The Edge - Heavenly Creatures review

Television (Excerpts) – 1994

Musician and movie fan Chris Knox reviews Heavenly Creatures in this excerpt from 1990s arts show The Edge. Knox calls Peter Jackson's film about real life friends and murderers Juliet Hulme and Pauline Parker "brave and often astonishing". He praises Jackson's use of special effects for evoking the teenagers' heightened state of mind, but suspects that during other scenes a more naturalistic approach would have helped the characters. The clips from the Oscar-nominated movie include some of Weta's earliest digital effects, and Peter Jackson's cameo outside a cinema.

It's a brave and often astonishing film, and now he's had a go at reality, he can get back to his forte: giving us more wildly demented fiction from the depths of his gleefully twisted psyche.
– Chris Knox on director Peter Jackson