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its fun and cool and good actually to watch a Serious Horror Movie about a girl being abducted and raped and tortured :) i love it :) i love when men make movies about well actually the real horror is people if u didnt know :) thanks, im a woman so i didnt! :) very helpful and instructive :) this is good :) i like it i love it i want some more of it :) i like this sensitive prestige-adjacent veneer that wants to trick u into thinking ur not watching steaming hot garbage :) very very kewl :) thank u mr cinemovey for giving us a respectable Girl Gets Raped But U Can Like It Cuz I Know Rape Isn't Actually Good And In Fact Is Actually Very Bad Again Just In Case U Didn't Know U Might Need A Reminder movie ! :) it rules!! :)

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I was questioning the meaning of
this movie's very existence, from
a moral standpoint, for almost the
entirety of its runtime, but that final
scene made me burst into a puddle
of my own tears, so, I don't know.

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Very disturbing and difficult to watch. Sort of a study in domestic violence and abusive, controlling relationships. It's filmed beautifully, the acting is great and it's well-paced. In fact, it feels almost too real at times and makes you feel dirty for watching it.

This isn't the kind of film you watch to enjoy and I doubt it's one I'll ever rewatch, but I'm sure Hounds of Love will stick with me for some time.

Grade: A-
Recommendation: 📼 Rent it
Be sure to follow it up with some cute cat videos.

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It turns out the real Hound of Love,

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If sordid psycho-noirs are your cup of tea, Hounds of Love is definitely a well-crafted film showcasing an up-and-coming directorial talent in Ben Young. However, if sordid psych-noirs require thought-provoking ends to warrant suffering through, the questionable creative license and moral simplifications on display here prove to be quite puzzling, if not outright demoralizing.

Based on a string of actual abductions and killings that occurred in Perth, Australia in the late 80s, and became infamously known as the Moorhouse Murders, the film very loosely recounts the final case in David (John, in the film) and Catherine (Evelyn, in the film) Birnie's spree of heinous crimes.

Stylistically, Hounds of Love offers a lot to be excited about. Beginning with a voyeuristic…

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Hounds of Love opened in the U.K. yesterday, just like Wish Upon (which I saw and posted about last night). You might think these two films are so disparate that any comparative reference is absurd and you'd kind of be right and YET! Both are ostensibly horror films, and both are textbook examples of either exactly what I like in horror and exactly what I hate. It's just my opinion, obviously, but if you ever want to know exactly what I think of the genre, these two films and my thoughts on them pretty much sum it up.

What's interesting is that Wish Upon is, of course, critically dismissed because it's a supernatural teen horror film (even tho, as I…

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Fantasy Filmfest 2017, Numero 5: Schon wieder eine Vorstadt, schon wieder ein entführtes Mädchen, das hinter der scheinbar "normalen" Fassade bitter gequält wird. Schon wieder ein Irrer, der sein jämmerliches Dasein mit Gewalt kompensiert. Doch Regisseur Ben Younger hat weder Torture Porn, noch einen klassischen Rape'n'Revenge-Streifen im Sinn. Die Brutalität findet hier nur hinter geschlossenen Türen statt. Der Horror entsteht im Kopf und über die nervenzerreißenden Schreie, umherliegenden Folter-Utensilien oder das zermarterte Gesicht von Opfer Vicky. Und als eigentliches Zentrum entpuppt sich Evelyn, die Frau (!) von Vergewaltiger-Lappen John, die mit dieser funktionalen Ehe fernab von Mitleid, Moral oder Liebe die eigene Vergangenheit verdrängt - toll gespielt von Emma Booth.
Ein unbequemer Film, aber auch ein schwieriger. Nichts für den…

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Brutal and brilliantly acted, "Hounds of Love" is not an easy watch; there are tedious moments just as there are tense ones. First time director Ben Young captures the banality of place very well, and above all makes us feel the power of a mother's love and longing. Further focus on the dynamics between the women in the film would've strengthened that theme even more, giving it a forceful and coherent overall purpose: at its core, it seems to be about the interrelationship between captivity, motherhood and domesticity but those ideas are muddled by seemingly irrelevant subplots and an overlong run time. A tighter edit and stronger direction, then, would make this movie better, but there's plenty of potential in the work none the less.

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Always when I see a movie of the Thriller genre is very common to at least see that these start very well, with good and interesting expectations and are to some extent effective but sometimes many of them are diluted, in my opinion, to a greater or lesser extent as they advance their daring arguments. With Hounds of Love this does not happen, but quite the opposite since we find a "simple" story that without so much boast turns out to be effective since it has a beginning of minimal doses but all this will become increasingly of enormous dimensions.

Just reading about it will give us an idea of what we are going to find in it: located in…

Review by Graham ★★★

The poster is quite misleading. This is not a film about two slightly mangy greyhounds that have dropped their ice-cream. Oh, no. Think more Chained or Kidnapped perhaps.

Young Vicki, struggling through teenagerdom with folks that seemingly just want to snipe and smash each other's faces in, is unceremoniously kidnapped by two local bogans and tied to a bed. Her day gets progressively worse from there, and so does that of her captors.

A cruel and sadistic Australian horror that is loosely based on David and Catherine Birnie's 80s Moorhouse Murders, Hounds of Love has some stylish camera work and pretty good performances from a cast made up largely of TV soap actors. Despite being a little flabby around the middle and fairly predictable, it's still worth a watch.

-1 star for entirely unnecessary and sickening brutality to an innocent doggy.

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"Girl chained to a bed" torture porn movies aren't subversive or deep

Kindly fuck off

Review by Bill Ryan ★★

Every time a critic dubs a movie like this the best and most disturbing horror film of the year, I think "What the fuck do you spend your time watching?"