...until the last five minutes which become implausible and rushed. The music during this sequence doesn't help. And I get what the filmmakers were trying to do. And I don't even mind the fate of the daughter. But the issue is entirely a matter of pacing.
Prior to that, I was fully enjoying the film. It held this nice ambiguity around whether the wolf aspect had supernatural elements, even so much as to show a blatant shot of the full moon. And the mention of the weird bug with orange hair. There were so many things lending to an interesting mystique about the film.
Then only to be jarringly negated when the mother, after half a lesson in animal dressing, puts on headphones and goes all Hannibal Tarantino on Nick Stahl in the insanely short time it takes the cops to arrive. After a perfectly fine slow burn of a movie, everything is sped up to a trillion. So there was nothing to savor. The cuts were too quick in both the editing and the butchering, just bouncing back and forth between the cops and the retribution. There is no way she did that extensive amount of precise flaying in the time frame suggested by the editing. Had the director slowed it down I think it would have been more satisfying.
Prior to that, I was fully enjoying the film. It held this nice ambiguity around whether the wolf aspect had supernatural elements, even so much as to show a blatant shot of the full moon. And the mention of the weird bug with orange hair. There were so many things lending to an interesting mystique about the film.
Then only to be jarringly negated when the mother, after half a lesson in animal dressing, puts on headphones and goes all Hannibal Tarantino on Nick Stahl in the insanely short time it takes the cops to arrive. After a perfectly fine slow burn of a movie, everything is sped up to a trillion. So there was nothing to savor. The cuts were too quick in both the editing and the butchering, just bouncing back and forth between the cops and the retribution. There is no way she did that extensive amount of precise flaying in the time frame suggested by the editing. Had the director slowed it down I think it would have been more satisfying.