Johnny's comments:

Looking at a few movies both from Australia and New Zealand which seem to be only available in low quality. This was going to be a small update, but of course I kept adding to it until I've finally decided to post something.

Channelling Baby is a 1999 New Zealand drama that looks to have only being released on VHS in New Zealand but some nice person uploaded a VHS rip of the movie in nine parts 13 years ago and it's still up - https://youtu.be/xYDooSmE9lk - if you're interested. The movie itself has a decent cast of, at the time, up-and-comers like Danielle Cormack, Kevin Smith, Joel Tobeck and Amber Sainsbury, who play four people who have a connection to a supposedly dead child from 20+ years previous. They hash out what happened to the baby and it seems that everyone has there own story and conclusion. Well, despite the potential of the cast, the movie itself suffers from what I call True Love and Chaos syndrome (OK, I just made that up) where a movie comes completely undone by a completely implausible plot development. In the case of Channelling Baby, it's a number of plot developments that don't make a jot of sense and cause the final act to turn into an exercise of who can have the bigger histrionics. It's rare to see a movie derail as bad as this does, it's quite something...

Moving on, Danielle Cormack has 4 nude scenes in the movie including her only full frontal nude scene as far as I know. Sadly, the movie comes with a big watermark in the bottom half of the movie but considering this may be the only way to ever see the movie, it'll have to do. Strange that it hasn't had some sort of remastering considering the cast or even turned up somewhere like New Zealand On Demand, which would be its most likely destination. But considering its initial release, I don't see this coming out any time soon.


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Little Oberon is a 2006 Channel 9 telemovie that seemed to be set up for series as a fair bit goes on that is barely explained by the end. Tasma Walton's character mostly floats around the town not really doing all that much despite being the lead. Brittany Byrnes' character has a lot more to do and there's a bunch of decent actors filling out the cast. Shame it never got picked up if that was the intention as there was plenty of potential for further nudity.

Well, this post wouldn't have been necessarily if my old capture card didn't corrupt the files when I recorded Little Oberon both times it aired in HD. I still can't believe the same thing happened both times, absolutely cursed. And it has never played since...


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Preservation is a 54 minute movie about a taxidermst (Jacqueline McKenzie) who falls for a new bloke in town but he also has interest from elsewhere. There's a brief nude scene as Jacqueline bathes in lavender.


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Watermark is a 2003 cryptic drama that actually played at the Cannes Film Festival in its year and then was never seen again. No cinema release, didn't make DVD but the director put up a fairly decent DVD quality version on YouTube - https://youtu.be/_d9xw2mdu7U - and I'm struggling to see how this movie got the Cannes thumbs up. The movie is about a main coming apart because of something that happened previously (at least 20 years because Ellouise Rothwell plays the guys' daughter). But the movie spends the first two acts drip feeding what happened and why or even if the man is depressed. And then it's only cryptically mentioned what happened and it isn't really mentioned why he has brought it back up despite starting a new life with someone else.

There's a very brief nude scene when the bloke kisses Ruth McDonald's breast, you barely see anything but it's better than nothing. Plus Ruth spends a fair amount of her screen time in a bikini. There are some brief moments where the video throttles for a few frames but that's from the original upload, nothing I can do.