- Frights
- Strong
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on frights — not a wind-down.
The story
When a Sumatran rat-monkey bites Lionel Cosgrove's mother, she's transformed into a zombie and begins killing (and transforming) the entire town while Lionel races to keep things under control.
- infidelity
- poison
- new zealand
- affectation
- reanimation
- zombie
- back from the dead
- monkey
- attempted rape
- wellington new zealand
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Brenda Kendall — Nurse McTavish
- Stuart Devenie — Father McGruder
- Jed Brophy — Void
- Elizabeth Brimilcombe — Zombie Mum
- Stephen Papps — Zombie McGruder
- Murray Keane — Scroat
- Glenis Levestam — Mrs. Matheson
- Lewis Rowe — Mr. Matheson
- Elizabeth Mulfaxe — Rita
- Harry Sinclair — Roger
- Davina Whitehouse — Grandmother
- Directed
- Peter Jackson
- Written
- Fran Walsh, Stephen Sinclair, Peter Jackson
Production
- Rating
- 7.4 / 10 · 1,891 ratings
- Studio
- WingNut Films, New Zealand Film Commission, Avalon/NFU Studios, Trimark Pictures
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
