Films in this library shot in New Zealand, a country whose landscape carried an entire fantasy franchise. Location data is sourced from Wikidata property P915, which records where a film was actually shot as distinct from where its story is set.
New ZealandDead Alive (1992) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Peter Jackson made the bloodiest film ever produced, reportedly using around three hundred litres of fake blood in the last twenty minutes alone, and underneath the lawnmower it…
New ZealandThe Hobbit Trilogy (2012-2014) rates 4 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A three hundred page children's book became nearly eight hours of film at a reported seven hundred and forty-five million dollars. Guillermo del Toro spent two years…
New ZealandDistrict 9 (2009) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A first-time director shot an alien occupation film in a real Soweto township for thirty million dollars, cast his friend who had never acted, and got a Best…
New ZealandWhat We Do in the Shadows earns its 8.5 by finding a joke the vampire genre had somehow left lying on the ground for a century. What if immortal creatures of the night still had to argue about whose turn…
New ZealandVampires descend on an Alaskan town facing a month without sunrise. The idea is so good it feels stolen from someone smarter.
New ZealandA dysfunctional family's hostile Christmas attracts the attention of the anti-Santa demon Krampus, who arrives with monstrous helpers. Krampus is Michael Dougherty's 2015 American horror-comedy depicting a dysfunctional family's hostile Christmas attracting the attention of the anti-Santa demon Krampus, who…
New ZealandPark Chan-wook's 2003 Korean revenge film. Peak of Park's vengeance trilogy.
ChinaMulan (2020) is the live-action remake of the 1998 Walt Disney Animation Studios musical. Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, Lauren Hynek, and Elizabeth Martin wrote.
ChinaGhost in the Shell is the live-action adaptation of Masamune Shirow's manga and the subsequent animated films and television series. Jamie Moss, William Wheeler, and Ehren Kruger wrote.
AustraliaHugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber's underrated Sabretooth, and the Deadpool handling that damaged the property for years. The 8.5 reflects honest evaluation of the film that proved interconnected superhero cinema could function at scale and the entry that established the commercial…
CaliforniaAvatar is a white savior film wearing the costume of environmental progressivism, and the combination is more offensive than either element alone. The Na'vi, despite everything that makes them extraordinary, apparently needed Jake Sully.
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