Reunion

Psychological thriller Reunion pairs Kiwi actor Emma Draper (Girl vs. Boy) with Brit Julia Ormond (Ladies in Black). Draper plays the heavily pregnant Ellie, who finds herself sharing a house with her estranged mother (Ormond). But in returning to the place where she grew up, Ellie finds the past flooding back; sometimes in terrifying ways. Stuff reviewer Graeme Tuckett called the film "mature, skilfully made", and beautifully shot and edited. Reunion was written and directed by New Zealand-based American Jake Mahaffy. Mahaffy's faith healing drama Free in Deed won a Best Film Award at the 2015 Venice Film Festival. 

[Emma Draper and Julia Ormond] convey a lifetime’s worth of history with just a few caustic looks ... Reunion is the kind of intimate familial horror that resonates in any era. It pairs well with contemporaries like Ari Aster’s Hereditary, Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook, and Natalie Erika James’ Relic. It’s incisive, observant, and makes its characters earn their catharsis.

– Reviewer Eddie Strait on website Cinapse, 11 October 2020

Key Cast & Crew

Adam Luxton

Cinematographer

Jake Mahaffy

Additional Editing, Director, Writer

Julia Ormond

As: Ivy

Emma Draper

As: Ellie

John Bach

As: Jack

Georgina Conder

Producer