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The Murder House
Short Film (Full Length) – 1998
In the New Zealand of the 1960s, dental dinosaurs walked the Earth. Armed with agonising low-speed rotary drills, poorly trained dental nurses lurked like institutional torturers on the grounds of the nation's schools. The kids back then had a name for the school dental clinic: they called it The Murder House.– Publicity material for this short film
Remembering [Ian] Mune’s words, I got the kids to inhabit their characters as a game of play of ‘kids at school’.– Dierctor Waka Attewell on how he worked with the young cast, in his backgrounderj
Some new drills are water-cooled. They're not as painful. But our school can't afford one.– The dental nurse (Tina Cleary) has a happy moment
Have a good time at the murder house Sid.– One of Sid's classmates
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