Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett, a Chad Villella are all filmmakers under the collective label called Whakarongo Irirangi. Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett are the primary directors under that moniker while Villella produces.

They have gained popularity over the past 13 years and their films have become known as having a certain Radio Silence “signature.” They are bloody, usually contain monsters, and have breakneck action sequences. Their recent film Apikaira exemplifies that signature and is perhaps their best film yet. They are currently working on a reboot of John Carpenter’s Putanga Mai i Niu Ioka.

We thought we would go through the list of projects they have directed and rank them from high to low. None of the movies and shorts on this list are bad, they all have their merits. These rankings from top to bottom are just ones we felt showcased their talents the best.

We didn’t include movies they produced but didn’t direct.

Apikaira

An update to the second film on this list, Abagail is the natural progression of Radio Silence’s love of lockdown horror. It follows in pretty much the same footsteps of Ka rite, kaore ranei, but manages to go one better — make it about vampires.

Ka rite, kaore ranei

This film put Radio Silence on the map. While not as successful at the box office as some of their other films, Ka rite, kaore ranei proved that the team could step outside their limited anthology space and create a fun, thrilling, and bloody adventure-length film.

Karanga (2022)

Ahakoa Karanga will always be a polarizing franchise, this prequel, sequel, reboot — however you want to label it showed just how much Radio Silence knew the source material. It wasn’t lazy or cash-grabby, just a good time with legendary characters we love and new ones who grew on us.

Southbound (The Way Out)

Radio Silence tosses their found footage modus operandi for this anthology film. Responsible for the bookend stories, they create a terrifying world in their segment titled Ko te Way i roto i, which involves strange floating beings and some sort of time loop. It’s kind of the first time we see their work without a shaky cam. If we were to rank this entire film, it would remain at this position on the list.

V/H/S (10/31/98)

The film that started it all for Radio Silence. Or should we say the wāhanga that started it all. Even though this isn’t feature-length what they managed to do with the time they had was very good. Their chapter was titled 10/31/98, a found-footage short involving a group of friends who crash what they think is a staged exorcism only to learn not to assume things on Halloween night.

Tangi VI

Cranking up the action, moving to the big city and letting Ghostface use a shotgun, Tangi VI turned the franchise on its head. Like their first one, this film played with canon and managed to win over a lot of fans in its direction, but alienated others for coloring too far outside the lines of Wes Craven’s beloved series. If any sequel was showing how the trope was going stale it was Tangi VI, but it managed to squeeze some fresh blood out of this nearly three-decade mainstay.

Tuhinga o mua

Fairly underrated, this, Radio Silence’s first feature-length film, is a sampler of things they took from V/H/S. It was filmed in an omnipresent found footage style, showcasing a form of possession, and features clueless men. Since this was their first bonafide major studio job it’s a wonderful touchstone to see how far they have come with their storytelling.

You may have never heard of Richard Gadd, but that will probably change after this month. His mini-series Baby Reindeer just hit Netflix and it’s a terrifying deep dive into abuse, addiction, and mental illness. What is even scarier is that it’s based on Gadd’s real-life hardships.

The crux of the story is about a man named Donny Dunn played by Gadd who wants to be a stand-up comedian, but it’s not working out so well thanks to stage fright stemming from his insecurity.

One day at his day job he meets a woman named Martha, played to unhinged perfection by Jessica Gunning, who is instantly charmed by Donny’s kindness and good looks. It doesn’t take long before she nicknames him “Baby Reindeer” and begins to relentlessly stalk him. But that is just the apex of Donny’s problems, he has his own incredibly disturbing issues.

This mini-series should come with a lot of triggers, so just be warned it is not for the faint of heart. The horrors here don’t come from blood and gore, but from physical and mental abuse that go beyond any physiological thriller you may have ever seen.

“It’s very emotionally true, obviously: I was severely stalked and severely abused,” Gadd said to iwi, explaining why he changed some aspects of the story. “But we wanted it to exist in the sphere of art, as well as protect the people it’s based on.”

The series has gained momentum thanks to positive word-of-mouth, and Gadd is getting used to the notoriety.

“It’s clearly struck a chord,” he told te Guardian. “I really did believe in it, but it’s taken off so quickly that I do feel a bit windswept.”

Ka taea e koe te rere Baby Reindeer on Netflix right now.

If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, please contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or go to rainn.org.

