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Plot. After her estranged mother's death, Linda Stevens inherits a rural estate called Montclare, which has been in her family for years. The rambling structure houses a long-held retirement community for the elderly.
Next of Kin is a 1982 psychological horror film co-written and directed by Tony Williams, and starring Jackie Kerin and John Jarratt.
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Made as an opportunity to capitalise on the popular Ozploitation wave of the time, Next of Kin is an anomaly, both in its aesthetics and its distribution history. Despite featuring the same level of blood, boobs and car crashes that characterised its fellow genre contemporaries, Tony Williams’ (a prolific television commercial director) European in...
The comparison to The Shining is apt, as New Zealand director Tony Williams, in his second (and as of today, final) film focuses on atmosphere and aesthetics over character and story; despite being our main character, Linda is kept just as evasive and distant as the residents around her. She’s more of a conduit to allow the scares to happen, rather...
The film did actually receive theatrical distribution in Australia in 1982 – which scored it a Best Editing nomination at the AFI Awards that year – but largely disappeared from the public and cinematic consciousness after that. A tragic death of the film’s main financier near the end of production majorly disrupted their traditional distribution p...
As an Australian film enthusiast, it warms my heart to see lost Australian genre titles being revived with such care and dedication. It welcomes a future where other films that are currently stuck in the forgotten format of VHS could potentially have a future in this new era of old school genre appreciation. Next of Kin is more than just a simple c...
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Next of Kin: Directed by Tony Williams. With Jacki Kerin, John Jarratt, Alex Scott, Gerda Nicolson. In a rest home for elderly people, a daughter reads her mother's diary.
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- Horror, Mystery
- Tony Williams
- 1982-04-30
Directed by Tony Williams • 1982 • Austrlia, New Zealand Starring Jacki Kerin, John Jarratt, Alex Scott. When a young woman (Jacki Kerin) inherits a creaky retirement home, she finds herself plunged into a waking nightmare of murder, madness, and a legacy of evil that may be inescapable.
After her mother's sudden death, Linda Stevens (Jacki Kerin) inherits a retirement home/estate called Montclare. In spite of her insistence to the administrator, Connie, that the home take on no new patients, she arrives at the same time as the wheelchair bound Mrs. Ryan and Ryan's son Kelvin.
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