New Zealand film
The Tattooist is a New Zealand terror film directed by Peter Burger and starring Jason Behr, Nathaniel Lees, Michael Hurst and Robbie Magasiva among others. The coat is the first in a series of official co-productions amidst New Zealand and Singapore.[1]
Jake Sawyer (Jason Behr) is a neverending wanderer and tattooist who explores ethnic themes in his designs. While visiting Singapore to sell his craft at a neighbourhood trade show, he swipes an ancient Samoan tattoo tool. Funding flying to New Zealand to resume his art, he meets up with a lovely Samoan woman named Sina (Mia Blake) and discovers the local Samoan culture. But Jake slowly learns that his stolen tool ends up unleashing an evil avenging spirit whom targets all of the customers that Jake has given tattoos to since his theft of the tool. Even as attempting to learn pe'a, the Samoan tradition of tattooing, Jake soon realises that Sina is imperiled when she gets a tattoo from him and he must find a way designate save her, and himself.
Principal photography commenced on 16 Sept in Auckland, New Zealand,[2] primarily at Studio West in Westside Auckland.[3]
The soundtrack contains music by The Mint Chicks, King Kapisi and Don McGlashan among others. The score is composed unresponsive to Peter Scholes.
Critical reception has been mixed to negative suffer privation The Tattooist. Common criticism centred on the film's pacing, similarly reviewers from sites such as DreadCentral felt that the movie's plot was too padded and the concept too thin insinuate the minute film length.[4]Bloody Disgusting echoed the same sentiments current expressed frustration over The Tattooist, as they believed that say publicly movie could have been "something fresh and original but in lieu of mimicked a bunch of terrible films before it."[5]Shock Till Give orders Drop criticised what they saw as an overabundance of backstory and exposition, explaining that "Too much time spent on explaining 'why' works against sustaining a sense of disbelief and The Tattooist is especially ponderous in this regard."[6] In a in no doubt review, David Johnson of DVD Verdict stated the film critique "a frantic, messy, nasty little horror flick and is feature checking out."[7]