The Killian Curse

The Killian Curse
Title card in Series One
Also known as	'Room 21, Room 21'
Genre	Horror-fantasy
Directed by	Thomas Robins Wayne Vinton
Starring	Georgia Fabish Jacinta Wawatai Beth Chote Ivana Palezevic Felicity Milovanovich Priyanka Xi Cameron Wakefield
Country of origin	New Zealand
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	14
Production
Producer(s)	Thomas Robins
Location(s)	St Patrick's College, Silverstream, New Zealand
Running time	25-30 minutes with ads, 21-25 minutes without ads
Release
Original network	TV2 New Zealand, ABC3 Australia
Picture format	16:9
Original release	21 July 2006 – 20 March 2008

The Killian Curse is a New Zealand kidult horror-fantasy television show, directed by Thomas Robins and Wayne Vinton. Starring Nick Blake and local New Zealand children, The Killian Curse tells the 21 stories of the students from Room 21, who must each face an evil curse placed on them by the sinister Charles Killian. Killian wants to get revenge on the people who caused his death shortly after founding the school in 1906. He needs to capture 11 souls to rise from the dead.

1906 Room 21 Students

The original students of Room 21 are caught doing a ritual led by Killian. The parents banished him, but a fire broke out during a struggle which eventually burned the interior of the classroom, killing Killian in the process. Before dying, he swore to get revenge by stealing the 11 souls needed to return from the dead. Killian also said that parents would be blind to the suffering of their children. It is only the other classmates of Room 21 who can see what is happening. One of the kids from present day Room 21 (and narrator of the events of 1906) happens to be the great, great grandson of the man directly responsible for Killian's death. The great, great grandfather and the others in the room at the time of Killian's death are presumed to be ancestors of the current kids in room 21. Shortly after, the room is sealed "forever", forever lasting until 2006, when the story begins. Some people who have watched it have been paranoid by the number 21 and have been seeing it quite a lot of times.

2006 Room 21 Students

After 100 years, Room 21 is unsealed by a principal who doesn't believe in curses and it is up to the school janitor to tell the students about the curse. Some are skeptical until the first victim is taken. Filmed 2005-2006

2008 (set in 2007) Room 21 Students

It's been a year and the last year students of Room 21 still got called out into the Room 21 Class. They all got their souls back but some were repossessed. Those students are stuck in Killian's World/Lair. On Earth they're zombies but to adults they are just normal. This series was filmed in 2007.

All the kids in the cast are local tweens and teenagers from New Zealand. From the time of shooting the first series, the oldest was 16 (Ivana Palezevic, Tabatha) and the youngest was 11 (Georgia Fabish, Celia). All the kids appear in both series apart from Chelsea (Series 1) and Billie (Series 2).

The kids in character alphabetical order;