Heavenly Creatures

Year: 1994

Grade: C

Country: New Zealand

Director: Jackson

Review

peter jackson sure does like to move the camera. the camera hardly ever stayed still in this movie, though i’m not sure why. perhaps it was to signal the energy and change that the characters were undergoing. i don’t know. it was a semi-interesting story with a chilling conclusion. some of the film style seemed to hearken back to his “dead alive” days and was thus slightly tongue-in-cheek or comedic, but i’m not sure if it was intended or not. maybe the camera moves just reminded me of his early horror films and that’s what made it funny. in other words, maybe the camera moves were funny because of the associations i have from his past films, rather than them being funny because in absolute terms they are funny. it only happened a couple times so i don’t mean to make a big deal of it, but it did seem out of place. ultimately the film didn’t grab me all that much. i thought it was done well enough, but i guess i just wasn’t in the mood for film about two crazy teenage girls.