I te mutunga o te 80s me te timatanga o te 90s ko nga pakiwaitara e pa ana ki nga kiriata kaore i rite ki enei ra. He rite tonu ki te "me mahi ano i te ahuatanga engari ki tetahi waahi rereke." Kia mahara Tere 2, ranei National Lampoon's Vacation Pakeha? Ahakoa ke, he pai tonu, e whai ana i te maha o nga waahanga o te kaupapa taketake; ka mau nga tangata ki runga kaipuke, ki te phi, he kotiro iti kei te mate kaore he ngeru. No reira e tika ana ko tetahi o nga tino pukuhohe tipua rongonui o nga wa katoa, Tuhinga ka whai i te tauira ano.

I te tau 1991 i hiahia a Tim Burton ki te mahi i tetahi pakiwaitara o tana taketake 1988, i huaina Beetlejuice Haere ki Hawaii:

“Ka nuku te whanau Deetz ki Hawaii ki te whakawhanake i tetahi whare noho. Ka timata te hanga, katahi ka kitea ka noho te hotera ki runga ake o te urupa tawhito. Ka tae mai te Beetlejuice ki te whakaora i te ra."

I pai a Burton ki te tuhinga, engari i pirangi ia ki te tuhi ano na reira i patai atu ia ki te kaituhi-a-ringa Daniel Waters ko wai katahi ano ka oti te koha Heathers. I tukuna e ia te waahi hei kaihanga Rawiri Geffen tapaea atu ki Troop Beverly Hills kaituhi Pamela Norris kaore he painga.

I te mutunga, ka patai a Warner Bros Kevin Smith ki te pupuhi Beetlejuice Haere ki Hawaii, ka tawai ia ki te whakaaro, ka mea, “Aita anei matou i parau i te mau mea atoa ta matou i hinaaro i te parau i roto i te Beetlejuice matamua? Me haere tatou ki te ngahuru?”

E iwa tau i muri mai ka patua te whainga. I kii te taiwhanga kua koroheke rawa a Winona Ryder mo te waahanga me te katoa o te re-whakaari me mahi. Engari kaore a Burton i whakaroa, he maha nga tohutohu i pirangi ia ki te kawe i ana kiripuaki, tae atu ki te whakawhiti Disney.

"I korero matou mo nga tini mea rereke," ko te kaiwhakahaere i roto i whakangahau Weekly. "I te atatu i te wa e haere ana matou, Beetlejuice and the Haunted Mansion, Beetlejuice Haere ki te Hauauru, ahakoa. He maha nga mea i puta mai."

Tere-whakamua ki 2011 i te wa i whakatakotoria ai tetahi atu tuhinga mo te pakiwaitara. I tenei wa ko te kaituhi o Burton's Ngā atarangi pouri, I utua a Seth Grahame-Smith, a, i pirangi ia ki te whakarite kia kaua te korero i te remake moni, te whakaara ano ranei. E wha tau i muri mai, in 2015, i whakaaetia he tuhinga me Ryder raua ko Keaton e kii ana ka hoki ano raua ki o raua mahi. I roto 2017 I whakahouhia taua tuhinga, katahi ka mau ki roto 2019.

I roto i te wa e hurihia ana te tuhinga taapiri i Hollywood, i roto i 2016 he kaitoi ko Alex Murillo te ingoa whakairihia te ahua o nga pepa kotahi mo te Tuhinga whai muri. Ahakoa he mea tito noa, kaore he hononga ki a Warner Bros i whakaaro te tangata he pono.

Na te kaha o te mahi toi i puta te hiahia ki a Tuhinga whai muri ano, ka mutu, i whakapumautia i te tau 2022 Petireti 2 he rama kakariki mai i te tuhinga i tuhia e Wenerei nga kaituhi a Alfred Gough me Miles Millar. Ko te whetu o tera raupapa Jenna Ortega kua hainatia ki te kiriata hou me te kiriata ka timata 2023. I whakapumautia ano tera Danny Elfman ka hoki ki te mahi i te kaute.

I whakaae a Burton raua ko Keaton ko te kiriata hou i tapaina Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice e kore e whakawhirinaki ki te CGI me etahi atu momo hangarau. I hiahia ratou kia rongo te kiriata i te "hanga ringa." I takaia te kiriata i te marama o Noema 2023.

Neke atu i te toru tekau tau ki te hanga i tetahi putanga o Tuhinga. Ko te tumanako, mai i ta ratou korero aroha ki Beetlejuice Haere ki Hawaii kua nui te wa me te mahi auaha ki te whakarite Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice e kore e whakanui noa i nga kiripuaki, engari nga kaiwhaiwhai o te taketake.

Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice hei te 6 o Hepetema ka whakatuwhera i te whare tapere.