18 / Heavenly Creatures / Peter Jackson

I think I was about 10 or 11. I remember sitting in my little bed, little square TV suspended above the bottom and switching to channel 4 to find this strange film playing that instantly engaged me. It had a real effect on me for some reason. I didn't see it from the beginning so never caught it's name and since then it's haunted me. I think about it all the time and have been searching for this mystery film for ages. Over 10 years later and I've finally found it, and as you probably guessed that film was Heavenly Creatures. It's weird how vivid my memories of this film are, it was obviously not a film I was meant to be watching at that age and I think that's part of the reason why it stuck with me so much. Watching it again, it's definitely nowhere near as powerful. Nothing could live up to over 10 years of hype. Not that it's a bad film, it's a pretty good one to be honest. It manages to portray that very particular kind of obsessive teenage love that I think everyone experiences at one point in there life, obviously not to such an extreme level, but still there's a real innocence to the film. An innocence that makes the finale even more visceral and real.