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Scarfies

A captive in your basement. What would you do?

1999★ 5.6 · 231h 41mComedyThriller

Overview

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?

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Cast

Taika Waititi
as Alex

Neill Rea
as Scott

Jon Brazier
as Kevin

Willa O'Neill
as Emma

Andrew Munro
as Self (The Yams)

Mark Neilson
as Gordy

Ashleigh Seagar
as Nicola

Charlie Bleakley
as Graham

David Kilgour
as Self (The Clean)

Robert Scott
as Self (The Clean)

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5.6/ 10

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5.6

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Release date: 1999-08-05

Budget: $1,600,000

Runtime: 1h 41m

Genres

ComedyThriller

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