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Dir.: Scott Reynolds Born in Auckland, New Zealand in 1968, Scott Reynolds experienced the cinema at a very early age. His parents worked at a local cinema and one of his first memories is of a double bill of THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN and A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS. As a teenager he worked as a projectionist and he learned filmmaking by watching Kubrick and Scorsese and Hitchcock. His first short, "The Minute", was selected for the London Festival in 1992 and his second, "Games With No Rules" (1994) showed at the Cannes and Chicago festivals. THE UGLY marks his debut in features. |
THE UGLY (CA) Dir.: Scott Reynolds; Script: Scott Reynolds; Phot.: Simon Raby; Ed.: Wayne Cook; Mus.: Victoria Kelly; Cast: Paolo Rotondo, Rebecca Hobbs, Jennifer Ward-Lealand, Roy Ward; Prod.: Jonathan Dowling, Essential Productions, P.O. Box 90-056, Auckland Mailing Centre, Auckland (Nouvelle-Zélande), tél.: (649) 378 0529, fax: (649) 378 1622; Sales: New Zealand Film Commission, P.O. Box 11-546, Wellington (Nouvelle-Zélande), tél. (644) 382 7680, fax: (644) 384 9719 . No pity, no remorse. Simon is a killer. Unfit to stand trial, he has been locked away for five years, watched by the sinister Dr. Marlowe. Enter Karen, an intelligent and enthusiastic psychologist. She will interview Simon, who wants to demonstrate that he is cured. He certainly seems sane, no longer capable of violence. Simon tells Karen of that terrifying force within him which drove him to destroy those around him. That force is gone, he tells her. Karen listens to his story. At first she trusts him, believes him. But her trust gives way to scepticism, His confession is riddled with deception. The interview unleashes demons from Simon's strange internal world, threatening Karen's own sense of reality. But Karen wants the truth regardless of the consequences. "I was a film fan before I was a filmmaker. I have sat in audiences where we all shivered and screamed, so the major reason why I wanted to make this film is so that I can sit in an audience where I'm the one making the audience shiver and scream." -- Scott Reynolds |
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