Scarfies

Scarfies (1999)

A captive in your basement. What would you do?

This dark comedy is set in Dunedin, New Zealand. A university student finds an old "abandoned" house and proceeds to invite other students to share. It even has running electricity. But what is the catch?

Date of release
1999-08-05
TMDB
5.6 / 10 (23)
Runtime
1h 41m
Genres
Comedy, Thriller
Director
Robert Sarkies

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: New Zealand

Scarfies is a 1999 New Zealand black comedy film set in the southern university city of Dunedin. The film original title comes from the local nickname for university students, scarfie, so called because of the traditional blue and gold scarves worn by students during the city's cool winters in support of the Otago Rugby Football Union.

Production

Despite the deliberate use of shots focusing on the city's dowdier and darker elements, much of the film's photography and soundtrack is an homage to the city, including the use of several Dunedin sound songs in the soundtrack (top local band The Clean even make a cameo appearance during the film).

The film initially had a small production budget of $250,000, but later received an additional $1.6 million in funding from the New Zealand Film Commission.

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