Blind Panic is available to rent or buy now on Amazon, Apple TV and Google Play
New Zealand - Apple TV | YouTube Movies
Australia - Prime | Apple TV | YouTube Movies
US - Amazon
Canada - Apple TV
Trust is blind. So is revenge.
A blind woman. An ex-con with a target on his back. And a sadistic crime lord who wants what he’s owed.
Blind Panic is the debut feature film of director Mark Willis and producer Matthew Mawkes. The film came about when Mark and Matthew decided to fulfil a long-held dream of making a quality genre movie in their own backyard. Needing a low-budget idea, Mark came up with a story about a man on home detention, while Matthew hatched a story about a blind woman trapped in suburbia. The ideas merged and Blind Panic was born.
Blind Panic was funded by a Kickstarter campaign and filmed on a shoestring budget in Wellington, New Zealand, over 21 days. It then took several years of editing and re-shoots to turn Blind Panic into the crime thriller Mark and Matthew originally envisioned. The project also faced a major set-back with the tragic killing of Mark in May 2023. Fortunately, Mark was able to sign off a cut of the film before his death.
This has been a filmmaking journey with ups and downs like no other. But the final product is a crime thriller Mark would be proud of.
Blind Panic will be available on Prime in NZ when we move to streaming.
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