Valley of the Stereos
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{{Use New Zealand English|date=November 2012}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Valley of the Stereos
| image =
| writer = Costa Botes
George Port
| producer = Peter Jackson
Jim Booth
| starring = Danny Mulheron
Murray Keane
| director = George Port
| distributor =
| released = {{Film date|1992}}
| runtime = 15 minutes
| country = New Zealand
| language = English
}}
Valley of the Stereos is a 1992 New Zealand short film written by Costa Botes and George Port and produced by Jim Booth and Peter Jackson.{{Cite book |last=Leotta |first=Alfio |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kum2CgAAQBAJ&dq=Valley+of+the+Stereos+Jackson&pg=PT209 |title=Peter Jackson |date=2015-12-17 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA |isbn=978-1-62356-948-8 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last1=Goldsmith |first1=Ben |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BwPsEAAAQBAJ&dq=Valley+of+the+Stereos+Jackson&pg=PA266 |title=Directory of World Cinema: Australia and New Zealand 2 |last2=Ryan |first2=Mark David |last3=Lealand |first3=Geoff |date=2015-04-01 |publisher=Intellect Books |isbn=978-1-78320-481-6 |language=en}}
Plot
An escalating battle takes place between River, a hippie and a metalhead who live next door to each other in the countryside. Following the metalhead's late-night music playing, the two battle over who can drive the other away with their incompatible music tastes. Each accumulates a larger and larger pile of stereos, until eventually River converts his house into a multi-stereo mecha and accidentally blasts both homes out of existence.
Cast
- Danny Mulheron as River
- Murray Keane, metalhead
Reception
The film was described as "comic face-off that starts tinny, but gleefully escalates to bass heavy, as a not-so-zen hippy (Danny Mulheron) gets caught up in a vale-blasting battle with the noisy bogan next door (Murray Keane). Made by many key Peter Jackson collaborators, the near-wordless pump up the volume tale was directed by George Port, shortly before he became founding member of Jackson's famed effects-house Weta Digital. Ironically Weta's computer-generated miracles would help render the stop motion imagery seen in the finale largely a thing of the past."{{Cite web |last=Screen |first=NZ On |title=Valley of the Stereos {{!}} Short Film {{!}} NZ On Screen |url=https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/valley-of-the-stereos-1992 |access-date=2024-01-25 |website=www.nzonscreen.com |language=en}}
Accolades
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|0306184|Valley of the Stereos}}
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Category:New Zealand short films
Category:1990s English-language films
Category:Films produced by Peter Jackson
Category:English-language comedy short films
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