No Future: NEXT OF KIN (1982)
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“Made as an opportunity to capitalize on the popular Ozploitation wave of the time, NEXT OF KIN is an anomaly, both in its aesthetics and its distribution history. Tony Williams’ European inflection towards this typical haunted house story not only made it stand out back then, but has allowed it to age supremely well – think more DIABOLIQUE than DIE HARD.” —Film Inquiry
“A horror movie unlike any other.” — Quentin Tarantino
This December, No Future returns with Tony Williams’ creepy and atmospheric Australian cult classic NEXT OF KIN, which exploitation film connoisseur Quentin Tarantino compared to THE SHINING.
The film stars Jackie Kerin as Linda, a young woman beset by ghosts when she inherits her late mother’s nursing home. When a serial murderer starts picking off the clientele, Linda becomes both survivor and amateur sleuth, rifling through the home’s yellowed documents and cobwebbed attics and examining the darker branches of her family tree.
A neo-gothic horror thriller about buried family secrets violently resurfacing across generations, NEXT OF KIN is a rich text packed with rare pleasures, from the gorgeously dilapidated setting to Williams’ coolly efficient set pieces and Krautrock pioneer Klaus Schulze’s propulsive score.