Synopsis
Jack and Dora, young children, are farmed out to different adoptive parents. Dora, half-smothered in suburbia, develops psychic powers. Down on his farm, Jack practices his burgeoning malevolence on step-parents who whip his hide with barbed wire. Helped by a hypnotic appliance made at school, he escorts them to their deaths and earns the enmity of their ghoulish, long-haired daughters. Sister finds brother in due course, and many more corpses follow. (production notes) “Jack Be Nimble combines so many different elements. It? serious horror movie, a dark fantasy, an art film and chilling popular entertainment. Thematically it deals with many of our deepest human emotions. Jack Be Nimble confront issues of the beast and violence in humanity; how there is a world where fear, not love is the most powerful emotion at work... In film, horror is a brilliant popular vehicle for testing the limits of contemporary morality. Characters such as Dr. Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs, inhabit a psychological world similar to Jack. We struggle to understand the logic which they rely on to justify themselves. It is our sympathy for the circumstances surrounding Jack, which makes this film so compelling.? - Garth Maxwell, director -