The Murder House

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Title

The Murder House

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NZ On Screen

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"I hope you're braver than your brother." In this darkly humorous short film, a young schoolboy (James Ordish) finds the day plunging into nightmare, when he is sent for a visit to the school dental nurse. The nurse (a sly performance from future casting director Tina Cleary) takes pleasure in other people's pain. This overheated tale for the dental-wary was written by Ken Hammon, who was part of the boys' own team behind Peter Jackson's first splatter flick Bad Taste. Murder House director W...

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Format

Video

Date created

1998

URL

https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/the-murder-house-1998

Related subjects

adventure / children / childhood / subjectivity / dentists / horror / school / drill / teacher / melodrama / torture / toilet / boy / cape / escape / defeat / nurse / messenger / sadist / sadism / 1960s / sixties / 1988 / classroom / needle / injection / the fingers / red / rock a bye baby / rock-a-bye-baby / nz film commission / waterloo primary school / waterloo / lower hutt

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