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www.boxoffice.com - : Australian writer/director Peter Jackson has made a career of depicting the dark and twisted. His low-budget directorial debut, ''Bad Taste,'' about four idiots who must destroy alien-eating people, took violence to a gorefest extreme while hilariously spoofing cartoons and horror films. In another humorous exploitation of slaughter, ''Dead Alive,'' followed a man cursed with a vicious zombie mother. Next came the critically acclaimed ''Heavenly Creatures,'' and while the film was a departure from Jackson's typically bloody comedies, he focused on the real-life nightmare of two friends who committed murder. Sadly, Jackson's latest film, ''The Frighteners,'' lacks the gruesome comedy and scathing insight that has characterized his work. more...
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