IMDb RATING
5.5/10
6.5K
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A family finds themselves terrorized by their eight-year-old son's imaginary friend.A family finds themselves terrorized by their eight-year-old son's imaginary friend.A family finds themselves terrorized by their eight-year-old son's imaginary friend.
- Awards
- 9 wins & 8 nominations
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- Writers
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaDeborah Ferguson's debut.
- GoofsEarly in the film, Beth drops Josh off at Vincent Massey School, which happens to be a real school in Calgary, Alberta. Later, however, at about 12m, Josh's Red Cards (discipline notices) say "Coleman's Elementary School."
- Quotes
[last lines]
Joshua Parsons: Goodnight Mom, Goodnight Dad, Goodnight Aunt Jenna, Goodnight Mossy
[after a long pause]
Joshua Parsons: Goodnight... Z!
- Crazy creditsThere's a special message from the director towards the end of the credits that reads "Brandon Christensen would like to thank his wife Alissa for her inspiration for Z. She has had a hard few years to say the least, but her strength and has [sic] kept our family running smoothly. He would also like to thank his parents Rod and Brenda for once again letting him live with them while he makes another film."
- ConnectionsReferences Children of the Corn (1984)
Featured review
If you're going to go up against The Babadook you'd better make sure every aspect about the film is better and this film falls significantly short in every department.
That's not to say it's a bad film, it's just not as good as it could be. The difference between Z and The Babadook is that throughout the Australian horror we are constantly wondering wether the monster is real, but in Z we are pretty much dealt the full on monster creep early on so the sense of mystery and threat is diluted throughout the rest of the movie.
Story aside what really let this down was the poor quality of the special effects. The house fire in particular was laughably bad. The protracted final confrontation with the beast was a bit long winded and I kind of lost interest.
Not unwatchable but not as good as it could have been. If you haven't seen The Babadook definitely watch it after this.
That's not to say it's a bad film, it's just not as good as it could be. The difference between Z and The Babadook is that throughout the Australian horror we are constantly wondering wether the monster is real, but in Z we are pretty much dealt the full on monster creep early on so the sense of mystery and threat is diluted throughout the rest of the movie.
Story aside what really let this down was the poor quality of the special effects. The house fire in particular was laughably bad. The protracted final confrontation with the beast was a bit long winded and I kind of lost interest.
Not unwatchable but not as good as it could have been. If you haven't seen The Babadook definitely watch it after this.
- richardwworkman
- Jan 26, 2021
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- 鬼友
- Filming locations
- Alberta, Canada(Western Canadian Province)
- Production companies
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Box office
- Gross worldwide
- $788,597
- Runtime1 hour 23 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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