As she observes the dynamic between her captors she quickly realizes she must drive a wedge between them if she is to survive." Let us start off by saying that the second this movie starts (slow motion effects) it immediately lets you know you are in for a very unsettling, uncomfortable and disturbing movie. "Vicki Maloney is randomly abducted from a suburban street by a disturbed couple. "Hounds of Love" is a difficult watch, but it's also difficult to ignore. How all this plays out in the most recent triangle is expertly framed by newbie filmmaker Ben Young. Evelyn is a more than wiling accomplice, but she has a wounded past, shows some semblance of sympathy, and is thus the weak link in the monster couple.
Yet deep inside he is a tight wound ball of explosion, and the creepy manipulator of all crimes.
Sporting a cheesy mustache, Curry presents a tiny, unassuming wimp - he is humiliated and berated about money owing. Not in an exploitative manner (most of the cruelty is off screen), but in its believable depiction of perversion, and the matter of fact execution by the monsters.
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"Hounds of Love" is about serial sexual homicide, and it is as brutal as that sounds. Charming and congenial, slick and methodical, brutal and sadistic, vulnerable and suspicious all bases are covered. As the secret predator couple in the neighbourhood, Emma Booth and Stephen Curry are spectacular in their complicated performances. Evelyn and John cruise Perth school yards, fishing for teenage girls with friendly Aussie banter and car ride offers. Hounds of Love is meaty film from a talented filmmaker and a delight to see in a summer sure to be filled with explosions not of the mind. Yes, life can have its moments of horror beyond the terrors of abuse and abduction. The title, Hounds of Love, ingeniously plays off the couple's dog and everyone's hunt for love, even Vicki's wounded but intrepid mother. As the film moves assuredly to the climax, the characters' arcs move toward their deserved fate: Vicki shows a presence her initial bratty teen side did not evidence, John becomes more vulnerable because he is visceral rather than cerebral, and Evelyn struggles with her desire to have her children back in her life and her desire to be loved by John. The home and neighborhood is working class Perth, where similar events actually happened the atmosphere is joyless living, not impoverished, just not nourished by the better angels of culture. Although John White (Stephen Curry) does most of the physical heavy lifting as he abuses the girl, his partner, Evelyn (Emma Booth), is the tormented one and the object of abducted teen Vicki's (Ashleigh Cummings) campaign to drive a wedge between the two. I say "idea" because once the girl is chained to a bed, the couple begins to reveal their psychoses, almost exclusively about the loss of children in their lives. Much of this film, set in Perth, Australia, at Christmas time, 1987, is about the idea of a psychotic couple abducting and killing young women who happen to be stupid enough to get in the car of strangers. Young even introduces his film by observing that the real terror comes from what is not seen. If someone ever tries to take you, fight with everything you have." ― Lisa Unger, Ink and Bone Young writer-director Ben Young must have watched Jonathan Demme's Silence of the Lambs at least once because his Hounds of Love has earmarks of brilliant thriller/horror ultimately hinging on character and not blood.