Garth Maxwell's

JackBe Nimble

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Sarah
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  • "A lost classic."

    Museum of Modern Art

  • "Hallucinatory power and psychological refinement... a feverish intensity"

    New York Times

  • "Deeply Warped!
    Excellent performances. At once affecting, funny and horrifying. ★★★★"

    Empire

  • "A masterpiece!
    Original. Astonishing. Breathtaking images."

    L'Écran Fantastique

  • "This stylish nightmare...
    surreal Gothic horror...
    deliciously hellish sense of humour."

    New Zealand Herald

  • "A heady witches' brew. Haunting, almost Lynchian"

    Leonard Maltin

  • "Radioactive fury...
    extraordinary beauty...
    Jack Be Nimble is a masterclass in tone, form and the power of strong performances"

    Alexandra Heller-Nicholas,
    Association of Women Film Journalists

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Art News New Zealand

Debuting Umbrella's new custom art on the reversible blu-ray case, by artist Tom Ralston.

This is Kiwi Kult 2, the Blu-ray 3-pack of Jack Be Nimble (with The Scarecrow and Crooked Earth) that we all contributed to (clockwise from centre front, actress Sarah Smuts-Kennedy, Donny Duncan DP, critic and producer of the curated collection Tom Augustine, and Writer-Director Garth Maxwell.

Plus interviews with Production Designer Grant Major, Costume Designer Ngila Dickson, and Composer Chris Neal. 

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Art News New Zealand

Jack Be Nimble was featured recently in Art News New Zealand where Museum of Modern Art film curator Ron Magliozzi spoke about how this classic film resonates with today's viewers in a meaningful way:

“What continues to make (Jack Be Nimble) so relevant is its focus on gender roles in the context of the family. The film satirises and rejects traditional, socially sanctioned notions of the family, and suggests there are other models for what family could be.”

“What makes (Jack Be Nimble) work as horror is the way it exaggerates the family theme in gothic ways that are frighteningly close to reality. Toxic masculinity and toxic femininity and the extreme behaviour that results from them - emotional and physical violence, self-harm, bullying, sexism, child abuse, and so on - are themes that fuel and recur in the horror film today.”

- Ron Magliozzi, Film Curator, Museum of Modern Art, NYC. Quoted from ART NEWS New Zealand, Summer issue 2022.

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Production Stills by Pierre Vinet