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Perfect Creature makes you glad you’re not a lot of people – anyone involved with Perfect Creature, for a start. But in particular, it makes you glad you’re not Dougray Scott.
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Perfect Creature
Set during the 1960s in an alternate New Zealand known as Nuovo Zelandia, Perfect Creature imagines a world where vampires and humans peacefully co-exist, and the toothy blood drinkers are the next step in human evolution. This delicate balance looks to be destroyed when an influenza epidemic sweeps the human population and one vampire, going by the handle: Edgar (Gregory), turns to preying on humans. The church sends out Silus (Scott) to catch the renegade Edgar.
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2007Rating: R16, contains violence, offensive language and horror95 minsNew Zealand, UK
ActionFantasyHorrorScience Fiction
- Director:
- Glenn Standring ('The Irrefutable Truth About Demons')
- Writer:
- Glenn Standring
- Cast:
- Dougray ScottSaffron BurrowsLeo GregoryScott WillsStuart WilsonCraig HallRobbie Magasiva
Perfect Creature | Reviews
New Zealand Herald
There's so much intriguing thinking behind locally-made internationally-cast vampire flick Perfect Creature - which is matched by a bold sense of style on screen - it's hard not to enjoy the flawed result just for its grand ambitions...
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Newshub
From New Zealand director Glenn Standring, this is not what you might expect from a vampire flick, and for my tastes all the better for it...
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Dominion Post
Perfect Creature is a film that badly needs a transfusion of some of the goof and momentum of a Blade or Underworld, but instead winds up playing like the vaguely pretentious and sulky kid brother to those franchises...
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Christchurch Press
Although it's nice to have a change of pace from the usual hyper-kinetic vampire stories that have dominated the last decade, Standring's characters really don't stand up to the extra scrutiny devoted to them. Scott's (Mission Impossible 2) Silas is expressionless and hence virtually characterless, like Nicolas Cage in City of Angels but with less mope, while Burrows' (Troy) cliched, troubled cop simply disappears, as if her altercation with a Dunedin tree kept her off the set for a considerable period of time...
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Perfect Creature is available to stream in New Zealand now on NZ Film On Demand.