Young draws three solid performances from his key cast. But we get some respite when the film follows Vicki’s mother and her attempts to get anyone, including her ex-husband, to take her concerns seriously. Most of the action is confined to the interior of the White’s house, which makes the film both claustrophobic and incredibly tense. This is more of a character study than a piece of exploitation cinema, but, boy, it is still pretty hard to sit through without being moved. Nonetheless the challenging subject matter still makes for a tough and disturbing film. Young eschews gratuitous depictions of violence or sexual torture, but he suffuses the film with a palpable air of foreboding that will have many on the edge of their seats. This is a stylish and gritty psychological thriller in which very little of the actual violence is depicted on the screen.
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He drew some from his mother, a writer of crime novels, but he also researched the history of real life serial killers. Loosely based on actual events, the dark serial killer drama Hounds Of Love is the debut feature for local filmmaker Ben Young, who hails from a background in music videos and commercials. Hounds Of Love is another thriller that probes beneath the seemingly normal and peaceful façade of suburbia. She insists that something bad must have happened to her. Meanwhile her mother desperately tries to convince the local police that Vicki is not a runaway. Vicki tries to drive a psychological wedge between John and Evelyn while she tries to find a way to escape their clutches. She is eventually drugged, bound and gagged, and held captive for John’s perverted desires. Along the way to her friend’s house she accepts a lift from the charming couple, who offer her some drugs. One day in an act of teenage rebellion she sneaks out of the house to attend a party after her mother (Susie Porter) forbids her to go. Vicki’s parents have recently divorced in rather acrimonious fashion.
The latest victim is Vicki Maloney (played by Ashleigh Cummings, who we recently saw in the NZ drama Pork Pie). Although authorities consider them runaways, the fact was that many of them had fallen victim to a pair of charming psychopaths in John and Evelyn White (played by Stephen Curry, from The Castle, etc and Emma Booth, from Glitch, Gods Of Egypt, etc), who kidnap them, hold them hostage and abuse them before killing them and burying their bodies in a forest. Young girls are disappearing off the streets. Indeed, its subject matter prompted walkouts during the premiere screening at the Venice Film Festival.
The new Australian drama Hounds Of Love is similarly an oppressive, uncomfortable and challenging film to sit through. Although stylish and well made, they were all tough films to sit through. Stars: Stephen Curry, Emma Booth, Ashleigh Cummings, Susie Porter, Harrison Gilbertson, Damian De Montemas.Īustralian filmmakers have produced some tough, gritty uncompromising crime dramas in the past, with films like Romper Stomper, The Boys, Animal Kingdom, and Snowtown all exploring the darker side of the Australian male psyche.
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